And the 2025 Competitors Are:

A Veritable Who's Who of Slam Poets & Spoken Word Artists!

Registered Teams 2025

  1. Loud Mouth - Visalia, CA
  2. Slamlandia - Portland, OR 
  3. Ghost Poetry – Phoenix, AZ 
  4. Spotlight Poetry – Las Vegas, NV 
  5. Verbal Slap - Newhaven, CT
  6. Outlaws - Rock Hill, SC
  7. VA Boys - Virginia
  8. Goosebumps - Dallas, TX
  9. Mercury Slam - Denver, CO
  10. Slambrosia (ABQ, NM) 
  11. Route666 (Flagstaff, AZ)

Registered Indies 2025

  1. Brennan DeFrisco (Portland, OR) 
  2. Reggie Edmonds-Vasquez (Oakland, CA) 
  3. LadyK  (Fresno, CA) 
  4. Antoinette Dombroski (Killeen, TX) 
  5. Nate Lovell  (Los Angeles, CA) 
  6. 7uave (Deland, FL)
  7. D-Rod the Poet (Deland, FL)
  8. Anthony Azzarito (San Diego, CA) 
  9. Jane Belinda (Portland, OR) 
  10. Pastiche Queen (Hollywood, CA) 
  11. Rooster Martinez (San Antonio, TX) 
  12. Kristin Patton (ABQ, NM) 
  13. Skyelyn Riggs-Davis (Phoenix, AZ) 
  14. JoeMac (San Diego, CA) 
  15. Valence (Phoenix, AZ) 
  16. Christopher Michael (Austin, TX) 
  17. Chelsea Guevara (SLC, Utah) 
  18. Caitlin Dhi Christensen (Rio Rancho, NM) 
  19. Rent Poet (West Hollywood, CA) 
  20. Sam Brown (Phoenix, AZ) 
  21. Keith Allen (ABQ, NM) 
  22. Emily Tucker (ABQ NM) 
  23. Elizabeth Gade (ABQ, NM) 
  24. Marcial Delgado (ABQ, NM)

2025 Bout Draw

Who, When & Where - You Already Know Why

We will have a total of 12 preliminary bouts divided evenly between indies and teams, with 3 bouts at 6 pm and 3 bouts at 8 pm each night on March 20th and 21st to determine who goes on to our Champions Stage!

Bout 1

Bout 2

Bout 3

Bout 4

Bout 5

Bout 6

Bout 7

Bout 8

Bout 9

Bout 10

Bout 11

Bout 12

Past Competitors 

Our Family Photo Album

2024 Competitors

Congratulations to our inaugural regional champions! 

Individual Champion - Black Chakra! 

Team Champions - Ghost Phantom (Phoenix, Arizona) 

 

But listen y'all, everyone brought fire in 2024, so we are gonna archive a list of all competitors right here for posterity! Think of it as our family album :) 

 

 

Competing Teams 2024 

1)  The Reigning Monarchs               

2)  Voices of the Village                      

3)  League of Legends 

4)  Palabra 

5)  Route 666 

6)  Ghost Spectre

7)  Ghost Phantom

8)  Goosebumps Slam

9)  Mercury Cafe Poetry Slam

10)  Under His Construction

 

 


 

Competing Indies 2024

  1. Jose Jimenez (Visalia, CA)    
  2. Artist JoeMac (San Diego, California)
  3. Brennan DeFrisco (Oakland, CA)               
  4. Tempest Back (Flagstaff, AZ)                       
  5. Lydia Gates (Flagstaff, AZ)       
  6. Vanessa Verse (Seattle, WA)  
  7. Symbolik Knight (Brooklyn, NY)   
  8.  Stacy Renee Eden (Phoenix, AZ)              
  9. Marcial Delgado     (Albuquerque, NM)  
  10. Black Chakra (Baltimore, MD)              
  11. PropagandaPoet (San Diego, CA)             
  12. Aubs (Rock Island, IL)              
  13. Jessica Parascandola (Albuquerque,NM)                    
  14. TheeQueenShaa (Brooklyn, NY)              
  15. Aaron (Washington, DC)         
  16. Sewer Puss (Phoenix, AZ)      
  17. Kuveni Scanlan (Albuquerque, NM)        
  18. Penehuro (Las Vegas, NV)      
  19. Cathy Cook (Albuquerque, NM)                  
  20. Keith Allen (Albuquerque, NM)              
  21. Whois Ardimus (St. Louis, MI)               
  22. Wynter Storm (Salt Lake City, UT)

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