Tennis League IV

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Tennis League IV official artwork created by dew. One can see when looking closely the silhouette of RabbitSnore's icon in the background, who was a prime instigator of the first two Leagues

The Tennis League IV is a currently ongoing Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament hosted jointly by dew, GameBop, TheChutley and trepmaws, which began on December 19th, 2014. Like the Tennis Cup IV and the Doubles Cup II before it, it is a reprisal/continuation of an older tournament, with this in particular being of the oldest form of competitive tennis to have historically occurred on the site. The Tennis League I dates back as far as 2007, while the Tennis League II and Tennis League III both date back to 2008. It is also the longest gap of time to occur between two of the same form of competition.

Development

Discussions for what would contribute towards the next tournament began occurring frequently in late October 2014, in the closing weeks of dew's Multi-Way Tournament. There was heavy interest among the present staff members in addition to many of the present regulars, old and new, of revisiting many old ideas of the course of the next few competitions, in addition to individual ideas that had existed for some time. Initially, talks of a second Tennis Season were the first to emerge out of this discussion, primarily between trepmaws, GameBop and dew, in which many suggestions for ways to update on the first one were presented and discussed, including new variants, abilities, and a proposed entirely new layout of teams/matches. Around this time also, TheChutley became aware of the reduction of size that the tennis community had experienced between his previous departure and recent full-fledged return, and began to question as to why this was. A thread was created in Poop Talk inquiring to the regulars there why more of them weren't tennising like back in earlier days or for those there that did have a history of tennis, why they weren't tennising anymore. Out of all of the collected general answers, many of them seem to hold the common misconception of tennis being nothing but "colors and rape" and thus beyond their own individual elements, a notion which the staff and most of the regulars staunchly opposed and clarification/explanation of this became a semi-regular occurrence for a few weeks. This was further emphasized in the Multi-Way Tournaments closing with Ashcrement's unexpected revelation that he felt that this final match was considerably the most boring match he had ever participated in, due to a lacking in creativity from his opponents which more or less to him seemed to further serve the trope of tennis being "colors and rape". The desire to disprove people of these inherited beliefs and to introduce more to the emphasized fun of the game became a key point of focus, and would greatly influence the decision making to happen subsequently.

On October 17, dew would as a complete experiment make a serve and challenge "the ENTIRE Poop Talk section" to individual games of tennis, for the primary goal of getting something stirring among those in the section and in the tennis section itself. She got up to about 15 total responses, including some from tennis regulars themselves, making the experiment to her seem like a success. To follow this up, dew would lobby in future discussions for the possibility of there being actually a Tennis League IV to capitalize on the ongoing "campaign for revival" as it would be the perfect competition to introduce players into the game this way, as well as competition itself. In a Skype call between a number of staff and dew herself, the layout for presumably the next three tournaments to occur in the future was set, with the League IV going first, then a proposed Cup V, and very possibly a Season II to occur way later. Tournament ideas from both GameBop and Sploltoen would also be suggested, with the idea that these would be hosted within the Interim between these tournaments. An idea for a "rare video editor" Tournament would also be thrown into the pool of ideas around this time, also by dew, who volunteered to be the League IV's host on the basis that he would be able to stick around for the full run this time as well as be it's main advertiser to Poop Talk, of which it in part was aimed toward. Discussion would take a rest for the next month, as the tennis section took a well deserved break from competition, resuming once again in December 2014.

Now in a separate place, the main planning for what would become the Tennis League IV in its finished form went into full swing. Several changes were made and updated to the previous versions to make them more manageable to present standards, including the removal of source limitation (which MycroProcessor is credited to have started in The Three-Way Tournament), and the doubling of the turnover time from 36 hours to 72. The voting system was also adjusted to supply the Olympic system as used in the previous tournament so that players would be judged once again by an overall added score, which match points left unaltered along with this. Penalties would be adjusted from vote weight to a total average percent weight, with 10% put toward every breach of offense of the rules, with repetitive extension being a new penalty worthy offense added in order discourage players in taking too long with each round, since this was a style of match that notably had to keep within a balanced schedule of sorts. There would be changes made during the course of the competition itself, a critical one being the invention of the "pseudo-tie" outcome devised by GameBop, which involved in the event of two scores coming close to being the same within 0.5 point margin (since it would be near impossible for players to tie exactly) that the player with the higher score receive 2 of the 3 possible "match points" earned while the losing player would earn the third point as a consolation prize.

Also for the first time in over 3 years the tournament would see the creation of a new Host account to be used for the voting, under the name of "Comrade Ebola" with a humorously Nazi-centric avatar of George Harrison. TheChutley's main role in this tournament would be the management of this account.

On December 19th, 2014, Dew officially open the signups thread, at 4:15 PST. The rules given left two weeks for signups, but in an unprecedented move 12 players were already signed up within the first hour. This led to some discussion as to whether or not the maximum number of players should be expanded, and while the idea was decided against the signups still continued to grow at an entirely unexpected rate. At the speed they filled, all 36 slots managed to be filled within 26 hours, the final player to sign up being ImmaCornflakes.

While there was some uncertainty at the beginning as to whether or not the tournament would actually attract people from Poop Talk as intended, that uncertainty was crushed in the end as an unprecedented half of all players were first-time competitors, including notable poopers such as ThemOldaBoys, Peskeh, and NationOfOranges696. Many people were invited to the tournament by their friends, an example being Soucisse Verte and NataliaHTTPS, European poopers invited to play by LaVie CestLol. A sizable handful of these people persuaded to join were done so also by InLivingTuna, who himself was a newcomer to the competitive tennis scene. On December 29th, dewmann published a blog article advertising the new League and its players, which would mark the first time in 5 years that a tournament received attention that could be seen by the whole forum.

Matches

Week 1

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Gameweek 1 results

The matches drawn for Set 1 began on January 9th and consisted of:

Division A:

CorruptionSound vs. Ninero

fiv95 vs. Dewmann

Razerek vs. theregularmaster

Division B:

Cornflakes vs. iamoutofideas1

Sploltoen vs. TugCoat

poppop17 vs. OldFashionedLizard

Divison C:

JammeKamme vs. LaVieCestLol

ravinrabbid123 vs. Peskeh

ZACHTOMCAT vs. InLivingTuna

Division D:

NataliaHTTPS vs. PCB

ThemOldaBoys vs. GameBop

theFXexpert vs. NITROCONCRETE1

Division E:

Alfonzopancakes vs. theadventuretimefan / Treckasec (serving as temp. replacement)

Metroid998 vs. Ekrem3012

Soucisse Verte vs. Trepmaws

Division F:

JowlHog4 vs. TheChutley

NationOfOranges696 vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE

Luiginati512 vs. valkiriforce

All except one of the 18 matches to happen in this set received a serve, with Alfonzopancakes vs. Treckasec never actually happening, and Treck winning without doing a single thing. Soucisse Verte vs. trepmaws and poppop17 vs. OldFashionedLizard unfortunately never went any farther than their serves, and the serving players both won by default. Sploltoen vs. TugCoat on the other hand, would stop at round 3 with TugCoat's dropout.

Division A

The first match to both start and complete would be Fiv95 vs. dew, having their whole match done before the first rounds of each match were even due. With the serve being a musical trip featuring many 3D visuals and background music by the group Can, dew would take this into a direction she had not previously attempted. In her Round 2 she constructed a "pseudo plot" using an animated rabbit from Fiv's serve and a masked cutout of Peter Gabriel from The Barry Williams Show music video and have them get into an "argument", with speech text provided by pixelated words created by dew on a site called Minifesto. She would then proceed to have the rabbit "become angry" and glow red, and chase Peter Gabriel throughout other scenes of the round with "Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With" by King Crimson serving as the backing music for this segment. Notable throughout this piece are the stairs that are formed out of sped-up-and-repeated section of the previous round and the physically unaltered state of many of the more visual parts, which was a very daring and contrasting move on dew's part, who was worried about what it would do to the round's overall strength at first. Following this the music changes to the quieter "The Power to Believe II" also by King Crimson, in which the Rabbit becomes sucked into a void accentuated by one of the more unique sounds from the serve, and is whisked away to a psychedelic aura of different panning sounds and the echoing ambiance of Marvin Gaye's song "Whats Happening Brother" playing in the distance. Also distinct about the video is the use of the Talking Heads' "Once in a LifeTime" music video which dew described as "the most chroma keyable thing I had ever found and wanted to use in my life" over other visual sections of the round, done so frequently in recursive ways that she found most appealing.

Fiv was very self-depreciating of his round 3 which he considered to be overly destructive and felt that it destroyed the flow of the match, though in Round 4 dew responded with an encouraging and silly tribute to her opponent spelling out in text "GabrielCol595 or cola or fiv should know that he's REALLY GREAT AND AWESOME at Tennis!" in which the previous round was masked into. This along with the rest of round following was all done in time to the Parliament song "Flash Light", which was a shining example of dew's fascination with funk music and emulated her speckling the Tennis community with it's influence for fun, calling the Skype version of the cafe the "tennis FUNK chat" and the staff members "the tennis FUNKS". The whole video was intentionally rushed not only to put himself more even with her opponent but to also beat the clock as in a matter of time the deadline for all serves was to come and that seemed like a good goal to shoot for to her, an idea suggested ad libitum by Gamebop. The finished round was as a result completed in only a few hours.

The final results were pretty high, with dew winning with 8.57 against fiv's 8.04, just 3 cents of a point short of winning a pseudo-tie point. The quickness of this round would then become a challenge for dew, as she will try to always be in the first match of the gameweek that finishes (which she would on the two following gameweeks).

Division B

Cornflakes vs. iamoutofideas1 is probably the most experimental match of the Gameweek, with both going for a very performance-driven way of doing their rounds. Cornflakes’ serve had an emphasis on atmosphere, with footage of roads and some of his trademark sources (notably Street Fighter), set to a piano-driven remix of Boards of Canada's Olson. iamoutofideas’ response was heavily revolving on footage from him playing the serve on a television, using a tape recorder to create a high pitched sound, and playing another source on another TV. Cornflakes would then embrace this idea by doing the same with his own elements, while still including more straightforward elements as well. Ideas’ last round has no editing whatsoever, as it’s a 6-minute cut-less take of him doing a live video performance in a very slow, eerie pace, using the same tape recorder as before, as well as some more added media shown on a different screen. The raw score showed a preference for Cornflakes (7.50 against 6.9 for iamoutofideas’), and the three penalties ideas got for lateness and length dropped his score at 4.84, while Cornflakes got one for length, downgrading at 6.75.

Division C

JammeKamme vs. LaVie CestLol would have a cinematic and musical theme, with JamKam's serve using the (fake?) trailer of 'Machete', by Robert Rodriguez, with an extensive emphasive on stutters and earrape, used in a comedic manner. LaVie would respond by embracing this style, while adding to the pool of sources the music video of 'Flat Beat' by Mr. Oizo. His round would mainly sentence mix the trademark lines from the Machete trailer in different ways ("They called him Machete" becomes "They called him God", and "They called him father", or also "God has mercy, i has mercy, ChihC has mercy, *explosion* has mercy"), uses JamKam's earrapes in a rythmic manner (especially a car blowing up, that is used extensively) and even pays a sort of homage to AmiralMachin by luma-keying the previous round in Flat Eric's phone (A reminder of Machin's round 4 in his match against vvaluigi and DaftPunkYoshi in the Three-Way Tournament).

JammeKamme's round 3 would add two sources : the Planet Terror trailer (staying in the Grindhouse Theme) and the music video of Stick Em by Fat Boys. His round would continue the very rythmic/earrape/technical style the match was going with, creating new gags with the added sources and showing equal passion in his work. LaVie's final round would then use the first sequence of Ingmar Bergman's Persona as a structure. He would use a recording of him playing "The Tennis League Theme" on an acoustic guitar, with a grid of chords that he would reuse in different ways throughout his matches. He would also do a mini-YTPMV with MF DOOM's One Beer, using snippets of the previous round, and finishing in his trademark, effect-heavy musical montages, using Mats & Morgan's En Schizofrens Dagbok, his round and the match ending with an obviously cinematic "THE END - A JammeKamme and LaVie CestLol production". This match was very well received, and the raw scores saw LaVie CestLol winning with 8.44 against 7.65 for JammeKamme, who downgraded at 6.89 due to a lateness penalty.

The idea of ZACHTOMCAT vs. InLivingTuna sounded better on paper than it ended up working out. ZACHTOMCAT, who had been around since 2011, recently emerged with a very destructive and atmospheric style inspired mainly by therazoredge which had pushed his videos to artistic heights that left even people who knew him stunned, and at the same time newcomer InLivingTuna had began making a name for himself due to his superkoffee and Butcher inspired style of sloppy editing and harsh use of puppet pin and color curves. While ZACHTOMCAT played very impressively, making a serve that used many destructive effects and imaginative color manipulations, InLivingTuna found himself at a personal and creative low, eventually uploading a volley made in only an hour. ZACH responded with full force, making a round 3 that featured extensive audio editing and inventive uses of geometric shapes. It was at this point, however, that things fell apart harder in InLivingTuna's life. Faced with the constant homophobia of his town and receiving physical abuse at his school because of it, he attempted suicide by jumping in front of a van partially through making his final round, prompting a rather notable and unfortunate moment in which he had to ask for an extension from inside the emergency room. His finished product would wind up becoming not particularly noteworthy, being a mostly humorous response that only minimally edited the previous round. The final score for this match would end up inevitably in favor of ZACHTOMCAT, who received a score of 6.23 while InLivingTuna walked away with a staggeringly small 4.23, the lowest score of the first gameweek.

Division D

NataliaHTTPS vs. ProfessorCheeseBall revolves right off the bat by an odd choice of source by Swiss newcomer NataliaHTTPS, footage of trains edited in a humorous, frantic way. While being stylistically very straightforward, revolving on earrape and very fast paced editing, it’s still recognized as a very entertaining match, with both contestants responding with equal passion and technicity. The scores will be in favour of PCB (8.03 against 7.56 for Natalia, who got a point for tying in) but both contestants have been equally praised for their work.

The mere announcement of ThemOldaBoys vs. GameBop caused much uproar among the tennis community. ThemOldaBoys had become well known for his humorous SantaWithTeeth/MTB710 inspired style, but despite expressing an interest in tennis, he had played very little before the tournament. Few people, however, expected such an unlikely opponent as seasoned tennis veteran and two-time tournament winner GameBop to be his very first challenger in the league. The match itself began with a very absurd and comedic serve by ThemOldaBoys, using a derrickcomedy.com sketch as the source. GameBop's round 2 was the focus of much speculation, but he blew most people's perceptions when he, rather then use his routine style, opted to play off Olda's jokes as much as possible, including the addition of a "Sonic Skateboard" source to play off a skateboarding joke make in the serve. This style of playing off each other's jokes would be seen again in round 3 by ThemOldaBoys which impressively took the match in a much more technical style than the previous rounds. GameBop would pick up on this, and round 4 would ultimately be a culmination of every thematic element being built up in the match, featuring not only all of the jokes used in previous rounds, but also playing off some of Olda's effects resulting in some interesting uses of color changing and even a brief YTPMV that played off a part Olda had created of the main character laughing. This match was very well received and widely regarded as the best match of the first gameweek, and the voting reflects that. Despite the win going to GameBop with a score of 8.73, Olda also walked off with a similarly high score of 7.62.

Before this gameweek ended the rather crucial decision to add in the Pseudo Tie system was made with only two matches scores ending up with this outcome. At the week's end Division A saw dew, Ninero and Razerek all starting out in the lead with 3 points each, leaving Fiv95, CorruptionSound and theregularmaster with none. Division B saw Sploltoen and poppop17 automatically in the lead with 3 points along with Cornflakes who was the only player who won his match fairly, with iamoutofideas left with 0 points while OldFashionedLizard and TugCoat ending up getting replaced with newcomers thewoof and Another Brick in the Wall. Division C saw LaVieCestLol and ZACHTOMCAT taking the initial lead with 3 points each, with Peskeh winning out in a pseudo tie against ravinrabbid123 putting them in second and third with 2 and 1 points respectively. InLivingTuna and JammeKamme would still be left at 0. In Division D GameBop and theFXexpert would tie for first with 3 points leaving NTIROCONCRETE1 and ThemOldaBoys with 0, while PCB would win in a pseudo tie against NataliaHTTPS with 2 and 1 points respectively, putting them in second and third. In Division E Soucisse Verte, metroid998 and Treckasec (becoming theadventuretimefan after this gameweek) would all tie for first with 3 points, leaving Ekrem3012 with 0 and Alfonzopancakes and trepmaws being replaced by TehShadzify and, ironically, Treckasec again. Division F saw TheChutley, valkiriforce and INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE all tie with 3 points leaving NationOfOranges696, Luiginati512 and JowlHog4 with none. This caused NationOfOranges696 to leave the tournament in frustration over the notion that all the more heavy editors were winning and that it didn't seem fair, and he was replaced by JacobketronCT. Luiginati would also leave come the next set and be replaced by Sid.

Week 2

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Gameweek 2 results

The matches drawn for Set 2 began on February 9th and consisted of:

Division A:

Fiv95 vs. CorruptionSound

dew vs. Razerek

Ninero vs. theregularmaster

Division B:

Splolteon vs. Cornflakes

Another Brick in The Wall (who replaced TugCoat) vs. laromande (who replaced poppop17)

iamoutofideas1 vs. thewoof (who replaced OldFashionedLizard)

Divison C:

ravinrabbid123 vs. JammeKamme

Peskeh vs. ZACHTOMCAT

LaVieCestLol vs. HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine (who replaced InLivingTuna)

Division D:

ThemOldaBoys vs. NataliaHTTPS

GameBop vs. theFXexpert

PCB vs. NITROCONCRETE1

Division E:

Metroid998 vs. TehShadzify (who officially replaced Alfonzopancakes)

Ekrem3012 vs. Soucisse Verte

theadventuretimefan vs. Treckasec (who replaced trepmaws)

Division F:

JacobketronCT (who replaced NationOfOrangers696) vs. JowlHog4

INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE vs. Sid (who replaced Luiginati512)

TheChutley vs. valkiriforce

At the end of this Gameweek Division A saw Ninero win another 3 points, putting him in first place, while dew slid down to second winning in a pseudo tie and gaining two points totaling 5, one less than Ninero. Razerek who won the complimentary point against dew was in third with 4 points. Meanwhile Fiv95 beat out CorruptionSound in a pseudo tie giving him 2 points, putting him in fourth and CorruptionSound in fifth with his complimentary point. theregularmaster still sat at 0 and would be replaced by MycroProcessor for the next set.

Division B saw Sploltoen get another 3 points by default and his opponant Cornflakes get replaced by Doom for the next set, while Another Brick in The Wall would also receive 3 by default and thewoof would receive 3 fairly, resulting in a 4 way tie for second (between Another Brick, thewoof, poppop17 and Doom) with Sploltoen in the lead with 6 points. A very long dispute over the correct scoring of iamoutofideas1 vs. thewoof went on between the staff, and the score of both players was continuously altered between a 3 to 0 and a pseudo tie before finally resting on an unusual 3 to 1, with a grace point given to ideas as compensation for the amount of mistakes made. iamoutofideas still remained in last place and this would be the only point that he and his replacement would have throughout the tournament.

Division C saw LaVieCestLol secure his lead by gaining another three points totaling 6, while Peskeh and Ravinrabbid each held their respective spots of second and third by gaining three points for their matches. InLivingTuna was now replaced with an unknown player named HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine, who remained in last along with JammeKamme, while ZACHTOMCAT fell to 4th place.

In Division D theFXexpert successfully won in a pseudo tie against GameBop gaining 2 points and tied for first with PCB who had won with 3 points against NITROCONCRETE1, with both now at 5 points total. GameBop's gaining of one point dropped him to second with 4 points with NataliaHTTPS in third with 3, after winning 2 points in a pseudo tie against ThemOldaBoys who was now in fourth with 1. NITROCONCRETE1 remained at 0.

In Division E Soucisse Verte secured his lead by winning 3 and maintaining first with 6 points, while TehShadzify and (even though he had technically, was now in a player spot who hadn't) Treckasec, who had not won the previous match won their match fully in this set, creating a four way tie between them, Metroid998 and theadventuretimefan for second. Ekrem3012 remained the only player with no points.

In Division F TheChutley won out in a pseudo tie vs. valkiriforce and Sid won out in a pseudo tie vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE, which kept TheChutley in first with 5 points and valkiriforce and INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE tied for second with 4. JacobketronCT would get a full 3 points after JowlHog4 left the tournament and subsequently would be replaced by cyclejunkie, putting Jacob in 3rd and Sid in 4th.

Week 3

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Gameweek 3 results

The matches drawn for Set 3 began on March 5th and consisted of:

Division A:

dew vs. CorruptionSound

Razerek vs. Ninero

MycroProcessor (who replaced theregularmaster) vs. Fiv95

Division B:

Another Brick in The Wall vs. Doom (who replaced Cornflakes)

laromande vs. Hornet (who replaced iamoutofideas1)

thewoof vs. Sploltoen

Divison C:

Peskeh vs. JammeKamme

ZACHTOMCAT vs. LaVieCestLol

HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. ravinrabbid123

Division D:

GameBop vs. NataliaHTTPS

theFXexpert vs. PCB

NITROCONCRETE1 vs. MrDjThompson (who replaced ThemOldaBoys)

Division E:

Ekrem3012 vs. TehShadzify

Soucisse Verte vs. theadventuretimefan

Treckasec vs. Metroid998

Division F:

INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE vs. cyclejunkie (who replaced JowlHog4)

Sid vs. TheChutley

valkiriforce vs. JacobketronCT

Division A saw CorruptionSound beat dew by a close margin resulting in a pseudo tie, which saw him tie for fourth with MycroProcessor who had fully won against Fiv95 with a full 3 points. dew remained at 2nd with 6 points while Ninero's lead became more commanding with a 3rd consecutive full win putting hum at 9 points. Razerek remained in 3rd with 4 points while fiv now sat in last with just 2.

With Division B Sploltoen, laromande and Another Brick won out fully against their opponants keeping Sploltoen in the lead with 9 points and laromande and Another Brick tied for second with 6. thewoof and Doom remained tied for third with 3 points while Hornet was left without a single point.

Division C saw LaVieCestLol, Peskeh and ravinrabbid all win their matches again, keeping them repsectively in first, second and third with virtually no change in any player standings.

In Division D GameBop now ascended back to tie with PCB for first with 7 points, theFXexpert with 6, NataliaHTTPS still with 3 and MrDjThompson and NITROCONCRETE1 tied for last with 2.

In Division E Soucisse Verte scored a third consecutive full win putting him at 9 points and still in first, while TehShadzify and Treckasec pulled ahead each gaining another 3 and tying for second with 6. Metroid and theadventuretimefan fell to third with still 3 points and Ekrem3012 remained at 0.

Division F would see TheChutley and valkiriforce score full wins and secure their spots at first with 8 points and second with 7 points respectively. While INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE would pseudo tie with cyclejunkie and gain 2 points, putting him in 3rd with 6. JacobketronCT, Sid and Cyclejunkie remained respectively in 4th, 5th and last place.

Week 4

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Gameweek 4 results

The matches drawn for Set 4 began on April 4th and consisted of:

Division A:

CorruptionSound vs. Razerek/GabrielPika (who wanted to replace Razerek but was too late to post his round)

InLivingTuna (who exceptionally replaced Fiv95) vs. Ninero

MycroProcessor vs. dew

Division B:

Doom vs. laromande

Sploltoen vs. iTzNQQB (who replaced Hornet)

thewoof vs. Another Brick in The Wall

Divison C:

Pop (who replaced JammeKamme) vs. ZACHTOMCAT/Fiv95 (who exceptionally replaced ZACHTOMCAT during the match)

ravinrabbid123 vs. LaVieCestLol

HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. Peskeh

Division D:

NataliaHTTPS vs. theFXexpert

MrDjThompson vs. PCB

NITROCONCRETE1 vs. GameBop

Division E:

TehShadzify vs. Soucisse Verte

Metroid998 vs. theadventuretimefan

Treckasec/Fujoshi (who replaced Treckasec during the match) vs. Ekrem3012

Division F:

cyclejunkie vs. Sid

JacobketronCT vs. TheChutley

valkiriforce vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE

In Division A Ninero secured his definite win of his division with a fourth consecutive 3 points, keeping him at first with 12 and 4 points ahead of dew, who was still in second now with 8 points after winning via pseudo tie against MycroProcessor. CorruptionSound would also automatically win against Razerek, who mid match was replaced by gabrielpika who failed to respond on time, allowing CorruptionSound to rise to 3rd place with 6 points. MycroProcessor was tied for 4th with the spot now left empty by gabrielpika's disqualification, while InLivingTuna was in last with just 2 points.

Division B saw Sploltoen also win a fourth consecutive 3 points keeping him at first with 12 but with laromande hot on his tail with now 9 points after another 3 point win, making the winner of this division still a toss up possibity. Another Brick in The Wall fell to third gaining one less point, putting him now at 8. thewoof gained a single point which brought him up to fourth with 4, dropping Doom to fifth with 3 and keeping iTzNQQB in last with 1.

Division C would see LaVieCestLol's full winning streak broken by winning a Pseudo tie against ravinrabbid gaining him one less point, while Peskeh won his match fully and tied both players for first at 11 points, with ravinrabbid trailing behind with 8 points. pop fantasticly won the first match for his player slot and tied himself with Fiv95 without making any effort (very poorly edited rounds) and won thanks to the late penalties partially caused why pop's opponent remplacement during the match, now playing in this division, at third with both 3 points while HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine remained without a single point.

Division D saw GameBop narrowly taking the lead with a 3 point win putting him at 10 points while both PCB and theFXexpert trailed close behind him with both at 9 points, theFXexpert having gained a full 3 and PCB gaining 2 in a pseudo tie against MrDjThompson. NataliaHTTPS and MrDjThompson were now tied for third with 3 points while NITROCONCRETE1 remained in last with still just 2 points.

Soucisse Verte in Division E also had his full winning streak broken in a pseudo tie win against TehShadzify while Fujoshi scored a third consecutive win for his player slot, putting him at 9 and in second place, close behind Soucisse Verte, still in the lead with 11 points, who could by this point be possibly overtaken. TehShadzify fell to 3rd with 7 points, while Metroid998 finally won again in a pseudo tie vs. theadventuretimefan and rose to fourth with 5 points. theadventuretimefan sat in 5th with 4 while Ekrem3012 remained without a single point.

Division F saw TheChutley score a full win keeping him in first with 11 while valkiriforce scored a pseudo win putting him at 9 and still in second, representing more close competition. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE remained in third with 7 after gaining his one point from valkiriforce and Sid rose to 4th with 4 after pseudo winning over cyclejunkie. JacobketronCT gained no points but remained out of last place by one point.

Week 5

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Gameweek 5 results

The matches drawn for Set 5 began on May 14th and consisted of:

Division A:

CorruptionSound vs. MycroProcessor

Ninero vs. dew

Division B:

Doom vs. thewoof

iTzNQQB vs. Another Brick in The Wall

laromande vs. Sploltoen

Divison C:

Pop vs. HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine

LaVieCestLol vs. Peskeh

Fiv95 vs. ravinrabbid123

Division D:

PCB vs. GameBop

theFXexpert vs. MrDjThompson

Division E:

TehShadzify vs. Fujoshi

theadventuretimefan vs. Ekrem3012

Soucisse Verte vs. Metroid998

Division F:

cyclejunkie vs. valkiriforce

TheChutley vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE

Sid vs. JacobketronCT

Cross-division:

NataliaHTTPS vs. InLivingTuna

(This match is due to the endless lack of replacements, since 2 players were needed again. Instead of waiting for replacements, the "League Staff" preferred to move on. This cross-division match idea has been approved after some discussions.)

At the end of the Gameweek, two Matches would not see their end as, because of an incident, Ninero vs. Dew would be left at three rounds with Dew departing from the tournament staff, the tournament itself, and the site. NataliaHTTPS vs. InLivingTuna would not go past the serve as InLivingTuna said he was unable to do a Tournament Match because of IRL issues, making NataliaHTTPS the de facto winner.

Therefore, Division A would only have one match to vote, with CorruptionSound winning over Mycroprocessor and getting the division's second place in the last stretch with 9 points, with dew staying at 8 and Mycroprocessor staying at 4. The two remaining players, gabrielpika and InLivingTuna, will close the match with respectively 4 and 2 points. Ninero already clinched the division, and his de facto win would secure his perfect score of 15 points.

Division B had a surprising turn of events with laromande, winning her Week 2 match with ABITW, would win in a stretch against Sploltoen (with a remarkably high score and a 0.14 difference), putting her in first place at 14 points, whereas Sploltoen would only be one point behind. ABITW would easily win his third place against iTzNQQB, getting 8 points, while Doom would win against thewoof, putting himself at 6 points. thewoof would stay at 4 points and iTzNQQB would close the ranking with a single point.

There was quite an amount of hype to see who would be the victor of Division C, as the two contestants Peskeh and LaVie CestLol were tied at 11 points before the fifth gameweek. In a match widely appreciated by the community, Peskeh would win in a pseudo-tie against LaVie and secure his place in the final match with 13 points (against 12 for LaVie CestLol). On the other hand, fiv95 won against ravinrabbid123, who finishes the league in third place of her division. Meanwhile, in a very unique match, pop would win against HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine (who, because of the many penalties he accumulated, will be left with the unusual score of 0), getting on fourth place, tied-in with fiv at 6 points. HMFM would finish off the league without any points.

Division D was also a show of hands with 3 people being potential finalists (Gamebop, ProfessorCheeseBall and theFXexpert). Gamebop would win in the final stretch against PCB, putting him at 12 points against 10 for PCB. But theFXexpert would also finish with 12 points due to his win against MrDJThompson. The tie is broken by the fact that FX won against Gamebop in Gameweek 2, therefore awarding him a place in the final match. Being the de facto winner of her match, NataliaHTTPS finishes in fourth with 6 points, MrDjThompson follows with 3 points and NITROCONCRETE1 closes with 2 points.

Division E would be straightforwardly won by Soucisse Verte, despite conceding the last match to Metroid998 with a pseudo-tie, like Fujoshi lost in a pseudo-tie against TehShadzify. Meanwhile, theadventuretimefan would easily win against ThirtyTwelve. The final ranking is : Soucisse Verte - 12 points, Fujoshi - 10 points, TehShadzify - 9 points, Metroid998 - 7 points, theadventuretimefan - 7 points, ThirtyTwelve - 0 points.

Division F also ended in a tie, as TheChutley would lose against INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE and valkiriforce would only win with a pseudo-tie against cyclejunkie. Therefore, with 11 points each, it's the winner of the match they had with each other that is the finalist, which means TheChutley wins his division. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE would closely follow with 10 points. JacobketronCT would tie-in with Sid after winning their match with a pseudo-tie, while cyclejunkie would close the ranks with 3 points.

Final match

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Tournament's all gameweeks results

The final match consists in a 6-way featuring the winners of all divisions among the 5 gameweeks.

Lineup

Ninero (standing for division A)

laromande (standing for division B)

Peskeh (standing for division C)

theFXexpert (standing for division D)

Soucisse Verte (standing for division E)

TheChutley (standing for division F)

After shuffling the order, the Grand finale was presented as TheChutley vs. Soucisse Verte vs. laromande vs. Ninero vs. Peskeh vs. theFXexpert, an interesting line-up as nobody has been ever been a finalist before, and four participants were doing their Tournament Debut, whereas the two veteran players, TheChutley and theFXexpert, were both representing the Tennis Café Staff.