The Grey Tournament

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The Grey Tennis Tourney was a YouTube Poop Tennis Tournament started in collaboration between TheChutley and vvaluigi that ran between June 2009 and April 2010, with Gamebop emerging as its eventual winner. It is retrospectively recognized as being a rare occurrance in which all the participants were almost entirely seasoned players. Due to it's organization mirroring that of the Tennis Cup, it has also been alternatively been referred to as the Tennis Cup III, with the Windows Movie Master previous being referred to as the Tennis Cup II in a similar vein.

Development & Players

During a year that was made up largely up competitive events that utilized much specialization in form, with the Windows Movie Master being WMM only and The Tennis Season being a team-based ability-boosted event with 6 different match types to be played, the time seemed right to organize something much more simple; a standard easy elimination tournament that largely emulated the first Tennis Cup. The rules were as quoted directly from the original thread: - 6 Rounds Per Match - 32 Players (We have decided to extend the amount due to popularity of the tournament). - 3 Day Turnover (72 hours)

Sources that can be added per round (excluding round 1):

- 0 Sources Minimum - 3 Sources Maximum

Anything visual is considered a source. Such examples of that are:

- Any video media source - Any visual picture

In contrast, audio-only sources (songs, sound clips, etc.) do not count as a source.

However, say, for example, you used two separate episodes of AoStH. It only counts as one source because it's common to a source already used.

Time Requirements:

- 0:30 - 3:00

Penalties:

- 3 Votes for going over the 72 hour limit (We will be moderately lenient to those who can provide a legitimate reason as to why their serve/volley went over the time, but do not push it). - 2 Votes for incorrect source usage (using over 3 sources). - 2 Votes for incorrect time length (under 30 seconds, over 3 minutes).

Interestingly the tournament is known for the fact that of the 32 players that joined, only 6 (magmalord, Rice3, MrMosto, ferretfreak411, Christoph3r, and LordofBLTS) were newcomer players, with just 2 of whom that managed to play beyond the first match. As a result much of this is known for having matches almost entirely dominated by seasoned tennisers, some of whom in which the recently-ended Season (wwefan3333, crazythesecond, piodx, metroid998, Combuskenisawesome, LieutenantMiles, eletricalmonkss and AmiralMachin) was their previous competition. The oldest competitive veteran in this tournament was SushieBoy, who had been one of the four players that had played in the very first league, the first site-hosted tennis competition. Gamebop and BMATF had first played in the 2nd League, Luioigi, RAKninja, MAZZ0Murder and Fiddlesticks411 had first played in the Tennis Cup I, ThaNuke, Rillion and vvaluigi had both participated in the 3rd League, and trepmaws, TheChutley, TangerineImpz, Moogle, McMANGOS, quax, AjaxCubed and MycroProcessor had all played in the Doubles Cup I. Chrisgendo, DaftPunkYoshi and Futures Passed also originally signed up, but because of outside commitments were unable to play in the Tournament and were respectively replaced by MrMosto, ferretfreak111 and RAKninja. DaftPunk would however sign up as a replacement along with Jacktron7000, mYZterbattyX, OHGODWHAT, Hulio, MASTERFURRYX, bnnnnnnnxz, and pakasa43, all of whom would not actually take part in the tournament aside from signing up.

Matches

As of this writing the rounds of magmalord, LordofBLTs, three rounds from Cristoph3r, one round by ThaNuke, all except one of AmiralMachin's Rounds and three rounds from vvaluigi remain lost, so the matches in which these missing videos correspond to will not have full analysis until possible discovery of the missing videos is clarified.

Set 1

While BMATF vs. magmalord is only half intact, it can be inferred from the thread that magmalord responded constructively/minimally to every round BMATF produced, although compared to BMATF didn't bring much of anything new to the table, with BMATF also responding to ideas with more effect. This would be one of the very few matches that he would win throughout his tennis career to date, beating magmalord 11 to 7.

TheChutley vs. Sushieboy would be the most recent match to be compiled into one video via TheChutley's "Yeltch" account, and therefore despite Sushie's original rounds being missing the match has stayed intact. The match would see the beginning of TheChutley playing at his most experimental, playing more at this time with composite effect combinations and newer audio effects, as well as sources like Kukori and Hulk Hogan which were better characterized by the work of other players. He would however also start the match with Tunak Tunak Tun, which at this time was very much a trademark source of his, all put together in a very curious serve. SushieBoy's Round 2 played with the serve in interesting ways using mostly minimalistic edits, by scrambling bits of the video around and reversing some of the more techincal parts of the serve, while also doings such as applying HSL adjust onto one of the dancing men in the Tunak Tunak Tun video and also using masking to isolate various characters onto other parts of the serve, like a wrestler from Rocky 3 on top of the BIG BLOW segment. Round 3 continued the effects/audio experimentation and also introduced a musical bit from a Pokemon Anime featuring Pichu. The masking concept was continued in the repetition of "NEXT" over the Hulk Hogan source, with the round ending in an unusual way, much of the video taken up by a smiley face (apparently TheChutley's old avatar) with rather gruesome dialogue from Bioshock playing in the background, with the edited round appearing upon every vocal emphasis. The entire video was then reversed upon composite layers of themselves to give a dynamic finish, which overall amped up the calibur of the match and gave SushieBoy now something more to work at. Round 4 on a technical aspect was weaker, but it was clever in starting a musical idea using the Pichu footage and hinting to a further development with a makeshift layered segment, as well as turning the smile of the smiley face upside down. The "NEXT" repetition was continued and "SHE WONT STAND STILL" was overdubbed onto added Ed Edd and Eddy footage, showing a great effort in responding to TheChutley's advanced style. Much of Round 5 was chroma-keyed inside of a TV screen from the game Obsidian, otherwise responding to every idea that SushieBoy presented with great fortitude and bring the match to a good close on his side. Round 6, with the exception of the duplication of the spinning cube, was edited very minimally with an abruptly different pace, closing off with Eddy remarking "THAT'S STUPID". The final score was TheChutley: 12 and SushieBoy: 3, although because Round 6 was delivered some hours late, adjusted his score to 0, giving TheChutley an essentially landslide victory.

Gamebop vs. Combuskenisawesome coincidentally occurred some months following a Season Wildcard match they had played each other in, and thusly this became both a rematch and something of a continuation from the original. Round 1 also used the Pichu source used in TheChutley vs. SushieBoy as well as Rounds from their previous match, edited in a way that had much potential in how it was to develop. Round 2 was edited considerably minimially(due in part to Combuskenisawesome being one of the few people to edit with an obscure program known as EditStudio) but touched off with Combusken's style of chroma keying the previous round through various ways into added footage to add humorous effect. Round 3 was edited much more intensely and was overall shorter ("...exactly half the length of round 2!...") but followed up well on things like the Pichu duplication and the 'cross' segment, almost deliberately dodging the humor presented in the previous round. Round 4 completely reversed the Pichu duplication to the point where it zoomed in all the way to the original frame, then proceeded to do many of the similar things done in Round 2, this time with Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei amongst its added footage. Round 5 was edited almost entirely as a YTPMV using a majority of sounds from the previous round, ending with it sped up in reverse and dissolving into color curves and a visually spectacular WAX vortex effect applied with a WAX shatter effect. Round 6 mostly chroma-keyed "Face" from Nick Jr. onto the previous round, overall a struggle to be able to effectively edit Gamebop's turnout. Gamebop would ensure victory in this match with an 11 to 2 score.