Windows Movie Master

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The Windows Movie Master was a specialized YouTube Poop Tennis Tournament hosted by strong414bad that involved a classic Cup-style procession of matches in which Windows Movie Maker was the only editor players could use. The event ran from June to November of 2009 and overlapped with the then ongoing Tennis Season and The Grey Tournament which would have started signups but not officially commenced until after the conclusion of the Season and this tournament. Many of the players who joined were ones that hadn't played in tournaments before specifically because WMM was their main editor and with the opening of this felt like they finally had a place where theirs would be the most fairly matched. One such player, DaftPunkYoshi, who was already building a reputation for his impressive technicality with the famously basic-in-appearance editor, would be the winner of the Tournament with much praise, and it would be the only tournament he would actively participate in. Because the tournament was organized and planned out like the Tennis Cup, it is retrospectively looked at now alternatively as the Tennis Cup II, to keep in likeness with the logic of the Tennis Cup IV's name, though it is still commonly referred to under its original title. A special award set was created solely for this tournament, for participants and the winner, and has not been used again since.

Development

In August of 2008, Emperor Ing instigated a three-way all WMM match with fellow WMMers and Tennis Fucks strong414bad and NS2, which was an acclaimed match among the tennis regulars upon its completion. It used an unusual format of round orders, doing so in a way that no player would volley each other twice, but every player would be volleyed once. This match would become widely known and coined by Ing as the Windows Movie Master.

In April of 2009, the formation of a second Windows Movie Master was intstigated, in what would appear to be a gigantic multi-way match with several players, estimated to be up to 16. It wasn't until about a week after its original formation that it was formally decided between strong414bad and DaftPunkYoshi to turn it into a full out Tournament, with a total of 16 players competing. It's official start date was witheld until the Doubles Cup I officially ended, which would be about one and a half months later.

Unusually for a tennis tournament up to this point, the determination of matches fell back from the randomization used in Gallers's Tennis Cup and instead opted for a traditional bracket system, where the outcomes of the first lineup would define the matches of the following Lineups, thus making it more stylized after a real-life Cup.

Players

With strong414bad as the primary host and first participant, DaftPunkYoshi would sign up second in what would be his first official competition. Emperor Ing would then join (this also being his first) and insist that someone get NS2 to join, in order to have all 3 of the originals taking part. NS2 would later state that he was game for anything, with the time in between occurring the confirmed participation of Gamebop, MycroProcessor, Fiddlesticks411, MAZZ0Murder, FuturesPassed, TangerineImpz, quax and RAKninja. Followed by this would be Rarenut59(his first and only competition), TheChutley, and AmiralMachin in his firsat competition, with the last participant being vvaluigi.