Up to eight laptop artists compete in a friendly single-elimination tournament. Contestants are randomly paired up in the first round and advancement to the next round is based on the scoring from judges and/or crowd reaction measured by a laptop (of course). Contestants are judge in three categories: Creativity, Technique, and Stage Presence. Contestants can use a laptop and one external device (midi- controller, etc). Matches are three minutes long and contestants can choose whether they want a 30 second warning issued by the MC. At three minutes, the MC will fade out the contestant's output. There are no restrictions on how sound is created but typical software includes: Ableton Live, Reason, MAX, Traktor, etc. Any genre is welcome. electro, Hip Hop, noise, Drum n Bass, Dirty Dirty, remix, mashup, metal, punk, Jazz....It has all been done at the Deathmatch.
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