On July 16, 2002, the first ever MIDWEST POETRY SLAM LEAGUE was held and the winner is:
CHICAGO, IL
the other teams were
Dayton/Columbus, Ohio
Detroit/Hamtramck, Michigan
here's a truly historic quote from Scott Woods:F
"In a stunningly bizarre twist of slam decency, when
the first two rounds got scored wrong, the teams opted
to simply roll with the existing results and teach the
judges how to score with the new system with the
remaining 5 rounds...a laissez-faire move almost
foreign to existing slam culture! Hey, if it ain't
fun, don't do it."