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Volley 8 by J. Koxvold
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Play-By-Play Commentary

Closing In, with Quotes

First, to address some reader mail concerning the question in my last post:

"I would vote not to penalize him, as his entry is awesome." - Andrew B.

"the details are worth waiting for. not to be too picky, but do the Pwnasaurs have one arm coming out of their asses?" - Kevin K.

"I want to believe that the pile of skulls is a Yorick reference, in which case, all that time is just fine. If not? Then those coloured, slightly anthropomorphised robo-dinos are just silly." - B. Amerika

My vote, for perhaps the first time in my life, is with someone who spells America with a "k," though I don't think whether or not Hutch knew Yorick, Horatio, forces the decision. Look how much Kox did with ten minutes!

The vote is swinging in my mind. It is swinging like a pendulum between two points, and is right now somewhere in the middle, magnetically drawn to Kox's voiceovers and efficiency, but also still drawn to a good poop joke.

My kingdom for a poop joke! Go Obama!

Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Rosecrans Baldwin.


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Congrats to totopromo, the in-forum contest winner, and Operator, the remix winner. We have some Jewelboxing and Swap Meat items to send out to you. We're also sending packs of Field Notes to reo5th, BMB and naamyo. Email your shipping info to dawson at coudal.com. dw-02.04

Today is your last chance to sound off about who won Friday's Layer Tennis Matches and to post your remix/contest entries too. jc-01.30

On the last Friday of the season we played two matches at the same time, Koxvold vs Hutchinson and Glass vs Inman. There was a lot of action on the court and a lot in the forums too. jc-01.29

The Schedule

All matches took place on Fridays, live at 2pm Chicago time or GMT-6.

The First Season

January 25 - Match 1 | View Match
Chris Glass vs Shaun Inman*
Commentary by John Gruber | Forum

January 25 - Match 2 | View Match
Jason Koxvold* vs James Hutchinson
Commentary by Rosecrans Baldwin | Forum

January 11th | View the Match
Veerle Pieters* vs Cindy Li
Commentary by Kevin Guilfoile | Match Forum

December 14th | View the Match
Matt Owens vs Jason Gnewikow*
Commentary by Joshua Allen | Match Forum

December 7th | View the Match
Jason Koxvold* vs Bran Dougherty-Johnson
Commentary by Matt Haughey | Match Forum
Match was played using Adobe® After Effects®

November 30th | View the Match
Trevor Van Meter* vs James Hutchinson
Commentary by Bryan Bedell | Match Forum
This match was played using Adobe® Flash®.

November 16th | View the Match
Aaron Draplin* vs David Nakamoto
Commentary by Steven Heller | Match Forum

November 9th | View the Match
Scott Hansen* vs Rob Cordiner
Commentary by Alissa Walker | Match Forum

November 2nd | View the Match
Marian Bantjes* vs Armin Vit
Commentary by Heather Armstrong | Match Forum
Match was played using Adobe® After Illustrator®

October 26th | View the Match
Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria*
Commentary by Matthew Baldwin | Match Forum

October 19th | View the Match
Naz Hamid vs Chris Glass*
Commentary by Rosecrans Baldwin | Match Forum

October 12th | View the Match
Steven Harrington* vs Chuck Anderson
Commentary by Jason Kottke | Match Forum

October 5th | View the Match
Neil Duerden vs Mathew Star Thomas*
Commentary by Debbie Millman | Match Forum

September 28th | View the Match
Kevin Cornell* vs Shaun Inman
Commentary by John Gruber | Match Forum

* =winner



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