Doubles Cup II

This article is about a site sanctioned Poop Tennis tournament.

The Doubles Cup II was a Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament organized and hosted by ChrisGendo with behind-the-scenes input from RAKninja that ran from October 2011 to February 2012, with ChrisGendo and AshcrementVII emerging as the eventual winners beating dewmann and RobotchaoXX. The gap between this Tournament and the one previous(The Three-Way Tourney) was the longest to occur up to that point, of which it is speculated that a noticable decline of the community in comparison to the past took place.

Origins

Following Dopply stepping down from the leader's chair of the forum and renouncing his adminship in September 2011, RAKninja returned to the forum and the tennis section with great rejuvination and saw to it to give the section another great tennis event to make up for the failed attempt at the original Triples Tournament in the summer. It was only spoken in hushed voices amongst the staff until it was unveiled in the Fall with Gendo at the helm. RAKninja by this point however had stopped posting and had receded once again, only making sparse reappearences in the years following until a semi-full comeback in early 2014.

Players

Unlike the 2010-esque reaction to what would have been the first incarnation of the Triples Tournament, getting participants outside of the resident people were noticably harder to obtain. ChrisGendo and Ashcrement were naturally the first team to sign up, followed by Captain and BMATF who agreed to play together in a prior agreement. BSP666c and CorruptionSound mirrored this in that they would have originally played together as a triples team, and the rather unique combination of trepmaws and Gamebop also formed, along with MAZZ0Murder and TheNeopreneJunebug, the latter whom this would be the only tournament they would play in. therazoredge would join for his first time and pair up with finnish tenniser sanemurzu, who was also relatively new to the scene

Notable is the unexpected reappearance of Pokruk, who had been considerably inactive for a good deal of months at the time, and his ubiquitous request to be paired with dewmann who had yet to find a teammate. dewmann considers this to be one of the luckiest moments of his tennis career since at the time his fondness for pokruk's oblique and unusual style was at a reasonable high, emulating elements of it in his own videos.

Filling the remaining void was the hastily put together team of thatcomputerperson and NESfanboi, which echoed the all-banned-member team that formed in the original triples tournament.

Matches

Characteristically all four matches that took place in the first round were all individually distinctive, with Chris/Ash vs. Neo/Mazz keeping a focus on Japanese sources, BSP/CS vs. trep/bop focusing on technicality, Captain/Bee vs. Razor/Sane focusing on a combination of humor and fundamentalism and dew/pokruk vs. TCP/NES on unconventional editing. Match highlights included the new and interesting material that pokruk released as well as much of what was happening with the material put out by Gamebop and especially trepmaws, who himself hadn't released anything new since the previous tournament. In addition Bematt's take on an effect heavy style was widely appreciated and noted for signifigance; he was by this point the oldest tenniser within the section, having played with Markie the second ever match.

The First rounded ended with the definite stronger players emerging on top with the only real head-scratcher being between the BSP/CS and Gamebop/trepmaws teams, the latter eventually winning out. thatcomputerperson and NESfanboi had by this point completely lost interest in their match and the latter actually disappeared, leading to a very rushed final round to properly cap the match with the last-minute assistance of metroid998, giving an assured victory to dewmann and pokruk who had both won their first match at this point.

Round 1 Matches

ChrisGendo/AshcrementVII vs. TheNeopreneJunebug/MAZZ0Murder

BSP666c/CorruptionSound vs. Gamebop/trepmaws

CaptainStringCheese/BMATF vs. therazoredge/sanemurzu

dewmann/pokruk vs. thatcomputerperson/NESfanboi+metroid998

The 4 remaining teams in round 2 came together in two incredibly strong matches, highlighted by a then all-cafe-staff match between Ash/Gendo and trepmaws/Gamebop, which proved even much harder to vote for than previously. Gamebop's round 4 also attained an unusually high view count, supposedly from hungarian fans of MLP as was speculated. The other match of pokruk/dewmann vs. razor/sane featured the last video that pokruk would ever make as the serve and a Round 3 by dewmann that he considered to be one of his "most powerful works at the time, but has since become one of his most embaressing to rewatch".

While Round 5 is listed as a collaborative work between dewmann and pokruk(and the last they would make together), dewmann actually kept a secret until years later that pokruk only ever actually made 1 second. He describes that in a frantic attempt to make the video seem like two different styles he utilized after effects in numerious places to mirror that of pokruks style in addition to using green screen footage that at the time he was providing on his main channel following the release of his artistic epic, "Something Occurred". Surprisingly it was convincing enough that people bought it, and he managed to advance to the final match, by which point pokruk had then become unreachable.

Round 2 Matches

AshcrementVII/ChrisGendo vs. trepmaws/Gamebop

pokruk/dewmann vs. TheRazorEdge/sanemurzu

With trepmaws and Gamebop defeated by a very thin margin of votes, the final match became dewmann/RobotchaoXX vs. Gendo/Ashcrement. Robotchao was recruited as a last minute substitute and immediately proved to dewmann to be much easier to work with, with lengthy discussion about the crafting of their collab round taking place at various times. The final two rounds were ones of incredible composition and visual spectacle, but ultamitely the victory ended up going to Gendo and Ashcrement in the very end due to their round showing a spirit and sense of collaborativeness that appeared to be seamlessly unmatched, and was regarded almost in a romanticisable way.

Final Match

dewmann/RobotchaoXX vs. ChrisGendo/AshcrementVII

Aftermath

The Tourney's end brought much anticipation to the start of the next tournament, which many people believed would finally be the Triples Tournament continued from where it last was. As many came to know however, that was not what would actually come to be....

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