new champ
Last Tuesday we had a slam that it has taken me a while to recover from. It was a lot of information to take in, fourteen competitors stepped up and slammed for the love of it all and were judged numerically on their value. Its so hard to put your finger on who you feel was the best or "broke out" or "should have won" I think i'm going to stick to my original idea expressed a few blogs ago that if you go up there and make an impression, you win. If you go up on stage and stomp around enough that people are buzzing about it, that is what this whole thing is for.
Lady Zen was amazing as always and has a quiet self confidence that the crowd just soaks up, Jazzy was back to her top form. It's so hard to grade people because you just know when a performer is up there whether or not they are in that zone. Wil wasn't entirely there, a lot of us that already have a spot for the April qualifier are much more focused on that and using this stuff as practice. I think he would be the first to say he will be different in April.
Ryan, Sam, and Roller Girl are all from National Slam teams in the area and joined in. I told Sam he was the favorite and he was for a while, he has a pacing in her vocal performance and control over his body that a lot of people don't bother with. A lot of people are hooting and hollering up there trying to make broad sweeping physical motions to match, Sam has a less is more approach that keeps people pulled in to what he is saying.
It wasn't his night though. It was Tina Smith who tore down the house and gave the best vocal texturing to her words that I've ever seen her do. She's always been consistent and focused heavily on going up there with material she knows. This time you really felt it, that beyond revolution and fighting for your rights there is humanity in her words. She doesn't mask it or dress it up and the audience responded. It was her night and now she is the champ. She got a perfect score in the last round you cant really beat that.
13 of us tried.
Lady Zen was amazing as always and has a quiet self confidence that the crowd just soaks up, Jazzy was back to her top form. It's so hard to grade people because you just know when a performer is up there whether or not they are in that zone. Wil wasn't entirely there, a lot of us that already have a spot for the April qualifier are much more focused on that and using this stuff as practice. I think he would be the first to say he will be different in April.
Ryan, Sam, and Roller Girl are all from National Slam teams in the area and joined in. I told Sam he was the favorite and he was for a while, he has a pacing in her vocal performance and control over his body that a lot of people don't bother with. A lot of people are hooting and hollering up there trying to make broad sweeping physical motions to match, Sam has a less is more approach that keeps people pulled in to what he is saying.
It wasn't his night though. It was Tina Smith who tore down the house and gave the best vocal texturing to her words that I've ever seen her do. She's always been consistent and focused heavily on going up there with material she knows. This time you really felt it, that beyond revolution and fighting for your rights there is humanity in her words. She doesn't mask it or dress it up and the audience responded. It was her night and now she is the champ. She got a perfect score in the last round you cant really beat that.
13 of us tried.
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