Hi All,

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

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 5am 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 @take5 and @diebitch for their time and effort in upvoting everybody and ensuring @comedyopenmic spread the upvote love in round 6.

Judges:

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.
Chuck Norris Award - NEW AWARD
- 3 SBD given to the best curator / commenter .
** DB Roasting Award** - NEW AWARD
- 5 SBD given to the best roast.

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Curators

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

@carlgnash (also really funny, we want entries from him)
@punchline (will laugh at almost everything)
@steemwizards (No idea who he is but he's good fun)
@nonameslefttouse (Make it a good story to get his attention)
@trafalgar (Inlude #punchline tag to grab his attention)
@bitfiend (We just like him, dunno why)

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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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, @flipstar, @steemmatt, @bitfiend, @thevillan, @jedi-won.

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 6 and the start of Round 7 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.

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!!