Tennis League III

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The Tennis League III was a Youtube Poop Tennis Competition organized by Gallers but largely hosted by Terrorist that was started in August 2008, but ultamitely failed shortly therafter due to too many players dropping out. It was intended to be closer in style to that of the Tennis Cup in its voting style with the only major difference being the matches sticking to just 4 rounds, the amount of participants as a result of this were twice the amount of the second league, dividing everyone by four groups.

Development

RAKninja originally suggested for a third tennis League in July 2008 the idea of there being 8 divisions of 4 players that work on teams instead of individually that would play each gameweek, with each team choosing a player to play in each match. The overall win for a team would be decided by best 2 out of 3, which for 4 round matches RAK suspected wouldn't take long at all. He also planned to host it after the Tennis Cup I ended, also suggesting the idea of new awards for the event pertaining to MVPs, best "rookie" players, all-star teams, and so on. strong414bad immediately initiated the idea of an all WMM team, which was echoed by RabbitSnore who initiated the idea of an all-Tennis Fuck team, and enthusiasm on his part became instant. With only an estimated 2 weeks left of the Tennis Cup I (it would end up being at least a month), he figured that it was the perfect time to start getting it organized.

While it is apparent that a thread for this potential version of the League was made according to old posts, the thread itself seems to have not survived. Gallers would at some point reappear, and become irritated that he was never consulted about the idea even though the last three Tennis Tournaments had all been under his helm, and he was the primary organizer of the Leagues specifically. He soon started up the "proper" Tennis League 3, which he described as "None of that team bollocks or owt like that, just individuals going head-to-head in a round-robin format competition". RabbitSnore and RAKninja would not participate in its management or the League itself; as they were at this time becoming frequently offline for long periods. RAK was even at one point withdrawn from the Tennis Staff for a short time due to his inactivity.

The rules remained more or less the same as the two leagues prior, mentioning that it was all to work like the Tennis Cup except for there being only 4 rounds a match. Every first week was to have matches and every 2nd week was to allow for votes. RAKninja's original idea would later see it's full manifestation in the form of the Tennis Season, although in a much more expanded and elaborate form.

Players

This would be the first tournament in which ThaNuke, zacheatscrackers, Erarg, Aesaun, vvaluigi, Rillion, WowComics and RealGenericFilms would all play in and subsequently would all become tournament regulars for a time, for TheWafflemaster this competition would be a one-off appearance, and Intenseowl would sign up as a replacement. Returning from the Tennis Cup as their first were Luioigi, NS2, TheDarkRises, MTB710/Temeku, uncle69er and Terrorist, and of the more seasoned; strong414bad, UncleChuckTH and LightningSpike. Ishkibibl and Nuthead originally returned as well, but then the former dropped out if signups since he and his brother PlasmaFetus planned to be gone for a week and the latter dropped out due to not being in the mood. Cynnico also signed up but left due to unknown circumstances, and at one point Aesaun also thought he would have to drop out until revisiting his situation. Eventually uncle69er and Terrorist would also need replacing. ThaNuke at one point remarked that people were dropping like flies before the game had even started. Eventually when everyone needed was assembled the divisions were drawn thusly:

DIVISION A

UncleChuckTH

TheHappyFungus

ThaNuke

NS2

Luioigi

DIVISION B

TheDarkRises

NutheadElMajestico (replaced by DrKelexo(replaced by Nuthead again))

Zacheatscrackers

Erarg

Aesaun

DIVISION C

Temeku

LightningSpike

WowComics

RealGenericFilms

Terrorist

DIVISION D

TheWaffleMaster

Uncle69er (replaced by Locodiablogato)

Vvaluigi

MaRillion

Strong414bad

After one day Gallers himself also left from the management due to disenchantment with tennis, leaving it largely in the hands of Terrorist, who would serve also in using his account for the Tournament votes.

Because RabbitSnore himself had not given official approval of the event, initial match threads were kept out of the tournament section by Crash2991, who waited until Rabbit eventually reappeared and gave the okay. He also agreed to help Terrorist later on with management, although under the conditions that he might not be able to do much.

Matches

Due to no official record of any of the scores being kept it is currently not possible to calculate the exact outcome of each match. Due to also the rather disorganized nature that the competition took on after the initial signup day it is very likely that no scores were never calculated at all, which would have very well led to the inevitable demise that the competition faced.

WEEK 1

The first week fixtures were drawn as the following, starting on the 17th of August:

A: UncleChuckTH vs TheHappyFungus

A: NS2 vs ThaNuke

B: TheDarkRises vs DrKelexo

B: Erarg vs Zacheatscrackers

C: Temeku vs LightningSpike

C: RealGenericFilms vs WowComics

D: TheWaffleMaster vs Uncle69er

D: MaRillion vs Vvaluigi

Of the 28 total matches that were played during the course of this tournament, the loss of various videos have left only about 8 intact, with a total of 6 being actually complete. Half of Temeku vs. Lightning Spike, NS2 vs. The Nuke, RealGenericFilms vs. WowComics and MaRillion vs. vvaluigi remain gone while matches TheWaffleMaster vs. uncle69er and Erarg vs. zacheatscrackers remain unavailable entirely. TheDarkRises vs. DrKelexo, while never completing has DrKelexo's one round unavailable for viewing, making the only fully viewable match of this set UncleChuckTH vs. TheHappyFungus.

The serve of this match was made up of footage from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask featuring the Odolwa boss which highlight maybe phrases like "HEY YOU GUYS" and "Your Momma" that it sounds like it's saying. Round 2 adds in Vince with "Shamwow" and featured a segment that contained no visuals and slowed down audio, which Happy says they "put it in there without thinking of what my competitor was going to do with it. Now that I think of it, I was pretty underhanded." UncleChuckTH would ultamitely end up "cutting it out" save for a very small peice in his Round 3, opting for a more conventional approach and adding in "Nostalgia Critic reviews the Pokemon movie" and The Weird Al show as sources. Round 4 added in more Nostalgia Critic and dedicated a signifigant amount of time to that source alone, while also adding in a Steven Colbert Clip featuring Rush and making a 2112 reference in connection to the recurring "overlayed numbers" concept. The video ended also with a YTPMV largely involving the added footage with a peice of the previous round underneath, and by this round a brief 2-frame long clip at the end of the serve featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi had extended into a several seconds long sequence of extensive layering and editing.

WEEK 2

While no official date for the start of Week 2 seems to have been put down in an existing place, archive evidence shows that the Gameweek may have begun on August 31st, and the matches were slated thusly:

A: ThaNuke vs UncleChuckTH

A: NS2 vs Luioigi

B: Zacheatscrackers vs TheDarkRises

B: Erarg vs Aesaun

C: WowComics vs Temeku

C: RealGenericFilms vs TerTrorist

D: Vvaluigi vs TheWaffleMaster

D: MaRillion vs Strong414bad

For similar reasons as before, ThaNuke vs. UncleChuckTH, zacheatscrackers vs. TheDarkRises, and Erarg vs. Aesaun are only half intact while RealGenericFilms vs. Terrorist and vvaluigi vs. thewafflemaster are gone entirely. strong414bad would become unavailable to play before this set begun and would be replaced in what became MaRillion vs. Locodiablogado which is now also only half intact. This gameweek along with Week 3 both contain the highest amount of fully complete intact matches, which are only 2 each.

NS2 vs. Luioigi began with a serve made up of a Back to the Future II commercial and footage of Mario Kart 64, with a "Got Milk?" Mario commercial added in Round 2, with an attempt at a YTPMV towards the end that Luioigi seemed unhappy with. NS2 followed this up by adding in footage from an early version of TF2, an unspecificed racing game and Ratchet and Clank towards the end and Luioigi added onto this several different small bits of footage, the most prominant being one of the Scooby Doo cartoons and video of a white parrot that would see a few reappearances in his later work. Not much exchanging of conversation seemed to happen during this match which at the time was rather uncommon, aside from the occasional remark of approval from either side. WowComics vs. Temeku began with a serve that used in Wow's words "The Spanish LOVE animes about british people and/or vampires" which a commenter partially identified as Hellsing Ultamite within the video. Temeku added in Tourettes Guy into his Round 2 which accumulated over 10,000 views as of this writing, bearing a similar effect to his match with Domorato in the Tennis Cup I. Round 3 added in "Harry Batt, breaking the Law" and "Making of IGN Zelda trailer" and was edited much more minimally due to the fact that this was an iMovie vs. Sony Vegas match, while Round 4 added in mostly The O'Reilly factor and featured similarly heavier editing like it's sister Round, with every Round seeming to be delivered some days late.

WEEK 3

The start date for this gameweek appears to have been the 15th of September, with the matches set to be:

A: UncleChuckTH vs NS2

A: TheHappyFungus vs Luioigi

B: TheDarkRises vs Erarg

B: DrKelexo vs Aesaun

C: Temeku vs RealGenericFilms

C: LightningSpike vs Terrorist

D: TheWaffleMaster vs MaRillion

D: Uncle69er vs Strong414bad

For this set, TheDarkRises vs. Erarg, DrKelexo vs. Aesaun, Temeku vs. RealGenericFilms, uncle69er vs. Strong414bad and thewafflemaster vs. MaRillion all remain only half intact while Lightning Spike vs. Terrorist remains entirely gone.

UncleChuckTH vs. NS2 began with a serve that used Chuck's signature source of Star Wars: The Clone Wars along with Gurren Lagann, and mentioned that "Knowing NS2, this is going to be an awesome match." Rarenut59 mentioned that he was going to enjoy this match and Mazz called the serve among his favorites of the third week matches already. NS2's response added in a trailer for Batman Forever along with additional anime that was lauded by UncleChuck, who mentioned that the two rounds already show a lot of promise and bringing up the possibility of a longer match in the future which was greatly agreed upon between both players.

WEEK 4

A: Luioigi vs UncleChuckTH

A: ThaNuke vs TheHappyFungus

B: Aesaun vs TheDarkRises

B: Zacheatscrackers vs DrKelexo

C: Terrorist vs Temeku

C: WowComics vs LightningSpike

D: Strong414bad vs TheWaffleMaster

D: VValuigi vs Uncle69er

WEEK 5

The following set never actually happened as by this time the League had crashed and burned, and this set is left only as a relic of what could have been under better circumstances.

A: TheHappyFungus vs NS2

A: Luioigi vs ThaNuke

B: DrKelexo vs Erarg

B: Aesaun vs Zacheatscrackers

C: TheLightningSpike vs RealGenericFilms

C: Terrorist vs WowComics

D: Uncle69er vs Marillion

D: Strong414bad vs VvaLuigi

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