The two battled on even terms throughout a seesaw second set that saw six service breaks, three apiece, in the first eight games.
As part of the deal Criterion was required to raise a multimillion-pound round of funding to drive the rejuvenation of SeeSaw and set up its 28 staff in new headquarters.
Its oblong one-story buildings face each other across a weed-ridden yard with a rusted seesaw and swing set.
Hardwell made his set seesaw between earnest vocals and stark, stomping beats; Tiesto modulated smoothly, playing what sounded like one long anthem with a parade of different vocalists.
His current sets seesaw between raunch and R&B.
The set seesawed between hip-hop and samba, hybridizing them both, with a layer of Brazilian percussion in the hip-hop and a bass undertow in the sambas.
Our emotions seesaw a lot".
David Wilson of The Daily Nebraskan described the song as having "low-key harmonics and [a] delicate melody", followed by "a blistering shard of explosive distortion [bursting] out of nowhere", noting that the dynamic contrast within the song, "sets the seesaw pace for the whole record".
With Johnny Cunningham, a fiddler, and his brother Phil, an accordionist, the jokes and stories approach the skill of the music, and at Symphony Space on Friday their sets seesawed between impressive virtuosity and laughter.
Djokovic outlasted Fernando Verdasco of Spain, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2, in a seesaw match, and Williams saved three set points in the first set before defeating Maria Kirilenko of Russia, 7-5, 7-5.
But a lot of the set settled into seesaws between two chords: a logical place where the old-style rhythm-section vamp meets the sampled loop.
