When I first saw this image in the green room, I LOL'd. For real. I think we may have discovered the match's middle ground here as Draplin retreats from Middle Earth.
Your humble commentator made several remarks about Potts' sartorial choices in the last volley's commentary -- it was bascially filler...Coudal makes me write a certain number of words per round and if I don't fill my quota, I don't get paid, and I'd really like to get paid, like really really really -- but Draplin apparently took those comments to heart and really Went There w/r/t Potts' cheapo suit.[1]
And speaking of something completely different...
I wanted to take a moment to inform the audience just how difficult Layer Tennis is from the perspective of the competitors. It seems hard, right? YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
Although I've never competed myself, this is my third time doing the commentary on an LT match and even that is tough. For one thing, you can't go to the bathroom...for three hours. You're too busy. At the 1:45 mark, your eyes are bloodshot and watery from staring at the screen so intently. At three hours in, you're emotionally, physically, and mentally drained.
When I was a young web designer, I competed in a contest to design an entire web site in a few hours. By the end of it, I felt as though all of my life's juice had been sucked out of my dried husk of a body. It was the most difficult thing I've ever done as a professional. But Layer Tennis is much worse. This 15 minute thing...it's an absolute killer. Literally zero time for thinking or reflecting, the things that make good design good. I don't know how these guys and girls do it, but I'm glad they do.
[1] I know nothing about suits. It may in fact be an expensiveo suit.
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Jason Kottke.
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Naz and Sam Peeling Back the Layers on last Friday's amazing photographic and musical live Layer Tennis Match. No Tennis this week by the way, we'll be back live on the 19th
Layer 10 is up. And that's a wrap! Big thanks to Sam, Naz, Mark, and all the fans. No voting this week, but be sure to sign up for Season Tickets and be the first to get match info and learn how to play in our qualifying matches. Layer Tennis is taking a week off, we'll see you back here on March 19th for our fourth exhibition match.
The coin-flip and Match Preview are up for today's live Photographic Exhibition Match. We're almost set to go. Tweet your comments and include #lyt and then follow the chatter on our Crowd Page. And if you don't have 'em already, sign up for Free Season Tickets for news, contests and maybe even a chance for you to take the court this season.
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