Name: The Poetry Room present Fall Brawl
Start: 2025-10-25T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-25T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI 48910-1648, United States

No filters. No fluff. Just raw voices, heavy bars, and truth you can feel in your chest. This isn’t the open mic. No need to play nice here. The gloves are off and the stakes are high.
13 poets. 3 rounds. 1 stage.
They’ll battle it out for $500 cash, the 2025 Fall Brawl Chain, and a shot at Summer Slam VI. Judges and full poet lineup TBA — but trust us, it’s going to be stacked. Pull up, bring your crew, and witness the slam poetry at its finest.
Doors 2:30pm
BOUT DRAW 2:45pm
Event: 3:00pm
Rules:
* Poems must be original
* Poem cannot be reused from previous rounds
* Poems should be limited to three minutes w/ 10 second grace.
-.5 for every 10 second. (ie: 3:11 will be -.5. 3:20 will be -1)
* Poets may recite their poems from memory or read them from the page
Performance rules
* Poets may not use props, costumes, or musical instruments
* Poets should use their voice and body to perform
* Time starts at interaction with the audience with the discretion of the bout manager
Scoring
* Accumulative for the first two rounds, clean slate for third.
* cuts will be first round all 13 poets, second round 6 then third round will be top 3. if there is ties for the first two rounds, we will use the dropped scores to see who moves on and who gets dropped.
* if there is a two way tie, we will go a sudden death round with the 5 judges putting down a name rather than a score.
* if its all three tied, we will put down a score in sudden death.
Bout Draw
* They will be random draws EVERY round.
Judges
Judges announced soon.
Judges award scores to each poet's poem, on a scale of zero to ten with one decimal point (ie: 9.1)

Poet Registration Opens Sept 1st 12pm (No Refunds): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-poetry-room-2025-fall-brawl-tickets-1587325375929
General Tickets: https://www.therobintheatre.com/events/the-poetry-room-presents-fall-brawl