Rules           

- No props.

- Five minutes to tell your story.  After 5 minutes, there will be a penalty.  After 7 minutes, you're gonged.
 
- Story must be original, unpublished and NOT A REPEAT

- You can read from a script, or just go up and tell a story. 

- Sign up is at 7 pm.  Competition start at 7:30 pm.  Names are drawn for order of story telling.

- If there are more than 10 story tellers, the first 10 names to be drawn will be able to compete.

- $5 to enter as a writer.  Money goes to the Edmonton Story Slam Society.

- Hat is passed at intermission.  All money donated by the audience goes to the winner.

- Once a year in March, we hold Slam Off. All winners from the year compete for the title of Slam Off Champion.

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Judges  

We randomly pick 5 judges in the audience.  They score from 1 to 10.   We eliminate the highest score and the lowest score, then add the three middle scores together.  Judges give their scores after each story teller.