Don't get too excited now, but our rewards pool keeps increasing...

Every week, being a judge gets harder and harder, the judges get more and more animated cheering for their favorites. So if you see a barrel (yes that's the collective word for judges) of judges brawling, by all means, stop to take photos. Thank you to all the contestants who put in entries in round 9, we hope you had as much fun creating the entries as we did laughing at the great posts. Every week we get new people joining and the bigger we grow the better it becomes, so go out and tell your friends. As we grow bigger, we will increase the rewards.

_{Credit to our Dandy (@dandesign86) for creating this logo for us}

People's Champion - 1SBD

People's champion is a great contributor who is also sponsoring a prize this week. Congratulations:

@buttcoins:
MODERN VACATION

Court Jester - 40SBD

The ComedyOpenMic Court Jester for round Nine is:
@spunkpuppet:
Comedy Open Mic Round 9 : I'm British, therefore I need to stand in the rain for hours on end. Otherwise there's a danger I could become optimistic or even enthusiastic.

Punchy's Top 10¹ list - 30 Steem (3 Steem each)

In no particular order here are our top 10:

Lucky Door Prize - 10SBD (2SBD each)

The lucky door prize goes to 5 lucky contestants who blew us away with their submissions.
Lucky door prize winners:
Lucky Door:

Bonus - 9 SBD (1SBD each)

Chuck Norris Award - 3SBD

Due to technical difficulties accessing current information from SteemData we are unable to award the prize this week. We will attempt to award it next week.

If you guys would like to come along and say "Hi" to the judges or get tips on improving or just chat with other contestants we have opened up a ComedyOpenMic discord channel. Don't be shy, come say hi.

Round 10 is now under way so don't forget to put in your entries, upvote our contestants and share the laughs all over steemit and beyond!!
Over 9 weeks we have managed to give away 471 SBD and 188 Steem. So don't forget to keep upvoting @comedyopenmic when you see it. The more upvotes we get, the more we will give away.

The real winners this week have been the entire community, due to great support from a number of people, @comedyopenmic has been very generously delegated over 40,000SP in total. So please put your entries in, we love to upvote contestants.

Also Big News is that prizes have increased Again! Go check out our Round Announcement post Total prizes this week: 70SBD plus 40Steem.

_{Thank you to @matytan for the great banner}

Comedy Open Mic - Round 9 - Winners Post