Tennis Cup I

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The Tennis Cup I was a Youtube Poop Tennis Competition hosted primarily by Gallers and was the first one to be officially billed as a Tournament. It ran from May to August 2008 and was the largest tournament to happen at the time, with 32 participants and nearly all of them having considerably at the time some kind of large following either within the community or beyond. It's eventual winner, PlasmaFetus's brother Ishkibibl, would become the first recipient of the Tennis Tourney Winner medal, which would become the dominant prize for all official tournament based events to follow.

Development

With the signup thread initiated some months after the Tennis League II ground to a halt, Gallers proposed the idea of a "straight knockout competition" that he figured would be easier to organize than the ones before it, and before any rules were in place asked about potential interest. RabbitSnore was the first to do so, famously quoting "RabbitSnore = Tennis. Tennis = Tennis Cup. RabbitSnore = Tennis Cup. Not only am I interested, but if this logic is correct, I AM the Tennis Cup", and proceeding to suggest that because this would be the first competition to deal with elimination, that the round count be increased to 6, as opposed to 4 like Gallers originally imagined. The gameweeks would also for the first time be extended to two weeks as opposed to one to compensate for the time added on by the potential construction of two additional rounds. This meant that the tournament would be much longer than what had occurred previously. Eventually RabbitSnore formulated and Gallers put up the definitive rules for the Cup, which went as follows:

RULES (because it's about time i posted them)

Rounds per match: 6

Length per round: 0:30 - 3:00

Turnover period: 36 hours

Source videos introduced per round: Minimum 0 (except for serve (1)), maximum 3

State sources either on YouTube or in the match's thread

Should a participant be unable to complete a round within the turnover time, without stating a good reason and without their opponent's consent, they shall be deducted 2 votes. If they're taking ridiculously long then they shall be eliminated with their opponent advancing to the next round

Whosever name appears first in the draw will serve for the match

Matches begin on Sundays and end two weeks later on Saturday. Voting also closes on Saturday night.

It wouldn't be until later that a seperate week was allowed in order to collect votes, in order to avoid confusion/distraction of the ongoing tennis from those who would potentially vote. The Tourney section of the forum would also be created and used for the first time, as well as the first conceptual host account, which for this tournament would work under the name of John Madden("YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD","Just like Orson Welles, John Madden has uses Post Mortem"). Vote counts however would not be displayed at this time yet.

25 of the 32 total participants would play in a tournament for the first time, making this tournament contain the largest concentration of new blood that has ever occurred. Following Rabbit then came Gamebop and TheHappyFungus, along with MAZZ0Murder, Milkr0und, Billion, Luioigi, RAKninja, GameCubeHero, Nuthead("SEAKING FUCK YEAH", "YOU IN?" "FUCK YEAH", "FUCK YEAH"), Intenseowl, uncle69er, NS2, Crash2991, RealGenericFilms, TheDarkRises, Ishkibibl("I'M IN MOTHERFUCKERT"), Captpan6, Domorato, strong414bad, GreatBritishTurd, ophios, Terrorist, and Trogdor7190. By this point the match signups had been originally closed, displaying 24 players, and the excitment level for the tournament was essentially sky high. Several people involved gave the tournament nicknames such as "YTP Tennis All Stars" due to the fact that just about everyone who signed up was regarded as an "awesome" player or YTPer overall. This only served to escalate as SeductiveBaz suddenly announced his desire to play in the tournament, to which RabbitSnore insisted at the usurping of Gallers that he be allowed to enter, to which people immediately wanted the player number extended to 32 players ("CAN WE PLEASE WAIT UNTIL THERE'S 32 OR SOMETHING", "IDK ARE THERE 32 AWESOME PEOPLE?", "HELL YEAH", "GATHER THEM EN MASSE", "NAH TOO LAZY"). Following this, TheRoboticRobot also signed up, along with MrDrunkenFox (FOX HAS JOINED TENNIS), Cristoph, Fiddesticks411, FourTwoNineStudios, Temeku and Markie. strong414bad would then drop out originally due to outside commitments and be replaced by sonicnerd23, and with that the 32 participants that were to start were in place. This tournament would also mark the first time that randomly generated set lineups would be introduced, quickly becoming a standard.

Matches

Set 1

A very large amount of videos from this tournament currently remain lost: All of ishkibibl's videos (with NS2, MTB710, Gamebop, Cristoph, and Terrorist), All of Nuthead's videos (with NS2, RabbitSnore and Markie), All of Cristoph's videos (with TheHappyFungus and Ishkibibl), All of intenseowl's videos (with MilkR0und and MTB710), Domorato's Rounds 2, 4, and 6 with MTB710, Trogdor7190's Rounds 2, 4, and 6 with Billion, Sonicnerd23's Round 1, 3, and 5 with RabbitSnore, Milkr0und's Round 2 with intenseowl, Terrorist's Round 1, 3, and 5 with Ishkibibl, FourTwoNineStudios's Round 1, 3, and 5 with Crash2991, and Gallers's Round 2 with RAKninja. Because of this, matches from the first Set such as Ishkibibl vs. Terrorist and MilkR0und vs. Intenseowl are missing entirely, and all we can take away from these two matches is that Ishkibibl defeated Terrorist and that Milkr0und ended up becoming disqualified after two rounds, giving Intenseowl an automatic win("WHY AM I ALWAYS FUCKING WITHH INTENSE - AND SINCE MY GAME WITH INTENSE NEVER FINISHED, CAN WE JUST PICK UP FROM WHERE WE LEFT OFF"). Gamebop vs. strong414bad(a rematch, also in which strong would end up replacing MrDrunkenFox and thus being in the tournament after all if only for a round) and RAKninja vs. Gallers would both fail after three rounds on account that both latter players had already lost steam and motivation, with the same happening to uncle69er vs. SeductiveBaz for the volleying player after only the serve. Gamebop, RAK and uncle would all subsequently advance.

Of the remaining complete matches however in the first Set, there sits the match of ophios vs. Luioigi, which would serve to be a profound inspiration on the style that Luioigi would come to develop over the years, at this time having something radically different. Ophios would begin the match using a trademark sophistication in his source choice with a 1950s The Pied Piper of Hamlin film, which Luioigi would counter by adding in Duck Hunt and Scooby Doo, brought together by otherwise simple editing equal to that of the serve. Ophios would further add in Sweeny Todd, along with several other videos and be a noticeable move foward editing wise, echoes by Luioigi who would bring forth more of the PIP techniques as displayed by Ophios previously, making Round 4 increasingly heavier at parts with effects. Round 5, originally uploaded accidentally out of sync, would at most feature still rather simple editing, largely made up of quick buzzing, but be regarded as a solid response. Luioigi's Round 6 would feature a very large number of added source which took up the majority of the video, with all of it being edited in his early take on a heavy effect style from the day. Ophios would eventually emerge as the matches winner however with the first voting results.

NS2 vs. GameCubeHero would be a rather humorous match in that very round delivered by GameCubeHero would all have the same title, "ANARCHY". The serve would be made up of both Higurashi and Metal Gear Solid I edited in NS2's quickfooted WMM-powered style, with particular repetition given to Snake's "WHAT THE HELL" in response to a number of scenes of the video. Round 2 would feature a lot of added sources involving Resident Evil and much of the round would become lost in a swirl effect with distorted audio, which in Round 3, which added in Tekken, NS2 was easily able to make use of most if not all of the round he was presented with. Round 4 started off with then very unusual hard-panning tricks with the audio before once again taking up the majority of the video with Resident Evil sources, making particular repetition of "A MIDWESTERN TOWN IN AMERICA", which would provide excellent material for NS2's Round 5. In this round he humorly isolated "MIDWEST" and "AMERICA" repeated throughout various parts of the video, while making once again excellent use of the previous round and the addition of more Higurashi and Tekken into the fold. He would close off the round with a scene from MGS4: Guns of the Patriots ("War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control," spoken in Japenese) and a silly expression from one of the Tekken characters. Round 6, while not adding any visual sources, was made up almost entirely of two still frames from the added Tekken source in round 5 while in the audio a mashup of Navi's voice commands from Ocarina of Time could be heard in three layers of rapid and hypnotic succession (being 1:54 in length, roughly 1:25 of the video was HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT WATCH OUT HELLO). Ultamitely the win would go to NS2.

TheDarkRises vs. TheRoboticRobot(the volleying player being the brother of quax) had every round title of the match being of some mention of a previously banned Youchew user known as TheDumbening, who had garnered a significantly bad reputation from his famous alt account creations and overall malicious personality(he presently is unbanned however, and is seen to have to improved very positively). Persistant throughout was a sense of high energy and frequently loud distorted audio, more of the trademark to TheDarkRises than to TheRoboticRobot, and the serve displayed this well in its use of almost all live action footage. TheRoboticRobot would counter this in Round 2 by putting a large amount of the serve into a musically oriented pattern, while adding in a Flintstones cigarette commercial. Round 3 would at the most be surface editing, but still preserving the constituent energy, while Round 4 would be probably RoboticRobot's strongest response, using layering tricks in very creative ways that overall countered TDR's style exceedingly well. Round 5 would at most be Hotel Mario overlayed onto the previous Round, and for more than half the video would be only that source, ending on Luigi's "YOU" for a comedic effect. Round 6 would overlay onto that the ending of Super Mario bros. 2, but would use more of the previous round throughout, and making reference to several of the running jokes/fads of the day. The end in particular was noted for creativity in that the sequence with a sleeping Mario's dream bubble had the edited previous round chroma-keyed inside of it. TheRoboticRobot would end up winning this match.

A common running joke with the match of MAZZ0Murder vs. Fiddlesticks411 was the fact that for the first half of the match every round was rendered with an unusually small aspect ratio, which would poke fun at it by proceeding to make them smaller. By MAZZ0's Round 3 the video had shrunken to about 1/35 of the size of the full screen. In Round 4 it was almost 1/50th, and by startling yet humorous contrast Fiddle would finally add-in a full size source with AosTH, creating interesting Juxtaposition. MAZZ0Murder would then in Round 5 make clever uses of the shrunken frames by dupicatiing them across the now properly full-screen of his round, which prompted Fiddle to do the same with Round 6 although using WMM, experienced difficulty, and as a result the round was only minimally edited with a lot of source added on top of it. MAZZ would emerge from this match as victor.