Pop Poetry Challenge

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Live Challenge Rules

1. The first round of the competition will take place on the weekend of the 29th - 30th March 2014.
2. Pop Poetry challenge is open to all youth currently enrolled in Grade 8 - Grade 12 (age 13-19 years old)
Competitors are to compete in teams of 3 - 5 members.
Performers must wear school uniform or drama students are to wear black pants or skirts with a white shirt.
5. Poems are to be an original piece of work written by the members of the team. (Teachers and coaches may not write the poem.)
The poet may not use props or costumes
8. Scoring will be done by a panel of five judges. Three judges will be representatives of the Pop Poetry Challenge organises. The other two judges will be randomly chosen from the audience.
9. Each judge will score the participant out of ten marks. The top score and the bottom score will be dropped. The middle three scores are then added together to give a mark out of 30. The three scores from the three prepared poems will be added together to give a total out of 90 while the unprepared/impromptu poem will be out of 10, giving each team a total out of 100.
The use of profanity is only allowed when used in context and for emphasis.
Hate speech is cause for disqualification.

• A total of four poems are to be performed, each between 2 - 3 minutes
First poem Solo performance.
- The performer is required to write his/her own material.
Second poem - Duet.
- o Performed by any two members of the team; members of the team must have written the poem.
Third poem
- This is a solo performance with the poem having been written by any member or members on the team excluding the first solo performance poet.
- This could even be a person who chooses not to perform.
- The performer is not required to have written any of the poems.
Fourth poem
- This poem is performed by 2, 3 or 4 members of the team - the poem is based on a randomly-drawn topic.
- Each speaker delivers one line in turn.
- When each speaker has delivered three lines, the poem ends.
- There will be no preparation time – only spontaneous creativity is needed!

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