The Season in a Couple Minutes

Here's the whole Layer Tennis season edited down to a couple minutes! Thanks to Matt and Chicago-based Head of Femur for allowing us to use Climbing Up Fire Escapes from their album "Great Plains," which is available in the iTunes store.

Live Layer Tennis: The Second Season

Game Set Match

Shaun Inman won our Final on July 10th. Congratulations to him and to his opponent Gregory Hubacek and thanks a million to all the artists, commentators and fans who played along with us on Friday afternoons. We are already working on the next season of Layer Tennis, so if you’re not a Sesaon Ticket holder yet, please sign up to get all the latest news first.

The Fall

We're working on the next edition of LYT. Jump on the Season Tickets list to get the details first.

The Playoffs

7/10 The Final: Gregory Hubacek vs Shaun Inman*

6/26 Semi 1: Gregory Hubacek* vs Aaron Draplin
6/26 Semi 2: Shaun Inman* vs Scott Hansen

6/12 1st Round 1: Chris Glass vs Gregory Hubacek* (q)
6/12 1st Round 2: Sam Potts vs Aaron Draplin*
6/19 1st Round 3: Shaun Inman* vs Aaron Scamihorn (q)
6/19 1st Round 4: Scott Hansen* vs Jason Koxvold

The Season

Week 13 Jakob Nylund defeated Joakim Jansson
Week 12 ISO50 defeated But Does It Float
Week 11 Chris Glass and Aaron Draplin played to a draw
Week 10 Kevin Dart defeated Tom Muller
Week 9 Sam Brown defeated Ted McGrath
Week 8 Jillian Tamaki defeated Jennifer Daniel
Week 7 Rex Crowle defeated Simon Cook.
Week 6 Jason Santa Maria defeated Derek Powazek.
Week 5 Sam Potts defeated Armin Vit.
Week 4 Phineas X. Jones defeated Dan Grzeca.
Week 3 Werk Stockholm defeated DK Chicago.
Week 2 Rod Hunting defeated Mitch Ansara.
Week 1 Brendan Dawes defeated Jeffrey Kalmikoff.

Links to all the weekly Qualifying Matches

Here's how the playoff field was selected. Shaun Inman and Jason Koxvold were last season’s co-champions. They’re in. Our 9000+ Season Ticket Holders elected the rest of the players. They chose four winners of regular season matches: Aaron Draplin, Scott Hansen, Sam Potts and Chris Glass. They also chose two of the 36 artists who took part in our weekly “Qualifying Matches” (q) to round out the field of eight: Greg Hubacek and Aaron Scamihorn prevailed in that very close voting.

What Is Layer Tennis?

We’re hosting a series of live design events called Layer Tennis. The season wouldn’t have happened without the support of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4, the weapon of choice for Layer Tennis players and creative professionals everywhere.

We'll be playing matches using video, animation, sound, photos, type and lots more, but the basic idea is the same no matter what tools are in use. Two competitors will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post it to the site live. A third participant, a writer, provides play-by-play commentary on the action, as it happens. A match lasts for ten volleys and when it's complete, Season Ticket Holders tell us what they think and we'll declare a winner, so sign up today.

Follow Along

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The Layer Tennis Blog

Thanks to Adobe and to all the artists, commentators and fans that made Friday afternoons so deliciously unproductive during the season. If you haven't checked it out yet, take a peek at our Season Retrospective video. There is a lot cooking for the Fall and, as usual, Season Ticket holders will get the news first. jc-07.17

Shaun Inman is the LT Season 2 Champ! jc-07.10

The winner will be decided by your votes. To vote for a player simply post a Twitter message that includes #LYT and your favorite's name with the "hash" sign in front of it. So, #LYT plus #inman or #hubacek for the early match. dw-07.10

You know how at the end of the NCAA basketball tourney CBS airs a retrospective montage? Yeah, it's sorta like that, only with better music. jc-07.10

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