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title: "RISE Comedy Cup | Coming December 2026"
description: "The RISE Comedy Festival will be a celebration of Improv, Stand Up and Sketch Comedy 7/7 - 7/14, 2022!"
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url: "https://risecomedy.com/rise-comedy-cup/"
date_modified: "2026-08-24T10:19:34-06:00"
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The RISE Comedy Cup is a charity improv tournament hosted at RISE Comedy. 

All proceeds from this event go to benefit the Transgender Center of the Rockies! Check out all of the wonderful programs, resources, and  services they provide to protect and assist trans people: [https://www.transgendercenteroftherockies.org/](https://www.transgendercenteroftherockies.org/)

On Night One, 16 teams will perform 10 minute sets in front of a judges panel. They will be given a score on the Show Quality, Team Work, and Originality/Theming. The top 9 teams move on automatically. An additional team is made up of the 4 best players on teams that didn’t move on, AKA The Wild Cardinals! 

One Night Two, Those 10 teams will rely on Audience voting to defeat each other bracket style till there is an official winner along with an MVP! 

![Logo for Rise Comedy Cup, a charity event held in Denver. The design features bold green text on a dark blue shield, with Rise at the top, Comedy in the middle, and Cup at the bottom. A small green triangle sits above, celebrating Denvers vibrant comedy clubs.](https://risecomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RiseCup_green-black-svg-e1695822765330.png)

[![Logo for the Transgender Center of the Rockies, featuring stylized, lowercase letters in black with colorful accents in pink, blue, brown, and white; the tagline appears below in black capital letters.](https://risecomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-TCR-color.png)](https://www.transgendercenteroftherockies.org/)

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