Hi All,

Welcome to the Second week of The Comedy Open Mic Contest. Please note we have tweaked the rules slightly from the previous post, so please read carefully. The rules are quite likely to be refined as we go (hopefully for the better every time) so please bare with us.

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Rules for Judges

• Contest will run for a minimum of 4 weeks, and will continue to run as long as it is sustainable.
• Prizes to be sent out within 24hrs of contest round closing
• @comedyopenmic will announce start and end of every round (approx 2am GMT Fridays, this will be adjusted if needed)
• Judges will do their best to review all entries
• Every effort will be made for @comedyopenmic and @idikuci to upvote all entries
• This week @take5 will be given control over the @comedyopenmic account to upvote and comment on contestant's entries.

Judges:

• @dandesign86 / @bluetower
• @dj123
• @take5 / @comedyopenmic
• @idikuci

If you see any of these guys around please upvote and thank them. It is because of their support that this contest is able to keep functioning. (other than @idikuci, please save your upvotes for the other judges and curators and donators).

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Rules for Contestants

• 1 tag must be "comedyopenmic".
• Include "Comedy Open Mic Round 2" somewhere in the text/title.
• Self voting allowed up to $0.50 in value (To even out the playing field for little guys)
• Bot upvotes are not allowed. (If you use bots to upvote your own post, you will not be considered for a prize)
• Limit of 2 entries only per account. (Judges will choose their favourite entry for prize considerations)
• Original material Only. Entries that are not the original work of the poster as least in some form will be disregarded.
• Dtube / DSound standup strongly encouraged. (see prizes below)
• Entry via a new post only (no recycled posts).
• Please go through and upvote 3-5 other contestants to show encouragement (even 1% will be greatly appreciated)
• Entries should be in english, it will be difficult for me to laugh if the judges cannot understand them.
• Patience will be required as the process is all manual.

Prizes

• Court Jester will get 30SBD
  • Court Jester will be chosen by the judges
• People's champion will get 10SBD
  • People's champion is whoever has highest $ payout at competition close
• Lucky Door Prize will be 10SBD
  • 5 lucky contestants will get a 2SBD each as a bonus prize.
• If you your entry is a Dtube stand-up of yourself and you take out either people's champion or Court Jester, I will upvote 1 of your posts 100% every day for 7 days.
• Entrants who resteem the Contest announcement or other people's entries will ensure a higher vote from me (the more resteems, the higher the upvote I will give you)

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Curators

A number of people have put themselves forward as curators of content to encourage more entries.

• @carlgnash
• @punchline
• @steemwizards
• @nonameslefttouse
• @trafalgar

If you see any of these guys around please upvote and thank them. It is because of their support that this contest is able to keep functioning.

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Sponsors

Donations

@idikuci - 100SBD , @dj123 - 80SBD, @punchline - 50Steem, @dandesign86 and @redlipstick - 10SBD, @nonameslefttouse - 10SBD, @take5 - 10 SBD (prizes), @dreemit - 5SBD, thedailylaugh - 5SBD

Delegations

@idikuci - 1650SP, @dandesign86 / @bluetower - 500SP, @dj123 - 500SP, @take5 - 500SP.

If anybody would like to be a sponsor, please send any Steem/SBD to @comedyopenmic or if you would like to delegate SP to our upvote account @comedyopenmic we would be greatly appreciative.

Potential Logo

What do you think of our potential logo created by @dandesign86?
Head over to his post here and give him some feedback.

Important Information

If you see our judges, curators or sponsors comment or post please upvote and encourage them. They are giving up their time to help this contest, so if you see these guys around, say hello and give them an upvote:
@comedyopenmic, @dj123, @nonameslefttouse, @dandesign86 / @bluetower, @carlgnash, @take5, @punchline, @steemwizards, @trafalgar, @dreemit, @redlipstick, @thedailylaugh.
We are all trying to make this a successful contest to raise participation in #funny and attract more comedians and aspiring comedians to Steem.

This post marks the end of week 1 and the start of week 2 of Comedy Open Mic.

Within 24hrs of this post, another post will go out marking the prize recipients. Sorry about the double post, but we need to make sure we have time to enjoy all the entries.

All SBD generated from this post will go towards funding the Comedy Open Mic contest.

Good Luck and Happy Steeming!!

Please note that all future Comedy Open Mic Announcements will come from the official account @comedyopenmic. Please follow this account.