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When ravinrabbid123 and LaVie CestLol saw they were going to face each other, there was a hidden rule to use the titles "LAVIE :)", "RAVIN :)", "CESTLOL :)" and "RABBID123 :)" for their rounds. When the time came, '''ravinrabbid123 vs. LaVie CestLol''' was followed actively, being regarded in retrospect by many as one of the best matches the league offered, and one that proved that YTP Tennis could far well work with more joke-centered techniques. Ravin's serve already gave it an epic-yet-silly tone with various jokes involving footage of LaVie playing the drums, Dragon Ball Z, use of a french film starring famous actor Bourvil, an english game show called Pointless, and footage of Ravin editing the video whilst having her phone ringing. LaVie would construct and continue the jokes, making a YTPMV out of Ravin's ringtone (using Goldenrod City Theme as a BGM), putting up a cameo by Dew (by putting a lily flower on a Flareon Ravin used as a visual gag, Dew's music making an appearance as well) and making Ravin herself a Super Sayan. The ante was up as Ravin would then create a back-and-forth set of jokes and stories involving LaVie fighting a Pokemon character, as well as Ravin unwillingly shooting off Dew's lily flower, leading the flareon to eat Ravin, grow the size of a planet and threaten to destroy the world. LaVie's final round would settle the fate of the story, as Dew would proceed in crushing every joke element that was worked into the match by the two contestants, only to have the day saved by LaVie teaming up with Ravin and shooting her own tennis videos at Dew to calm her down and save the world. Only to have it destroyed "lewdly" by TheChutley (as a Glaceon). The match was widely acclaimed, notably on the thread by Metroid998, Sid, AshcrementVII and TehShadzify, and is one of the best and most fun memories the two contestants have regarding tennis or even Youtube Poop in general. | When ravinrabbid123 and LaVie CestLol saw they were going to face each other, there was a hidden rule to use the titles "LAVIE :)", "RAVIN :)", "CESTLOL :)" and "RABBID123 :)" for their rounds. When the time came, '''ravinrabbid123 vs. LaVie CestLol''' was followed actively, being regarded in retrospect by many as one of the best matches the league offered, and one that proved that YTP Tennis could far well work with more joke-centered techniques. Ravin's serve already gave it an epic-yet-silly tone with various jokes involving footage of LaVie playing the drums, Dragon Ball Z, use of a french film starring famous actor Bourvil, an english game show called Pointless, and footage of Ravin editing the video whilst having her phone ringing. LaVie would construct and continue the jokes, making a YTPMV out of Ravin's ringtone (using Goldenrod City Theme as a BGM), putting up a cameo by Dew (by putting a lily flower on a Flareon Ravin used as a visual gag, Dew's music making an appearance as well) and making Ravin herself a Super Sayan. The ante was up as Ravin would then create a back-and-forth set of jokes and stories involving LaVie fighting a Pokemon character, as well as Ravin unwillingly shooting off Dew's lily flower, leading the flareon to eat Ravin, grow the size of a planet and threaten to destroy the world. LaVie's final round would settle the fate of the story, as Dew would proceed in crushing every joke element that was worked into the match by the two contestants, only to have the day saved by LaVie teaming up with Ravin and shooting her own tennis videos at Dew to calm her down and save the world. Only to have it destroyed "lewdly" by TheChutley (as a Glaceon). The match was widely acclaimed, notably on the thread by Metroid998, Sid, AshcrementVII and TehShadzify, and is one of the best and most fun memories the two contestants have regarding tennis or even Youtube Poop in general. | ||
| − | '''Division | + | With [[pop]], belgian YTPer and a friend of laromande, taking over JammeKamme's spot, the match of '''pop vs. ZACHTOMCAT/fiv95''' would be the start of some more unusual matches, with pop serving with a very sloppily edited round, mixing YTP tropes with actually well crafted effects, as well as a text segment saying ''this is shit / wasting my time'' (with a part of the word missing) ''wasting yours / lo-fi ytp''. That would be pop's trademark "clusterfuck" way of making YTPs that will be noticed during the last weeks of the Tournament. ZACHTOMCAT's volley would be more conventional, using the elements to create more abstract and colorful shapes. pop's third round would only use the previous round for 30 seconds before becoming a video only featuring a slowed down music, that of Bun B, before being overlapped by a Neutral Milk Hotel song, with only Bun B's cover art on the video. ZACHTOMCAT, with many penalties due to lateness, would be then replaced by fiv95 (who dropped out of Division A) exceptionally, who would finish the match in a very destructive way, with the cover art being put on a 3D wavey object that he animated. |
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| + | '''HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. Peskeh''' would begin with a surprisingly heavily edited video from the former, using CD-I amongst other sources, using sentence-mixing more prominently as well, while still having the stream-of-consciousness structure, along with more involvement from the mysterious tennisser himself, making references to Peskeh's Australian Nationality and evoking his lack of ideas but will to win that would be more pieces to the puzzle of understanding where this player comes from. Peskeh's response would feature a gread deal of glitch art, adding more Australian Sources and also responding to HMFM's 4th-wall breaking message with even more 4th-wall breaking, complete with an involvement of his penguin avatar and Absols. Clocking at another 3:00 mark (and HMFM will then never do less), HMFM's round 3 would be extremely colorful (almost Herpywhooves-like) in the beginning before continuing in a more low-key way, using part of his own serve and especially guro fanart of absol, as well as a 3D animation of an Absol farting on a Lucario. Peskeh's finishing round would revolve on many interesting ideas, the first of which being subtitling the whole round in english (with a Japanese segment). Amongst many YTPMV and visual moments, the stand out was a Sentence Mix of an MF DOOM song, making it a serenade for an Eevee. | ||
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| + | Division C would see LaVieCestLol's full winning streak broken by winning a Pseudo tie against ravinrabbid gaining him one less point, while Peskeh won his match fully and tied both players for first at 11 points, with ravinrabbid trailing behind with 8 points. pop fantasticly won the first match for his player slot and tied himself with Fiv95 without making any effort (very poorly edited rounds) and won thanks to the late penalties partially caused why pop's opponent remplacement during the match, now playing in this division, at third with both 3 points while HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine remained without a single point. | ||
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Revision as of 20:25, 2 December 2015
This article is about a site sanctioned Poop Tennis tournament.The Tennis League IV was a Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament hosted jointly by dew, GameBop, TheChutley and trepmaws, which began on December 19th, 2014 and ended on November 13, 2015, with Peskeh as it's eventual winner, marking the second time in a row after LaVieCestLol that a relatively new player had won. Like the Tennis Cup IV and the Doubles Cup II before it, it is a reprisal/continuation of an older tournament, with this in particular being of the oldest form of competitive tennis to have historically occurred on the site. The Tennis League I dates back as far as 2007, while the Tennis League II and Tennis League III both date back to 2008. It is also the longest gap of time to occur between two of the same form of competition.
Development
Discussions for what would contribute towards the next tournament began occurring frequently in late October 2014, in the closing weeks of dew's Multi-Way Tournament. There was heavy interest among the present staff members in addition to many of the present regulars, old and new, of revisiting many old ideas of the course of the next few competitions, in addition to individual ideas that had existed for some time. Initially, talks of a second Tennis Season were the first to emerge out of this discussion, primarily between trepmaws, GameBop and dew, in which many suggestions for ways to update on the first one were presented and discussed, including new variants, abilities, and a proposed entirely new layout of teams/matches. Around this time also, TheChutley became aware of the reduction of size that the tennis community had experienced between his previous departure and recent full-fledged return, and began to question as to why this was. A thread was created in Poop Talk inquiring to the regulars there why more of them weren't tennising like back in earlier days or for those there that did have a history of tennis, why they weren't tennising anymore. Out of all of the collected general answers, many of them seem to hold the common misconception of tennis being nothing but "colors and rape" and thus beyond their own individual elements, a notion which the staff and most of the regulars staunchly opposed and clarification/explanation of this became a semi-regular occurrence for a few weeks. This was further emphasized in the Multi-Way Tournaments closing with Ashcrement's unexpected revelation that he felt that this final match was considerably the most boring match he had ever participated in, due to a lacking in creativity from his opponents which more or less to him seemed to further serve the trope of tennis being "colors and rape". The desire to disprove people of these inherited beliefs and to introduce more to the emphasized fun of the game became a key point of focus, and would greatly influence the decision making to happen subsequently.
On October 17, dew would as a complete experiment make a serve and challenge "the ENTIRE Poop Talk section" to individual games of tennis, for the primary goal of getting something stirring among those in the section and in the tennis section itself. She got up to about 15 total responses, including some from tennis regulars themselves, making the experiment to her seem like a success. To follow this up, dew would lobby in future discussions for the possibility of there being actually a Tennis League IV to capitalize on the ongoing "campaign for revival" as it would be the perfect competition to introduce players into the game this way, as well as competition itself. In a Skype call between a number of staff and dew herself, the layout for presumably the next three tournaments to occur in the future was set, with the League IV going first, then a proposed Cup V, and very possibly a Season II to occur way later. Tournament ideas from both GameBop and Sploltoen would also be suggested, with the idea that these would be hosted within the Interim between these tournaments. An idea for a "rare video editor" Tournament would also be thrown into the pool of ideas around this time, also by dew, who volunteered to be the League IV's host on the basis that she would be able to stick around for the full run this time as well as be it's main advertiser to Poop Talk, of which it in part was aimed toward. Discussion would take a rest for the next month, as the tennis section took a well deserved break from competition, resuming once again in December 2014.
Now in a separate place, the main planning for what would become the Tennis League IV in its finished form went into full swing. Several changes were made and updated to the previous versions to make them more manageable to present standards, including the removal of source limitation (which MycroProcessor is credited to have started in The Three-Way Tournament), and the doubling of the turnover time from 36 hours to 72. The voting system was also adjusted to supply the Olympic system as used in the previous tournament so that players would be judged once again by an overall added score, which match points left unaltered along with this. Penalties would be adjusted from vote weight to a total average percent weight, with 10% put toward every breach of offense of the rules, with repetitive extension being a new penalty worthy offense added in order discourage players in taking too long with each round, since this was a style of match that notably had to keep within a balanced schedule of sorts. There would be changes made during the course of the competition itself, a critical one being the invention of the "pseudo-tie" outcome devised by GameBop, which involved in the event of two scores coming close to being the same within 0.5 point margin (since it would be near impossible for players to tie exactly) that the player with the higher score receive 2 of the 3 possible "match points" earned while the losing player would earn the third point as a consolation prize.
Also for the first time in over 3 years the tournament would see the creation of a new Host account to be used for the voting, under the name of "Comrade Ebola" with a humorously Nazi-centric avatar of George Harrison. TheChutley's main role in this tournament would be the management of this account.
On December 19th, 2014, Dew officially open the signups thread, at 4:15 PST. The rules given left two weeks for signups, but in an unprecedented move 12 players were already signed up within the first hour. This led to some discussion as to whether or not the maximum number of players should be expanded, and while the idea was decided against the signups still continued to grow at an entirely unexpected rate. At the speed they filled, all 36 slots managed to be filled within 26 hours, the final player to sign up being ImmaCornflakes.
While there was some uncertainty at the beginning as to whether or not the tournament would actually attract people from Poop Talk as intended, that uncertainty was crushed in the end as an unprecedented half of all players were first-time competitors, including notable poopers such as ThemOldaBoys, Peskeh, and NationOfOranges696. Many people were invited to the tournament by their friends, an example being Soucisse Verte and NataliaHTTPS, European poopers invited to play by LaVie CestLol. A sizable handful of these people persuaded to join were done so also by InLivingTuna, who himself was a newcomer to the competitive tennis scene. On December 29th, dew published a blog article advertising the new League and its players, which would mark the first time in 5 years that a tournament received attention that could be seen by the whole forum.
Matches
Week 1
The matches drawn for Set 1 began on January 9th and consisted of:
Division A:
CorruptionSound vs. Ninero
Razerek vs. theregularmaster
Division B:
Sploltoen vs. TugCoat
poppop17 vs. OldFashionedLizard
Divison C:
JammeKamme vs. LaVie CestLol
ravinrabbid123 vs. Peskeh
Division D:
NataliaHTTPS vs. PCB
ThemOldaBoys vs. GameBop
TheFXexpert vs. NITROCONCRETE1
Division E:
Alfonzopancakes vs. Theadventuretimefan / Treckasec (serving as temp. replacement)
Metroid998 vs. Ekrem3012
Soucisse Verte vs. Trepmaws
Division F:
JowlHog4 vs. TheChutley
NationOfOranges696 vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE
All except one of the 18 matches to happen in this set received a serve, with Alfonzopancakes vs. Treckasec never actually happening, and Treck winning without doing a single thing. Soucisse Verte vs. trepmaws and poppop17 vs. OldFashionedLizard unfortunately never went any farther than their serves, and the serving players both won by default. Sploltoen vs. TugCoat on the other hand, would stop at round 3 with TugCoat's dropout.
Division A
The first match to both start and complete would be Fiv95 vs. dew, having their whole match done before the first rounds of each match were even due. With the serve being a musical trip featuring many 3D visuals and background music by the group Can, dew would take this into a direction she had not previously attempted. In her Round 2 she constructed a "pseudo plot" using an animated rabbit from Fiv's serve and a masked cutout of Peter Gabriel from The Barry Williams Show music video and have them get into an "argument", with speech text provided by pixelated words created by dew on a site called Minifesto. She would then proceed to have the rabbit "become angry" and glow red, and chase Peter Gabriel throughout other scenes of the round with "Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With" by King Crimson serving as the backing music for this segment. Notable throughout this piece are the stairs that are formed out of sped-up-and-repeated section of the previous round and the physically unaltered state of many of the more visual parts, which was a very daring and contrasting move on dew's part, who was worried about what it would do to the round's overall strength at first. Following this the music changes to the quieter "The Power to Believe II" also by King Crimson, in which the Rabbit becomes sucked into a void accentuated by one of the more unique sounds from the serve, and is whisked away to a psychedelic aura of different panning sounds and the echoing ambiance of Marvin Gaye's song "Whats Happening Brother" playing in the distance. Also distinct about the video is the use of the Talking Heads' "Once in a LifeTime" music video which dew described as "the most chroma keyable thing I had ever found and wanted to use in my life" over other visual sections of the round, done so frequently in recursive ways that she found most appealing.
Fiv was very self-depreciating of his round 3 which he considered to be overly destructive and felt that it destroyed the flow of the match, though in Round 4 dew responded with an encouraging and silly tribute to her opponent spelling out in text "GabrielCol595 or cola or fiv should know that he's REALLY GREAT AND AWESOME at Tennis!" in which the previous round was masked into. This along with the rest of round following was all done in time to the Parliament song "Flash Light", which was a shining example of dew's fascination with funk music at the time and emulated her speckling the Tennis community with it's influence for fun, calling the Skype version of the cafe the "tennis FUNK chat" and the staff members "the tennis FUNKS". The whole video was intentionally rushed not only to put herself more even with her opponent but to also beat the clock as in a matter of time the deadline for all serves was to come and that seemed like a good goal to shoot for to her, an idea suggested ad libitum by Gamebop. The finished round was as a result completed in only a few hours.
The final results were pretty high, with dew winning with 8.57 against fiv's 8.04, just 3 cents of a point short of winning a pseudo-tie point. The quickness of this round would then become a challenge for dew, as she will try to always be in the first match of the gameweek that finishes (which she would on the two following gameweeks).
Razerek vs. theregularmaster began with a serve using the Renai Circulation Intro, "Let's Glitch Pokemon Yellow Part 21" and the Bubblegum Bass Song by FrankJavCee in a considerably heavy style, with Raz mentioning that he "Tried to go a little easier on TRM but this should be interesting; it's also kind of short, sorry, I'll try and make it a bit longer next time. I'm not good with serves ;-;" Round 2 by contrast was edited with great minimalization with a lot of sources added towards the end, being a tad shorter than the serve in addition. Round 3 was similarly short and rushed and edited much in the same way as the serve while Round 4 followed suit, dedicating about a third of the video's length to added sources once again. Razerek would take the win for this match winning with a score of 7.01 versus his opponant's 5.26.
CorruptionSound vs. Ninero had among the longest rounds of the first set matches, with the serve using a large multitude of sources already bringing the match to a heavy start. Ninero only served to increase the amount of added sources signifigantly in his round 2, which notably featured a YTPMV in 7/8 (a variety of which hadn't been done for some time) that MycroProcessor compared to the likes of Venetian Snares and positively noted, which was also inspired by a discussion about odd time signatures that he was involved in("it's like the only thing I've talked about every single day for the past 4-5 years basically > because I'm a > computer > > > > "). TheChutley called this round "bloody perfect" and also proposed that he and Ninero should tennis sometime.
Round 3 added signifigantly less sources and was also shorter, tackling the previous round competantly but seemingly scaling back on the evolution of earlier elements, opting for more basic progression than that of his opponant who was in comparison firing on all pistons. Round 4 was also shorter but spared nothing in continuing the large source additions and intensity that Round 2 served, bringing about an energetic finish to what valkiriforce called his "favorite match of the league so far!". CorruptionSound also commented "Excellent" upon the match's completion. Altogether the total round times for both sides only differ in quantity by 5 seconds, with CorruptionSound contributing the higher amount with his serve being the maximum time. As such, it would be Ninero that took the win for this match winning with a score of 9.11 versus Corruption's 8.15.
Division B
Cornflakes vs. iamoutofideas1 is probably the most experimental match of the Gameweek, with both going for a very performance-driven way of doing their rounds. Cornflakes’ serve had an emphasis on atmosphere, with footage of roads and some of his trademark sources (notably Street Fighter), set to a piano-driven remix of Boards of Canada's Olson. iamoutofideas’ response was heavily revolving on footage from him playing the serve on a television, using a tape recorder to create a high pitched sound, and playing another source on another TV. Cornflakes would then embrace this idea by doing the same with his own elements, while still including more straightforward elements as well. Ideas’ last round has no editing whatsoever, as it’s a 6-minute cut-less take of him doing a live video performance in a very slow, eerie pace, using the same tape recorder as before, as well as some more added media shown on a different screen. The raw score showed a preference for Cornflakes (7.50 against 6.9 for iamoutofideas’), and the three penalties ideas got for lateness and length dropped his score at 4.84, while Cornflakes got one for length, downgrading at 6.75. This would be the only match of this Division to fully complete.
Division C
JammeKamme vs. LaVie CestLol would have a cinematic and musical theme, with JamKam's serve using the (fake?) trailer of 'Machete', by Robert Rodriguez, with an extensive emphasive on stutters and earrape, used in a comedic manner. LaVie would respond by embracing this style, while adding to the pool of sources the music video of 'Flat Beat' by Mr. Oizo. His round would mainly sentence mix the trademark lines from the Machete trailer in different ways ("They called him Machete" becomes "They called him God", and "They called him father", or also "God has mercy, i has mercy, ChihC has mercy, *explosion* has mercy"), uses JamKam's earrapes in a rythmic manner (especially a car blowing up, that is used extensively) and even pays a sort of homage to AmiralMachin by luma-keying the previous round in Flat Eric's phone (A reminder of Machin's round 4 in his match against vvaluigi and DaftPunkYoshi in the Three-Way Tournament).
JammeKamme's round 3 would add two sources : the Planet Terror trailer (staying in the Grindhouse Theme) and the music video of Stick Em by Fat Boys. His round would continue the very rythmic/earrape/technical style the match was going with, creating new gags with the added sources and showing equal passion in his work. LaVie's final round would then use the first sequence of Ingmar Bergman's Persona as a structure. He would use a recording of him playing "The Tennis League Theme" on an acoustic guitar, with a grid of chords that he would reuse in different ways throughout his matches. He would also do a mini-YTPMV with MF DOOM's One Beer, using snippets of the previous round, and finishing in his trademark, effect-heavy musical montages, using Mats & Morgan's En Schizofrens Dagbok, his round and the match ending with an obviously cinematic "THE END - A JammeKamme and LaVie CestLol production". This match was very well received, and the raw scores saw LaVie CestLol winning with 8.44 against 7.65 for JammeKamme, who downgraded at 6.89 due to a lateness penalty.
The idea of ZACHTOMCAT vs. InLivingTuna sounded better on paper than it ended up working out. ZACHTOMCAT, who had been around since 2011, recently emerged with a very destructive and atmospheric style inspired mainly by therazoredge which had pushed his videos to artistic heights that left even people who knew him stunned, and at the same time newcomer InLivingTuna had began making a name for himself due to his superkoffee and Butcher inspired style of sloppy editing and harsh use of puppet pin and color curves. While ZACHTOMCAT played very impressively, making a serve that used many destructive effects and imaginative color manipulations, InLivingTuna found himself at a personal and creative low, eventually uploading a volley made in only an hour. ZACH responded with full force, making a round 3 that featured extensive audio editing and inventive uses of geometric shapes. It was at this point, however, that things fell apart harder in InLivingTuna's life. Faced with the constant homophobia of his town and receiving physical abuse at his school because of it, he attempted suicide by jumping in front of a van partially through making his final round, prompting a rather notable and unfortunate moment in which he had to ask for an extension from inside the emergency room. His finished product would wind up becoming not particularly noteworthy, being a mostly humorous response that only minimally edited the previous round. The final score for this match would end up inevitably in favor of ZACHTOMCAT, who received a score of 6.23 while InLivingTuna walked away with a staggeringly small 4.23, the lowest score of the first gameweek.
ravinrabbid vs. Peskeh saw the volleying player's official tournament debut and being an already known figure for their unique visual style brought about a great air of anticipation for the match that was to go underway. The serve began the match with Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty, Wand of Gamelon("HHHHHHH, TWO CHAIIINSSS"), Poison - Talk Dirty to Me, the Charlie Brown Christmas Dance, Skull Trumpet and Heavy Rain footage, with JaconketronCT positively noting the Poison usage and commenting that Peskeh would have plenty to work with. LaVieCestLol commented "That's a serve. That's a sexy serve."
Round 2 was recieved with widespread acclaim on the forums but on youtube it achieved signifigantly less attention, making it an oddity in terms of competitive tennis. It added in Sports' Most Shocking Moments #1: Jim Vs. Jim/Chris!!, Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle, Nostalgia Critic, Jaws, Community, Mega64: Heavy Rain, nigahiga, JonTronShow, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Boyz N Da Hood - Dem Boyz and a WMM video titled "Deepercutt Sucks", with the text "here is his profile pic" followed by an image of a member of Guns n' Roses. As would be expected it was a visual tour de force and volleyed the previous round more than competantly, with thatcomputerperson making an appearance giving a lengthy statement about his thoughts on Peskeh's volley. Round 3 featured a lot of added footage but had a good share of visual gags responding to those in the previous round, adding in Todd's Kitchen: How to make SPOTTED DICK, Evanescence - Bring Me to Life, Hotel Mario, Deporitaz - I know Your Name, Scott from the Terrence and Phillip show, Excision - Brutal (Original Mix) and Anchorman into the mix of footage, with Round 4 being considerably more visual once again and adding in Christ. - Holobenthic Grex Venalium / Vernor Vinge, Shizuo - Sweat, M. Bison and Werster as its added sources. fiv95 positively noted the smoothness of the video when playing it at 60fps and ZACHTOMCAT and ravin both positively noting the video in addition. Razerek called the match his favorite so far. Votes for this match were considerably close, with Peskeh winning at 8.03 against ravinrabbid123 with 7.56.
Division D
NataliaHTTPS vs. ProfessorCheeseBall revolved right off the bat by an odd choice of source by Swiss newcomer NataliaHTTPS, footage of trains edited in a humorous, frantic way. While being stylistically very straightforward, revolving on earrape and very fast paced editing, it’s still recognized as a very entertaining match, with both contestants responding with equal passion and technicity. The scores were in favour of PCB (8.03 against 7.56 for Natalia, who got a point for tying in) but both contestants have been equally praised for their work.
The mere announcement of ThemOldaBoys vs. GameBop caused much uproar among the tennis community. ThemOldaBoys had become well known for his humorous SantaWithTeeth/MTB710 inspired style, but despite expressing an interest in tennis, he had played very little before the tournament. Few people, however, expected such an unlikely opponent as seasoned tennis veteran and two-time tournament winner GameBop to be his very first challenger in the league. The match itself began with a very absurd and comedic serve by ThemOldaBoys, using a derrickcomedy.com sketch as the source. GameBop's round 2 was the focus of much speculation, but he blew most people's perceptions when he, rather then use his routine style, opted to play off Olda's jokes as much as possible, including the addition of a "Sonic Skateboard" source to play off a skateboarding joke make in the serve. This style of playing off each other's jokes would be seen again in round 3 by ThemOldaBoys which impressively took the match in a much more technical style than the previous rounds. GameBop would pick up on this, and round 4 would ultimately be a culmination of every thematic element being built up in the match, featuring not only all of the jokes used in previous rounds, but also playing off some of Olda's effects resulting in some interesting uses of color changing and even a brief YTPMV that played off the main character laughing in round 3. This match was very well received and widely regarded as the best match of the first gameweek, and the voting reflects that. Despite the win going to GameBop with a score of 8.73, Olda also walked off with a similarly high score of 7.62.
theFXexpert vs. NITROCONCRETE1 payed homage to the '08-'09 Robotnik centered tennis matches by started with a serve using this source edited much in the same fashion, concluding with the unedited AosTH credits with a different song replacing the original. Metroid998 took positive notice of the older style while MycroProcessor commented on the "Beautiful empty space." Round 2 was much more visual and implemented more sight gags including "Rhyming with Robotnik" introduced and concluded in the style of old-time film, with Fly by Sugar Ray serving as the new ending music on the credits sequence. Round 3 followed this up with a similarly visual style that also incorporated experimental elements like video without sound, sound without video and niether at all, and also directly followed up sections such as "Rhyming with Robotnik"(adding in a new "rhyme") and the credits segment using ESPN sports highlight music as the new backing track, with more credits overlayed onto those overplayed in round 2. Round 4 was additionally more visual and followed up "Rhyming with Robotnik" with two more "rhymes", bringing the total to 10 but mistakenly identifying this total as 11 via IRL footage of NITROCONCRETE with a Guiness World Records book. The end footage of an IRL friend of theFXexpert's pretending to get run over with a car was also edited to look like they were launched into the sun and back in a unique twist for the conclusion of the video and match. The credits segment was not continued however. Due to this round also being very late, the match would end up easily going to theFXexpert, with a total of his 8 points versus NITRO's 5.53.
Division E
Metroid998 vs. Ekrem3012 was largely built around the usage of The Eric Andre Show which was used prominantly in metroid's serve, featuring a cameo by BigBowsa who contributed the spoken "youtube poop tennis" bit of dialogue in the beginning ("that is me cussing"). Round 2 was made swiftly and had much more destructive editing and otherwise didn't add much more than a song, with Metroid responding to it in Round 3 introducing an Eric Andre clip announcing the "halfway point of the show"(which reflected on the progress of the match itself) and adding later on footage of a censored naked man on a tennis court with the previous round chroma keyed inside of it at one point. Round 4 added in Lucky Star and "Pursuing Paradise - The First Time I Fell in Love" and was once again edited in a visual style, bearing some similarities to the style of ChrisGendo in both it's musical presentation and its liberal use of delay/reverb. NITROCONCRETE1 gave an overall assessment of the match and each round giving out a score of 15/20 for metroid and 16.5/20 for Ekrem, and the actual scores for the match were 6.79 for Metroid and 6.25 for Ekrem, giving the win to the former player. This would be the only match of this Division to finish all the way through.
Division F
As TheChutley's last tournament was the Tennis Cup IV back in 2012, anticipation for the start of JowlHog4 vs. TheChutley was naturally very high especially considering the dramatic transformation that his style had undergone in the preceding years. Jowlhog had also been relatively absent from the video making scene for some time, echoing this in that he described his serve as his "first yyoutubbe pop in 7 years :O". The serve itself took among the longest of any other serve in the first week to be delivered, emphasized by TheChutley's humorous impatience in the time leading up to it's posting, and was a curiously unique video, featuring a large visual musical segment taking up a large portion of the video and a heavily reverbed ending featuring with robotnik, with a couple of unedited images thrown in as well that would see TheChutley making great usage of. Round 2 added several images including one made by dew herself of Donald Fagen (though he didn't know who it was amongst other characters in his images) along with his Round 5 with LaVieCestLol, "Secks" by McMANGOS, three ".wmv" videos, the ever-familiar "Safety Dance" and "Dare to be Stupid" music videos and a snapshot from a steam chat along with a large variety of songs by artists such as Elton John, Jethro Tull, Harry Nilsson, Collective Soul, Rush and Elvis Presley as well as self-generated speakonia text, all coming together in a ridiculous cataclysm that perfectly reflected upon TheChutley's new more absurdist editing methods, and was very positively recieved by spectators. valkiriforce called it "both new and classic Chutley" while TehShadzify said it was one of the most interesting matches they've seen so far, with dew expressing excitement over the use of her gifs in TheChutley's videos.
Round 3 was introduced by Jowl with "hey felas herre i am with ruond 3 of this tenis macth. I wass late Bcause i had schoolwork and chiptunes to do and teh video refussed to render but it's OKnow because i wa abile to split the video into 4 parts and so heer is" and was overall a less-heavily edited video but served to follow-up signifigant bits including a text generation speech clip talking about magmalord's banning from the Youchew forums via being an "annoying memelord twat" and "being hammered by Kermit the Frog in an act of cold-blooded murder". TheChutley called this response "Excellent" and a couple of days later delivered his final round that added in "A lot of shit that I'm not gonna list. You're welcome to try and spot 'em all though! 0w0". Among the added material was Pulp Fiction, several miscellaneous images and sources possibly contributed as suggestions from friends (as was a sporadic practice in how he went about choosing sources around this time) and a text generation speech this time talking about himself and how it is important to have fingers, for without them one is a Nazi and that if one is a Nazi one must become a balloon, and so on. The video's title of "Anime was a Fucking Mistake" was declared by Captain Stewpid in the comments to be true, with a "what the fuck is this" comment getting the highest amount of upvotes. CaptainStringCheese mentioned he "fucking loved this match" due to it's creativity and ravinrabbid called it "amazing". TheChutley in turn became the obvious winner with a score of 8.63 versus Jowl's 7.15.
Luiginati512 vs. valkiriforce began with a serve using a music video of ChrisHatfield's cover of "Space Oddity" along with Irate Gamer footage which was positively noted by TheChutley as making him an "honorary canadian", and was positively recieved additionally by ZACHTOMCAT, ravinrabbid123 and JacobketronCT in addition. It was then responded to by valkiriforce in Round 2 with his much heavier style, oft-compared to that of MTB710, adding in many different sources including various David Bowie videos/images and other sources relevant to the content of the serve, calling it essentially "me out of ideas".TehShadezify called it "excellent" while TheChutley mentioned it was "fucking amazing" and dew commented positively on the "D Bowie" usage(another current interest at the time). Luiginati felt that he added in so much material that he would be unable to make another response, but valkiriforce encouraged him to just do whatever he wanted and not try to impress. Round 3 was half the length of the round it volleyed and added in a number of added footage, which was a seeming detractor to the match as Luiginati additionally suffered from lack of ideas, and valk finished off the match with his Round 4 working to similar strength as his Round 2, with dew pointing out a bit 28 seconds in as her favorite part of the video. valkiriforce naturally ended up taking the win for this match, with a score of 8.42 against Luiginati's 7.28.
NationOfOranges696 vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE recieved a lot of outside attention due to the former players expansive popularity and was also one of the most heavily edited matches in general of the first set, with both players making extensive visual destructiveness in their rounds with the latter player seeming to substantially outdo his opponant on this front. INTER's last round served to also offer a change of pace and was slower for it's second half, which in effect made it seem that additionally stronger. He would as result be voted as the clear winner with a score of 7.49 against NoO's 6.05.
Before this gameweek ended the critical decision to add in the Pseudo Tie system was made with only two matches scores ending up with this outcome. At the week's end Division A saw dew, Ninero and Razerek all starting out in the lead with 3 points each, leaving Fiv95, CorruptionSound and theregularmaster with none. Division B saw Sploltoen and poppop17 automatically in the lead with 3 points along with Cornflakes who was the only player who won his match fairly, with iamoutofideas left with 0 points while OldFashionedLizard and TugCoat ending up getting replaced with newcomers thewoof and Another Brick in the Wall. Division C saw LaVieCestLol and ZACHTOMCAT taking the initial lead with 3 points each, with Peskeh winning out in a pseudo tie against ravinrabbid123 putting them in second and third with 2 and 1 points respectively. InLivingTuna and JammeKamme would still be left at 0. In Division D GameBop and theFXexpert would tie for first with 3 points leaving NTIROCONCRETE1 and ThemOldaBoys with 0, while PCB would win in a pseudo tie against NataliaHTTPS with 2 and 1 points respectively, putting them in second and third. In Division E Soucisse Verte, metroid998 and Treckasec (becoming theadventuretimefan after this gameweek) would all tie for first with 3 points, leaving Ekrem3012 with 0 and Alfonzopancakes and trepmaws being replaced by TehShadzify and, ironically, Treckasec again. Division F saw TheChutley, valkiriforce and INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE all tie with 3 points leaving NationOfOranges696, Luiginati512 and JowlHog4 with none. This caused NationOfOranges696 to leave the tournament in frustration over the notion that all the more heavy editors were winning and that it didn't seem fair, and he was replaced by JacobketronCT. Luiginati would also leave come the next set and be replaced by Sid.
Week 2
The matches drawn for Set 2 began on February 9th and consisted of:
Division A:
Fiv95 vs. CorruptionSound
Dew vs. Razerek
Ninero vs. theregularmaster
Division B:
Sploltoen vs. Cornflakes
Another Brick in The Wall (who replaced TugCoat) vs. laromande (who replaced poppop17)
Iamoutofideas1 vs. thewoof (who replaced OldFashionedLizard)
Divison C:
ravinrabbid123 vs. JammeKamme
Peskeh vs. ZACHTOMCAT
LaVie CestLol vs. HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine (who replaced InLivingTuna)
Division D:
ThemOldaBoys vs. NataliaHTTPS
GameBop vs. TheFXexpert
PCB vs. NITROCONCRETE1
Division E:
Metroid998 vs. TehShadzify (who officially replaced Alfonzopancakes)
Ekrem3012 vs. Soucisse Verte
Theadventuretimefan vs. Treckasec (who replaced trepmaws)
Division F:
JacobketronCT (who replaced NationOfOranges696) vs. JowlHog4
INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE vs. Sid (who replaced Luiginati512)
Division A
fiv95 vs. CorruptionSound kicked off with a serve that fiv apologized for being "too technical", a video very reliant on heavy visuals but otherwise unrelated and humorous audio accompaniment, ending with a photo of Conrad Slater with a color filter. CorruptionSound took this as a hint to "get less lazy in editing" and responded with a Round 2 that by contrast was heavily reliant on added sources, with much of the previous round being edited in the beginning and the end, but responding to the style of humor by adding in a random picture of a "thumbs up kid" that TheChutley gave positive mention to towards the beginning. Round 3 responded in a similar fashion to Round 1 with CorruptionSound noting the thumbnail which perfectly captured a moment in which the "thumbs up kid" image had the thumb turned downwards and his face replaced with a frowning Mr. Clean from Round 2. The former image was also used more extensively throughout this video with much databending used to transition between sources. LaVieCestLol called this round "fucking incredible". Round 4 manage to have a thumbnail respond to the previous one by having the entire head replaced with "Mr. Quaker Oats", and overall editing the previous round much more strongly, making rather unique use of databending effects to make the artifacts flow into each other which was another aspect that TheChutley made positive note of. The video ended with the text of "Sod off to your fistfucked tennis lounch, you twats. The match's over!" and Razerek did their own review of the match, reaching the consensus that "Honestly, I think Gab did better that CorruptionSound here. CorruptionSound made some really cool effects and things in his rounds, but round 2 kind of let me down. As for Gab, well, for someone who said "Can't wait to do terrible on this match", you actually did pretty damn good."
dew vs. Razerek began with an experimental serve that used only one visual source but several different audio sources, all acoustic progressive rock songs by various artists, and used a total of only one video effect and one audio effect in the entire video. Razerek responded in Round 2 with equally heavy usage of music and much more advanced editing, adding a couple of other tennis rounds into the mix to enhance the visuals. Round 3 was edited in a starkly different style from the previous round on dew's side, making extensive use of black & white visuals and editing in a frenetic style accompanying the song "Jargon King" by Peter Hammill with audio from the previous round panned out of center, and featuring a rather avant-guarde style ending. Round 4 attempted to follow this up but didn't succeed too well in breaking away from what was set up in Round 3, but nevertheless provided some enjoyable moments such as a YTPMV towards the end that was considered exceptional. The match once again took only a day to finish which amazed a number of viewers, with dew joking about how they were managing to play within the time constraints of the old Tennis Leagues. TheChutley called the serve a "cool concept" while metroid998 considered the match "pretty amazing."
Ninero vs. theregularmaster unfortunately only ever made it to Round 3, but the amount of effort put into Ninero's rounds along with the amount of sources was considered so exceptional that some viewers were left speechless, with Razerek saying "how can ninero not win the tourney at this point". At the end of this Gameweek Division A saw Ninero win another 3 points, putting him in first place, while dew slid down to second winning in a pseudo tie and gaining two points totaling 5, one less than Ninero. Razerek who won the complimentary point against dew was in third with 4 points. Meanwhile Fiv95 beat out CorruptionSound in a pseudo tie giving him 2 points, putting him in fourth and CorruptionSound in fifth with his complimentary point. theregularmaster still sat at 0 and would be replaced by MycroProcessor for the next set.
Division B
Sploltoen would get another 3 points by default and his opponant Cornflakes get replaced by Doom for the next set, having dropped out on round 3 after a match revolving on Quakecon footage, while Another Brick in The Wall would also receive 3 by default and thewoof would receive 3 fairly, resulting in a 4 way tie for second (between Another Brick, thewoof, poppop17 and Doom) with Sploltoen in the lead with 6 points.
A very long dispute over the correct scoring of the one competed match, iamoutofideas1 vs. thewoof, went on between the staff with the score of both players being continuously altered between a 3 to 0 and a pseudo tie before finally resting on an unusual 3 to 1, with a grace point given to ideas as compensation for the amount of mistakes made. In reality both players were accidentally given one more penalty than they actually recieved(due to a combination of late rounds that also extended over the time limit, in one instance twice over which was mistakenly thought to equal two penalties) which resulted in much confusion. iamoutofideas still remained in last place and this would be the only point that he and his replacement would have throughout the tournament.
This Gameweek, however, would come back into play as laromande, who replaced poppop17, would play Another Brick in the Wall during the timespan of GameWeek 5, both of them being done with their match, as the match that was supposed to be on Gameweek 2, reputting the 3 points ABITW won. In Another Brick in the Wall vs. laromande, ABITW re-used his serve, which would leave to a very dense, colorful match, dedicated to glitch effects and VHS quality especially. laromande would win that match (8.3 for laromande, 7.68 for Another Brick in the Wall), which would be part of her qualification for the final of the League, winning over Sploltoen by only one point.
Division C
InLivingTuna had by this point dropped out of the tournament and his replacement created the match of LaVieCestLol vs. HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine. No one had ever heard or seen this particular player before and a few players thought it was an obscure alt of someone, as the style that they displayed in this first match was highly unusual. While LaVie's Serve would feature a blend of sources that are reminiscent of Tuna's tastes (notably VSauce and Game Grumps), HMFM would add Mama Luigi as well as fetish videos of people humping inflatable objects, and proceed in a oddly-paced, almost-underedited vibe which was in 2:35 video format. LaVie would respond in an experimental manner, using the Scope format to put two videos back to back, one of himself recording a monologue about his own feelings who at the time were not great, on the left, and the actual tennis round on the right, completed with very rough, minimalistic cuts and a visual final using a track from the Band "L'Effondras". HMFM would respond as oddly as before, calling it "french person is not as sad as everyone else" (sort of summing up LaVie's monologue), with the same blend of odd sources and pacing.
Peskeh vs. ZACHTOMCAT began with a surprisingly simple serve largely using Better Call Saul as its main source with System Of A Down - Chop Suey, "most epic movie ever also my 100th video (wtfradio1000)", RUN-D.M.C. - Hit It Run and Madeon - For You also appearing in the mix, with ZACHTOMCAT immediately opting to go a much more visual route in his Round 2, visually distorting the serve to the point of miniscule recognition amongst several layer formations. The only thing added in this Round was the Ice Cap Zone theme from Sonic 3 and was much shorter than its predecessor. Peskeh made the best of this in his Round 3 by following up on both the visual side and also adding in a number of sources in the background and around Round 2, ultimately providing entertainment in addition to significant progression of the match. ZACH finished off with a Round 4 that was surprisingly much longer but still opted for the same kind of visual approach, obscuring much of the previous rounds' audio in place of music while also utilzing bits of Visualjockey generated visuals amongst other things, while continuing to make the previous round largely recognizeable.Peskeh ended up winning the match by large margin, with a score of 7.09 versus ZACH's 5.9.
ravinrabbid123 vs. JammeKamme was a largely humor oriented match, with ravin's serve containing Neckline Slimmer Infomercialism by Mike Jeavons, "the actual" Neckline Slimmer infomercial, AoStH, Winter Wrap Up song, a Churchill ad, "and various other images and sfx" edited in an introductory way, with JammeKamme applying a similar approach with a more visual side in his Round 2 adding in Thom Yorke - A Brain In A Bottle, Washed Out - Feel It All Around, Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia, a Big Hot Dog Informercial, Human Giant: Escalating Interview and Peskeh's icon(Robotnik's "PESKY" line) Ravin's Round 3 poked at the fact that she missed an obvious PESKEH joke and continued the humorous approach while keeping the visual approach restrained, adding Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness - Hexagon Brothers theme, the Super Mario World cartoon, Katy Perry's Superbowl Half Time dance("the one with the shark"), M. Bison's [sexy-ass YYESSS], David Bowie - Let's Dance, Parks and Recreation - DJ Roomba clip and Haddaway - What is Love. The match was then finished off with a Round 4 with another more visual approach that added in Boards of Canada - Rue The Whirl, IM Meen("ONE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND 95 THOUSAND YEARS)", LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls, The Office, Saturday Night Fever and the Alfred Hitchcock Presents theme song that was short like the round before it but in all cases sweet, with both sides ultimately playing very even. ravinrabbid123 managed to win this time around with a 7.28 score against Kamme's 6.39.
The end of the gameweek saw LaVieCestLol secure his lead by gaining another three points totaling 6, while Peskeh and Ravinrabbid each held their respective spots of second and third by gaining three points for their matches. HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine remained in last along with JammeKamme, while ZACHTOMCAT fell to 4th place.
Division D
Quite possibly one of the most different matches ever played in the history of competitive tennis took place in the matchup of Gamebop vs. theFXexpert, beginning with a serve that was a dramatic departure from all expectations and predictions of the match's unfolding in addition to Gamebop's usual style. Titled "Monacle of the Swan" featuring text of the title and "Starring The Swan", Gamebop has mentioned to have had this video already made at an earlier time to save for a particular future match, and it was at this point that it came to be used and seen for the first time. It largely featured nothing more than an image of a swan with a top hat and monacle (oddly reminiscent of superkoffee) a picture of a horse("the horse....is green....with ENVY"), a short bit of a 2006 Hyundai Sonata car commercial accompanied by sports car sound effects and a 2007 promo for new episodes of The Office and My Name is Earl accompanied by stock classical music that lasted for the video's length. The entire round was put together like something akin to a bizarre powerpoint presentation, reflective of how immensely stripped down it was in comparison otherwise, coming as a humorous shock to almost everyone who watched it.
theFXexpert responded accordingly with a volley that worked to a similar treatment, featuring the on-screen text of "Phantom of the Osprey [Starring: The Swan] Special Appearance: The Osprey" and now featuring images of Osprey that he took himself. Other additions include self-taken pictures of drawbridges, a Weather Channel clip from 2003, the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Rebel Rabbit"(the same cartoon used in his Tennis Cup IV match vs. dew) and the film Spy Kids 3D accompanied by the Phantom of the Opera theme in addition to "New York Blues" by George Winston, introducing a jazz sensibility in the backing music to contrast with the classical of Gamebop's side. It worked with the serve itself to practically a tee to the style of it, with Ninero mentioning that it "couldn't be more perfectly done".
Gamebop now shifted to different elements in his Round 3, with the on screen text of "Egg of the Chicken [Starring: The Swan[The Osprey]] And, introducing...The Chicken" and now featuring filmed video of one of his own chickens and his dogs in his yard, with the previous round appearing in both edited and unedited form with added sources intact in a small TV set on a patio table with no special effects being used to create this. The other additions that appeared within it were Kukori and Two "WeatherSTAR 4000" Weather channel simulator videos with "J Flavor" and "L Flavor" accompanied by a Park Place MIDI from an old Windows Monopoly game and numerous sound effects from Torin's Passage(notably the infamous "ding" noise heard in a number of Gamebop's other videos) It can be noticed that the previous round within the TV set is now edited with a noticeably more visual element than previously but overall the feel established in Round 1 is still preserved quite well, being recieved with great positivity. theFXexpert closed the match off with the text of "Migration of the Geese Starring [The Swan[The Osprey[The Chicken]]] Also Featuring - The Geese", and the entire video following being practically a regular film composite of various filmed bits of footage of Geese, a Tennis Court in which FX is holding a phone in which the previous round can be seen, a TV screen playing at various points AoStH - Blank Headed Eagle, You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(specifically the Goose/Golden Egg scene) and TheChairman45's Q&A, along with video of him hand-drawing a recreation of the web-page showing Gamebop's posting of Round 3. Following the video's initial completion FX commented "Thank you for the entertaining match. It has been a great pleasure to play you." ThemOldaBoys' overall reaction to the match was a humorous "What the hell is this? Did you guys just go out and film birds?" while Razerek called the match "really something". TehShadzify mentioned that he was "confused, yet somewhat fascinated" at the unique approach the match took, and it was variously praised by other players including LaVieCestLol, IAMSAPER and fiv95. The scores were incredibly close; theFXexpert managed to sneak the win of this match with a mere 3 hundredeths of an extra point, 7.35 versus Gamebop's 7.32.
PCB vs. NITROCONCRETE1 started off with a serve using Stanley Kubrick's The Shining in a humor-oriented way with visual elements that would be advanced on over the course of the match, reaching a considerable climax with PCB's Round 3, which utilized the best of both. NITRO was initially playing strong but balked on the last round which they apologized for being terrible, being the shortest round of the match and failing to properly match up of that which it was volleying. Due to the last round also being quite late and acruing NITRO about 4 penalties PCB would win the match by a landslide score of 7.2 vs. NITRO's 3.52. ThemOldaBoys vs. NataliaHTTPS mostly went about like Olda's previous match with two opposing styles against each other working their best with each other's output, Olda on the more humorous side with his serve featuring Billy Mays in a sentance-mix fashion and Natalia on the more visual side, using many masking and layering tricks in Round 2 without adding any new sources. This repeated itself for Rounds 3 and 4 with both sides working to considerable and even strength, LaVieCestLol calling it "This match is really tasty. Like a well made Cookie. That explodes"(referencing the contect of the match). valkiriforce in response said "Exploding cookies have always been my favorite dish" and fiv95 mentioned that they were loving the match so far around the Round 3 point. Scores as a result were once again very close, with NataliaHTTPS winning 7.93 versus Olda's 7.65.
The final results saw theFXexpert successfully win in a pseudo tie against GameBop gaining 2 points and tied for first with PCB who had won with 3 points against NITROCONCRETE1, with both now at 5 points total. GameBop's gaining of one point dropped him to second with 4 points with NataliaHTTPS in third with 3, after winning 2 points in a pseudo tie against ThemOldaBoys who was now in fourth with 1. NITROCONCRETE1 remained at 0.
Division E
Ekrem3012 vs. Soucisse Verte would be the occasion for Soucisse to finally show how he does tennis to the community with a very straightforward effect-spam-driven match, kicked off by Ekrem's usual, very to-the point editing, using 60fps, to which Soucisse would respond with energy and a sense of fast pace that may be what won the votes to him. Among the highlights are the use by Soucisse of his own voice to send Ekrem off to do the next round, to which Ekrem would respond with his own.
In a funny twist, theadventuretimefan vs. Treckasec would be kicked off with the former using a source he asked Treckasec to do a casual tennis with, Battle for Dream Island (one of the many "Object Shows" some poopers and tennissers are fans of), which he filled with the classic YTP CDI memes in a Tongue-In-Cheek way, forcing Treckasec to work with it. He would respond by heavily distorting and destroying everything. That source rivalry would give the match an interesting spin, as TAF would give into the destructiveness as well, leading to one of the most abstractly structured matches of the Gameweek.
Metroid998 vs. TehShadzify would revolve on the Skeleton theme (even getting the attention of the Bonelord Ricesnot himself). Metroid998 would bring his low-key style with, well, style, as TehShadzify would rely on more hard-hitting effects and colorful visuals for his Tournament Debut, blending in his own share of sources into the mix, notably Five Nights at Freddy's.
Soucisse Verte ended up securing his lead by winning 3 and maintaining first with 6 points, while TehShadzify and (even though he had technically, was now in a player spot who hadn't) Treckasec, who had not won the previous match won their match fully in this set, creating a four way tie between them, Metroid998 and theadventuretimefan for second. Ekrem3012 remained the only player with no points.
Division F
TheChutley vs. valkiriforce would be a big cocktail of sillyness and insanity. TheChutley's serve, revolving, amongst many sources and previous rounds he worked with/on, a video of Bono talking about africans (added with a poll on "Bono really?"). valkiriforce would up the ante big time, adding even more sources that would shape the match in a monstrous orgy of ear-rape, animated gifs and U2 singers. The match was fondly followed and remembered, notably by LaVie CestLol, fiv95, as well as the two players, who really appreciated each other's work.
As Luiginati512 would step down at Gameweek 2, INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE would face a returning Sid who was decided to have a big change of pace since the time he was in the Multi-Way Tennis Tournament. And the serve of INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE vs. Sid would be specially low-key for him that would bring the match to a different direction for one that would only know the two tennissers for their highly-technic activities. The drunken interview of James Brown used in the Serve would be the starting point of many reccuring gags in both players' rounds, giving it a very unique tone for which both players were praised, CorruptionSound especially compairing it to punk music, which was a very fitting analogy.
TheChutley would win out in a pseudo tie vs. valkiriforce and Sid won out in a pseudo tie vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE, which kept TheChutley in first with 5 points and valkiriforce and INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE tied for second with 4. JacobketronCT would get a full 3 points after JowlHog4 left the tournament and subsequently would be replaced by cyclejunkie, putting Jacob in 3rd and Sid in 4th.
Week 3
The matches drawn for Set 3 began on March 5th and consisted of:
Division A:
Dew vs. CorruptionSound
Razerek vs. Ninero
MycroProcessor (who replaced theregularmaster) vs. Fiv95
Division B:
Another Brick in The Wall vs. Doom (who replaced Cornflakes)
laromande vs. Hornet (who replaced iamoutofideas1)
thewoof vs. Sploltoen
Divison C:
Peskeh vs. JammeKamme
HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. ravinrabbid123
Division D:
GameBop vs. NataliaHTTPS
TheFXexpert vs. PCB
NITROCONCRETE1 vs. MrDjThompson (who replaced ThemOldaBoys)
Division E:
Ekrem3012 vs. TehShadzify
Soucisse Verte vs. Theadventuretimefan
Treckasec vs. Metroid998
Division F:
INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE vs. cyclejunkie (who replaced JowlHog4)
Sid vs. TheChutley
Valkiriforce vs. JacobketronCT
Division A
dew vs. CorruptionSound began experimentally once again with dew's simplist in construction yet complicated in execution serves. It used only one image for video (of a flareon) and one song for audio, "A New Machine - Part 1" by Pink Floyd, with black-restore color curved light rays elaborately keyframed and animated to move with the lyrics of the song, to give off the impression that it was talking. The remaining three rounds all featured extensive usage of added sources on top of this, with CorruptionSound now coming to appear as the stronger player of the match as much of these advances within it were of his credit. dew's Round 3 has an accident in the audio in which half the audio is hard panned left while a keyboard track she overdubbed onto the song was panned hard left when they were supposed to cohesively blend as one, which dew attributes to having been using a pair of monophonic headphones at the time, which served to make a lot of sound appear quite unusual.
MycroProcessor now made an appearance replacing theregularmaster in MycroProcessor vs. Fiv95, which knocked fiv sideways upon the news being revealed to him, with the resulting match being a pretty even duel between the two players. Mycro's serve would be a big blend of the things he's known to like, mainly MIDI oddly-structured music, Sonic the Hedgehog, Serial Experiment Lain and Myst games, leading to an almost disturbing tone that fiv would bring as well in his volley, extending the use of Serial Experiments Lain. Mycro's round 3, "done in a few hours just before the deadline" as he noted, had a repetitive structure using a voice over telling the viewer to take a look with all of your eyes, using more effects in a very distinctive way. Round 4 would use certain snippets to creat a YTPMV out of the more abstract elements of the previous round, giving it a more surreal tone that would close the match off with the repeated word "Different ... different ... different ...".
Razerek vs. Ninero was the last match of the third set to complete largely due to the lateness of the volleying player. With that said, the match that came from it because one of the most looked up to matches of the league, due to the sheer virtuosity in which both players played off each other. Razerek would kick off with a dynamic video using the Pokemon anime, that Ninero would then proceed to explode with a volley structured on two parts, the first being an all-over-the-place neurasthenic reappropriation of the previous round, and the second being the adventures of pokeman man by hulk hogan, the story of hulk hogan eating Ash Ketchum then going to space, and dying there in a title that Ninero proceeds to rip apart litterally. Round 3 would begin with a masterful animation of the previous round put to the music of Venetian Snares, in a YTPMV-esque manner. Razerek also continues the Hogan show with the poker man EPISode 2 !!!, with more Ash Ketchum murdering, as well as the image of a salad TheChutley asked Razerek to put in his round that would come into great play in the final round. Round 4 would begin with an eerie and beautiful visual piece set to the Pyramid Song by Radiohead, only to have it cut off by a Sitcom, YTPMV in the Family, created by Ash Ketchum, in which the first segment of Round 3 proposes a traumatized Hulk Hogan a Nice Salad, not knowing that a Salad killed his family. The story concludes as Hogan falls into the abyss, only to be surrounded by Ketchum, the YTPMV, and two people seen in the previous round to make him eat the nice salad until he turned into a tennis, in the form of a Jolteon. The match was widely praised, notably by ravinrabbid123, Doom and Peskeh, the latter saying : "It's like if Ricesnot made a tennis.".
Division A saw CorruptionSound beat dew by a close margin resulting in a pseudo tie, which saw him tie for fourth with MycroProcessor who had fully won against Fiv95 with a full 3 points. dew remained at 2nd with 6 points while Ninero's lead became more commanding with a 3rd consecutive full win putting hum at 9 points. Razerek remained in 3rd with 4 points while fiv now sat in last with just 2.
Division B
Originally planned as laromande vs. iamoutofideas1, the tournament debut of Swiss tennisser laromande would be also a weird homage to the latter, making it sort of a divinity in a glitched environment, who could grant wishes. However, because of lateness and just being out of steam, ideas would not respond to laromande's eulogy. Instead, it's then-dormant MYZterbattyX, now under the pseudonym Hornet, who would take over and making the match what it is. Round 2 of laromande vs. Hornet would be the occasion for Hornet to make the very personalized serve his own, putting insects into the mix, particularly a very disturbing fox decomposition video, which would be rather low-key given his notoriously heavy-effect videos, though continuing the "Ideas as a prophet" arc in a stream-of-consciousness fashion. laromande's round 3 would be structured on an original electronic track on which laro scattered audio clips from the previous round, as well as multiplying iterations of ideas himself, in motivational posters, on a newspaper headline after finishing a war (a newspaper she puts on the screen paying hommage to LaVie CestLol's spinning trick), and beginning her flag manipulation which would be proeminent afterwards. Hornet's final round would be a very distorted, more effect-heavy and quite impressive sight, in glitched areas which would be very well recieved, as they are more reminiscent of his earlier works.
Sploltoen vs. thewoof would be a clash of styles that would turn some heads, as thewoof's first impression was enjoyed by the viewers for it's sense of humor and pacing. And thewoof's serve would not disappoint in that it featured prominently one of Sploltoen's signature kind of sources : Football (Soccer for Americans), Matches and things involving the sport, used by the serve in a very humorous way, evocating the firing of New York player Petke and french footballer Thierry Henry's retirement in a willingly botched AMV-like homage. Sploltoen's volley would be just as humorous, including using blue patterns (reminiscent of his favourite team, Chelsea F.C.), using footage from angered supporters after Thierry Henry's hand scandal in a France-Ireland match, and flying Petke Heads. thewoof would poke fun at some Chelsea F.C.'s antics while still using Sploltoen's cheers from the previous round, as well as sentence mixed gags involving Thierry Henry's ass touching the football and Star Trek : The New Generation discussing European football. Sploltoen's last round for the match would reuse extensively the gag of putting a Lenny Face on an either cheering or ashamed footballer, keeping the humor of the match going for a hilarious finish with someone mocking Chelsea's opponent team in a Penalty shootout, making them "calling the WHAAAAmbulance" as Patrick Stewart (now with Thierry Henry's sad face on him) would react to accordingly. thewoof would be greatly satisfied by the match, saying it was "everything [he] hoped it would be."
After winning by default, Another Brick in the Wall vs. Doom would be time for the former to finally show what he can do in a tournament setting. His serve would be an experiment using copious amounts of the damatomshing glitch which ABITW would use to create weird artifacts (notably the mouths of the person in the source opening to infinity). Round 2 would be more classical in structure, adding Dragonball as a source, but efficient in aspect, using also Doom's favourite poopism, earrape. The more simple approach Doom brought led ABITW to broaden a bit and use more to-the-point effects to construct his round, creating repeating patterns and notably assimilating some of them to Macintosh Plus' Vaporwave music, who would also be structured on repeating patterns, making it a neat link between audio and video. Doom's final round would reuse the previous round as more of a background for sources to be added (Sonic X and the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog especially), finishing it in a more soothing fashion, just cut short by a final earrape.
Sploltoen, laromande and Another Brick won out fully against their opponants keeping Sploltoen in the lead with 9 points and laromande and Another Brick tied for second with 6. thewoof and Doom remained tied for third with 3 points while Hornet was left without a single point. Hornet, having finished one match, would then proceed to disappear once more and deleting his rounds, making the spot available again.
Division C
ZACHTOMCAT vs. LaVie CestLol actually had the coincidence of beginning even before the Gameweek began, due to ZachTomCat forgetting to wait and uploading his video in advance, 11 hours before the actual beginning of the Gameweek. The match between these two competitors, at ease with abstract styles, would be very atmospheric, LaVie CestLol using Zach's textures around more figurative sources (IRL footage, or even the image of a carrot TheChutley posted on the topic of the match), while Zach would rely more on effects and low-key-yet-effective techniques, which made the match a really pleasant experience for both competitors.
Given the musical knowledge of both contestants, Peskeh vs. JammeKamme was a fantastic journey into the music world, as Peskeh's serve would use a great variety of music videos, from Smash Mouth to Gary Numan, through Björk, and Thumbthumping. JammeKamme would respond sort of in the same way as versus LaVie CestLol, recreating musics from others (the standpoint being reusing the Björk It's Oh so Quiet music video to recreate Big Dipper by Death Grips which features Björk as a featured artist), along with a blend of fast-paced YTPing and more slowly paced, ambient segments. Peskeh would respond cleverly, using amongst his sources himself playing the cinema mod of the game Garry's Mod which allows him to watch youtube videos ingame. Also, he used his YTPMV background to great use, continuing the flow of the match, albeit in a lower tone. JammeKamme would then finish off with a two sided musical mashup using new sources and reusing the previous round as a musical instrument.
The matchup of HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. ravinrabbid123 was in and of itself an enigma, as the former was perfectly unknown and his match with LaVie CestLol would continue to puzzle everyone. His 3 minute serve would continue to prove HMFM to be a unique player, editing randomly pieces of Weird Al Yankovic music, baby leopards eating raw meat, more Mama Luigi, The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog, more inflatable humping, amogst the many elements of that cluster of a source poop HMFM used, eventually misspelling ravin's pseudonym in both the video and the description before cutting abruptly. Ravin would embrace the randomness and gave it her special spin, reusing the most recognisable elements to create visual gags. HMFM's round 3 would be 3 minutes as well, still going for that hardcore randomness, while now giving signs of more technical skill in terms of effects, finishing off in a dizzying minute of scrambled random images of the previous round. Ravin would close the madness, taking on more abstract segments while keeping the sillyness and the humor as the main core of the round, and finding ways to make jokes out of HMFM's hermetic weirdness.
Division C saw LaVieCestLol, Peskeh and ravinrabbid all win their matches again, keeping them repsectively in first, second and third with virtually no change in any player standings.
Division D
Gamebop vs. NataliaHTTPS had an interesting turn of events as Gamebop chose to go with an unusual serve to give to Natalia who was relatively unknown in the International Tourney scene. Said serve would be an unsettling scramble of game footage edited in a way that resembles Analog Pooping, while having in the corner (and on the right channel of the stereo sound), a divided frame of Gamebop's signature source, Kukori ès Kotkoda. Natalia's round 2 would be a musical response to Gamebop's open ended serve, completed with heavy doses of databending and 3D animations that were even more shapes that Gamebop would work with on his next round, coming back to what he's more known for, eventually using a frame of his round as his Youtube Avatar. Natalia's final round, while still revolving on music as a soundtrack (this time, The Deadfaced Dimension by Angerfist), would be a dynamic reuse of Gamebop's round with the inclusion of Natalia's own drawings of herself manipulating through the video elements of the round.
To see theFXexpert's Stegblobian sense of editing wit go toe to toe against ProfessorCheeseBall's colorful madness was a thing to behold and theFXexpert vs. PCB did everything but disappoint in that aspect. Using the trailer of Paul Blart : Mall Cop 2 as the main source (and conserving it all the way through), this match would be 2008-esque repetition-driven YTP style going amok. Whether on the titles of the videos (Hotel Kevin, Hotel James, Hotel Paul, Hotel Blart) or the structure and pace of the rounds themselves, this match can be watched as a cohesive YTP that slowly but surely descends into Paul Blart Madness. The match was praised by valkiriforce and fiv95 especially, LaVie CestLol calling it GOD DAMN GUYS WONDERFUL YES VERY MUCH SO YES.
NITROCONCRETE1 vs. MrDjThompson, the latter being the replacement for an overbooked ThemOldaBoys, began with NITROCONCRETE1 structuring his serve on two levels, first a very dynamic effect-heavy start, then Michael Rosen asking Nitro (as Yellow Michael Rosen) to stop the destructiveness, giving shout outs to some of his past matches. MrDjTHompson would respond in a very minimalistic manner, just adding a few more effects as well as an explosion footage he uses often in his videos. Nitro's round 3 would continue in the same vein, though it is clear Nitro has the upper hand on more heavy stuff, and DJThompson's final round would be even more explosions and stutters, as well as a short rhytmic YTPMVesque segment.
In Division D GameBop now ascended back to tie with PCB for first with 7 points, theFXexpert with 6, NataliaHTTPS still with 3 and MrDjThompson and NITROCONCRETE1 tied for last with 2.
Division E
Giving that he would face a more joke-based contestant in Soucisse Verte vs. theadventuretimefan, Soucisse would begin with a less frantic YTP to offer to his opponent. However, even with Soucisse's effort to make it more joke-centered while still being very "Soucisse", theadventuretimefan would at this point feel out of touch with the tournament, thinking that joke-based styles were sort of forbidden or at least not advantaged in the competitive field, which would make him lose some motivation for round 2, using the previous round in a very roundabout way and making his rounds a mere 11 seconds long due to technical difficulties that would kill his motivation. Soucisse would use the previous round in a few YTPMVesque segments, as well as an opening skit using a Gmod sketch with taf slapping soucisse as he watched the previous round, trying to lighten up the mood and ease the frustration the match was going for. Round 4 would feature a more effect-based taf, using stutters through the opening segment, which made for a more cohesive round to finish off his part of the match.
Ekrem would begin the match of Ekrem3012 vs. TehShadzify in a very colorful manner, using some of the esthetics of the vaporwave genre, as well as using a Stephen Hawking image as sort of an homage to TheChutley's more recent style. TehShadzify's round 2 would be described by its author as something "he went all out with", featuring his most silky visuals yet. Ekrem would add more of his vaporwaving into the mix, adding also buzzing earrape in the sound department, and continuing the Stephen Hawking joke with a 3D animation of the image in question. TehShadzify's final round would give more energy to the match, with colorful visuals, Filthy Frank sources additions and a pretty catchy YTPMV segment, concluding with the observations that "something smells awfully like shit". He had "no words for this one".
Treckasec vs. metroid998 was regarded in retrospect as one of the darkest and eeriest matches of the league, almost being entirely in black and white. Although Treck's serve had an humorous edge using Eraserhead and The Silence of the Lambs as main sources (which Razerek noted as one of his favourite aspects in the thread), putting the CD-I SPAGHETTI in place of "heaven" in the In Heaven Everything is Fine song from the David Lynch movie. From then metroid998 would create a round much more atmosphere focused round, using the Lady in the Radiator from the previous round to sing an excerpt from the NieR Soundtrack, with some very recognizable visuals for those that know metroid's tennissing style. Treck's round 3 would continue in a glitchier way to add to the more introspective tone the match now had, with powerful layering and sound glitching. metroid's final round would use SMT IV's Cafe Florida to finish it with some slow moving, contemplative visuals that he's known for, and which LaVie CestLol called "a beautiful closer" to this match.
In Division E Soucisse Verte scored a third consecutive full win putting him at 9 points and still in first, while TehShadzify and Treckasec pulled ahead each gaining another 3 and tying for second with 6. Metroid and theadventuretimefan fell to third with still 3 points and Ekrem3012 remained at 0.
Division F
Since Sid came back from hiatus, he showed a pretty surprising change of style, using more absurd humor and visual gags rather than the hardcore, masterfully layered visuals he was know for before. So to see him go against TheChutley, who had one of the most significants shifts in style, was especially hyped for as the two of them already had some interaction that crafted many injokes around them. Sid vs. TheChutley did not disappoint in that serve, as Sid's serve would be a YTP of himself doing a Let's Play of Dark Souls II (In English), using different elements to create humor through absurdity (sudden demultiplication of the player's HUD, freezing of some objects in the game as Sid moves forward, etc ...). TheChutley's volley would respond with equally humorous manners, although in a far more in your face fashion, using MLG montage parody tropes (Snoop Dog Dancing, Dubstep Music), while also spamming cats, adding to the order Sid gave him to "be a cat :3". One of the highlights was a YTPMV of Sid's voice on Night of Flowering, Sakuya's theme from the Touhou franchise, just to "PROVE TO YOU IDIOTS THAT LITTERALY ANYONE CAN DO THIS SHIT". Peskeh commented on that segment, saying that "the ytpmv sUCKED WHERE WhERE THE SCREEN FLIPs". Sid's third round (hidden as a trap video for an announcement of Half-Life 3) seems to do the same thing as the first, but eventually Sid refuses to play Dark Souls again and spams cat gifs with the extatic music of Pryapisme, called Petit traité de futurologie sur l'Homo cretinus trampolinis (et son annexe sur les nageoires caudales) in a really spastic way. And although Sid would use more technical aspects, the feel of the round would go on and be even more absurd, using the video of a Cat hugging a cat plush in repeating patterns, with more feline tropes attached into these patterns. After finding that "FRENCH IS A LANGUAAAAAAAAAGE", TheChutley's final round would go for a very psychedelic ride in terms of music choices. He'd use Sid's wheel of cats with a gif of a cat running in it, replacing the cat's head with an old picture of Sid himself. The editing is cut short by a slowly revealing cat video set to Jefferson's Airplane White Rabbit.
Jowlhog4 would then dropout as well, leading him to be replaced by cyclejunkie (or Kitchen Disease), making his return since The Triples Cup. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE vs. cyclejunkie would be a game of hardcore editing, as the matchup would suggest. IDR's serve had his by then notorious take on heavy editing, in a really radical, almost disturbing in a sense, blending abstract animations and glitch art to create some awe-inspiring textures. cyclejunkie's return would be incarnated as a round that, although using the serve in a destructive, paint-like way, would open more sources (bananas put into water, warioware and weird obscure VHS tapes), as cycle would give his own twist to the match, distorting and animating the sources with as much warping as possible. IDR's volley to that would continue in that aspect, using more 3D elements, notably creating a sea of stroboscopic colors combined with a good emphasizing on creating noise soundscapes that cyclejunkie would continue to use in his final round, combined with photoshop warping and animated artifacts.
Compared to the two other matches of the division, valkiriforce vs. jacobketronCT would be a more straightforward match, given that the two were already doing a casual match on their own, but it did not disappoint and was even regarded as one of the more solid matches of the gameweek. valkiriforce would serve with his energetic, spastic humor, making references to poppop17's Adam Savage interest and some of jacob's staple sources, and overall using a different blend of sources from Evolution of Dance to old children's cartoons, to Super Smash Bros footage and commercials. jacobketron's round 2 continued in the tone of the match, albeit in a calmer, easygoing tone, adding some of his favourite sources and making more space for valk to work with, and that he did on round 3, emphasizing especially the gaming theme of the sources, and packing it in between two GAME! announcements from Super Smash Bros Brawl. Jacob's finishing round bear a ressemblance to some of Neoprene Junebug's rounds, finishing off with a musical segment of his own brand, with some extensive use of lumakeying and trailing. The match was appreciated by many, and in the aftermath, the last round led to a conversation of sources between jacob and MycroProcessor on the thread, around the use of Laputa : Castle in the Sky in the former's last round.
Division F would see TheChutley and valkiriforce score full wins and secure their spots at first with 8 points and second with 7 points respectively. While INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE would pseudo tie with cyclejunkie and gain 2 points, putting him in 3rd with 6. JacobketronCT, Sid and Cyclejunkie remained respectively in 4th, 5th and last place.
Week 4
The matches drawn for Set 4 began on April 4th and consisted of:
Division A:
CorruptionSound vs. Razerek / Gabrielpika (who wanted to replace Razerek but was too late to post his round)
InLivingTuna (who exceptionally replaced Fiv95) vs. Ninero
MycroProcessor vs. Dew
Division B:
Sploltoen vs. ITzNQQB (who replaced Hornet)
thewoof vs. Another Brick in The Wall
Divison C:
Pop (who replaced JammeKamme) vs. ZACHTOMCAT / Fiv95 (who exceptionally replaced ZACHTOMCAT during the match)
ravinrabbid123 vs. LaVie CestLol
HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. Peskeh
Division D:
NataliaHTTPS vs. TheFXexpert
MrDjThompson vs. PCB
Division E:
TehShadzify vs. Soucisse Verte
Metroid998 vs. Theadventuretimefan
Treckasec / Fujoshi (who replaced Treckasec during the match) vs. Ekrem3012
Division F:
cyclejunkie vs. Sid
JacobketronCT vs. TheChutley
Valkiriforce vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE
Division A
In Division A Ninero secured his definite win of his division with a fourth consecutive 3 points, keeping him at first with 12 and 4 points ahead of dew, who was still in second now with 8 points after winning via pseudo tie against MycroProcessor. CorruptionSound would also automatically win against Razerek, who mid match was replaced by gabrielpika who failed to respond on time, allowing CorruptionSound to rise to 3rd place with 6 points. MycroProcessor was tied for 4th with the spot now left empty by gabrielpika's disqualification, while InLivingTuna was in last with just 2 points.
Division B
The first notable aspect of Doom vs. laromande is that the 4 videos share the same title, They used to make good videos..., though the match isn't just that trope. Doom's serve was a very loud YTPMV using an "unusual approach" in his own words, finishing off with a sentence-mixed Gwonam saying "this is shit for the birds!". laromande's next round was also making place for a YTPMV, though much more conventional in sound, with fractal-esque visuals she's known for, as well as a play with the video's format. Doom's round 3 was one of his most distorted yet, with a copious amount of earrape into the mix, but laro's final round would have a nice final twist, using a drawing of a character of round 3 to get into a house (het oude huisje, the old cottage in Dutch, referencing Doom's Dutch nationality) to "letta music play" in the form of a very cleverly put YTPMV that sadly bugs out and fades into an abstract shape that announce the Fine of the match.
With hornet disappearing, Sploltoen would face Polish YTP Tennisser iTzNQQB, kicking off the match with one of the most clever serves of the Tournament. Sploltoen vs. iTzNQQB would begin with a poop-assisted speedrun which consists of excepts from videogame speedrun put through the grinder of Sploltoen's antics, though the virtuosity would come more from the structure of the round than the serve itself, which was praised notably by AshcrementVII, Sid or LaVie CestLol. iTzNQQB's round 2 would not be low-key in comparaison, but would suffer from rendering issues that the author could not fix before the deadline. It would however respond effctively to Sploltoen's antics, the latter then going into the abstract in a chirurgical precision, making for some high-end editing. iTzNQQB, still struggling with rendering, would finish off as expected in a big rundown of animations that were saluted by the community.
thewoof vs. Another Brick in the Wall, a very two-sided match, would begin with what's now to expect from thewoof, a serve filled with humor in a minimalistic-yet-effective way, using Goof Troop and an AIDS PSA extensively. However, ABITW's response would be far from humor-oriented, making the whole video almost entirely black and white with a disturbing soundtrack as he decomposed the previous round with his trademark animations. thewoof would distance himself similarly on the other side of the spectrum, adding a Disney commercial edited in a silly manner while using the previous round more in the background of the actual action. ABITW's last round would be almost silent, using databendings to make the previous round appear in sparse bursts, similar to analog editing techniques.
Division B saw Sploltoen also win a fourth consecutive 3 points keeping him at first with 12 but with laromande hot on his tail with now 9 points after another 3 point win, making the winner of this division still a toss up possibity. Another Brick in The Wall fell to third gaining one less point, putting him now at 8. thewoof gained a single point which brought him up to fourth with 4, dropping Doom to fifth with 3 and keeping iTzNQQB in last with 1.
Division C
When ravinrabbid123 and LaVie CestLol saw they were going to face each other, there was a hidden rule to use the titles "LAVIE :)", "RAVIN :)", "CESTLOL :)" and "RABBID123 :)" for their rounds. When the time came, ravinrabbid123 vs. LaVie CestLol was followed actively, being regarded in retrospect by many as one of the best matches the league offered, and one that proved that YTP Tennis could far well work with more joke-centered techniques. Ravin's serve already gave it an epic-yet-silly tone with various jokes involving footage of LaVie playing the drums, Dragon Ball Z, use of a french film starring famous actor Bourvil, an english game show called Pointless, and footage of Ravin editing the video whilst having her phone ringing. LaVie would construct and continue the jokes, making a YTPMV out of Ravin's ringtone (using Goldenrod City Theme as a BGM), putting up a cameo by Dew (by putting a lily flower on a Flareon Ravin used as a visual gag, Dew's music making an appearance as well) and making Ravin herself a Super Sayan. The ante was up as Ravin would then create a back-and-forth set of jokes and stories involving LaVie fighting a Pokemon character, as well as Ravin unwillingly shooting off Dew's lily flower, leading the flareon to eat Ravin, grow the size of a planet and threaten to destroy the world. LaVie's final round would settle the fate of the story, as Dew would proceed in crushing every joke element that was worked into the match by the two contestants, only to have the day saved by LaVie teaming up with Ravin and shooting her own tennis videos at Dew to calm her down and save the world. Only to have it destroyed "lewdly" by TheChutley (as a Glaceon). The match was widely acclaimed, notably on the thread by Metroid998, Sid, AshcrementVII and TehShadzify, and is one of the best and most fun memories the two contestants have regarding tennis or even Youtube Poop in general.
With pop, belgian YTPer and a friend of laromande, taking over JammeKamme's spot, the match of pop vs. ZACHTOMCAT/fiv95 would be the start of some more unusual matches, with pop serving with a very sloppily edited round, mixing YTP tropes with actually well crafted effects, as well as a text segment saying this is shit / wasting my time (with a part of the word missing) wasting yours / lo-fi ytp. That would be pop's trademark "clusterfuck" way of making YTPs that will be noticed during the last weeks of the Tournament. ZACHTOMCAT's volley would be more conventional, using the elements to create more abstract and colorful shapes. pop's third round would only use the previous round for 30 seconds before becoming a video only featuring a slowed down music, that of Bun B, before being overlapped by a Neutral Milk Hotel song, with only Bun B's cover art on the video. ZACHTOMCAT, with many penalties due to lateness, would be then replaced by fiv95 (who dropped out of Division A) exceptionally, who would finish the match in a very destructive way, with the cover art being put on a 3D wavey object that he animated.
HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. Peskeh would begin with a surprisingly heavily edited video from the former, using CD-I amongst other sources, using sentence-mixing more prominently as well, while still having the stream-of-consciousness structure, along with more involvement from the mysterious tennisser himself, making references to Peskeh's Australian Nationality and evoking his lack of ideas but will to win that would be more pieces to the puzzle of understanding where this player comes from. Peskeh's response would feature a gread deal of glitch art, adding more Australian Sources and also responding to HMFM's 4th-wall breaking message with even more 4th-wall breaking, complete with an involvement of his penguin avatar and Absols. Clocking at another 3:00 mark (and HMFM will then never do less), HMFM's round 3 would be extremely colorful (almost Herpywhooves-like) in the beginning before continuing in a more low-key way, using part of his own serve and especially guro fanart of absol, as well as a 3D animation of an Absol farting on a Lucario. Peskeh's finishing round would revolve on many interesting ideas, the first of which being subtitling the whole round in english (with a Japanese segment). Amongst many YTPMV and visual moments, the stand out was a Sentence Mix of an MF DOOM song, making it a serenade for an Eevee.
Division C would see LaVieCestLol's full winning streak broken by winning a Pseudo tie against ravinrabbid gaining him one less point, while Peskeh won his match fully and tied both players for first at 11 points, with ravinrabbid trailing behind with 8 points. pop fantasticly won the first match for his player slot and tied himself with Fiv95 without making any effort (very poorly edited rounds) and won thanks to the late penalties partially caused why pop's opponent remplacement during the match, now playing in this division, at third with both 3 points while HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine remained without a single point.
Division D
Division D saw GameBop narrowly taking the lead with a 3 point win putting him at 10 points while both PCB and theFXexpert trailed close behind him with both at 9 points, theFXexpert having gained a full 3 and PCB gaining 2 in a pseudo tie against MrDjThompson. NataliaHTTPS and MrDjThompson were now tied for third with 3 points while NITROCONCRETE1 remained in last with still just 2 points.
Division E
Soucisse Verte in Division E also had his full winning streak broken in a pseudo tie win against TehShadzify while Fujoshi scored a third consecutive win for his player slot, putting him at 9 and in second place, close behind Soucisse Verte, still in the lead with 11 points, who could by this point be possibly overtaken. TehShadzify fell to 3rd with 7 points, while Metroid998 finally won again in a pseudo tie vs. theadventuretimefan and rose to fourth with 5 points. theadventuretimefan sat in 5th with 4 while Ekrem3012 remained without a single point.
Division F
Division F saw TheChutley score a full win keeping him in first with 11 while valkiriforce scored a pseudo win putting him at 9 and still in second, representing more close competition. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE remained in third with 7 after gaining his one point from valkiriforce and Sid rose to 4th with 4 after pseudo winning over cyclejunkie. JacobketronCT gained no points but remained out of last place by one point.
Week 5
The matches drawn for Set 5 began on May 14th and consisted of:
Division A:
CorruptionSound vs. MycroProcessor
Ninero vs. Dew
Division B:
Doom vs. thewoof
ITzNQQB vs. Another Brick in The Wall
Divison C:
Pop vs. HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine
LaVie CestLol vs. Peskeh
Fiv95 vs. ravinrabbid123
Division D:
PCB vs. GameBop
TheFXexpert vs. MrDjThompson
Division E:
TehShadzify vs. Fujoshi
Theadventuretimefan vs. Ekrem3012
Soucisse Verte vs. Metroid998
Division F:
cyclejunkie vs. Valkiriforce
TheChutley vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE
Sid vs. JacobketronCT
Cross-division:
NataliaHTTPS vs. InLivingTuna
(This match is due to the endless lack of replacements, since 2 players were needed again. Instead of waiting for replacements, the "League Staff" preferred to move on. This cross-division match idea has been approved after some discussions.)
A third of the matches for this gameweek did not complete as Ninero vs. Dew would be left at three rounds with Dew departing from the tournament staff, the tournament itself, and the site for a time due to personal issues and NataliaHTTPS vs. InLivingTuna would not go past the serve as InLivingTuna said he was unable to do a Tournament Match because of IRL issues, making NataliaHTTPS the default winner. Therefore, Division A would only have one match to vote, with CorruptionSound winning over Mycroprocessor and getting the division's second place in the last stretch with 9 points, with dew staying at 8 and Mycroprocessor staying at 4. The two remaining players, gabrielpika and InLivingTuna, will close the match with respectively 4 and 2 points. Ninero already clinched the division, and his de facto win would secure his perfect score of 15 points. Division B had a surprising turn of events with laromande, winning her Week 2 match with ABITW, would win in a stretch against Sploltoen (with a remarkably high score and a 0.14 difference), putting her in first place at 14 points, whereas Sploltoen would only be one point behind. ABITW would easily win his third place against iTzNQQB, getting 8 points, while Doom would win against thewoof, putting himself at 6 points. thewoof would stay at 4 points and iTzNQQB would close the ranking with a single point.
Division C
There was quite an amount of hype to see who would be the victor of Division C, as the two contestants Peskeh and LaVie CestLol were tied at 11 points before the fifth gameweek. LaVie CestLol vs. Peskeh would be the finals of the Division C, and another match fondly remembered by the Community, as both brought their A game to the table. LaVie's serve was a retrospect and homage to many rounds from the league (as well as some from the current Gameweek) and people from the community, edited in what felt like an homage to ChrisGendo's videos, and had the particular fact to be posted on May the 18th, which is both Peskeh's and LaVie's birthday. Peskeh would seize the occasion to make what is still considered by LaVie to be one of the (if not the) best responses he ever recieved in a match, creating flawlessly animated game sections, extensive use of French Touch music, a vocal cameo by ThatComputerPerson, and made LaVie's shoutout speech a hip-hop skit using Mr. Oizo's "Textes". LaVie would respond by actually rapping (in English, so not his main language) to a YTPMV of Death Grips' "5D", making even more shoutouts, then continuing Peskeh's madness, creating a "FIND THE JOLTOEN" game that consists in finding Jolteons in various tennis matches (Ninero's round 4 vs. Razerek, TheChutley's round 6 vs. SuperKoffee and MycroProcessor and "YOU'RE ARE JOLTOEN YOU ARE SHARP!", finishing off with a recap of all his rounds, accompanied by the final version of his "Tennis League Theme", a guitar riff he used in every match of the League he partake in. Peskeh's final round would be the occasion to show his YTPMV skills as well as visual cleverness, shooting the match into oblivion with very ambient-esque segments. He would then proclaim the anticipated winner of Division C to be John Cena in an ending VHS segment.
Peskeh would win in a pseudo-tie against LaVie and secure his place in the final match with 13 points (against 12 for LaVie CestLol). On the other hand, fiv95 won against ravinrabbid123, who finishes the league in third place of her division. Meanwhile, in a very unique match, pop would win against HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine (who, because of the many penalties he accumulated, will be left with the unusual score of 0), getting on fourth place, tied-in with fiv at 6 points. HMFM would finish off the league without any points.
Division D was also a show of hands with 3 people being potential finalists (Gamebop, ProfessorCheeseBall and theFXexpert). Gamebop would win in the final stretch against PCB, putting him at 12 points against 10 for PCB. But theFXexpert would also finish with 12 points due to his win against MrDJThompson. The tie is broken by the fact that FX won against Gamebop in Gameweek 2, therefore awarding him a place in the final match. Being the de facto winner of her match, NataliaHTTPS finishes in fourth with 6 points, MrDjThompson follows with 3 points and NITROCONCRETE1 closes with 2 points.
Division E would be straightforwardly won by Soucisse Verte, despite conceding the last match to Metroid998 with a pseudo-tie, like Fujoshi lost in a pseudo-tie against TehShadzify. Meanwhile, theadventuretimefan would easily win against ThirtyTwelve. The final ranking is : Soucisse Verte - 12 points, Fujoshi - 10 points, TehShadzify - 9 points, Metroid998 - 7 points, theadventuretimefan - 7 points, ThirtyTwelve - 0 points.
Division F also ended in a tie, as TheChutley would lose against INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE and valkiriforce would only win with a pseudo-tie against cyclejunkie. Therefore, with 11 points each, it's the winner of the match they had with each other that is the finalist, which means TheChutley wins his division. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE would closely follow with 10 points. JacobketronCT would tie-in with Sid after winning their match with a pseudo-tie, while cyclejunkie would close the ranks with 3 points.
Final match
The final match consists in a 6-way featuring the winners of all divisions among the 5 gameweeks.
Lineup
Ninero (standing for division A)
laromande (standing for division B)
Peskeh (standing for division C)
TheFXexpert (standing for division D)
Soucisse Verte (standing for division E)
TheChutley (standing for division F)
After shuffling the order, the Grand finale was presented as TheChutley vs. Soucisse Verte vs. laromande vs. Ninero vs. Peskeh vs. theFXexpert, an interesting line-up as nobody has been ever been a finalist before, and four participants were doing their Tournament Debut, whereas the two veteran players, TheChutley and theFXexpert, were both representing the Tennis Café Staff.
TheChutley's serve, titled simply "Estrogen", featured in his own words "a shitload of stuff" though it primarily consisted of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie (to tie in with the tournament's ongoing theme) and Shia Lebouf's green screen video, along with a large amount of other elements such as Hotel Mario, various images including ones of the Queen of England, Vladimir Putin and a grapefuit, and was recieved with enthusiasm from those watching. He them proclaimed upon posting "let us do you is fucking" to which Soucisse Verte, the volleying player, responded with "LET'S FUCKIN GO!! \o/" and launched into Round 2, while LaVieCestLol proclaimed that this was "the end of civilization. Thank you Cyggie."
Round 2, titled "Testosterone(Predictable title. A lot of imagination)" featured fast and intense editing and very little source addition but did include a humorous section that said "To Begin the Round 3 you have to Solve the Following Equation: 2=3" before switching to footage from an unidentifiable game showing this very image. TheChutley commented positively on his use of "the validmir queen green screen machine" while Ekrem2012 simply commented "beast". Laromande's Round 3 featured an intro in which her and Sid's voice can be heard announcing players of the final match and showing their according country/state flawith each melting into the next start starting with theFXexpert(the Florida state flag) to Ninero (the UK flag) to Peskeh (the Australian flag) to Soucisse Verte (the flag of France) to laro herself (the Switzerland flag) to TheChutley (the Canada Flag). From a loudly proclaimed "FACHE" the rest of the round proceeded displaying incredibly advanced visuals which lasted for an unusually short time. Ninero delivered the next round somewhat late due to render problems but it proved to be a considerable standout due to large amount of effort put into its parts, including a large usage of After Effects and effective usage of the figures provided in the previous round, as well incorporations of earlier peices from the rounds before it. Peskeh was able to match up to this in his responding round quite well which introduced the first bit of the soon-to-be-well-known series of "record shop" sequences involving Peskeh's penguin icon, and also featured some bits of atmosphere and pacing juxtoposition in its middle section. TheFXexpert wasn't able to as easily follow up the visual aspect of the match in his forthcoming round and instead substituted it for a humor tinged approached akin to what TheChutley was responding with, adding in baseball footage and earlier rounds of both the match and the league itself (Fiv95's serve to dew being one) in response to the "starting over" clip from the previous round, as well as also including HOT ON OUR TAIL and a few other Robotnik videos. The round is also notable for the rare inclusion of FX's voice, heard only sporadically on other occasions, to continue the record shop sequences.
TheChutley's second response added in several avatars of youchew forum members in its mix of large image additions in addition to more Hotel Mario as well as also his speaking and singing voice ("CONRAD SLATER IS MY *BDSM MASTAAARRR-*") which furthered the record shop sequence even further and intensified the humor aspects of the previous round tremendously. LaVie made mention of the "wen jean see the giantess" joke saying "I guess you find that funny right Cyggie?" in french; Cyggie actually had no idea what he said despite them exchanging a "yea" to which La Vie responded "I know". dew returned around this point expressing satisfaction in how the final match was progressing after a good amount of time away from the league altogether due to a number of reasons.
In Soucisse's Round 8 much of the same approach as his Round 2 was taken, although at this point the record shop sequence began to take more of a central role as it appeared in more parts of the video now besides the end, though Soucisse provided only a very small clip of his voice. Laromande's health became low around this time and was given a lengthy extension to the 4th of September to finish her round which was uploaded on the precise day, and here the record shop sequence now took definitive control of the match. Introduced as The Peskeh show it was used and played out much like a sitcom, with players of the match characterized as their icons who make visits to the shop for various reasons; clever edits and scenarios playing out through the video. What else was edited of the previous round was done in sparse but visually intense bits once again, including an elaborate 3D maze segment at the very end. LaVie commented on this with just "DAMN".
Ninero's Round 10 took things in "a sombre direction" and titled the video simply "the record shop". Indeed the video was almost all entirely slow and quiet, yet the edited featured within was so phenominally executed it could almost be considered professional, with some aspects of the editing done to resemble being present within a real 3D space, that including the record shop from the previous several rounds. The concept of the video was played out like the penguin character (intended to represent Peskeh) had long since passed and the record store he had once worked in was now ghostly and abandoned, with only faint memories of those who visited there (cleverly using bits of previous rounds) would disappear in flashes of colors in a 2001: A Space Odyssey sort of fashion, leaving him in a white hallway with black doors towards the end of the round. Laro commented that "peskeh's gonna poop himself" While Soucisse commented saying that this was the best match of the league.
Peskeh's next round (Round YEA!!!) largely featured footage taken in his own room with audio from TheChutley's old 2010 Q+A and previous round footage playing in the background while the previous round is playing on several different screens and some screenshots are pasted on the walls in addition. At the beginning the camera pans down to Peskeh's hands,cutting briefly to the beginning of the previous round in which the camera under the first person guise of the penguin looks down at his flippers and then back again. After a time Peskeh is shown to pick up a VHS tape with Tennis League IV banner taped on the front and is about to insert it when suddenly what appears to be LaVie calls him on his cell phone, which he promplt turns it over and extends his middle finger towards it (good-naturedly of course; "ey man the bird is a sign of respect down under") and then proceeds to insert the tape. The rest of the round is proceeded to be volleyed largely under the filter of VHS tape wear in similar visual fashion to what came before it, ending with Peskeh throwing it on the bed and covering it with a pillow, with a brief tail end segment showing a close up of a captain barbossa picture and a repeated clip from FX's first round of the Awful Alvin segment. Several people responded to this round with variations of "YEA".
TheFXexpert announced his plan around this time to have the final round finished before a deadline of September 21st at 11:59 PM EST due to schoolwork and an event + a trip that he would be going on which he was granted. However FX ended up being inexplicably gone entirely for the better part of over 6 weeks, still having not returned as of this writing. As such, the League has yet to see its final concluding round, and there is speculation as to when it will actually be delivered. The staff decided in November to go ahead and start the final voting with the idea that FX would finish his last round at a later time, with the actual final round within the tournament being dew's last round in his match with Ninero, making it the first failed tournament match to complete as a regular match.
On November 13th, the winner was revealed to be Peskeh, making it the second time that a newcomer emerged as the victor of a site-sanctioned competition. dew commemorated this by saying "An Apple is You" and TheChutley, who ran the host account announcing the winner, jokingly "strike-banned" the host account due to not winning (this was the farthest he had played after roughly 7 years of competitive tennis, beating the semifinal position he reached back in The Grey Tournament). Metroid998 commented on the idea that "a penguin could win a tennis tournament" as "Blasphemy I say, BLASPHEMY!" and much celebrations were to be had. Around this time it was also announced that the next new competition was already being planned and organized, and as of this writing it is still unknown as to what it might be.
