Layer Tennis

[Brion Pampell]

For those of you who are interested, Coudal Partners and Adobe are putting on weekly Layer Tennis matches. They're super fun to watch live. Today they're doing an exhibition with all of the players, but next week they start the matches.

http://layertennis.com

Not sure if anyone still hangs out here, but I'd be willing to coordinate a few TAMU Layer Tennis matches if you guys are interested. :) Might be fun.

[Pam]

Brion--hadn't heard of this. Quite interesting.

[Wally]

Definitely some of the crazier versions of layertennis that I've seen. Personally I like a couple more rules and a longer time limit, but I'm game as long as I can pass it off as "training".

[Brion Pampell]

Well, we could start a match here. We'd have a loose time limit of a day or two (longer on the weekends). We could pick any size really & we'll have to have enough people that actually come here to judge it. We'll start with just a few rounds and probably just stick with Photoshop & Illustrator.

I'll come up with some formal rules and post them here to see what you guys think. :)

[Wally]

Sounds good. Thanks!

[Brad Dressler]

At HOW Conference most years they have a session called "Iron Designer" (a la "Iron Chef"). It is done live in front of an audience. And a panel of 4-5 designers are given a challenge to complete in a short time frame. Then judges eliminate. Another round. Eliminate. Then the final winner. It's always cool to watch it live! I had not heard of Layer Tennis. But it sounds sort of similar. Maybe we could do a Layer Tennis or Iron Designer live event on campus sometime. :)

[Wally]

Latest match is out of control - we start throwing uber flash like this, I'm done before the gate opens.
http://layertennis.com/090306/index.php

[Brion Pampell]

I'm not a fan of the flash ones really... I stopped watching that one lol

[Wally]

Wow... last time we mentioned this was March... now we have an in house Layer Tennis event next month. Very exciting!