Hi All,

Welcome to the Fifth week of The Comedy Open Mic Contest. Please read the contest rules here

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Rules for Judges

• Contest will run for a minimum of 8 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 4am GMT Fridays, this will be adjusted if needed)
• Judges will do their best to review all entries
• Every effort will be made for @comedyopenmic to upvote all entries
• A big thank you to @idikuci for his time and effort in upvoting everybody and ensuring @comedyopenmic spread the upvote love in round 4.
• This week @dandesign86 and @dj123 will share control over the @comedyopenmic account to upvote and comment on contestant's entries.

Judges:

• @dandesign86 / @bluetower / @comedyopenmic
• @dj123 / @comedyopenmic
• @take5
• @thedailylaugh
• Guest Judge TBD (Hopefully @steemmatt if he says yes)

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.

Do you want to be a judge?

Read all the entries, comment on contestant posts. Leave a positive trail of happiness and laughter behind you like you fart laughing gas and we will notice. Our most active curators and contestants will be asked to join us as guest judges on a week to week basis.

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Prizes

• Court Jester will get 35SBD
  • Court Jester will be chosen by the judges
• People's champion will get 1-10SBD (Payout depends on value, higher value post will get smaller prize. Remaining value to be handed out to other entrants).
  • People's champion is whoever has highest $ payout at competition close
• Top 10 prize pool is 20Steem
  • A contestant with a entry that gets onto our Top 10 list will receive 2Steem.
• Lucky Door Prize will be 5SBD
  • 5 lucky contestants will get a 1SBD 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, a judge 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

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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
• @bitfiend

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

A big thank you to @punchline, @take5, @dj123, @steemmatt and @thedailylaugh who were very generous in donating additional funds towards prizes.

@idikuci - 122SBD , @dj123 - 102SBD + 5 Steem, @punchline - 80 Steem, @take5 - 32 SBD, @ilt-yodith - 10SBD + 10.899 Steem, @dandesign86 and @redlipstick - 12SBD, @nonameslefttouse - 10SBD, @dreemit - 5SBD, @thedailylaugh - 10SBD, @steemmatt - 2SBD

Delegations

@idikuci - 2000SP, @dandesign86 / @bluetower - 500SP, @dj123 - 500SP, @take5 - 500SP, @flipstar - 300SP, @mightpossibly - 250SP.

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. All upvotes will go to contestants, building the @comedyopenmic account and thanking the judges, curators and sponsors. Even 5 or 10 SP will make a big difference. If you would like to delegate but are unsure of how to do it, come meet us on discord and we can teach you.

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, @ilt-yodith, @punchline, @steemwizards, @trafalgar, @dreemit, @redlipstick, @thedailylaugh, @acolucky, @flipstar, @steemmatt.

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 Round 4 and the start of Round 5 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.

Fun Fact:

@rastaufik10 has put his hand up to host a Comedy Open Mic round for Indonesian speakers. So Round 5 will include the usual #comedyopenmic and a special 1 week Indonesian contest, We have decided to donate 10SBD to this contest so please give it your full support. Contest Announcement

Plagiarism

If you believe someone has submitted a plagiarised entry, please let the judges know. You can let us know on the discord channel or as a reply to one of our comments. As long as contestants make an effort to produce original content and provide sources for other material we will be happy to accept the entry.

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.