Minotaur Invitational
2021 — NSDA Campus, AZ/US
Spoken Word Poetry
Event Description:
This is an asynchronous event. Videos should be labeled with #1, 2, 3 to indicate the round.
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Students will perform their own original spoken-word poetry. Each student should prepare between 3 and 5 poems, roughly 3 minutes in length, for use during the competition.
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Poems must be the original work of the student, and the student may not use poetry written by other poets.
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Students will perform one of their poems per preliminary round.
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Students may not repeat poems in prelim rounds.
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Students may use new poems, or choose from the poems they used in Prelims for elimination rounds leading up to finals.
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Students making the final round will perform 3 of the poems from their collection for the final round.
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Poems are to be no longer than 3 minutes. There will be a 10 second grace period. After the grace period lapses, students may not receive the 1st place rank, but any other ranking decisions are at the discretion of the judge.
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Students may choose to have a chapbook, notebook, or black book with them with no penalty. However, a chapbook, notebook, or black book is not required. Students may not use their cell phones. Any material students bring with them may not be used as a prop.
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Students will be evaluated based on both their performance, and on the quality of the material they present, as the judge sees fit.
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Students may not use any music/drum tracks/beats etc. except those that they make with their own bodies (“beat boxing”, etc.)