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Doubles Cup I
This article is about a site sanctioned Poop Tennis tournament.
This article is a work in progress and so may not be ready for public viewing, and content can change at any time. You can help by contributing to it and discussing on its talk page. The Doubles Cup I was a Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament organized and hosted by RAKninja revolving around a new and inventive way of tennising he devised that later became popularly known as Doubles Tennis. The event was launched in November 2008 and continued until June 2009 and introduced many of the people that would go on to become some of the most widely recognizable names in the world of tennis, spawning two matches that are still greatly considered as some of the greatest matches ever played; seminfinal match TheChutley/trepmaws vs. Gamebop/MycroProcessor, and final match AjaxCubed/Aesaun vs. MycroProcessor/Gamebop, in which Aesaun and AjaxCubed would emerge as the winners of the Tournament. The model used in this competition would later see a revamp in the form of the Doubles Cup II.
Development
The earliest doubles match attempted was one started between RabbitSnore and Miscellaneous10 going against Furnessly and TheHappyFungus in March 2008, which as today has not seen any progression past the serve and remains the oldest match sitting in the "In Progress" section, with every original player considerably having gone inactive long since. This continued to be a concept that was brought up and discussed frequently amongst the Tennis Staff and in the Cafe, and eventually RAKninja would come up a clever twist on the variant and subsequently a way to turn it into a competition, originally as part of a set of quarterly events, with the Doubles Cup being the one to happen on Winter. His layout for how the rounds would go was at the time an entirely original concept:
Player A + Player B vs. Player C + Player D
Player A will make round 1
Player C will make round 2
Player B will make round 3
Player D will make round 4
Players A and B will collaborate on round 5
Players C and D will collaborate on round 6
For additional rules RAK wrote that "the match is scored by a review crew member, a tennis staff member, and a popular vote as the third "judge". in cases where a review crew or tennis staff are inolved in a match, the match with be judged by two members of the other staff,(except in the case of RC vs TS) so if i were in a match against anyone but a RC member, i'd be judged by two RCs rather than a RC and TS...it sounds more complex than it really is."
Popular vote this time around would be as an experiment dictated using the poll function of the threads used for the matches, rather than the use of a host account.
