The Three-Way Tournament

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The Three-Way Tournament is a YouTube Poop Tennis Tournament hosted by MycroProcessor that began in May 2010 and ceased in activity in February 2011, and is the only tournament still remaining in limbo due to the stagnation of its final match, which is currently still at Round 5. Despite this, it is often hailed retrospectively as one of the most prolific tournaments in all of tennis history, due to the amount and the vast diversity of players that participated in it throughout its most active, giving noticable jumps in popularity and cult speculation to various players that entered in as unknowns. It is also, thanks to the efforts of BSP666c, one of the most well-preserved tournaments on the forums.

Development

MycroProcessor had long been fond of three-way matches, and the idea of a tournament being based around them as opposed to two way very much appealed to him for a long time, which would also help him to contribute to the section with a tournament in some way.

Talks about its development are estimated to have occurred around early 2010, when the Grey Tournament was entering into its final stages. Gamebop came up with initial suggestion on the setup of the brackets, with RAKninja chipping in the idea of a second bracket for losers that would be implemented into the setup. This was suggested as a way to prevent people from leaving the tournament so early onward, as what would sometimes be the case for some players that wanted to keep playing/players that people hoped would have stayed longer. The voting system would also be developed as an alternative to what Mycro saw as the "black and white polarized nature that other tennis votes had", which he also saw as a necessity for a tournament that featured the additional side.

The tournament in its style was a one of a kind uniqueness for its time, taking the concept of a standard Cup and modifying it to accomadate a third player for each match, making it the first tournament going beyond matches in which the competition went between two even sides. This would also be the first tournament in which there was no limit on how many sources a player could add into their rounds, where in previous tournaments it was often limited to 3. Subsequently after this tournament this would become a standard.

Along with an odd number of required participants as opposed to an even, this would also be the first tournament that worked under a double elimination system, with an additional bracket of matches added in order to filter out players throughout the tournaments course (Everyone could lose once as a freebie, those who did played in this bracket to keep themselves from losing twice). Only one player would be able to go through this tournament without losing one match.

Voting for this tournament was also an entirely original system, rather than choosing a winner one would divide a 100% vote between three players, giving the highest percentage to the player they believed should advance. Half of the vote was accounted for by a panel of 8 judges made up of 5 Cafe Staff Members, including MycroProcessor himself, Gamebop, Moogle, RAKninja, and DaftPunkYoshi, and 3 regular members including Chrisgendo, AmiralMachin and JakeSteel0121(Chrisgendo would however towards the end of the tournament become a Staff Member himself, alongside TheChutley). The total calculated score for each player was a complex system that involved taking the total number of votes from both public voters and judge voters seperately and multiplying it by 100, which would then be the denominator under the total of each percentage score added when multipled by 100 (a score of .50 became 50, when voted by one person would account for a 50/100 score. if 2 people voted .25, this would become 50/200, and so forth). The two total scores given by the public and the judges under this formula would then be divided (50/200 would become 0.4) and added together, and the resulting number, which rarely ever exceeded the count of 1, would be the score given to the player, and the player with the highest score between the 3 would win the match. The host account used for votes during this tournament would be under the name of Jolteon.

Players

Amongst the seasoned players who originally joined were MycroProcessor, Gamebop, vvaluigi, TheChutley, metroid998, trepmaws, RAKninja, Luioigi, ThaNuke, AmiralMachin and Fiddlesticks411, all having played in the last few tournaments including the Season for most. Magmalord would also join, his first tournament having just been the one previous. DaftPunkYoshi signed up again having previously played and won the Windows Movie Master in mid 2009, and Chrisgendo, wwefan3333, KlausTheWizard and JakeSteel, having first played in the season, would sign up in what would be in their first traditional tournament. Jacktron7000, Futures Passed/RobotComics and XBR4D3NX had all previously played in the first Doubles Cup but had remained mostly independant in the tennis world in the years following, and would make their reemergance here onto the competitive front(SeargentBacon, also from the first Doubles Cup, would make two appearances as a replacement player).

Funacceptable was the first player to sign up for the tournament, and at this time had only played 3 other matches with AmiralMachin, hom96sar and AGSMA throughout early 2010. This tournament would also serve to be the competitive debut of both BSP666c and CorruptionSound, both having already made names for themselves as highly technical and sought after tennisers during this time. Metzgorre came into the tournament as an almost complete unknown, the only other matches he had played at this time were between magmalord and CorruptionSound, which had both been very recent occurrances. IceSumo once hinted toward the possibility via youtube comment that he and CorruptionSound may be brothers, but this notion remains uncomfirmed. bunsbuns11, NESfanboi and evilskittlemonster were similarly unknown (though the latter as a YTPer was garnering a signifigant cult following around the time he joined, and NES at this time had just been banned, making him the first non-member to participate in a site competition) and this tournament would mark the only major tennis appearance by either of them.

Matches

Set 1

Bunsbuns11 vs. CorruptionSound vs. KlausTheWizard/Piodx was an interesting example of a match with a hard hitting player pitted in between two more inclined to the basics. Bunsbuns' style relied heavily on humor-oriented directions and difficulty was found in trying to adapt to the High technical/humor hybrid of CorruptionSounds output and the less techincal yet with considerable effort put into response output of KlaustheWizard. Often very little of the previous round was used in Bunsbuns' volleys, though on occasion it was questioned how much of the previous round CorruptionSound used, due to his rounds being of a very high caliber in effects, often clouding where signifigant peices of the previous round went either audially or visually. Piodx's replacement round was possibly the only round to rival that, despite being quite short and comparatively low-key to his previous work. The final score for the players was Bunsbuns11: 0.16, CorruptionSound: 1.23, and KlausTheWizard: 0.60, but adjusted to 0.30 when adding penalties, which in turn sent CorruptionSound to the winners bracket and the other two players to bracket 2.

JackTron7000 vs. TheChutley vs. Luioigi was a such match in which the abilities of all 3 players seemed to be pretty well matched, and conceptually the sources used in the rounds were very reflective of what was happening in YTP at the time, with an abundance of manwith10toes videos and music videos being presented throughout as a running concept. TheChutley's Round 2 sneaks in a touhou reference ("YUKA YUKA") which would later manifest itself as the inspiration for much of what would happen in a later tournament match. Luioigi's slow and hypnotic effect-heavy style would be taken notice of for the first time by many new players in this match including TheChutley himself, as his style worked out to be unusually effective. Luioigi turned out to be the surprise winner of the match, beating TheChutley by only .0061 of a point(final score for each was JackTron7000: 0.30 (0.60 without penalties), TheChutley: 0.7481 Luioigi: 0.7542)

Metroid998 vs. Metzgorre vs. Fiddlesticks411 begun as what many would believe to be a pretty normal match, until Metzgorre delivered his first volley. He posessed an incredibly high energy fast style that seemed to tear metroid998's serve apart, starting with a bass heavy noise that to some was terrifying and proceeding to edit and employ visuals of an only-rarely seen calibur at a breckneck speed, adding in an absurd amount of images that were dotted throughout. Metzgorre continued to play like this throughout the match, including an impressive data-bending trick intersparsed with an image of Powdered Toast Man in Round 5, and a very strobe heavy round 8 that also very humorously announced the end of the match on his side. What's assumed to be a couple of drawings by him also appear. Fiddlesticks411 having naturally chosen WMM as her editor of choice found very natural difficulty in responding effectively to Metz's amped up style, though she did work to make the best of it, With Round 3's TWENTYS PLENTY becoming a favorite to some. Metroid was able in turn to easily respond to Fiddle's rounds. The final score ended up being Metroid998: 0.52, Metzgorre: 1.09 and Fiddlesticks 0.05, or 0.30 with gained penalties, which made Metzgorre the landslide winner.

Futures Passed vs. evilskittlemonster vs. BSP666c was a match that started the precise minute the 3-Way Tournament began. The first two rounds presented a very basic humor-oriented approach that was to be heavily contrasted by the third round, in which BSP turned out a no-holds-barred product in his trademark high-technical style. The course of the match went naturally, with Futures Passed and evilskittle trying to effectively follow up to the sudden abundance of effects and BSP turning out more of the same. The final score was Futures Passed: 0.55 (0.65 without his one penalty), evilskittlemonster: 0.52, and BSP666c: 0.96, which gave BSP his first match won.

MycroProcessor vs. ChrisGendo vs. JakeSteel was very much a highly anticipated match due to the participants in line, although was the last match to officially start, with Mycro uploading his serve at literally the last minute. ChrisGendo's Round 2 responded nicely and also paid homage to the doubles match of TheChutley/trepmaws vs. MycroProcessor/Gamebop with its end. JakeSteel's Round 3 was a contrasting one; unlike Mycro and Gendo who were using Vegas 5, he was equipped with Adobe Premiere 2.0, in many aspects a highly different editor in its capabilities, and its attempts to match those were difficult, but the rounds still were pretty solid. Especially under the circumstances. Mycro's Round 4 would later serve to be the subject of Puzzle Peices 6, the 6th part of a set of videos displaying all the prerendered parts of his rounds leading up to its final product. This would also be the only round of the match to be uploaded on MycroProcessor, his main account, due to it being highly musical in line with the more well-known videos on it. The round does a humorous callout to the title of JakeSteel's Round 3, JOLTEON IS A DOG(named intentionally to tease Mycro), by countering with MOTOI SAKURABA IS AN ORANGUTAN in Round 4 and providing a long explanation scrolling quite fast at the bottom of the video referring to JakeSteel under the fictonalized name of MotoiSakuraba65(a running joke throughout this match) that went as follows:

"MotoiSakuraba65, you must now understand something SUPER IMPORTANT. This issue has been facing our world for over a decade now. You have classified an Eeveelution as a dog/cat when it is not either of the two. Even worse, you have classified the BEST Eeveelution as one (Jolteon). The issue here is that Eevee evolutions are in no way either of the two despite many peoples attempts to justify categorization of them as just one simply for reason of familiarity. Eevee and its evolutions are all actually foxes primarily. To be more specific the traits of fennec foxes. This should be most obvious with the proportions of the ears of an Eevee or an Eevee evolution to the rest of their head. Similarly, the eye shape generally will most closely resemble a fennec fox. Actually to be proper, "canine" would be the most "correct" due to ambiguity, but NOT dogs. Within the canidae family which does include foxes, any traits from dogs that are observed are in actuality traits of foxes just shared between the two, with the actual origin being from foxes (specifically because of Eevee itself). Now of course, because Eeveelutions aren;t even any one "real" animal to begin with and are their own species, this issue of "classification" may seem silly. However, there often are places where it is required that Pokemon be put into categories of the animals that they most closely resemble. Now, how would you feel, MotoiSakuraba65, if someone called you an orangutan just because you shared traits with other species within the Hominidae family? This is why this is a SERIOUS ISSUE that we must address. Have a good day!"

ChrisGendo's Round 5 continued the trend by putting a fake banning documentation in its description: "- Mistook Jolteon's for being dogs - An orangatun - Alt account creation - MotoiSakurabaAlt"

The title of round 6 input "I'M BACK LOOOOOOOOOOOOL" in order to follow this up.

Round 7 was done as an intentionally silly response as evident with the "My Top 3 favorite moments in Round 6" throughout the round, sharing with Round 8 the title of "MotoiSakuraba66 has back problems", with Round 8 having a more atmospheric feel than 7. Round 9 closes the match rather begrudgingly with the title of "MotoiSakuraba66 takes tylenol but IT DOESNT HELP". The matches final score for this would be MycroProcessor: 0.77, ChrisGendo: 0.66, and JakeSteel: 0.57, making MycroProcessor the winner of the match.

wwefan3333 vs. trepmaws vs. NESfanboi was likely the oddest match of the tournament, in addition to very closely mirroring the bunsbuns vs. CorruptionSound vs. Klaus match in terms of the placement/style similarity of each player. wwefan's Serve remains to this day the only video of the tournament without a single like, and not a single round of the match goes longer than 30 seconds. This would be trepmaws' second match with wwefan, having also played him in the Grey Tournament in its first Set, and deliver the very obvious strongest rounds of the match, working well with wwefans source-overlaying methods to his own use. NESfanboi notoriously responded to each round of trep's lightning fast with incredible minimalization, doing little more to each round than overt use of composite layers and deforming effects, at some times making the previous video feel too unedited. trepmaws would ensure victory with the final vote talley of wwefan3333: 0.40, trepmaws: 1.12, and NESfanboi: 0.48.

RAKninja vs. Gamebop vs. magmalord is frequently regarded as one of the best matches in the 3-way Tournaments first Set, as it would be the first and currently only time the first two players would be pitted against each other, with RAK at this time also still being an active Staff Member. His serve, simply entitled HIS BRAIN IS GONE, was the most minimally edited and yet easily became the most popular in terms of view-count of the tournament at that point. It consisted entirely of a single scene of 1960's Star Trek, frequently repeating orchaestral cues, Kirk remarking "What Happened?" "What do you mean" "C'mon Bones what's the mystery?" and Bones remarking "No, not like this" "His brain is Gone" "He's WORSE than dead", all to a humorous fashion, easily scoring a hit with older generations of YTPers and tennisers alike. Gamebop's Round 2 responded in considerably the best way a player could respond. It's additions in source were many, but it was not changed in its pace, rather preferring to work curiously with the first round in cooperation with the added footage while editing in Gamebop's highly original style. A skelaton playing a piano with "C'MON BONES" from the previous round overlayed on it was such an example of this, in addition to DK64 gameplay footage added to create "His brain is IN THE REEEDDD CORNERRR". RAKninja's "Worse Worse Worse" would be also turned into a multi-layered segment and the sound effects would also be used in intereting ways, with the ending adding a source that gave the Star Trek scene an interesting twist with its added source, which Gamebop described just as "a commercial for a British News Special". Mycro considered this to be one of his new favorite Rounds.

Magmalord's Round 3 was edited in a similar minimal style and did actually work well in building off of ideas, furthering the "worse" layered segment and the side scrolling video frames, but otherwise didn't introduce anything new, as no sources were added.

RAKninja here would be given a small advantage, as his Round 4, while also edited very minimally succeeded in introducing a lot of new things. This round has been considered as one of RAK's all time best, with particular notion given to its distortion and reverbed audio sections which gave the round an intense and atmospheric feel.

Gamebop's Round 5 was more experimental, switching to the unique idea of chroma keying the entire finished round under an added source, which here was Kukucska. The distorted reverb of the audio was continued here to great effect, giving the round a similar feel to that of RAKs. It was here that magmalord's editing style faced a compromisation, as his Round wasn't able to follow up to the presented ideas as easily and relied mostly now on added sources and a pace driven style.

RAKninja's Round 7 fell back on his more traditonal style, with the entire video overlayed with the Transformers G1 cartoon with the previous Round making chroma-keyed appearances in the background, either through a TV screen or through a characters eyes, sometimes even through dialogue (The Autobot's "ERRRRRRRERRRERRRR" while attempting to communicate with a bird). Rounds 8 and 9 opted for a more conventional approach in order to end the match properly, though it was clear the Gamebop edited the most competently. The final score would be RAKNinja: 0.60, or 0.70 without a penalty(he would remark that this was his first ever), Gamebop: 0.92, and Magmalord: 0.38, which at this point meant that Gamebop remained undefeated with 6 won matches in a row, ahead of DaftPunkYoshi by one, who would also win his match of this Set.

ThaNuke vs. Funnacceptable vs. XBR4D3NX, a match in which all except the middle player were veterans of an older tournament, would prove to in fact actually be the springboard for an unprecented run for an entirely different player. TheNuke's serve would turn out to be the last tennis video he would ever make, since he would soon drop out and also become banned for malicious behavior in cahoots with a few others, but it was noted for its 2008 feel in its use of seemingly juvenile source material edited with WMM. Funnaceptable's Round 2 worked with the previous round with his trademark erosion-like slow style adding in composite slowed down sources and imploying background music for much of the rounds duration, which drew comparison to that of seargentbacon's style and was praised for its complete uniqueness. XBR4D3NX's response was equally unique, featuring an updated version of his old style now with more emphasis on effects and atmosphere that clashed drastically in pace with Funnacceptable's, with the highlight of the round to some being the section that employed footage of an old-time jazz performace. XBR4D3NX was at this point already at a disadvantage though as he had already garnered a late penalty.

It was here that Moogle would make his official entrance as the replacement for ThaNuke, responding with a Round 4 through a relatively unknown alt account of his that had its primary focus on the jazz section of the previous video, adding a lot of touhou footage and editing the round with effects that for Moogle seemed relatively uncanon at the time, but it would quickly become his signature style throughout the tournament. Funacceptable's Round 5 worked in his same style as before but at this point seemed much more minimal than before, seeming to detract more than it added. XBR4D3NX however continued to present interestingly with Round 6, with such tricks such as masking "WHATS UP YO" and "HELLO AGAIN!!!!" out of the previous round and working in more layer tricks/color alterations and unconventional addition of music. Moogle's Round 7 was comparatively minimal yet humorous, adding in a silly video of a concert being performed in a foreign language for much of the video. Round 8 started with the startling addition of several heads all belonging to Ms. Krabappel on top of the sprite added by Moogle previously and proceeding to once again overly a lot of composited footage to give the round a very surreal atmosphere, but Funnaccceptable had the misfortune of delivering this late. Round 9 delivered a fitting and eccentric ending to the match with the masked "IM RUNNIN OUTTA IDEAS" on top of an interesting visual display coupled with a large amount of added simpsons footage and the text "I cannot think no' mo', the end" appearing in rhythm with a piano song in the background, supposedly all made whilist XBR3D4NX was under a sickness. Many people were very split as to who to vote for in this match and some considered the match to be their favorite as of that point. The final results however were entirely unexpected; Funnaceptable was the clear winner by raw score with 0.77, followed behind by Moogle with 0.66 and XBR4D3NX with 0.58, because of penalties recieved by both the first and third, their score had declined to 0.57 for Funn and 0.38 for BR4D3N, making Moogle the winner of the match solely due to escaping penalty free.

AmiralMachin vs. vvaluigi vs. DaftPunkYoshi consisted of all veteran players that supposedly played on the lower spectrum of the technical scale, at least on a Sony Vegas aspect, but for a WMM aspect DaftPunk was in fact a high technical player. The Serve was made up mostly french sources which provided vvaluigi with much to build upon and he was able to respond very quickly, in a style much similar to Amiral's. DaftPunkYoshi's Round 3 would simultaneously kick the match up a notch and edit in style that complimented that of the previous two rounds quite well, making himself already to be the dominant player of the match, a rarity in the case of a WMM user versus two users of Vegas. Round 4 would largely introduce a hallmark source made famous by the first generation of the Tennis Staff, The ninja Z-Movies of Godfrey Ho, particularly an iconic collection of scenes between the two main characters in an office ("WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR STUFF", "IT WAS TORCHED", "BURNED?? WHO DIDDIT?", "PROBABLY THAT RENEGADE COP AND THE NINJAS", "FUCK"). In addition to its added source much of the round seemed to be a direct parody of RAKninja's editing style, chroma keying much of the previous round under what was added and editing comparatively minimally. vvaluigi responded to this by using WMM on his own end with Round 5 to continue the pace, which was furthered by DPY's Round 6, which again utilized much technical proficiency. Amiral and vvaluigi would both respond with more conventional rounds with rounds 7 and 8, both using Vegas again, and DPY would close off the match in a stylistic note by overdubbing a speech by Chuck Roberts talking about the birth of House music over much of the video, still keeping effective in its editing. The final scores for the match would be AmiralMachin: 0.45, vvaluigi: 0.64, and DaftPunkYoshi: 0.91, which would continue the winning streak DPY had accumulated previous from the Windows Movie Master, of which he was the winner.

Set 2

Anticipation became immediately high upon the announcement of Gamebop vs. BSP666c vs. MycroProcessor for the Tournament's second lineups, as this was a combination that tennis players would only have dreamed of witnessing due to the very obvious prediction of a visual spectacle from all three sides. Gamebop delivered upon this with a monumental serve, titled "Seconds Anyone?" due to its inclusion of 33 Round 2s from 33 different matches spanning the entire scope of YTP Tennis as of that time, stretching all the way back to the first Tennis match ever played, conradslater vs. Miss10, all the way up to as recent as the JackTron7000 vs. TheChutley vs. Luioigi match of the tournament's first set. MycroProcessor appears the most frequently in this match with 4 different Rounds, with Gamebop himself having 3, while also being apart of the most matches the rounds were taken from.

BSP's Round 2 had an intense amount of energy and technicality that greatly shifted the pace in the match, but suffered from being too technical, as only faint traces of the previous round could be seen in its finished form, although it attempted to follow up the concept by introducing a Round from Mycro and Gamebop's second match and a Round from Mycro's match with McMANGOS. All three of the player's current avatars are also used, which can barely be seen about 5 seconds into the video. It was also here that he would introduce the first part of an ongoing story that would continue throughout the match in the video description:

"On the 30th September 2311 Splentoen advanced to a new Joltoen timing from the "3"rd wave to the "-7"th wave"

Round 3 was primarily made up a large musical segment constructed around the use of the last PING sound to be heard in BSP's Round 2, displaying a very unique visual display of layers. With little substantial material to get out of the previous round, save for one layer segment that Mycro would very smartly continue, much of the previous round was mostly sped up and spun on composite layers that made up the background of the YTPMV segment, while additonal peices became additional instruments, the ending being the mostly unedited leftover peice. According to Mycro this was at the time one of his most rushed rounds he had ever created, with a lot of planned ideas ending up unfinished. The continuation of the story went:

"One day there was a Jolteon sleeping inside of a Riven dome, but then someone noticed that for some reason he thought he was a human, even though he didn't actually think that, so they shunned him and didn't allow him to link back to Myst by throwing the linking book down the fissure. Then some random person found it and met Sirrus and Achhhhhhhhhhhh. Never mind this story is stupid and a failed metaphor."

Round 4 continued further the layer segment in much the same way and responded with a longer and even more elaborate YTPMV segment, all while keeping the previous round clearly visable and coming up with very clever editing ideas. The speeding up of the layered segment was also continued similarly in addition to rhymatically, ending on an FM remix of the Chrome Gadget Zone theme from Sonic 3 and picture of Jolteon from a book that MycroProcessor at the time had just gotten, which he found to be an incredibly funny coincidence. The story continued with:

"Without access to a linking book, the Jolteon decided to return to Myst by truck instead"

Round 5 once again was an incredible tour-de-force in effects and pace but it was criticized for seemingly clouding up the entirety of Round 4 under a sea of colors(it can be seen briefly in the beginning and end, with 2 seconds in the middle), which technically made it BSP's weakest Round on his side. He had also at this time encountered a serious computer problem which prevented him from being able to respond within the normal time allotment, and after a number of extensions was able to finally release it, although different than what he had intended. It is because of this that there are two YTPMV segments that were made but only one was used, with the unused one being much more elaborate visually and musically. The melody of this one would later be recycled and used in Round 5 of BSP vs. KonXIII, with a slightly altered bridge from the original. The YTPMV segment used in round was much more basic yet busy visually, being more similar in composition to Gamebop's song from the previous round. The story continued with:

"The vehicle travelled across Myst #135 to find the requested book instead, but ended up at Riven #531"

Round 6 was much slower round that once again edited much of the previous round in mostly comparitively minimal ways(though maintained a layout that gave it a distinguished look), featuring a lot of source addition involving Myst/Riven numerals and footage from PokePark Wii, mostly the Glaceon/Jolteon cutscenes. The story continued with:

"The Jolteon was driving his truck through the star fissure once again, and wound up on some island off of the coast of Australia shaped like a guitar."

At this point in time Gamebop's computer would suddenly malfunction to the point of no return, rendering him unable to make his Round 7. To keep the match running he would employ superkoffee as his substitute for his last Round, which would mark koffee's official debut appearance into the tournament, later to become a key figure of the next set. His highly unconventional style would be put to great use here as many were the uses of unusual yet spectacular visual effects in addition to his trademark brand of humor, as shown by the brief WarioWare style mini-game snippet in which a Jolteon had to JUMP! (By pressing "A") to dodge a blue barrel coming at them. In a barrage of sound effects dotted through including the endless repetition of the Jolteon sounds from Rounds, the Round came to an abrupt halt featuring the reprise of the song snippet "SAY GOODBYE WITH A SMILEYYY" which koffee had used as early as his first tennis match against HozKinzPooP. He also took the story in an interesting direction:

"It was the very worst kind of stain. The stain that never came out... A soul stain! Jolteon pulled out his big, fat, slimer, Covered in Good Goo, pokemon! He cradled it in one hand, It was chafed from pumping :( ... Den, she took dat big, fat Mandinga All da way down. 'till it ain't none left ... no shaft ... just face, and crotch. And for once, all was peaceful in Sexual Torture Guitar Island ... For the time-being!"

Gamebop would later gain in his possession a new computer with a new hard drive while still keeping the old drive and be able to continue playing just as regularly as before. Three years later, he had managed to get the original computer to work again and came upon the realization that everything was still intact right up to when he was supposed to make the original Round 7, with all the original peices still intact. At this same time the lineup of Gamebop vs. MycroProcessor vs. BSP666c had just been announced for the Multi-Way Tennis Tournament created by dewmann which was happening at this time. Seizing the opprotunity, Gamebop finished the original Round 7 and it became the serve for this match, continuing in a sub-canon direction of the previous match and integrating many of the old ideas and concepts from then also. This version of the match, while technically still progressing from Round 1 to 9 is simultaneously considered to be Rounds 7-15 of this match.

Round 8, while still a technically heavy round, was much more savvy in its delivery, with a pace much slower than that of previously. It along with Round 9 shared the title of "Linking book for Jolteon {/-\} The Green Blues {\-/} Morning #135", likely in reference with Round 9 to being very minimally edited with the exception of a WAX-cubed YTPMV segment on top of the main of the previous rounds workings, which brought the match to a proper close. Round 8 and 9 finished off the story with:

"Superkoffee skipped the previous linking Jolteon, thus resulted to leap frog the Myst plains."

"Everyone had a bunch of Linking BOOKS and then they used them at the same time and found Jolteon. AND THEN JOLTEON WAS HAPPY THE END"

The final scores for this match were Gamebop: 0.86, BSP666c: 0.41, and MycroProcessor: 0.73, giving Gamebop his 7th consecutive win; a record which to this day remains unsurpassed.

Luioigi vs. trepmaws vs. Moogle began with a serve made up mostly of Tom and Jerry and Dragonball Z, suggesting a mostly slow pace to be continued. trepmaws naturally countered this notion though with a Round 2 that greatly increased the pace and added onto both sides of Luiogi's introduced sources, with Bugs Bunny and Droopy Dog cartoons added onto Tom and Jerry and Higurashi added onto Dragonball Z, giving the match currently two distinct identities. This would also be trepmaws's first Round in this tournament over 30 seconds long, as in his words, this particular match "was for Jumbo Puffs". The "YUKA YUKA" from TheChutley's Round 2 with JackTron and Luioigi would also make it's reappearance Moogle would continue in Round 3 his unusually new approach with added effects by furthering the anime source addition with a majority of suggestively-learing footage, furthered in its absurdness by a cartoon-like expanding eye effect that later disappeared to reveal more of the round within the eyes of the character in focus. trepmaws's "KUK" was naturally expanded upon with the uttering of "Gigantic cock..."(in which Kukori would appear immediately following) and the forced speaking of "cock" from just about every other source. "YUKA YUKA" would now be expanded upon with "Yuyuko Yuyuko" ("Why not Yuyuko trep?") and "Yukari Yukari" ("or even Yukari?") using a miniscule bit of Norm Augustinas to create the "-ri", before going quite unexpectedly into "YuKUK" with "WOW A REAL PUSSY" being heard in the background of the section following.

Luioigi, in what was his second match involving Moogle, volleyed with Round 4 in a way that echoed that of his previous match with him. "Gigantic Cock" translated over to a cartoon of a chicken the size of a skyscraper, with the expanding eye effect being interestingly dupicated. This would also incorporate the use of the Dingo Pictures "dinosaur" film years before it would be a major internet cult sensation, spawning an unusual fad, along with Dingo Pictures' take on Aladdin, long a regular source of his. The solo frame moving slowly in the beginning of Moogle's round 3 would be added onto with 'Aladin' riding a magic carpet at the end, with the "huhuhu" from the original dragonball Z source now starting to appear as the coda for each video in different alterations.

Round 5 pays homage to Aesaun's YTPMV segment in Round 5 of his doubles match with AjaxCubed vs. XBR4D3NX and Erarg by 'covering' it using the "huhuhu" from earlier in the match, and furthered the wandering frame section by adding Foghorn Leghorn and McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under on top of the already existing material. The rest of the round continued his fast style to great effect, also continuing with "Fix his little Red KUK".

DanielRadcliffe777 once commented on Moogle's Round 6 about the beginning section involving the Round being seen through the TV of an obscure cartoon character as the most original thing that he had seen in a very long time. This Round focused mostly on the more edited parts of the Round previous, continuing the wandering frame bit with several added touhou images, including a very muscularly laden anime female. A humourous manga/hentai panel of a character remarking "now my armpits are going to smell like dick" was replicated again at the end of the round in which the isolated talk bubble was overlayed on McLeach, continuing Moogle's suggestive humor additions involving that of the previous sources, which in this match were being looked at as being entertaining in addition to being creative by some spectators. The end of this Round was of Moogle's most effect-laden at the time.

The wandering frame bit of Round 7 now included the Three Callaberos, several toasters and two realistic looking Bowsers, along with Nu Pagodi, another trademark source of Luiogi's. While substantially less humorous, the Round worked with Moogle's Round 6 fantastically, the best edits being done with the added source, continuing the TV masking tricks and working with surrounding elements of the cartoon itself. His trademark ambience also worked well to end the match on his side, ending his Round with another coda mimicking the pattern of his previous one.

trepmaws's Round 8 is considered today to be a definitive Round of his in relation to his current style. With its addition of much touhou material and further addition of old cartoons( now "A tale of Two Kitties", historically the first Tweety Bird cartoon) and adding all of these onto the wandering frame segment, this Round seemed to cement that he was the strongest player in the match by a good margin in the eyes of some. The description pointed out that it was at the point in the match where much everything had transformed into "tye-dye vomit", with seargentbacon humorously pointing out by the segment at 0:22 of the video that there actually was tye-dye vomit in the round. Possibly the round's best highlight is the reprise of the Droopy cartoon originally added in Round 2, with every bunny appearing in Spike the Dog's hand being overlayed/cookie cutted so the Round appears in place of it, building up nicely to the Rounds' chaotic and energetic ending. The coda is also continued much similarly.

The Last Round put the entire wandering frame segment up to that point within a giant cube, overlaying it with 36 layers worth of Touhou sprites and images, then launching into the rest of the Round, building upon the face-slapping clips from Round 8 and the addition of more of his trademark humor, part of which involved the inclusion of a humorous Eevee flash cartoon in homage to the Tournament's host. Another segment was cookie cutted to form the word "FUCK" much in the style of XBR4D3NX, with the round ending on a picture collage of every major character to appear throughout the matches 9 Rounds. The coda reprised his original question: "So why not Yuyuko trep?" while using a picture of Yuyuko with overdubbed touhou music. trepmaws would respond in the videos comments with "Because I gravitate toward sadistic anime girls with green hair, I dunno. And Yuyuko never gave back those PS2 games I let her borrow when her Dreamcast broke."

The final raw score potentially gave the win to trepaws with Luioigi at 0.53, trepmaws at 0.79 and Moogle at 0.68, but because trepmaws had accumulated 2 late penalties for Round 8 his score was therefore adjusted to 0.59. Moogle would once again win the match solely due to penalties of the other players.

DaftPunkYoshi would now be pitted against both the tournament's resident German tennisers,CorruptionSound and Metzgorre, both of which had a noticable reputation at this time for being highly proficient at vegas, which would ultimately test the abilities of DaftPunkYoshi, still playing valiently with Windows Movie Maker. He delivered a competent serve featuring footage from a Ninja fighting game, featuring many effects that seemed more common in vegas than they were in Movie Maker, which was already setting a grand stage. CorruptionSound delivered his Round 2, albiet late, very much a visual tour-de-force like that of BSP's own match, while also making humorous source additions particularly with Krusty the Clown and the POAGN towards the end of the video. Metzgorre's Round 3 continued upon his unprecidented insanity presented in his previous match, making no large effort to completely tear away at CorruptionSound's volley with an atmosphere that was a combination of both intense and on occasion fall-over-laughing funny due to its many absurdities. One of which was the matches close to end gag involving various sections of the round racing ever so slowly towards a finish line, with the last clip of the POAGN continuously falling over repetitively trying to cross but never succeeding. A particular segment involving the continuous morphing of one celeberty's face into another was repeatedly questioned due to some people thinking this was an effect.

DaftPunkYoshi was now faced with probably one of the most challenging rounds of his career especially for one in his particular position. His response to it was however, a stunningly great one, as he made use of several custom transitions and effects not previously seen in his work before, managing to effectively counter the nightmarish mess of his opponent before him in his own unique way. CorruptionSound responded again late with Round 5, very apparently now seeming to be lackluster in presentation in comparison to his two fellow players. Notable for this round though is the addition of Mr. T. in the end announcing that "THE PROCEEDING WAS A PAID PRESENTATION FOR THE FLAVOR-WAVE TURBO! Brought to you by Thane-Direct!", at which point DanielRadcliffe777 claimed to have "fucking lost it" while watching the video.

Metzgorre's Round 6 responds to this ending segment immediately in its introduction, using audio from the Eat Your Skin trailer to create "THE PROC-men become animalss...(bbeccommee aanniimmaall) I DRINK YOUR BLOOD" which ended perfectly upon Mr. T's smug grin. What followed was quite possibly the most bone-chilling round Metzgorre would ever create.

Beginning with a dark and distorted sound that instantaneously took on a more mind-bending form and later a thunderous and terrifying drone echoing that of the THX logo, his uses of multiple 3D layers and After Effects reached a climax of astounding proportions in this video, complementing perfectly its deeply disturbing atmosphere. The repeated movement of multiple bended 3D layers of Mr. T. is probably the videos most recognizable feature, also notable for its rather abrupt inclusion of several bits of absurd footage edited at a rapid rate. While the video was noticably shorter, it was easily one of the stronger rounds of the match for continuing and by far enhancing its feel.

DaftPunkYoshi once again went all out in what would turn out to be his last tennis Round that he would edit in WMM with Round 7. Taking the intro peice and creating "I AM BLOOD", he once again proved his strength with an editor that had been repeatedly criticized at the time for not being good at making YTPs at all in the minds of many younger people within the community. Subsequently after this round though, all of his videos including that of his tennis would be edited with Premiere Elements, his new editor of choice, signifying in many respects the end of an era.

Much of this round would be unrecognizeable in CorruptionSound's Round 8, with the almost blunt title of "sexual shitting". Th detraction in atmosphere in addition to the majority of added footage that would be featured throughout failed to make much of an impression, although its notable that a number of peices of this round was also made in WMM as way to counter of that of DPY's Round more interestingly.

Metzgorre's Last Round would be definitive finale of finales, with the first 23 seconds being an absolute scream of energy and terror opposite that of humor as evident in his addition of Reverend Burn, considered to be the predecessor of the later more-famous Joe Ligotti aka The Guy From Boston. The following was an almost AMV like collage of obscure black and white sources chromakeyed on top of the destructive soup of the previous round, with one only have some recognizable features being that Batman is evidently present in it. The following imagary contained what looked to be Kieth Richards's head pasted onto a primitive model of a women's body, with Conan O'brien appearing from off-screen with two laser-guns appearing in his hands, the interpretation of this still completely unknown to this day by anyone with the possible exception of those who knew him personally. The Round's coda was also extraneously bizarre, featuring pillars of unknown images/snapshots while a butchered version of a song from the PBS kids channel plays on top of it before becoming incredibly loud and the video strobed, ending with a sign/logo for a "Mattress Ranch", supposedly located in Anchorage and Wasilla, AK.

The final score for the match would be DaftPunkYoshi: 0.51, CorruptionSound: 0.61 (0.71 without penalties), and Metzgorre: 0.79, making Metzgorre once again the matches winner, although by a relatively smaller margin than before. With this win, the remaining players of the winners tier were now in place for a showdown to occur in the following set.

In the second bracket, Fiddlesticks411 would see herself out of the tournament due to personal-related matters, and would as such be replaced in what would become the match NESfanboi vs. KlausTheWizard vs. ifhgsfj. All three of them seemed to edit very rudimentarily with vegas, although considering NES and Klaus had been around for some time compared to ifhgsfj(believed to be pronounced "iff-hige-sfudge", though he has since changed his name to the more legible Total Mass Retain) they could potentially be seen as somewhat more experienced. NES delivered the serve showing a very Funnacceptable-like style intersparsed with more out-of-the-ordinary bits including a reference to two fads going on at the time (REV UP THOSE FRYERS and Stu Making Chocolate Pudding) in addition to using a snippet from ilovemadnesscombats infamous YTPMV "Achmed's Bombing Job was Rushed" with a picture of Robotnik in a speedo, which served as the rounds ending. KlausTheWizard's Round 2 was edited rather disorganizingly but served in this circumstance to be a competant response, despite much of the video being overlayed with Spongebob as an added source. Round 3 further added voice clips from TF2 (POOT DISPENSER HERE with the Robotnik Image) and a large amount of overlayed text/images while only barely editing much of the previous round and flow-wise becoming inconsistant. After returning from a week-long trip in Virginia NESfanboi delivered Round 4, notorious in the fact that for over half the video all that is seen is a pair of dancing bananas overlayed onto a strobing background. Much of the match continued in this same way throughout with Klaus continuing to be the player that people considered to be the best in the match, although in his Round 8 he was late but didn't request an extension, saying that he was falling behind by his own fault. Because of this even though in the final scores he won the match with 0.90 to NESfanboi's 0.85 and ifhgsfj's 0.25, it would become bumped down to 0.70 and NESfanboi would as a result become the match's unexpected winner.

Funnacceptable vs. SeargentBacon vs. RAKninja would be an almost entirely slow-paced match beginning with a serve that featured Obama as its main source, which would become an element that would in part bookend the match conceptually. It was overall very strong and spacial and introduced many curious ideas that could be taken in many directions, with David Feiss's Cheetos commercials adding a touch of humor with it. RAKninja was critical of it in the aspect that he found "most of the sources repugnant" but commended the round overall saying that despite the sources he couldn't fault his technique. Becoming the replacement for Bunsbuns11, SergeantBacon's volley would bear a strong resemblance to Kurkop in that it's introduction featured a "layout" of 3D composite layers set to form a shape, with other bits of the previous round chroma-keyed inside of it. A distinct feature of this round would be the addition of The Wand of Gamelon in which the previous round would be used to almost perfectly replicate Impa's Triforce in terms of movement and size, transitioning into a brief YTPMV segment. DaftPunkYoshi commended this round on it's creativity while RAKninja said that it was reminiscent of the type of round he would want to make without any additional software or plugins. He also stated that his Round 3 was now going to be entirely different from planned and that as a change in strategy he would opt for something in his more traditional style in replace of it.

Naturally as it would turn out Round 3 was exactly that. Much of the video was dominated once again by a Ninja film with the previous round mostly appearing chroma keyed in the background, though the atmosphere that he had used expertly in his previous match was still eminant, with audio from another source echoing within the mix. This would however provide an excellent springboard for Funnacceptable, who would use this simpler approach to his advantage in his Round 4, which utilized the Ninja source greatly throughout. The atmosphere would also be greatly increased with the addition of more chroma keyed and composited sources (this time seeming to deliberately be more similar to the preference of RAK, as much of it was WWE material) in what was overall an incredibly fitting continuation of ideas. SergeantBacon's Round 5 would seem to largely be a restatement of his round 2 as its beginning and a few sections would largely be made up of it, which was more a detraction than a continuation by this time. Though it suffered from a bad framerate in places, there were parts in which the previous round was used particularly well, such as a point which the first bit of the ninja source is dupicated in multiple simultaneous frames. Much of what followed was mostly surface edits under a picture of Bill Murray with audio/text of an automated phone service message being played, ending with "Fuck I'm Out of Ideas" being drawn onto the last section, a sign that Bacon's endurance had begun to wane.

Round 6 spared no time in continuing with the approach of previously, though the previous round would be considerably edited more than before this time around for the first half of the video, while also adding in Macho Man footage as well as CDI, which was a somewhat less common choice fo RAK. The second half of the video was zoomed in onto Bill Murray's head while a version of the Wheel Gator theme played throughout. The round that followed it was one of Funnacceptable's strongest, beginning with having Bill Murray turning into Spike Mandrill (a common humorous antagonization with Wheel Gator made famous on the forum) while then proceeding into a barrage of color alterations and composite layering and effects that were described by BSP as "Over 2 minutes of pure colour and ear rape". Several Mega Man songs mashed together also served as the songs backing music throughout which made the round an incredible thing to experience. JakeSteel and RAKninja himself reacted very positively to it. SergeantBacon's Round 8 essentially saw him giving the match up as the round time had been reduced drastically by over two minutes and much of the Round had been distorted to a point beyond recognition, overlayered by the "Stu Making Chocolate Pudding Scene" from Rugrats as a reference to the ongoing fad involving that source from around that time.

By the time of RAKninja's Round 9 a major shift in overall forum management had begun to take place, with RabbitSnore and TINS reclining from their overall management input, three new moderators coming in and one (TheHappyFungus) retiring, and Dopply becoming an increasing force in the administration staff, which manifested into a management combination that RAK had much disagreement with. This would culminate into him resigning from the Tennis Staff and leaving the forum for presumably indefinitely, which to the Tennis community was considered a definite loss, since he had long been considered as the de facto Leader of the Tennis Fucks and one of the most respectable. Crash2991 would describe his leave as him "only returning to the cosmos to go back to where he belongs. He now watches over us from afar, placing his faith in us so that we can make a brighter future."

Within the week before Rabbit and TINS would officially step down, he would silently deliver his Round 9 which largely featured video of Bill Clinton giving his last speech as president, in which the previous round was chroma keyed in his eyes and also featured an unusual layering effect that was at first mistaken for WAX. He would continue to make videos although at a much slower pace than before, and would not return to the tennis section again for a year. The final score for the match would be Funnacceptable winning the match with 0.83, and SergeantBacon with 0.75 and RAKninja with 0.42, although because of many late penalties this would be adjusted to 0.02.

JakeSteel vs. AmiralMachin vs. evilskittlemonster gave JakeSteel the benefit of being able to serve which he was able to do very strongly. It featured a rather quiet but musically well-done YTPMV at the beginning before launching into the editing of a series of hard rock/metal concerts, which were a trademark source of his in his solo videos, of which at this time he had immense popularity for. AmiralMachin however at this point was beginning to scale back from tennis noticably in his interest of it, as Round 2 was largely edited very little and focusing more on the added footage, which seemed to be yet another imitation of RAKninja's style in that it was the same brand of ninja source as before.

Round 3 edited the previous round better and also set up for the anticipated response well by its addition of Shakugan No Shana and Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, which were also signature sources of JakeSteel's. Round 4 would seize these sources head on and also introduce the most signature source of the match in the form of Team Fortress 2, particularly Meet the Spy, at the time the most recent Meet the Team video that had been released thus far. Round 5 continued to show AmiralMachin's growing apathy as only about a quarter of the video was dedicated to editing the previous round while the rest of it was dedicated to added source, one a webcam oriented video and the other being Fritz the Cat. Round 6 would add little else than a small bit of The Colbert Report and overall struggle to keep up with the pace of match, though succeeding in volleying more substantially than Amiral was. JakeSteel finished the match off on his end just as strong as before, editing with a number of unique effects and adding in more TF2 footage, which seemed to cement his place in the match.

AmiralMachin's Round 8 was reportedly only about 10 seconds long and when originally posted evilskittlemonster demanded that he make it longer else he wouldn't bother volleying it, but by a certain point the video was deleted and AmiralMachin has never made an appearance in the tennis section since then. evilskittlemonster is apparently the only person who managed to save this video to be able to make his Round 9 (which in appearance only really looks more like a volley of Round 7) but it remains of little certainty to if he still has the video saved now. Because of this, the Round 8 remains the only video of the Tournament that has not been found yet.

The final score for this match was JakeSteel: 1.21, Amiral: 0.17 (with 1 penalty for Round 8 making it 0.07) and ESM: 0.62, which moved JakeSteel onward and formerly dismissed the other two players.

FuturesPassed vs. TheChutley vs. vvaluigi has been discussed as being one of the Tournament's most cooperative matches, and one of two that happened within the same set that shared and continued the same concept and exchange of ideas throughout. FuturesPassed's serve set the tone that was to carry on, using entirely Mass Effect 2 sources that at most was majorly made up of sentance mixing and other minimal editing. TheChutley's response to this worked well with all of these bits by mainly adding in Footage of Commander Shepherd himself, used in a way to respond to dialogue from the previous round in humorous ways("YOU TALK TOO MUCH", "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR DISINGENUOUS ASSERTIONS", "MY OPINION IS THE ONE THAT MATTERS"). He would also introducing a bit of his more technical side into the match to add a bit of spice and overall keep his end up on a pace-based level. vvaluigi would echo this in his own Round 3 by the addition of more Shepherd footage and juxtaposition of many of the main clips from Round 2, making his response just as effective as the two players before him. Round 4 would introduce "YOUR JUST IN TIME TO WITNESS MY CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT" in addition to a lot of other added footage but still served to volley the important parts of the match well. Round 5 would introduce "WANNA DANCE" and continue TheChutley's additions of both added footage and added effect edits, at one point adding the endless duplication of "NO" accentuated by unsharped pixelation. Frequent throughout this round would also be the displacement of various voices onto different characters which would provide to be both silly and effective. Round 6 was edited more bare bones than previously but still added a few trace clips that could be worked off of ("That may go down in history as NEWTON'S FIRST LAW", "I'M READY TO PUNCH your friend"), in addition to being much shorter than the round before it, which made it less of a strong response than round 3 was. Round 7 had a much bigger focus on the more effect-based parts of the previous round and was delivered at almost the minimum time limit, providing little of the previous source to work off of than before. This was however compensated in Round 8, which succeeded in adding in more footage and making the video almost twice as long as what it was volleying, providing a cohesive blend of both effect based editing and more new material for vvaluigi to use to close off the match. In addition to its reintegrated humor ("YOU SAY [BITCH] TOO MUCH") it also added "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats as he had done in the match previous and was also doing in other tennis elsewhere. Round 9 was probably vvaluigi's strongest Round and served to close off the match on a great note as he worked with the previous Round in genius ways using only very minimal edits, as was his trademark. The Chrome Gadget Zone music from Sonic 2 would be used the second time at the end of Round of this set here as well. The final scores would be FuturesPassed: 0.48 (adjusted to 0.38 after penalties), TheChutley: 0.94, and vvaluigi: 0.58, advancing TheChutley into Set 3.

Originally Jacktron7000 vs. wwefan3333 vs. XBR4D3NX, Jacktron7000/PokeFire50 vs. piodx vs. XBR4D3NX/Badluckcrow would take shape starting with a 22 second serve that satirically took the title of the Original first Tennis serve, "You wouldn't be welcome". Jacktron7000 announced ahead of time that due to outside commitments he would not be able to make Round 4 and that PokeFire would be stepping in to replace him for that one video. piodx would in Round 2 return to something more of his older style, although noticably the previous Round in his response could still be seen, as opposed to clouded up by colors as he had done commonly in the past, so in a ways it was a definite retraction. Braden would respond very late with Round 3, and while what he did with the previous Round was very strong, much of the video once again focused more on the added source, which here was majorly made up of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Aqua Teen Hunger Force in another one of Braden's trance like dance montages. The Round would end on an unusual note with filtered gameplay of Super Mario Bros. 3 over a foreign song with the Discovery Channel logo in the corner. Jacktron7000 would be here in time to make Round 4 at this point, although decided to have PokeFire still make it anyway, which MycroProcessor allowed despite it being rather unnecessary on the grounds that there weren't any reasons not to.

PokeFire50's Round 4 would be incredibly fast, short and energetic, responding to the SMB3 footage by adding in Super Mario Bros. 2, while also adding in Happy Tree Friends (as he, piodx and BSP666c had been known to do frequently in the past) and a small bit of Everybody Loves Raymond towards the end. Round 5 would respond to this again the same way as before, now coming closer to his oold style as much of the previous round started to become buried, but also featuring a YTPMV segment that made up most of the video's middle. Round 6 would be a restatement of Round 3, using even less of the previous Round then before and adding in more Space Ghost, which he claimed he was in love with around this time, while also masking in the Super Mario world cartoon into the TV as well as adding footage of Aladdin SNES, done in a similar atmospheric style as he had done with SMB3 earlier. The biggest difference here was that he was able to this time respond with this round only about an hour after the last one had been posted.

Round 7 would use a good amount of After Effects and overall be a very strong response to the previous Round, with particular note given to a dissolving effect that moved between the layer in and over the masked television. The I DON'T GET IT button from Round 6 would also be used rather humorously towards the end of the video in addition to Robotnik actually pressing a button. Round 8 would feature a large amount of piodx's trademark particle effects, but overall once again fall to the weakness of being too overedited and clouding up what was existing of the previous round though showing small parts of it at the end. It was at this point that XBR4D3NX started to take incredibly long to respond with Round 9, and asked for someone to fill in for it, a request which, while thought to be initially taken out by BigBowsa, would end up being taken out by LieutenantGwo, a mostly Robotnik YTPer, in what would be his sole appearance in the 3-Way Tournament. Originally too short, the reuploaded and finalized Round 9 would be at most a botched attempt to try and counter piodx's heavy style, adding in no sources minus a few brief frames of Freakazoid and only just scraping over the minimum time limit. The video would also serve to confuse a number of LieutenantGwo's subscribers as this was nominally out of the normal element for his videos.

The final scores for this match would be JackTron: 0.81, piodx: 0.73 (adjusted to 0.53 after penalties) and XBR4D3NX: 0.46. JackTron7000 would react in complete disbelief at the fact that he had won the match, and as a result would credit PokeFire50 as the reason that he had managed to move on, using him again in his next match as something of a "secret weapon".

The last match listed for Set 2 would in fact be the quickest to both start and finish in the form of magmalord vs. ChrisGendo vs. Metroid998. The serve would be made up entirely of Half Life 2: Full Life Consequences, and this would serve to be the dominant source throughout the entire match, despite other sources also being added on throughout each Round. The concept of who 'John Freeman got an email from and what it said' would be constant throughout every one of the 9 rounds, in addition to the "TO BE CONTINUED????" At the end of each video, which in every round was represented by a different source. Chrisgendo here would easily prove himself to be the strongest player, volleying competantly and also cleverly to many of the running jokes, using a large majority of anime and other sources signature to that of many of the existing Tennis Fucks, of whom he had formed a strong bond with and at this point was a shoe-in for the next to be added to them. These sources included Godfrey Ho's ninjas (RAKninja), Obsidian (MycroProcessor) Norm Augustinas(Moogle), particularly for a section where he exclaims "DICK" over every instance of the DIC logo provided by Magmalord's round, and Kukori (Gamebop), which at the time he was using semi-frequently. Metroid998 would use mostly his own trademark sources in addition to various other ones that had little exposure, including a foreign cartoon starring a goat, Mario Party 2 and at the very end of the match, a scene from the Candle Jack episode of Freakazoid. All three of the players remarked in terms of the amount of fun that they had during this match, with a number of people agreeing that this was going to be rather difficult to vote for. The scores toward the end however would turn out with magmalord at 0.38, Chrisgendo at 1.04 and metroid998 at 0.58, giving Chris his first win.

Set 3

The three undefeated players so far now faced each other in the match up of Gamebop vs. Moogle vs. Metzgorre, this winner of which would decide one of three players for the final match. Gamebop started off with surprisingly a good bit of humor in the beginning with "I'M A GREAT WHITE SHARK, WHAT DO I EAT", in which the response was "I DON'T THINK SO" when a Touhou picture then appeared on screen. Much of the round that followed was an aesthetic combination of both things that pertained to the interest of both Gamebop and Moogle as Touhou was added in as well as his signature sources of Kukori and Alfred Kwak, which made for a rather interesting combination of things to be built off of. Moogle immediately went for the shark gag in his Round 2, which responded to the question this time with "YES!" when a suggestive anime image appeared on screen. His effect experimentation began reaching new heights in this round as there were many color/visual alterations done to the previous round in interesting ways, such as giving a background to the Mareep card and inserting within the card window footage from someone getting tackled in a soccer game. Another instance that used the card was the zooming in on the "headbutt" that read on the card when then transitioned within the same window of the same soccor player headbutting a player from the opposite team in rapid succession (done by editing) then proceeding to proclaim "IM A GREAT WHITE SHARK" (his team colors were white) with a referee coming in with a red flag with "I DON'T THINK SO". What then followed was the use of frames of the previous round to create the shape of a giant sun with a face, which transitioned into a series of Jolteon pictures with the use of the "CHARACTER I DON'T WHAT THAT MEANS" being echoed over it.

Metzgorrre's editing in Round 3 started to show signs of waining as much of the previous Round was very destructively edited and almost none of the previous concepts were continued, instead replaced with humorous added footage which seemed to hint toward its excessive use with Wario's "HURRY UP" appearing partway into the round. At the very least however he acknowledged the presence of the shark idea by adding in what looked to be Jaws footage and dedicating a section of his round to represent a "shark attack", which was a mostly abraisive noise accompanied by a background song over distorted color visuals. Metzgorrre would make a humorous observation in the description with "Awesome: THREE M's are playing in the THREE-Way Tournament and this is round THREE. HIHOHAHE" but otherwise start making mentions that he was becoming much busier than he used to be, which was interfering with the work he was able to do in the match and subsequently his next one.

Round 4 to this day remains without a thumbnail, which Gamebop has considered to work well with the round regardless. He claimed at the time that he rushed much of it saying that there were still a couple of things he would have liked to do with it, the final version he hadn't even seen yet, but some regarded it as easily better than the previous round he had put out. Much of it was made up of textural 3D layering with the audio edited with an atmospheric and ambient feel, and was much shorter than the round that came before while still managing to edit it rather justifiably as there was little concept wise in the previous round to build off of.

Round 5 is quite possibly the most notorious round the match, as Moogle would proceed to take the match into an entirely different direction. Beginning almost out of complete silence, he maintained throughout this round a very quiet and sustained sense of atmosphere, starting with mostly the simple moving of frames filtered through heavy unsharp mask, which he proceeded to build upon as the round went on. He would also utilize many 3D layers throughout the round, including the creation of a cloud knot shape cookie cut out of various segments which was a quite unusual twist on the effect, as well as giving a moving frame wings that he keyframed to actually flutter. Also unique about this round is the amount of black space that appears visually. At 0:27 seconds in, an unknown audio source of a group of Japanese speaking individuals attempting to request a hotel room (or something else entirely, for those unfamiliar with its origin it is unknown exactly what they ask for in the way it's used in this match) appears, taking up almost the entire rest of the video sound wise, save for one segment that is the sole "loud" part of the video. trepmaws recalls that reception for this Round was incredibly mixed, though a number of people applauded it's overall uniqueness, as it was one of the most different rounds of the tournament delivered thus far.

Metzgorrre's Round 6 played with this new addition rather wonderfully in the beginning, inserting two japanese individuals conversing with each other in which the dialogue was synced to pretend that they were having the "meat room" conversation. At the punctuation of "We have MANY rooms", the text "YoutubePoopTennis" appears at the bottom of the screen, throughout this segment the cookie cutted head of the man sitting in the chair fluttering about the video, at one point being swatted away like a fly by the man himself. At this point the pitch of the original audio was lowered and in places edited a little more ("meat ro/////////////////"). Toward the end the man smiles as "YEA FOR HOLDING MEAT" is dubbed over his laughter, and the shot pans to the two of them smiling at each other, at which point the video ends, and Metzgorrre very slyly adds in the word "sex" at that very moment. The Round then proceeds to dive into the usual madness that had long characterized Metz's work by this point, starting with a series of edits to the previous round with "Making Plans for Nigel" by XTC playing the background, then switching to a much more absurd series of edits involving rather innovatively the addition of several hand-animated drawings onto the video, before closing with FATALITY: DENIED, which ended the video rather suddenly. Gamebop's Rounds 7 would turn "YoutubePoopTennis" into "Yellow Teal Purple Tennis", and would feature a background that would slowly change throughout the video from Yellow to Teal to Purple very slowly. Much of the previous Round was edited in Gamebop's trademark fashion, even creating using an unknown source a follow up to both of the matches running concepts ("Hello, do you have uh, a room?" "I THINK SO!" with the same shark from the serve making a reappearance). He would also add in humorous reference "The Room" (film) in which the particular scene he would use would be edited in the exact same way in another match of the same set by pure coincidence. A few people called this round the best of the match so far.

"Yellow Teal Purple Tennis" became "Colorubaru tennisu~" accompanied by the opening organ riff from Kukori es Kotkoda in Moogle's Round 8, regarded as possibly one of the most effect-heavy videos he would ever make in his tennis career. In addition to several complex layering edits and tricks (the head, mane and body of a Jolteon individually being masked out of the previous round and put together in the ideal shape) He would also make use of a large amount of humor ("I CANNOT FEEL MY PEH NUS", "Do you have...a room? I HAVE A GREAT WHITE SHARK YEY YEUY") and reference Round 2 of vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor(again), Round 8 of Magmalord vs. Chrisgendo vs. Metroid998(with the addition and mirrored usage of Yuyuko) and add in for the third time in a row a variation of the Chrome Gadget theme from Sonic 2. The round would also make reference too/pay tribute to both MycroProcessor and BSP666c by using their respective characters in the round. Moogle would mention that he worked very hard making this round, and it was applauded by people who were inspired by it's hybrid usage of both humor-based and technical-based editing.

Round 9 would feature incredibly intense editing and shroomhead1 would describe the video as if "both of his eyes had turned 360 degrees". It for the most part once again conceptually ignored all that had happened in the video before it, opting instead to go more with his more usual style, adding in more of his own drawings as added source and using a large amount of after effects throughout most of the video, in order to once again try to prove his strength in his ability to finish matches off with incredible strength. At one point a rather ridiculous E.T. parody occurs by with a distorted picture of a bike flying up to a cookie-cutted circle of the previous round, where it stutters in mid air, but Metzgorrre reassures us with "don't worry the bike is still working", as it then proceeds to make its downward voyage home. E.T. then appears in the "moon" itself and the whole scene supposedly "breaks" as a 404 appears within the moon cutting to the color bars from the beginning of Round 8. The round then ends with "How I met FATALITY", using a promo picture from the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and visually distorting the face of everyone in the photo, ending with a sequence of rather unusually edited audio that brought the match to a trademark Metzgorrre end.

In reviews following this match's conclusion, it would seem to be that a number of people lobbied for Metzgorrre to advance to the end on the basis that his performance was unaffected by the presence of two veterans of tennis and in some aspects made him stronger, earning him the majority vote from those who shared this notion. Some people actually gave Gamebop the smallest percentage on the grounds that he "was TOO good at tennis" and that it wouldn't seem fair for others who are competing to get to the end. In the actual results it would actually be Moogle who would advance to the end, and rather surprisingly due to him actually reciving the highest percentage of votes for a change, with 0.82 to Gamebop's 0.70 and Metzgorrre's 0.49. As a result of this, Moogle was secured as one of the three definite players of the final match, and would thusly be able to sit out of Set 4 while he waited for his two other challengers to approach. Gamebop and Metzgorrre would become intermingled with the remaining players, given one more match each that would both serve to find one of the two final players.

Originally DaftPunkYoshi vs. MycroProcessor vs. TheChutley, the matchup of superkoffee vs. MycroProcessor vs. TheChutley is regarded by some, particularly SergeantBacon, as the greatest tennis match of all time. It would be a match up in which every single round would be completely different from the one before it, and would spawn from it several different ideas and concepts that would continue to be referenced and reused to the present day, with the match itself looked upon by it's participants as being a notoriously silly (and rather lengthy) affair.

superkoffee's serve, which would start the concept of "Trusting Larry"(But do Mycro and Chutley trust Larry?) would feature one of his most famous video segments that he would ever create in the form of "Ferry Rave", a nonsense sequence of Ferry Boats "dancing" under a disco ball created with a Final Cut Pro effect/plugin. Following this, he would announce in his own voice following an array of deformed 3D text to "PREPARE YOURSELF FOR AN OPPROTUNITY TO CHROMA KEY A PART FOR THE NEXT

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Following this, the very first instance of superkoffee's Secret Chroma-Keyable Image game is introduced. He would loudly proclaim that you have "managed to succesfully manage" to locate the secret chroma-keyable image, and that you must now use it in the next round. In later matches the image would be hidden somewhere in the video, but in this serve it is in plain sight(an image of Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thurnberries series), to warm up for it's future inclusion. He then would proceed to ramble on in a funny about "how he werked rilly hard to put the GREEN SCREEN on the back of his image aDOH IM SORTYY I JUS WORKFBKdfkjgfdkfdklgbnklb". Instantly the match was already a favorite to some with this serve alone.

Round 2 would be an incredibly significant turning point for MycroProcessor in terms of his editing style, as this would be the first video he would do with almost entirely experimental editing; the first signs of the style he would continue to develop and refine over the next 4 years. Edited at the very start in an almost analogue fashion, further treating the round with music additions and reverse editing, there would come into focus a MIDI rendition of "Roundabout" by Yes, annunciated by a pulsating wave form generated in After Effects with a black and white strobing background as he continue to delve and tinker with koffee's rather odd-in-layout serve. At about 59 seconds in, the video suddenly stops, and there is silent black space for about 20 seconds, which would be Mycro's first in a series of many uses of this technique. The video then suddenly resumes where it left off, generating two new waveforms for the close of the song's chorus, before abruptly switching to a repeated clip of a Jolteon cropped to the left of the screen. Following another break of silence, the video reappears showing Mycro's usage of the secret chroma-keyable image, in a recursive 3D layering pattern to make the image look like it has depth. On screen there appears the text "WELL THE WORD AROUND TOWN IS THAT THERE'S A JOLTEON BY THE CLIFF NAMED SURGE." "YOU'RE A JOLTEON." "YOU'RE BY THE CLIFF." "SO YOU MUST BE SURGE!" Following brief appearances by both the Waveform and the Jolteon source, the video then cuts to screen-recorded footage of Mycro's screen playing koffee's Round on the original post of the match thread. This would serve to carry out the length of the rest of the video, save for a couple of brief abrupt stops. As an experiment this round would also be uploaded onto his main account under the title "OH NO WHAT HAPPEN TO MYCRO HE WAS MY FAVOURITE TENNISER BUT NOW HE IS A" while MycroProcessor would claim in the description that he doesn't actually like MycroProcessor.

TheChutley now saw himself faced with a real challenge in volleying a round that was over 2 and a half minutes along, as opposed to every other round he had volleyed in the tournament so far which were all under a minute. His Round 3 would be an incredibly textural and also in some aspects equally as experimental response to Round 2, reportededly adding around 30 pictures of Glaceon, in addition to about 3 of Jolteon, as well as 5 Rush songs including their logo. Throughout the round, "Heart of the Sunrise" by Yes can be heard playing the foreground, which is repeatedly interrupted by a Rush song that would fade in and out in succession, before completely overtaking with the song "Jacob's Ladder" toward the end of the video, in what can be seen as only one of the finest Rush tributes to ever happen in a tennis round, giving a feeling akin to beauty and triumph. Also interwoven into the video which is almost entirely made up of displacement map based editing, appears a video of Geddy Lee altered as if to say "Hi, I'm GeeeeeeeeeEeEeEeEeEeEeEayyyyyyyy". The Round would then cut to screen-recorded footage of Mycro's screen-recorded footage segment of Round 2 in the match thread, which would be edited to disappear in a keyframed light ray effect, in which the avatar of the tournament voting account ("Jolteon") makes a 6 frame appearance within the embedded video, before resuming and repeating a section of the video before cutting to silence, in which Geddy Lee's vocal of "Storm Clouds" from the before-used song is heard ending the video. He would joking call this video a "Glaceon AMV" and this would also serve to be the round in which the match officially takes on it's alternative name of "Umbreon vs. Jolteon vs. Glaceon", relegating superkoffee almost by impulse to being an Umbreon as the tie-in joke.

Round 4 would see superkoffee taking on his pretend Umbreon persona with enthusiasm as now Umbreon gifs appeared in plentiful amounts throughout his video layout, starting in a flurry of wild effects and intense audio that ripped through the previous round with great visual force. What followed this is quite possibly one of the most impressive visual displays ever done in the history of tennis. Using an auxilary program called Cinema4D, koffee constructed a opening gate and an entire kitchen using 3D modeling, all of which was textured using the previous round, an absolutely unimaginable visual feat at this time. Accompanying this sequence was music and sound effects that are used in various parts of Disneyland, largely that of the Pirates Ride ("DEEAADD MANN'S CAAAVVEE") and the Haunted House. When the camera pans past the fridge, a cabinet door opens with an image of a woman similar in appearance to Betty White appears yelling "AH HA-", which is where an embedded link to the secret chroma-keyable image for this round was originally located. At the end of the 3D tour, the camera stops in front of a 3D TV screen which contains visually-altered screen recorded footage of the screen-recorded footage of the screen-recorded footage of koffee's original Round 1, the border of which is deformed and liquified to considerable lengths giving off the appearance of bending pipes whilist an Umbreon watches in earnest. Koffee then cuts to footage of cloned people walking backwards and fowards motion to jangley player-piano music, while he proclaims "IN THE NEXT ROUND, WHAT WILL BE THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION? WILL IT BE:

A. A PANINI

B. SAMPLE TEXT

C. BRIAN FELLOW (in which added source of "IM BRIAN FELLOW!!!" from Saturday Night Live is added in suddenly)

or D. I, SURGE, TRUST *larry* AND WILL UH, CONTINUE TO EH, TRUST *larry* FOREVER! AND EVER! AND EVER AND EVER AND EVERNEVERANDEVNERANVNENVNENFEJFNENJVCNJENCNENVNERVENVNENVNENFCVNRUGUFHFHGHSHDJSDHSEV sev sev

sev."

The answer would end up being B, presented almost candidly in Round 5 which Mycro claims to have rushed greatly due to becoming incredibly late with it, also not being able to do 50% of what he planned to do amongst other self-criticisms. The round would feature a recursion effect done with in windows media player using a camera to film his screen, on which a mini-jolteon figurine can be seen on the edge of his keyboard. A Jolteon would be added next to the Umbreon watching the distorted TV, which was followed by more filmed footage of now two Jolteon figures watching the screen which displayed the post containing koffee's embedded round 4, which was masked out to show Mycro's Round instead. Following this came another segment showing scrolling text at the top of the screen with a walking Jolteon at it's end, which read:

"Lots of people are bored right now so they have to hear stories about the Mobius Strip that could. No one entered the room at 6.74 FM. FM SYNTH IS THE BEST JOLTEON IS THE BEST JOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLT! WOW! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I DIDN'T NOTICE THE "41 - Violin" IN GAMEBOP'S TREASURE CHEST."

Ending the video would be an incredibly unusual segment that Mycro claims to have had in a dream, with twisted audio to a strobed 3D visual that zoomed into a wire-framed building construct, upon it simply reading "Metroid998".

TheChutley's Round 6 would be just as rushed but would feature probably the most distinguishable visual feature that could come to characterize the match in some aspects, by taking the scrolling text and mirroring it in 5 different directions, all intercepting at a center point in which a Glaceon is seen sitting proud, amidst rather spectacular visuals. A Glaceon is seen watching the Jolteon and Umbreon watching the distorted TV through one of the "Moving Pictures" within the iconic Rush album cover, before joining them towards the end, jumping excitedly in the Jolteon's general direction. Supposedly 5 more Rush songs would be added into this match including "Where's My Thing? Part IV" from Roll the Bones, which remains the most recent Rush song that TheChutley has used in tennis so far. At this point people started to seriously wonder how this match was not in the winner's tier.

Round 7 would be a visually mesmerizing tour-de-force, although koffee would be heavily critical of it as from a tennis perspective it was incredibly detracting from the previous round, clouding it in a furious psychedelic whirlwind of colors, spastic clashes of particles, at most only showing the outline of the intercepting shape, and 3D layers/space while also not even doing so much as to add in another secret chroma-keyable image. Throughout this video superkoffee himself, displayed as a "Professional Historical Historian", would be seated upon a floating chair discussing a make-believe play that he wrote, whilist a keyframed Jolteon would be singing an excerpt from The Magic PokeFlute close by. At some point in the video an interjected "YEAH DAD" can he heard, which is spoken by NESFanboi (and for a good time was a common in-joke spoken about him). superkoffee is then dupicated almost infinitely across the video as he proclaims "YOU WANNA KNOW WHY I WROTE THAT PLAY? I WROTE IT FOR YOU!" and after a brief array of heavy-editing, writes in text "And here's that play." Which is a series of unusual shapes bending, floating and twisting inside the model of a mansion with the previous round once again textured on the bulk of the models. The Round then ends abruptly on a vocoded voice from an unknown source, closing superkoffee's side of the match.

Round 8 would notoriously take a month and 15 days to make due to Mycro becoming incredibly busy, similarly to koffee who had become busy with his last round. The video he would eventually deliver would be one of the most conceptually elaborate videos to be ever delivered in the tournament, in addition to easily being the longest at that point, breaking the time limit by one second. The Round was divided into 9 sections, each representing a different round of the match, which was indicated by a border with a line of a certain foreign numeral starting from 1 and ending 9.

Section 1 in homage to the "secret chroma keyable image" would replace Nigel Thornberry with a Jolteon and the gifs in the corner with other Jolteons. On one side what originally read "werked really hard to kee this" now read "didn't work at all to key this", while koffee's voice was altered in various places by pitch. This section would last 8 seconds.

Section 2 recalled the experimentalism and music of Round 2, and it was here that the first bits of Round 7 are used. The sound waves and the MIDI Roundabout rendition are reintroduced, with additional edits made and now focusing on the bridge of the original song over a black and Yellow checker pattern, before transitioning into a long stuttering sequence with one of the waveforms, which alternated from Teal to Purple. The video then zoomed in as close as possible to the waveform, which then introduced a source of what would appear to be individuals who worked on the soundtrack and design of a game (probably something from the Myst series) of unknown nationality and language. Ending on the first sound that started the original round that it references, this segment would last 1 minute and 12 seconds.

Section 3 took TheChutley's Glaceon AMV and turned it into a Jolteon AMV, using the same displacement composite effects to edit his own Section 2 in the same ways. Displayed across the screen in this segment was