Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 4:10PM November 17, 2011 — On a drizzly Boston night, it was raining talent inside OBERON, as the knock-down, drag-out finale saw Courtney Maum outduel co-finalist William Giraldi by a final score of 17-10, in an audience-wowing literary spelling bee that won Maum the Literary Death Match crown.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:12AM November 16, 2011 — In a literary and comedic romp for the midwestern ages, a packed house at The Brick witnessed a literary spelling bee finish between co-finalists Matthew Eck and Sarah Smarsh that ended with a closer-than-it-appears score of 13-1, winning Eck the LDM crown.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:30AM November 15, 2011 – In one of the Literary Death Match's greatest all-time city debuts (Tulsa became our 39th home), the Muzakal Chairs throwback finale saw Team Cary Aspinwall fall to Team Sloan Davis in a remarkably close, and brilliantly contested finish at Congregation B'Nai Emunah Synagogue that won Davis Tulsa's first ever LDM crown. And all of it thanks to Booksmart Tulsa.
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 9:48AM November 13, 2011 — Beneath the prettifying lights of Orlando's fantastic Mad Cow Theatre, the giddy crowd witnessed Team Tod Caviness outduel Team Rachel Leona Kapitan by a score of 8-3 in an epically long Cyrillic-Off! that won Caviness the second-ever LDM Orlando crown, presented by Burrow Press.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 1:05AM November 10, 2011 — Before a lively crowd at Alphabet City's Drom (only feet from where Literary Death Match was conceived 68 months before), Literary Death Match NYC turned 40 episodes old, and finished with a breakneck ending in which Team Teddy Wayne out-Cyrillic'd Team Angela Lovell by a final score of 8-4, winning Wayne the coveted LDM crown.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 3:44AM November 9, 2011 — Before a jovial crowd at Brillobox, the Literary Death Match made Pittsburgh it's 38th city worldwide with a wild night of literary and comedic heroics — presented by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre — that saw Team Lori Jakiela outduel Team Jimmy Cvetic in a Pulitzer-themed Cyrllic Off, with a down-to-the-wire 9-7 victory, winning Jakiela the LDM crown.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 1:05AM November 8, 2011 — Before a wonderfully packed house, the 826DC-presented epic at DC9 will go down as one of the great word-for-word readings in LDM history, finishing with Sacha Scoblic out-jump-shooting her co-finalist Vijai Nathan in a back-and-forth battle of Down with Book Burners! basketball. Scoblic snared an airtight 5-4 victory, winniner her the LDM DC, Ep. 2 title.
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 9:38PM November 6, 2011 — In what will go down as an instant-lit-classic at Gladstone Hotel, The National Post-sponsored Toronto, pre-Giller Prize epic went down to the wire, with Dani Couture storming back from a 10-3 deficit to snare a last-letter victory over Grace O’Connell by a score of 12-11 in a literary spelling bee-off that won Couture the LDM Toronto crown.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8:22PM November 3, 2011 — In what's being hailed "the feel-good literary event of Dublin's year" it was Peter Sheridan who shined brightest amongst the e'er twinkling lit-and-comic stars at The Workman's Club, winning a literary spelling bee by only a smidgen (6-5) over poetess Erin Fornoff to win himself the Literary Death Match crown.
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 3:40AM October 22, 2011 — In what will go down in literary history as a Texas Book Festival classic, Literary Death Match held court at the Paramount Theatre with an uber-all-star lineup, and before a packed house of 470, Martha Hall Foose outscored Charles Yu 2,589 to 2,504 in a Books by Numbers finale that won Foose the Literary Death Match crown.