Tonight's Laptop Battle was amazing. Congrats to our champ Minky Boodle (who performed last time as Pixivixen). Atlanta's only female contestant showed the boys how it's done!
Thanks once again for a great battle in Atlanta. As always, Lenny's was the perfect place and we got great support from Spencer, Bean, and all of the staff.
Laptop Battle 3 saw the widest range of performance styles yet. From Poodleface's video commentary theatrics to Graham Coleman's real-time code writing to Minky Boodle's genre defying dance attack, this battle event brought out some amazing talent and demonstrated the potential for creativity and experimentation with the format. pH went almost entirely beatless and moved on to the finals, while Threv remixed the DuckTales theme song for one of the night's most crowd-pleasing moments.
The field was stacked almost entirely with new faces, which was a joy to see, and the crowd had something different to look forward to in each round. While our rearranged format left a few people scratching their heads, it felt like the round robin and elmination rounds worked to give our seven contestants a fair shot at proving their skills.
The group round was tight, but emerging from their groups were Threv, Minky Boodle, pH, and Graham Coleman--a group that couldn't possibly have represented any more divergent styles and approaches to the battle. These four will advance to the
Atlanta Laptop Battle Finals this fall to face off against Merkatroid, Tricil, Mini Destroy, and Recompas. The finals should be interesting, as these eight contestants are all doing something pretty different (some of them radically different), and they are all using a variety of software and compositional techniques.
Thanks once again to everyone who competed and to everyone who showed up to root the contestants on.
We'll be back in the fall for the finals. Until then...
