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Tennis Staff

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Infinitysnapz: /* List of Tennis Staff */ coupl small extra facts

The '''Tennis Staff''' (also known as the '''Café Staff''' or more immaturely the '''Tennis Fucks''') are the ''de-facto'' leaders of the [[tennis]] community.

[[File:Mako staff.png|thumb|right]]

=Roles and Jobs=
==Origins==
The '''Tennis Staff''' as a concept initially stems from a subforum moderator staff created by RabbitSnore on the [[YouChew forums]] on May 7, 2008. Their initial purpose was to moderate the "Poop Tennis" section of these forums, which included:

- moving match threads between the "Wanted", "In-Progress", "Completed" and "Failed" sections

- posting and updating tennis rosters in the "Poop Tennis Roster Thread"

- keeping friendly watch over the regulars in the section's long-running general chat thread, "The Poop Tennis Café", created by RabbitSnore as a way to congregate the burgeoning tennis community and allow it to form stronger connections with each other.

Their modern roles remain largely the same, easily adapting as new communication mediums like Discord became more prominent.

==Culture==
Per RabbitSnore's whimsical "café/restaurant/bar" theming around "The Poop Tennis Café" thread and its staff, it's become something of a lighthearted tradition to imagine the tennis staff as caretakers, baristas, and any-sorta-food-service-worker-related-symbolism-you-can-think-of. They have always been recognized by yellow colored names and forum insignia, consistent through forum sites and the [[The Tennis Isles]] discord group.

Besides just having subforum-specific moderation powers, the members of this staff over time have informally acquired a status and reputation of being "experts" at tennis, due to each member throughout its history having their own unique editing approaches, many having their own theories and perspectives on how different tennis matches play out, and usually having some of the greatest passion for the medium out of all tennis players. In recent years, members of this staff have been becoming seen as "role-models" for the community, effectively representing it through their respective eras past and present. This has also been becoming one of the deciding merits around which new members are selected. Besides this however, new members have almost always been traditionally chosen for their activity, knowledge, bonds with existing staff members, and/or their willingness to contribute.

The staff have also run almost all site sanctioned [[Tennis Tournaments]] since late 2008, following the "Gallers Era" of what are considered to be the first four official tournaments. At various times people not on staff at the time have hosted tournaments, usually leading to their eventual inclusion on the staff as the tournament was able to provide a demonstration of their abilities in managing the community. Anyone is able to start and host an event of their choosing, but it is generally the events that become officially sanctioned by the tennis staff that are considered "canon" within the ongoing history of tennis.

=List of Tennis Staff=
There have been 32 total members to have served as part of the Tennis/Café Staff, 33 if Emperor Ing is counted amongst its ranks.

Fun Fact, in this wiki, tennis staff will have a special label (which hasn't been decided yet) as a tooltip on their name. Look out for this!

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Tennis Staff, as of 23-02-2025
|-
! Name !! Active? !! Tenure !! Notes
|-
| {{Letycjusz S.}}|| Yes || 2025-present || First staff appointed on {{YellowTealPurple}}
|-
| {{CRJ1_}} || Yes || 2025-present ||
|-
| {{AngryLuigi23}}|| Yes || 2024-present ||
|-
| {{system128}}||No || 2022-2026 || Transferred from Cafe Staff, to forum Creative Staff in 2026
|-
| {{Vidtens443}}||Yes || 2019-present|| The current longest tenured staff member
|-
| {{infinitysnapz}}||Yes || 2023-present || First staff, along with {{dani}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{mrdoognoog}} ||No || 2019-2022, 2026-present || First staff appointed during the post-YouChew era. Runs this website!
|-
|{{Gamebop}} ||No || 2008-2018 ||
|-
|{{Mycroprocessor}} ||No || 2009-2019 || The longest serving member of staff with a recognized tenure of 10 years, 7 months.
|-
|{{Corruptionsound}} ||No || 2014-2019 ||
|-
|{{dani}} || Yes || 2019-2020, 2024-present || First staff, along with {{infinitysnapz}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{TheFXexpert}} ||No || 2014-2018 ||
|-
|{{RabbitSnore}} ||No || 2008-2010 || Formed the staff as admin of the [[YouChew]] Forums; moved to the tennis staff after retiring and held the position until the forum's closure
|-
|{{Zekii}} ||No || 2020-2024 || Currently a moderator for YellowTealPurple
|-
|{{strong414bad}} || No || 2008-2012 || Holds record for youngest staff appointment (at 14)
|-
|{{TheChutley}} ||Yes || 2010-2016, 2024-2025, 2025-present ||
|-
|{{RAKninja}} || No || 2008-2010 || Appointed staff at 27, remains the oldest ever member to serve
|-
|{{Crash2991}} || No || 2008-2012 ||
|-
|{{theHappyFungus}} || No || 2008-2009 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2009, serving until 2010. The first female member of staff
|-
|Emperor Ing || No || 2008-2010 || The "unofficial fuck", formally an early moderator and admin of the Youchew Forums, became very inactive in the 2010s
|-
|{{Nuthead}} || No || 2008-2009 ||
|-
|{{trepmaws}} || No || 2012-2018 ||
|-
|{{NS2}} || No || 2008-2012 || Had two different stints as a moderator on the Youchew Forums between 2008 to 2010
|-
|{{LaVieCestLol}} || No || 2016-2018 ||
|-
|{{Moogle}} || No || 2008-2012 || The first European member of staff
|-
|{{MrDrunkenFox}} || No || 2010-2015 || Was a moderator for the Youchew Forums from 2007 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2016, joined the Tennis Staff after initial retirement by formal request to continue serving under RabbitSnore, who had also moved to that staff as their only site role
|-
|{{DaftPunkYoshi}} || No || 2009-2011 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2011, serving until 2016
|-
|{{Biodegradable}} || No || 2018-2019 || Currently the editor for the "Whang!" YouTube channel.
|-
|{{AshcrementVII}}|| No || 2012-2014 || Holds record for oldest staff appointment (at 29)
|-
|{{ChrisGendo}}|| No || 2010-2012 ||
|-
|{{nm41}}|| Yes || 2022-2024, 2024-2025 || Brief hiatus in 2024
|-
|{{Metroid998}}|| No|| 2016-2019 || Served as interim until October 8, 2022
|-
|{{Stuart K. Reilly}}||No || 2014 || Technically a "fuck by proxy"; was initially a Janitor on the YouChew Forums until the Tennis Staff and Janitors were combined to make the Café Staff. Never played a full tennis match of his own
|}

==Timeline==


[[File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png|960px]]

=History=
The chronology of the Tennis Staff has been organized by relatively arbitrary "generations" since 2019, with {{dew}} conceptualizing the original designations of generation. While {{dani}} originally organized these by a combination of relative group size (shooting for as close to seven members for each) and spans of time apart between additions, The generations were revised on February 27, 2025 by {{infinitysnapz}}, who organized them more by closeness in join dates for each group. This has additionally allowed the resignation of {{RabbitSnore}} and TINS from YouChew leadership to be better considered as a major pivot point between specified generations.

==First Generation(2008)==

[[File:Rabbitsnore-next-color.jpg|thumb|right|RabbitSnore, drawn by black_puffin.]]

Members: {{RabbitSnore}}, {{RAKninja}}, {{Crash2991}}, {{strong414bad}}, {{NS2}}, {{NutheadElMajestico}}, {{TheHappyFungus}} (and Emperor Ing).

One of the earliest prolific players of Youtube Poop Tennis was {{RabbitSnore}}, who was the co-lead admin of the YouChew forums alongside his real life friend Thereisnospoon303 (often called TINS for short) in the era that immediately followed the reign of Conrad Slater. A general chat thread unique to the newly made tennis subforum, called The Poop Tennis Cafe, was opened in the forums (and also on the backup site, Planet Freedom) in January 2008. This thread was made to discuss matches past and present, set up future matches between people, including a roster listing people that they want to play or have already played that might including variations of rules, and to have "refreshments". It would in time garner a notable reputation of mainly being a spammy thread of tennis staff members and its regulars sharing inside jokes to each other, often in the form of various different images. After 4 months of managing the section on his own, and following the forum switch-over from its Vanilla layout, Rabbit employed the first version of a new mod staff unique to the tennis subforums on the evening of May 7th, 2008 to deal with tennis related threads such as moving threads, updating rosters, and hosting tourneys. The staff at this time was made up of 7 members; {{Crash2991}}, {{NS2}}, {{TheHappyFungus}}, {{Nuthead}} and {{strong414bad}} were added first, with RAKninja being added a day later. These choices were made mainly for these seven being the most active posters in the Cafe and thusly having the closest connections with {{RabbitSnore}}. In time, they would become popularly known as the "Tennis Fucks", a term coined by {{RAKninja}} and used frequently by him to describe his fellow staff. RAKninja ended up becoming the most active and vocal of the original seven staff members, and it is with him that "theory" was introduced into tennis, as well as the tradition of staff members being the primary organizers of tennis tournaments from his [[Doubles Cup 1]] tournament onward.

It is also regarded that [[YouChew]] moderator/administrator Emperor Ing was always considered by the original staff as an "unofficial fuck"; while never actually being on the staff itself due to him already being instated with moderator and later administrator powers, Ing was close to the early staff members and had very in-depth involvement with the staff's activities in the early years to the point where he was considered just as essential. It is because of this that he is recognized as having served the staff in the past by having obtained an official service medal on the YouChew forums and also has a round made in a special multi-way match reserved exclusively for staff members only.

==Second Generation(2008-2009)==

Members: {{Gamebop}}, {{Moogle}}, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{DaftPunkYoshi}}

The staff has since undergone many changes in its lineup of members, beginning as soon as 5 days later when NS2 would be promoted by majority vote of YouChew staff to a moderator position. {{GameBop}} would become the next addition to the Staff on June 23, 2008 upon request for the purpose of managing the 2nd Tennis Chain and being able to edit the original post created by ShadowWario/FancySanta. During this era, the "Collaborations" subforum of YouChew would be created for the first time, and would be added to tennis staff jurisdiction. Moogle would join next on November 18, 2008. {{MycroProcessor}} would join by popular demand on February 27, 2009, essentially acting as the fill-in for Nuthead who left the staff around February 3, 2009, and would become the longest serving member of the staff with 10 years and 7 months in the position. {{theHappyFungus}} would become a moderator on March 1, 2009, though would revert her name back to tennis staff colors briefly during the [[Tennis Season]]. {{DaftPunkYoshi}} would also be added to the Staff on June 25th, 2009, later becoming a moderator of the forum on August 18, 2011. {{NS2}} would resign and return to being a moderator in April and October 2009 respectively, then resign permanently on August 6th, 2010 to return to being a full time Cafe Staff member, although activity wise would be very sparse. theHappyFungus would retire from her moderator position on the same day, and mysteriously vanish from the internet entirely.

==Third Generation(2010-2012)==

Members: MrDrunkenFox, {{ChrisGendo}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{AshcrementVII}}, {{trepmaws}}

Every branch of the community on the YouChew forums soon underwent a major change when, soon after the return of NS2 to the staff and the permanent departure of theHappyFungus, RabbitSnore and TINS retired from their admin and forum leader positions on August 14, 2010. RabbitSnore would then move to the Tennis Staff, as it was a staff that he helped create, with the promise of maintaining activity in that section. This would however never come to pass, and Rabbit's position on the staff marked the effective end of the era of him as an active community member. Some days in advance, RAKninja would publicly announce his retirement from the staff and forum on August 4th, 2010, the same day that MrDrunkenFox would step down from his long-time moderator position and upon personal request be added to the Cafe Staff, following in the footsteps of RabbitSnore. ChrisGendo and {{TheChutley}} would be jointly added to the staff on December 7, 2010, and from this point onward ChrisGendo would effectively take up RAKninja's de-facto leadership role as part of this newly created third generation of staff members, becoming its most active and vocal member for a period of about 2 years.

The following year marked the only period in which members from all generations of staff up to this point were present within the tennis community, whether active or otherwise. With only select older members contributing in terms of actual staff work, and ChrisGendo effectively managing the tennis section and sanctioning its community entirely on her own up to this point, AshcrementVII and {{trepmaws}} became the newest staff additions on January 22, 2012. Crash2991 retired from the staff somewhere between the spring and summer, followed closely by strong414bad. Subsequent to this period, ChrisGendo would publicly announce her retirement from staff and forum on August 22, 2012, and was soon followed by the simultaneous retirements of Moogle and NS2 on or before September 21, 2012.

==Fourth Generation(2014-2018)==

Members: {{CorruptionSound}}, {{theFXexpert}}, Stuart K. Reilly, Metroid998, LaVieCestLol, Biodegradable

AshcrementVII retired from the staff after an almost 2-year period on January 1, 2014, and {{CorruptionSound}} was chosen as his effective replacement on January 10. With YouChew's collab subforum having fallen woefully behind upkeep in this period, {{theFXexpert}} was newly recruited on June 13, 2014 with almost the express purpose of helping out in this section. The following day, a major staff change occurred on YouChew in which the Janitors(moderators assigned to very specific sections, at the time it was strictly the "Poop Talk" section) and Tennis Café Staff were merged into one, thus creating the Café Staff. This change gained the staff equal control over the entire "YouTube Poop" section of the forums(Poop Talk, Media Library, Collaborations, and Poop Tennis), and by complete anomaly would transition then-current Janitor Stuart K. Reilly over to the Café Staff, although he would only maintain this position for 2 months and contribute very little. He would however later on develop a significant acquaintance with the staff and tennis regulars, even going as far as to finally produce a series of episodes of his signature "YouTube Poop News" series covering many aspects of YTP tennis in early 2015. On May 19, 2015, MrDrunkenFox left the Tennis Staff and rejoined as a Moderator after a hiatus of 5 years, the longest gap of time in-between service of any moderator so far. On May 31, 2016, {{TheChutley}} announced her retirement from the staff and was replaced by Metroid998 on June 8. Due to being short-handed by theFXexpert's sudden long absence during this time, LaVieCestLol was also added to the staff on the same day. On April 7, 2018, {{Trepmaws}} would step down from his position and was replaced by Biodegradable on the same day.

==Fifth Generation(2019-2024)==

Members: {{mrdoognoog}}, {{VidTens443}}, {{dew}}, {{Zekii}}, {{system128}}, {{Nubman41}}, infinitysnapz, AngryLuigi23

With the YouChew forums about to close and the community set to split in two in August 2018, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{CorruptionSound}}, Biodegradable, Metroid998 and theFXexpert all agreed to migrate over to the more Youtube Poop-focused YTPMania forums, opened and run by Smonge, in order to build a new home for the Tennis Section. {{Gamebop}} opted not to immediately retain their staff position, effectively stepping down with the closing of the forum on September 30. LaVieCestLol also effectively departed from the community with the forums closing. The rest of the staff at the time eventually quietly retired after a slow, inactive first year on YTPMania; Biodegradable made a final statement on August 16, 2019, followed by Metroid998 on August 17, MycroProcessor on September 25, and CorruptionSound on October 11. theFXexpert also made his most recent post on the forum on December 6, 2018 and did not return to the community until years later, in late 2024.

This was the era of a complete system reset for the community, when many of a new generation were coming into the tennis section very curious about when the next tennis event would happen. Eventually, {{mrdoognoog}}, {{Nubman41}}, Morshe and VidTens443, four members who were around for the twilight years in tennis on YouChew, started the first tournament on the YTPMania themselves, the [[Tennis League 5]]. They also managed to persuade {{dew}}, an active tennis regular on YouChew from 2011 to 2016 and the first tennis player to complete 100 matches, to come out of retirement to participate and extend a guiding hand across the new generation of tennis players. With much of the previous staff now gone, mrdoognoog, VidTens443 and {{dew}} all became promoted to the new wave of Café Staff on YTPMania on October 6 and October 22, 2019 respectively. The YouChew forums returned in a new iteration in 2020, and the staff migrated back to it, with Metroid998, {{VidTens443}} and {{mrdoognoog}} as the active staff members and {{dew}} as one of the two admins and leaders of the new site. {{Zekii}} became the newest member of the staff on April 6, 2020. The new YouChew forums however did not last, suffering a managerial crisis that ultimately led to its shutting down in the middle of April 2020, moving everyone back to YTPMania except for {{dew}}, who was banned from the site for about a year, ultimately ending her initial tenure as an active staff member. Nubman41 and system128 were promoted to tennis staff on February 3, 2022, while {{mrdoognoog}} retired from active staff on October 1 of that year. infinitysnapz was promoted to staff on August 20, 2023, followed by AngryLuigi23 on July 5, 2024 following the departure of both {{Zekii}} and {{Nubman41}} on the same day. On October 6, 2024, TheChutley, {{dew}} and {{Nubman41}} all became the first members of the staff to return to their positions, following a late-summer burst of old regulars returning to the community after long absences.

==Sixth Generation(2025-present)==

Members: {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1_}}

Together, {{dew}} and {{infinitysnapz}} were instrumental in the construction, opening and current leadership of the [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] forums, a site with which the tennis community served as an initial foundation of its active userbase. This has made them both technically the first since {{RabbitSnore}} to serve in an official capacity as both site admins and official tennis staff members. {{Letycjusz S.}} became the first member of the tennis staff to be added during the era of this site on March 1, 2025, as chosen by {{dew}} and {{TheChutley}}. {{TheChutley}} stepped down again from staff on April 12, followed by nm41 on May 29, the latter whom was then subsequently replaced by {{CRJ1}} on June 10. However, {{TheChutley}} would return to tennis staff for the third time on October 18, which would technically be the first time since {{NS2}} that a former tennis staff would make a second return. {{system128}} transitioned from the tennis staff to YellowTealPurple's creative staff on February 16, 2026, the same day that {{mrdoognoog}} made a long awaited return to the tennis staff as well.

==The Café Today==

The active staff as it stands today is made up of {{VidTens443}}, {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{infinitysnapz}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, {{dew}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{CRJ1}}, and {{mrdoognoog}}. On the [[YouChew]] archive, {{RabbitSnore}} remains displayed as a staff member in order to recognize the staff's roots of creation and his contributions to the tennis section overall during his active period on the forum.

The Poop Tennis Café as it stands today now exists on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]], referred to as the Video Tennis Cafe. At present, it maintains a bit under half OF the activity that the Tennis Cafes of old used to reach in their heyday, all in spite of the community being split between the forum, and various discord servers such as The Tennis Isles, which until its closure had acted as a refuge in lieu of [[YTPMania|{{YTPMania}}]] losing the interest of almost everyone.

The Café thread had 4 original iterations on the Youchew Forums: the first opened on January 28, 2008 and was locked on March 31, 2008 after 104 pages due to the switch from the vanilla forums to the phpbb forums, marking the moment when site leadership was turned over to RabbitSnore and TINS. The second was opened on April 2, 2008 and closed on January 8, 2010 after 883 pages, the third opened on January 8, 2010 and closed on October 11, 2012 after 842 pages(with about 4 months of posts in early 2011 lost as a result of Youchew's infamous "Oz incident"), and the fourth and final iteration opened on October 13, 2012 and lasted until the closure of the YouChew Forums on September 29, 2018 after 494 pages. {{RabbitSnore}} upon briefly returning to the Youchew forums in January 2013 expressed his complete disbelief that the then current version of the thread continued to persist. The Café Thread on YTPMania was first opened on August 21, 2018, and lasted for 1,999 posts before being closed with the rest of the site at the end of the year (there are no pages in this version due to the unusual interface of the YTPMania forums). The current café thread on the YellowTealPurple forums opened on November 18, 2024 (with its first post being made as early as November 5 in order to establish its presence with the site's opening), and has seen 150 pages (~4,500 replies as of Feb 23rd 2026) as of present, and it remains the only thread on YellowTealPurple to reach over 100 pages. Skype versions of the Café have also existed, which has at times seemed to subtract from the discussion of the original threads, but the Café thread proper remains with a reputation of being more relaxed, controlled, and easy to follow conversation-wise nature, being considered much more refreshing and comfortable.



=Staff Choice Awards=
==Tennis Fuck Choice Award==
[[File:Tennischoiceaward.png|thumb|right|The badge for the award.]]
"Once a month, each member of the Tennis Café Staff may issue this medal to the players of a match which he or she feels highlights the month." - Badge Description <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180919073301/http://youchew.net/forum/index.php?app=awards&module=awards&controller=awards</ref>

The "Tennis Fuck Choice Award" was an award given by the staff "once a month" for outstanding tennis achievement. While it it known who got the award, few records exist on ''why''. Likely created around mid to late 2009<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-video-tennis-cafe-today-i-opened-the-gate-and-was-about-to-begin-modifications-when-a-figure-suddenly-appeared-on-the-other-side.30/post-25695</ref>, fifteen players received the award before it went defunct - many of whom were staff themselves. It was also potentially possible to win the award multiple times; this has complicated archival as award descriptions would overwrite in many cases.

A list of all players who received this award can be seen below. Dates are not given as many had to be re-awarded following the Invision transition of the YouChew forums in late-July to early-August 2010, and much of the original data has remained lost. Note that many reasons are speculative.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Player
! Given By
! Why?
|-
| Emperor Ing
|
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]]
|-
| {{Crash2991}}
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]], the award as given in late July 2010 is notated as being "for awesome retro tennis".
|-
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{RabbitSnore}}
| {{strong414bad}}
| For Moogle vs. RabbitSnore
|-
| conradslater
|
| unknown, likely for inventing tennis
|-
| {{RAKninja}}
|
|
|-
| {{GameBop}}
|
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and others
|-
| {{MycroProcessor}}
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{Piodx}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| vvaluigi
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{trepmaws}}
|
|
|-
| AjaxCubed
| {{rakninja}} + another
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{NS2}}
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| for [[ThePlasticCanteen vs. NS2]]
|-
| Furnessly
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]]
|-
| {{Moogle}}
| {{rakninja}}, {{strong414bad}} + another
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]], Moogle vs. RabbitSnore, as well as likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|}
=Choice Awards=
Plans to revive the choice awards began as late as June 2025<ref>Private Staff Discussion thread on YellowTealPurple, paraphrase by {{mrdoognoog}}</ref>, and were eventually brought into fruition on 5 November 2025, alongside the similar [[Match of the Day]] program on November 2nd. The new Choice Awards were split into four categories, representing four corners of the site - art, music, video art, and of course, tennis.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/forum-changelog.403/post-36506</ref> As of time of writing, nothing has been award for any of the four badges yet.

=Sources=

Tennis Staff

2026-02-23T04:10:43Z

Infinitysnapz: /* The Café Today */ small rewords

The '''Tennis Staff''' (also known as the '''Café Staff''' or more immaturely the '''Tennis Fucks''') are the ''de-facto'' leaders of the [[tennis]] community.

[[File:Mako staff.png|thumb|right]]

=Roles and Jobs=
==Origins==
The '''Tennis Staff''' as a concept initially stems from a subforum moderator staff created by RabbitSnore on the [[YouChew forums]] on May 7, 2008. Their initial purpose was to moderate the "Poop Tennis" section of these forums, which included:

- moving match threads between the "Wanted", "In-Progress", "Completed" and "Failed" sections

- posting and updating tennis rosters in the "Poop Tennis Roster Thread"

- keeping friendly watch over the regulars in the section's long-running general chat thread, "The Poop Tennis Café", created by RabbitSnore as a way to congregate the burgeoning tennis community and allow it to form stronger connections with each other.

Their modern roles remain largely the same, easily adapting as new communication mediums like Discord became more prominent.

==Culture==
Per RabbitSnore's whimsical "café/restaurant/bar" theming around "The Poop Tennis Café" thread and its staff, it's become something of a lighthearted tradition to imagine the tennis staff as caretakers, baristas, and any-sorta-food-service-worker-related-symbolism-you-can-think-of. They have always been recognized by yellow colored names and forum insignia, consistent through forum sites and the [[The Tennis Isles]] discord group.

Besides just having subforum-specific moderation powers, the members of this staff over time have informally acquired a status and reputation of being "experts" at tennis, due to each member throughout its history having their own unique editing approaches, many having their own theories and perspectives on how different tennis matches play out, and usually having some of the greatest passion for the medium out of all tennis players. In recent years, members of this staff have been becoming seen as "role-models" for the community, effectively representing it through their respective eras past and present. This has also been becoming one of the deciding merits around which new members are selected. Besides this however, new members have almost always been traditionally chosen for their activity, knowledge, bonds with existing staff members, and/or their willingness to contribute.

The staff have also run almost all site sanctioned [[Tennis Tournaments]] since late 2008, following the "Gallers Era" of what are considered to be the first four official tournaments. At various times people not on staff at the time have hosted tournaments, usually leading to their eventual inclusion on the staff as the tournament was able to provide a demonstration of their abilities in managing the community. Anyone is able to start and host an event of their choosing, but it is generally the events that become officially sanctioned by the tennis staff that are considered "canon" within the ongoing history of tennis.

=List of Tennis Staff=
There have been 32 total members to have served as part of the Tennis/Café Staff, 33 if Emperor Ing is counted amongst its ranks.

Fun Fact, in this wiki, tennis staff will have a special label (which hasn't been decided yet) as a tooltip on their name. Look out for this!

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Tennis Staff, as of 10-18-2025
|-
! Name !! Active? !! Tenure !! Notes
|-
| {{Letycjusz S.}}|| Yes || 2025-present || First staff appointed on {{YellowTealPurple}}
|-
| {{CRJ1_}} || Yes || 2025-present ||
|-
| {{AngryLuigi23}}|| Yes || 2024-present ||
|-
| {{system128}}||No || 2022-2026 ||
|-
| {{Vidtens443}}||Yes || 2019-present|| The current longest tenured staff member
|-
| {{infinitysnapz}}||Yes || 2023-present || First staff, along with {{dani}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{mrdoognoog}} ||No || 2019-2022, 2026-present || First staff appointed during the post-YouChew era. Runs this website!
|-
|{{Gamebop}} ||No || 2008-2018 ||
|-
|{{Mycroprocessor}} ||No || 2009-2019 || The longest serving member of staff with a recognized tenure of 10 years, 7 months.
|-
|{{Corruptionsound}} ||No || 2014-2019 ||
|-
|{{dani}} || Yes || 2019-2020, 2024-present || First staff, along with {{infinitysnapz}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{TheFXexpert}} ||No || 2014-2018 ||
|-
|{{RabbitSnore}} ||No || 2008-2010 || Formed the staff as admin of the [[YouChew]] Forums; moved to the tennis staff after retiring and held the position until the forum's closure
|-
|{{Zekii}} ||No || 2020-2024 ||
|-
|{{strong414bad}} || No || 2008-2012 || Holds record for youngest staff appointment (at 14)
|-
|{{TheChutley}} ||Yes || 2010-2016, 2024-2025, 2025-present ||
|-
|{{RAKninja}} || No || 2008-2010 || Appointed staff at 27, remains the oldest ever member to serve
|-
|{{Crash2991}} || No || 2008-2012 ||
|-
|{{theHappyFungus}} || No || 2008-2009 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2009, serving until 2010. The first female member of staff
|-
|Emperor Ing || No || 2008-2010 || The "unofficial fuck", formally an early moderator and admin of the Youchew Forums, became very inactive in the 2010s
|-
|{{Nuthead}} || No || 2008-2009 ||
|-
|{{trepmaws}} || No || 2012-2018 ||
|-
|{{NS2}} || No || 2008-2012 || Had two different stints as a moderator on the Youchew Forums between 2008 to 2010
|-
|{{LaVieCestLol}} || No || 2016-2018 ||
|-
|{{Moogle}} || No || 2008-2012 || The first European member of staff
|-
|{{MrDrunkenFox}} || No || 2010-2015 || Was a moderator for the Youchew Forums from 2007 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2016, joined the Tennis Staff after initial retirement by formal request to continue serving under RabbitSnore, who had also moved to that staff as their only site role
|-
|{{DaftPunkYoshi}} || No || 2009-2011 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2011, serving until 2016
|-
|{{Biodegradable}} || No || 2018-2019 || Currently the editor for the "Whang!" YouTube channel.
|-
|{{AshcrementVII}}|| No || 2012-2014 || Holds record for oldest staff appointment (at 29)
|-
|{{ChrisGendo}}|| No || 2010-2012 ||
|-
|{{nm41}}|| Yes || 2022-2024, 2024-2025 || Brief hiatus in 2024
|-
|{{Metroid998}}|| No|| 2016-2019 || Served as interim until October 8, 2022
|-
|{{Stuart K. Reilly}}||No || 2014 || Technically a "fuck by proxy"; was initially a Janitor on the YouChew Forums until the Tennis Staff and Janitors were combined to make the Café Staff. Never played a full tennis match of his own
|}

==Timeline==


[[File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png|960px]]

=History=
The chronology of the Tennis Staff has been organized by relatively arbitrary "generations" since 2019, with {{dew}} conceptualizing the original designations of generation. While {{dani}} originally organized these by a combination of relative group size (shooting for as close to seven members for each) and spans of time apart between additions, The generations were revised on February 27, 2025 by {{infinitysnapz}}, who organized them more by closeness in join dates for each group. This has additionally allowed the resignation of {{RabbitSnore}} and TINS from YouChew leadership to be better considered as a major pivot point between specified generations.

==First Generation(2008)==

[[File:Rabbitsnore-next-color.jpg|thumb|right|RabbitSnore, drawn by black_puffin.]]

Members: {{RabbitSnore}}, {{RAKninja}}, {{Crash2991}}, {{strong414bad}}, {{NS2}}, {{NutheadElMajestico}}, {{TheHappyFungus}} (and Emperor Ing).

One of the earliest prolific players of Youtube Poop Tennis was {{RabbitSnore}}, who was the co-lead admin of the YouChew forums alongside his real life friend Thereisnospoon303 (often called TINS for short) in the era that immediately followed the reign of Conrad Slater. A general chat thread unique to the newly made tennis subforum, called The Poop Tennis Cafe, was opened in the forums (and also on the backup site, Planet Freedom) in January 2008. This thread was made to discuss matches past and present, set up future matches between people, including a roster listing people that they want to play or have already played that might including variations of rules, and to have "refreshments". It would in time garner a notable reputation of mainly being a spammy thread of tennis staff members and its regulars sharing inside jokes to each other, often in the form of various different images. After 4 months of managing the section on his own, and following the forum switch-over from its Vanilla layout, Rabbit employed the first version of a new mod staff unique to the tennis subforums on the evening of May 7th, 2008 to deal with tennis related threads such as moving threads, updating rosters, and hosting tourneys. The staff at this time was made up of 7 members; {{Crash2991}}, {{NS2}}, {{TheHappyFungus}}, {{Nuthead}} and {{strong414bad}} were added first, with RAKninja being added a day later. These choices were made mainly for these seven being the most active posters in the Cafe and thusly having the closest connections with {{RabbitSnore}}. In time, they would become popularly known as the "Tennis Fucks", a term coined by {{RAKninja}} and used frequently by him to describe his fellow staff. RAKninja ended up becoming the most active and vocal of the original seven staff members, and it is with him that "theory" was introduced into tennis, as well as the tradition of staff members being the primary organizers of tennis tournaments from his [[Doubles Cup 1]] tournament onward.

It is also regarded that [[YouChew]] moderator/administrator Emperor Ing was always considered by the original staff as an "unofficial fuck"; while never actually being on the staff itself due to him already being instated with moderator and later administrator powers, Ing was close to the early staff members and had very in-depth involvement with the staff's activities in the early years to the point where he was considered just as essential. It is because of this that he is recognized as having served the staff in the past by having obtained an official service medal on the YouChew forums and also has a round made in a special multi-way match reserved exclusively for staff members only.

==Second Generation(2008-2009)==

Members: {{Gamebop}}, {{Moogle}}, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{DaftPunkYoshi}}

The staff has since undergone many changes in its lineup of members, beginning as soon as 5 days later when NS2 would be promoted by majority vote of YouChew staff to a moderator position. {{GameBop}} would become the next addition to the Staff on June 23, 2008 upon request for the purpose of managing the 2nd Tennis Chain and being able to edit the original post created by ShadowWario/FancySanta. During this era, the "Collaborations" subforum of YouChew would be created for the first time, and would be added to tennis staff jurisdiction. Moogle would join next on November 18, 2008. {{MycroProcessor}} would join by popular demand on February 27, 2009, essentially acting as the fill-in for Nuthead who left the staff around February 3, 2009, and would become the longest serving member of the staff with 10 years and 7 months in the position. {{theHappyFungus}} would become a moderator on March 1, 2009, though would revert her name back to tennis staff colors briefly during the [[Tennis Season]]. {{DaftPunkYoshi}} would also be added to the Staff on June 25th, 2009, later becoming a moderator of the forum on August 18, 2011. {{NS2}} would resign and return to being a moderator in April and October 2009 respectively, then resign permanently on August 6th, 2010 to return to being a full time Cafe Staff member, although activity wise would be very sparse. theHappyFungus would retire from her moderator position on the same day, and mysteriously vanish from the internet entirely.

==Third Generation(2010-2012)==

Members: MrDrunkenFox, {{ChrisGendo}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{AshcrementVII}}, {{trepmaws}}

Every branch of the community on the YouChew forums soon underwent a major change when, soon after the return of NS2 to the staff and the permanent departure of theHappyFungus, RabbitSnore and TINS retired from their admin and forum leader positions on August 14, 2010. RabbitSnore would then move to the Tennis Staff, as it was a staff that he helped create, with the promise of maintaining activity in that section. This would however never come to pass, and Rabbit's position on the staff marked the effective end of the era of him as an active community member. Some days in advance, RAKninja would publicly announce his retirement from the staff and forum on August 4th, 2010, the same day that MrDrunkenFox would step down from his long-time moderator position and upon personal request be added to the Cafe Staff, following in the footsteps of RabbitSnore. ChrisGendo and {{TheChutley}} would be jointly added to the staff on December 7, 2010, and from this point onward ChrisGendo would effectively take up RAKninja's de-facto leadership role as part of this newly created third generation of staff members, becoming its most active and vocal member for a period of about 2 years.

The following year marked the only period in which members from all generations of staff up to this point were present within the tennis community, whether active or otherwise. With only select older members contributing in terms of actual staff work, and ChrisGendo effectively managing the tennis section and sanctioning its community entirely on her own up to this point, AshcrementVII and {{trepmaws}} became the newest staff additions on January 22, 2012. Crash2991 retired from the staff somewhere between the spring and summer, followed closely by strong414bad. Subsequent to this period, ChrisGendo would publicly announce her retirement from staff and forum on August 22, 2012, and was soon followed by the simultaneous retirements of Moogle and NS2 on or before September 21, 2012.

==Fourth Generation(2014-2018)==

Members: {{CorruptionSound}}, {{theFXexpert}}, Stuart K. Reilly, Metroid998, LaVieCestLol, Biodegradable

AshcrementVII retired from the staff after an almost 2-year period on January 1, 2014, and {{CorruptionSound}} was chosen as his effective replacement on January 10. With YouChew's collab subforum having fallen woefully behind upkeep in this period, {{theFXexpert}} was newly recruited on June 13, 2014 with almost the express purpose of helping out in this section. The following day, a major staff change occurred on YouChew in which the Janitors(moderators assigned to very specific sections, at the time it was strictly the "Poop Talk" section) and Tennis Café Staff were merged into one, thus creating the Café Staff. This change gained the staff equal control over the entire "YouTube Poop" section of the forums(Poop Talk, Media Library, Collaborations, and Poop Tennis), and by complete anomaly would transition then-current Janitor Stuart K. Reilly over to the Café Staff, although he would only maintain this position for 2 months and contribute very little. He would however later on develop a significant acquaintance with the staff and tennis regulars, even going as far as to finally produce a series of episodes of his signature "YouTube Poop News" series covering many aspects of YTP tennis in early 2015. On May 19, 2015, MrDrunkenFox left the Tennis Staff and rejoined as a Moderator after a hiatus of 5 years, the longest gap of time in-between service of any moderator so far. On May 31, 2016, {{TheChutley}} announced her retirement from the staff and was replaced by Metroid998 on June 8. Due to being short-handed by theFXexpert's sudden long absence during this time, LaVieCestLol was also added to the staff on the same day. On April 7, 2018, {{Trepmaws}} would step down from his position and was replaced by Biodegradable on the same day.

==Fifth Generation(2019-2024)==

Members: {{mrdoognoog}}, {{VidTens443}}, {{dew}}, {{Zekii}}, {{system128}}, {{Nubman41}}, infinitysnapz, AngryLuigi23

With the YouChew forums about to close and the community set to split in two in August 2018, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{CorruptionSound}}, Biodegradable, Metroid998 and theFXexpert all agreed to migrate over to the more Youtube Poop-focused YTPMania forums, opened and run by Smonge, in order to build a new home for the Tennis Section. {{Gamebop}} opted not to immediately retain their staff position, effectively stepping down with the closing of the forum on September 30. LaVieCestLol also effectively departed from the community with the forums closing. The rest of the staff at the time eventually quietly retired after a slow, inactive first year on YTPMania; Biodegradable made a final statement on August 16, 2019, followed by Metroid998 on August 17, MycroProcessor on September 25, and CorruptionSound on October 11. theFXexpert also made his most recent post on the forum on December 6, 2018 and did not return to the community until years later, in late 2024.

This was the era of a complete system reset for the community, when many of a new generation were coming into the tennis section very curious about when the next tennis event would happen. Eventually, {{mrdoognoog}}, {{Nubman41}}, Morshe and VidTens443, four members who were around for the twilight years in tennis on YouChew, started the first tournament on the YTPMania themselves, the [[Tennis League 5]]. They also managed to persuade {{dew}}, an active tennis regular on YouChew from 2011 to 2016 and the first tennis player to complete 100 matches, to come out of retirement to participate and extend a guiding hand across the new generation of tennis players. With much of the previous staff now gone, mrdoognoog, VidTens443 and {{dew}} all became promoted to the new wave of Café Staff on YTPMania on October 6 and October 22, 2019 respectively. The YouChew forums returned in a new iteration in 2020, and the staff migrated back to it, with Metroid998, {{VidTens443}} and {{mrdoognoog}} as the active staff members and {{dew}} as one of the two admins and leaders of the new site. {{Zekii}} became the newest member of the staff on April 6, 2020. The new YouChew forums however did not last, suffering a managerial crisis that ultimately led to its shutting down in the middle of April 2020, moving everyone back to YTPMania except for {{dew}}, who was banned from the site for about a year, ultimately ending her initial tenure as an active staff member. Nubman41 and system128 were promoted to tennis staff on February 3, 2022, while {{mrdoognoog}} retired from active staff on October 1 of that year. infinitysnapz was promoted to staff on August 20, 2023, followed by AngryLuigi23 on July 5, 2024 following the departure of both {{Zekii}} and {{Nubman41}} on the same day. On October 6, 2024, TheChutley, {{dew}} and {{Nubman41}} all became the first members of the staff to return to their positions, following a late-summer burst of old regulars returning to the community after long absences.

==Sixth Generation(2025-present)==

Members: {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1_}}

Together, {{dew}} and {{infinitysnapz}} were instrumental in the construction, opening and current leadership of the [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] forums, a site with which the tennis community served as an initial foundation of its active userbase. This has made them both technically the first since {{RabbitSnore}} to serve in an official capacity as both site admins and official tennis staff members. {{Letycjusz S.}} became the first member of the tennis staff to be added during the era of this site on March 1, 2025, as chosen by {{dew}} and {{TheChutley}}. {{TheChutley}} stepped down again from staff on April 12, followed by nm41 on May 29, the latter whom was then subsequently replaced by {{CRJ1}} on June 10. However, {{TheChutley}} would return to tennis staff for the third time on October 18, which would technically be the first time since {{NS2}} that a former tennis staff would make a second return. {{system128}} transitioned from the tennis staff to YellowTealPurple's creative staff on February 16, 2026, the same day that {{mrdoognoog}} made a long awaited return to the tennis staff as well.

==The Café Today==

The active staff as it stands today is made up of {{VidTens443}}, {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{infinitysnapz}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, {{dew}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{CRJ1}}, and {{mrdoognoog}}. On the [[YouChew]] archive, {{RabbitSnore}} remains displayed as a staff member in order to recognize the staff's roots of creation and his contributions to the tennis section overall during his active period on the forum.

The Poop Tennis Café as it stands today now exists on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]], referred to as the Video Tennis Cafe. At present, it maintains a bit under half OF the activity that the Tennis Cafes of old used to reach in their heyday, all in spite of the community being split between the forum, and various discord servers such as The Tennis Isles, which until its closure had acted as a refuge in lieu of [[YTPMania|{{YTPMania}}]] losing the interest of almost everyone.

The Café thread had 4 original iterations on the Youchew Forums: the first opened on January 28, 2008 and was locked on March 31, 2008 after 104 pages due to the switch from the vanilla forums to the phpbb forums, marking the moment when site leadership was turned over to RabbitSnore and TINS. The second was opened on April 2, 2008 and closed on January 8, 2010 after 883 pages, the third opened on January 8, 2010 and closed on October 11, 2012 after 842 pages(with about 4 months of posts in early 2011 lost as a result of Youchew's infamous "Oz incident"), and the fourth and final iteration opened on October 13, 2012 and lasted until the closure of the YouChew Forums on September 29, 2018 after 494 pages. {{RabbitSnore}} upon briefly returning to the Youchew forums in January 2013 expressed his complete disbelief that the then current version of the thread continued to persist. The Café Thread on YTPMania was first opened on August 21, 2018, and lasted for 1,999 posts before being closed with the rest of the site at the end of the year (there are no pages in this version due to the unusual interface of the YTPMania forums). The current café thread on the YellowTealPurple forums opened on November 18, 2024 (with its first post being made as early as November 5 in order to establish its presence with the site's opening), and has seen 150 pages (~4,500 replies as of Feb 23rd 2026) as of present, and it remains the only thread on YellowTealPurple to reach over 100 pages. Skype versions of the Café have also existed, which has at times seemed to subtract from the discussion of the original threads, but the Café thread proper remains with a reputation of being more relaxed, controlled, and easy to follow conversation-wise nature, being considered much more refreshing and comfortable.



=Staff Choice Awards=
==Tennis Fuck Choice Award==
[[File:Tennischoiceaward.png|thumb|right|The badge for the award.]]
"Once a month, each member of the Tennis Café Staff may issue this medal to the players of a match which he or she feels highlights the month." - Badge Description <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180919073301/http://youchew.net/forum/index.php?app=awards&module=awards&controller=awards</ref>

The "Tennis Fuck Choice Award" was an award given by the staff "once a month" for outstanding tennis achievement. While it it known who got the award, few records exist on ''why''. Likely created around mid to late 2009<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-video-tennis-cafe-today-i-opened-the-gate-and-was-about-to-begin-modifications-when-a-figure-suddenly-appeared-on-the-other-side.30/post-25695</ref>, fifteen players received the award before it went defunct - many of whom were staff themselves. It was also potentially possible to win the award multiple times; this has complicated archival as award descriptions would overwrite in many cases.

A list of all players who received this award can be seen below. Dates are not given as many had to be re-awarded following the Invision transition of the YouChew forums in late-July to early-August 2010, and much of the original data has remained lost. Note that many reasons are speculative.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Player
! Given By
! Why?
|-
| Emperor Ing
|
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]]
|-
| {{Crash2991}}
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]], the award as given in late July 2010 is notated as being "for awesome retro tennis".
|-
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{RabbitSnore}}
| {{strong414bad}}
| For Moogle vs. RabbitSnore
|-
| conradslater
|
| unknown, likely for inventing tennis
|-
| {{RAKninja}}
|
|
|-
| {{GameBop}}
|
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and others
|-
| {{MycroProcessor}}
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{Piodx}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| vvaluigi
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{trepmaws}}
|
|
|-
| AjaxCubed
| {{rakninja}} + another
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{NS2}}
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| for [[ThePlasticCanteen vs. NS2]]
|-
| Furnessly
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]]
|-
| {{Moogle}}
| {{rakninja}}, {{strong414bad}} + another
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]], Moogle vs. RabbitSnore, as well as likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|}
=Choice Awards=
Plans to revive the choice awards began as late as June 2025<ref>Private Staff Discussion thread on YellowTealPurple, paraphrase by {{mrdoognoog}}</ref>, and were eventually brought into fruition on 5 November 2025, alongside the similar [[Match of the Day]] program on November 2nd. The new Choice Awards were split into four categories, representing four corners of the site - art, music, video art, and of course, tennis.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/forum-changelog.403/post-36506</ref> As of time of writing, nothing has been award for any of the four badges yet.

=Sources=

Tennis Staff

2026-02-23T04:03:56Z

Infinitysnapz: /* The Café Today */ - this edit will be seen as a very February 2026 sort of update and may age. Dubiously

The '''Tennis Staff''' (also known as the '''Café Staff''' or more immaturely the '''Tennis Fucks''') are the ''de-facto'' leaders of the [[tennis]] community.

[[File:Mako staff.png|thumb|right]]

=Roles and Jobs=
==Origins==
The '''Tennis Staff''' as a concept initially stems from a subforum moderator staff created by RabbitSnore on the [[YouChew forums]] on May 7, 2008. Their initial purpose was to moderate the "Poop Tennis" section of these forums, which included:

- moving match threads between the "Wanted", "In-Progress", "Completed" and "Failed" sections

- posting and updating tennis rosters in the "Poop Tennis Roster Thread"

- keeping friendly watch over the regulars in the section's long-running general chat thread, "The Poop Tennis Café", created by RabbitSnore as a way to congregate the burgeoning tennis community and allow it to form stronger connections with each other.

Their modern roles remain largely the same, easily adapting as new communication mediums like Discord became more prominent.

==Culture==
Per RabbitSnore's whimsical "café/restaurant/bar" theming around "The Poop Tennis Café" thread and its staff, it's become something of a lighthearted tradition to imagine the tennis staff as caretakers, baristas, and any-sorta-food-service-worker-related-symbolism-you-can-think-of. They have always been recognized by yellow colored names and forum insignia, consistent through forum sites and the [[The Tennis Isles]] discord group.

Besides just having subforum-specific moderation powers, the members of this staff over time have informally acquired a status and reputation of being "experts" at tennis, due to each member throughout its history having their own unique editing approaches, many having their own theories and perspectives on how different tennis matches play out, and usually having some of the greatest passion for the medium out of all tennis players. In recent years, members of this staff have been becoming seen as "role-models" for the community, effectively representing it through their respective eras past and present. This has also been becoming one of the deciding merits around which new members are selected. Besides this however, new members have almost always been traditionally chosen for their activity, knowledge, bonds with existing staff members, and/or their willingness to contribute.

The staff have also run almost all site sanctioned [[Tennis Tournaments]] since late 2008, following the "Gallers Era" of what are considered to be the first four official tournaments. At various times people not on staff at the time have hosted tournaments, usually leading to their eventual inclusion on the staff as the tournament was able to provide a demonstration of their abilities in managing the community. Anyone is able to start and host an event of their choosing, but it is generally the events that become officially sanctioned by the tennis staff that are considered "canon" within the ongoing history of tennis.

=List of Tennis Staff=
There have been 32 total members to have served as part of the Tennis/Café Staff, 33 if Emperor Ing is counted amongst its ranks.

Fun Fact, in this wiki, tennis staff will have a special label (which hasn't been decided yet) as a tooltip on their name. Look out for this!

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Tennis Staff, as of 10-18-2025
|-
! Name !! Active? !! Tenure !! Notes
|-
| {{Letycjusz S.}}|| Yes || 2025-present || First staff appointed on {{YellowTealPurple}}
|-
| {{CRJ1_}} || Yes || 2025-present ||
|-
| {{AngryLuigi23}}|| Yes || 2024-present ||
|-
| {{system128}}||No || 2022-2026 ||
|-
| {{Vidtens443}}||Yes || 2019-present|| The current longest tenured staff member
|-
| {{infinitysnapz}}||Yes || 2023-present || First staff, along with {{dani}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{mrdoognoog}} ||No || 2019-2022, 2026-present || First staff appointed during the post-YouChew era. Runs this website!
|-
|{{Gamebop}} ||No || 2008-2018 ||
|-
|{{Mycroprocessor}} ||No || 2009-2019 || The longest serving member of staff with a recognized tenure of 10 years, 7 months.
|-
|{{Corruptionsound}} ||No || 2014-2019 ||
|-
|{{dani}} || Yes || 2019-2020, 2024-present || First staff, along with {{infinitysnapz}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{TheFXexpert}} ||No || 2014-2018 ||
|-
|{{RabbitSnore}} ||No || 2008-2010 || Formed the staff as admin of the [[YouChew]] Forums; moved to the tennis staff after retiring and held the position until the forum's closure
|-
|{{Zekii}} ||No || 2020-2024 ||
|-
|{{strong414bad}} || No || 2008-2012 || Holds record for youngest staff appointment (at 14)
|-
|{{TheChutley}} ||Yes || 2010-2016, 2024-2025, 2025-present ||
|-
|{{RAKninja}} || No || 2008-2010 || Appointed staff at 27, remains the oldest ever member to serve
|-
|{{Crash2991}} || No || 2008-2012 ||
|-
|{{theHappyFungus}} || No || 2008-2009 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2009, serving until 2010. The first female member of staff
|-
|Emperor Ing || No || 2008-2010 || The "unofficial fuck", formally an early moderator and admin of the Youchew Forums, became very inactive in the 2010s
|-
|{{Nuthead}} || No || 2008-2009 ||
|-
|{{trepmaws}} || No || 2012-2018 ||
|-
|{{NS2}} || No || 2008-2012 || Had two different stints as a moderator on the Youchew Forums between 2008 to 2010
|-
|{{LaVieCestLol}} || No || 2016-2018 ||
|-
|{{Moogle}} || No || 2008-2012 || The first European member of staff
|-
|{{MrDrunkenFox}} || No || 2010-2015 || Was a moderator for the Youchew Forums from 2007 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2016, joined the Tennis Staff after initial retirement by formal request to continue serving under RabbitSnore, who had also moved to that staff as their only site role
|-
|{{DaftPunkYoshi}} || No || 2009-2011 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2011, serving until 2016
|-
|{{Biodegradable}} || No || 2018-2019 || Currently the editor for the "Whang!" YouTube channel.
|-
|{{AshcrementVII}}|| No || 2012-2014 || Holds record for oldest staff appointment (at 29)
|-
|{{ChrisGendo}}|| No || 2010-2012 ||
|-
|{{nm41}}|| Yes || 2022-2024, 2024-2025 || Brief hiatus in 2024
|-
|{{Metroid998}}|| No|| 2016-2019 || Served as interim until October 8, 2022
|-
|{{Stuart K. Reilly}}||No || 2014 || Technically a "fuck by proxy"; was initially a Janitor on the YouChew Forums until the Tennis Staff and Janitors were combined to make the Café Staff. Never played a full tennis match of his own
|}

==Timeline==


[[File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png|960px]]

=History=
The chronology of the Tennis Staff has been organized by relatively arbitrary "generations" since 2019, with {{dew}} conceptualizing the original designations of generation. While {{dani}} originally organized these by a combination of relative group size (shooting for as close to seven members for each) and spans of time apart between additions, The generations were revised on February 27, 2025 by {{infinitysnapz}}, who organized them more by closeness in join dates for each group. This has additionally allowed the resignation of {{RabbitSnore}} and TINS from YouChew leadership to be better considered as a major pivot point between specified generations.

==First Generation(2008)==

[[File:Rabbitsnore-next-color.jpg|thumb|right|RabbitSnore, drawn by black_puffin.]]

Members: {{RabbitSnore}}, {{RAKninja}}, {{Crash2991}}, {{strong414bad}}, {{NS2}}, {{NutheadElMajestico}}, {{TheHappyFungus}} (and Emperor Ing).

One of the earliest prolific players of Youtube Poop Tennis was {{RabbitSnore}}, who was the co-lead admin of the YouChew forums alongside his real life friend Thereisnospoon303 (often called TINS for short) in the era that immediately followed the reign of Conrad Slater. A general chat thread unique to the newly made tennis subforum, called The Poop Tennis Cafe, was opened in the forums (and also on the backup site, Planet Freedom) in January 2008. This thread was made to discuss matches past and present, set up future matches between people, including a roster listing people that they want to play or have already played that might including variations of rules, and to have "refreshments". It would in time garner a notable reputation of mainly being a spammy thread of tennis staff members and its regulars sharing inside jokes to each other, often in the form of various different images. After 4 months of managing the section on his own, and following the forum switch-over from its Vanilla layout, Rabbit employed the first version of a new mod staff unique to the tennis subforums on the evening of May 7th, 2008 to deal with tennis related threads such as moving threads, updating rosters, and hosting tourneys. The staff at this time was made up of 7 members; {{Crash2991}}, {{NS2}}, {{TheHappyFungus}}, {{Nuthead}} and {{strong414bad}} were added first, with RAKninja being added a day later. These choices were made mainly for these seven being the most active posters in the Cafe and thusly having the closest connections with {{RabbitSnore}}. In time, they would become popularly known as the "Tennis Fucks", a term coined by {{RAKninja}} and used frequently by him to describe his fellow staff. RAKninja ended up becoming the most active and vocal of the original seven staff members, and it is with him that "theory" was introduced into tennis, as well as the tradition of staff members being the primary organizers of tennis tournaments from his [[Doubles Cup 1]] tournament onward.

It is also regarded that [[YouChew]] moderator/administrator Emperor Ing was always considered by the original staff as an "unofficial fuck"; while never actually being on the staff itself due to him already being instated with moderator and later administrator powers, Ing was close to the early staff members and had very in-depth involvement with the staff's activities in the early years to the point where he was considered just as essential. It is because of this that he is recognized as having served the staff in the past by having obtained an official service medal on the YouChew forums and also has a round made in a special multi-way match reserved exclusively for staff members only.

==Second Generation(2008-2009)==

Members: {{Gamebop}}, {{Moogle}}, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{DaftPunkYoshi}}

The staff has since undergone many changes in its lineup of members, beginning as soon as 5 days later when NS2 would be promoted by majority vote of YouChew staff to a moderator position. {{GameBop}} would become the next addition to the Staff on June 23, 2008 upon request for the purpose of managing the 2nd Tennis Chain and being able to edit the original post created by ShadowWario/FancySanta. During this era, the "Collaborations" subforum of YouChew would be created for the first time, and would be added to tennis staff jurisdiction. Moogle would join next on November 18, 2008. {{MycroProcessor}} would join by popular demand on February 27, 2009, essentially acting as the fill-in for Nuthead who left the staff around February 3, 2009, and would become the longest serving member of the staff with 10 years and 7 months in the position. {{theHappyFungus}} would become a moderator on March 1, 2009, though would revert her name back to tennis staff colors briefly during the [[Tennis Season]]. {{DaftPunkYoshi}} would also be added to the Staff on June 25th, 2009, later becoming a moderator of the forum on August 18, 2011. {{NS2}} would resign and return to being a moderator in April and October 2009 respectively, then resign permanently on August 6th, 2010 to return to being a full time Cafe Staff member, although activity wise would be very sparse. theHappyFungus would retire from her moderator position on the same day, and mysteriously vanish from the internet entirely.

==Third Generation(2010-2012)==

Members: MrDrunkenFox, {{ChrisGendo}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{AshcrementVII}}, {{trepmaws}}

Every branch of the community on the YouChew forums soon underwent a major change when, soon after the return of NS2 to the staff and the permanent departure of theHappyFungus, RabbitSnore and TINS retired from their admin and forum leader positions on August 14, 2010. RabbitSnore would then move to the Tennis Staff, as it was a staff that he helped create, with the promise of maintaining activity in that section. This would however never come to pass, and Rabbit's position on the staff marked the effective end of the era of him as an active community member. Some days in advance, RAKninja would publicly announce his retirement from the staff and forum on August 4th, 2010, the same day that MrDrunkenFox would step down from his long-time moderator position and upon personal request be added to the Cafe Staff, following in the footsteps of RabbitSnore. ChrisGendo and {{TheChutley}} would be jointly added to the staff on December 7, 2010, and from this point onward ChrisGendo would effectively take up RAKninja's de-facto leadership role as part of this newly created third generation of staff members, becoming its most active and vocal member for a period of about 2 years.

The following year marked the only period in which members from all generations of staff up to this point were present within the tennis community, whether active or otherwise. With only select older members contributing in terms of actual staff work, and ChrisGendo effectively managing the tennis section and sanctioning its community entirely on her own up to this point, AshcrementVII and {{trepmaws}} became the newest staff additions on January 22, 2012. Crash2991 retired from the staff somewhere between the spring and summer, followed closely by strong414bad. Subsequent to this period, ChrisGendo would publicly announce her retirement from staff and forum on August 22, 2012, and was soon followed by the simultaneous retirements of Moogle and NS2 on or before September 21, 2012.

==Fourth Generation(2014-2018)==

Members: {{CorruptionSound}}, {{theFXexpert}}, Stuart K. Reilly, Metroid998, LaVieCestLol, Biodegradable

AshcrementVII retired from the staff after an almost 2-year period on January 1, 2014, and {{CorruptionSound}} was chosen as his effective replacement on January 10. With YouChew's collab subforum having fallen woefully behind upkeep in this period, {{theFXexpert}} was newly recruited on June 13, 2014 with almost the express purpose of helping out in this section. The following day, a major staff change occurred on YouChew in which the Janitors(moderators assigned to very specific sections, at the time it was strictly the "Poop Talk" section) and Tennis Café Staff were merged into one, thus creating the Café Staff. This change gained the staff equal control over the entire "YouTube Poop" section of the forums(Poop Talk, Media Library, Collaborations, and Poop Tennis), and by complete anomaly would transition then-current Janitor Stuart K. Reilly over to the Café Staff, although he would only maintain this position for 2 months and contribute very little. He would however later on develop a significant acquaintance with the staff and tennis regulars, even going as far as to finally produce a series of episodes of his signature "YouTube Poop News" series covering many aspects of YTP tennis in early 2015. On May 19, 2015, MrDrunkenFox left the Tennis Staff and rejoined as a Moderator after a hiatus of 5 years, the longest gap of time in-between service of any moderator so far. On May 31, 2016, {{TheChutley}} announced her retirement from the staff and was replaced by Metroid998 on June 8. Due to being short-handed by theFXexpert's sudden long absence during this time, LaVieCestLol was also added to the staff on the same day. On April 7, 2018, {{Trepmaws}} would step down from his position and was replaced by Biodegradable on the same day.

==Fifth Generation(2019-2024)==

Members: {{mrdoognoog}}, {{VidTens443}}, {{dew}}, {{Zekii}}, {{system128}}, {{Nubman41}}, infinitysnapz, AngryLuigi23

With the YouChew forums about to close and the community set to split in two in August 2018, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{CorruptionSound}}, Biodegradable, Metroid998 and theFXexpert all agreed to migrate over to the more Youtube Poop-focused YTPMania forums, opened and run by Smonge, in order to build a new home for the Tennis Section. {{Gamebop}} opted not to immediately retain their staff position, effectively stepping down with the closing of the forum on September 30. LaVieCestLol also effectively departed from the community with the forums closing. The rest of the staff at the time eventually quietly retired after a slow, inactive first year on YTPMania; Biodegradable made a final statement on August 16, 2019, followed by Metroid998 on August 17, MycroProcessor on September 25, and CorruptionSound on October 11. theFXexpert also made his most recent post on the forum on December 6, 2018 and did not return to the community until years later, in late 2024.

This was the era of a complete system reset for the community, when many of a new generation were coming into the tennis section very curious about when the next tennis event would happen. Eventually, {{mrdoognoog}}, {{Nubman41}}, Morshe and VidTens443, four members who were around for the twilight years in tennis on YouChew, started the first tournament on the YTPMania themselves, the [[Tennis League 5]]. They also managed to persuade {{dew}}, an active tennis regular on YouChew from 2011 to 2016 and the first tennis player to complete 100 matches, to come out of retirement to participate and extend a guiding hand across the new generation of tennis players. With much of the previous staff now gone, mrdoognoog, VidTens443 and {{dew}} all became promoted to the new wave of Café Staff on YTPMania on October 6 and October 22, 2019 respectively. The YouChew forums returned in a new iteration in 2020, and the staff migrated back to it, with Metroid998, {{VidTens443}} and {{mrdoognoog}} as the active staff members and {{dew}} as one of the two admins and leaders of the new site. {{Zekii}} became the newest member of the staff on April 6, 2020. The new YouChew forums however did not last, suffering a managerial crisis that ultimately led to its shutting down in the middle of April 2020, moving everyone back to YTPMania except for {{dew}}, who was banned from the site for about a year, ultimately ending her initial tenure as an active staff member. Nubman41 and system128 were promoted to tennis staff on February 3, 2022, while {{mrdoognoog}} retired from active staff on October 1 of that year. infinitysnapz was promoted to staff on August 20, 2023, followed by AngryLuigi23 on July 5, 2024 following the departure of both {{Zekii}} and {{Nubman41}} on the same day. On October 6, 2024, TheChutley, {{dew}} and {{Nubman41}} all became the first members of the staff to return to their positions, following a late-summer burst of old regulars returning to the community after long absences.

==Sixth Generation(2025-present)==

Members: {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1_}}

Together, {{dew}} and {{infinitysnapz}} were instrumental in the construction, opening and current leadership of the [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] forums, a site with which the tennis community served as an initial foundation of its active userbase. This has made them both technically the first since {{RabbitSnore}} to serve in an official capacity as both site admins and official tennis staff members. {{Letycjusz S.}} became the first member of the tennis staff to be added during the era of this site on March 1, 2025, as chosen by {{dew}} and {{TheChutley}}. {{TheChutley}} stepped down again from staff on April 12, followed by nm41 on May 29, the latter whom was then subsequently replaced by {{CRJ1}} on June 10. However, {{TheChutley}} would return to tennis staff for the third time on October 18, which would technically be the first time since {{NS2}} that a former tennis staff would make a second return. {{system128}} transitioned from the tennis staff to YellowTealPurple's creative staff on February 16, 2026, the same day that {{mrdoognoog}} made a long awaited return to the tennis staff as well.

==The Café Today==

The active staff as it stands today is made up of {{VidTens443}}, {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{infinitysnapz}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, {{dew}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{CRJ1}}, and {{mrdoognoog}}. On the [[YouChew]] archive, {{RabbitSnore}} remains displayed as a staff member in order to recognize the staff's roots of creation and his contributions to the tennis section overall during his active period on the forum.

The Poop Tennis Café as it stands today now exists on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]], referred to as the Video Tennis Cafe. At present, it maintains a bit under half the activity that the Tennis Cafes of old used to reach, in spite of the community being split between the forum itself, and various discord servers such as The Tennis Isles, which until its closure had acted as a refuge in lieu of [[YTPMania|{{YTPMania}}]] losing the interest of almost everyone.

The Café thread had 4 original iterations on the Youchew Forums: the first opened on January 28, 2008 and was locked on March 31, 2008 after 104 pages due to the switch from the vanilla forums to the phpbb forums, marking the moment when site leadership was turned over to RabbitSnore and TINS. The second was opened on April 2, 2008 and closed on January 8, 2010 after 883 pages, the third opened on January 8, 2010 and closed on October 11, 2012 after 842 pages(with about 4 months of posts in early 2011 lost as a result of Youchew's infamous "Oz incident"), and the fourth and final iteration opened on October 13, 2012 and lasted until the closure of the YouChew Forums on September 29, 2018 after 494 pages. {{RabbitSnore}} upon briefly returning to the Youchew forums in January 2013 expressed his complete disbelief that the then current version of the thread continued to persist. The Café Thread on YTPMania was first opened on August 21, 2018, and lasted for 1,999 posts before being closed with the rest of the site at the end of the year (there are no pages in this version due to the unusual interface of the YTPMania forums). The current café thread on the YellowTealPurple forums opened on November 18, 2024 (with its first post being made as early as November 5 in order to establish its presence with the site's opening), and has seen 150 pages (~4,500 replies as of Feb 23rd 2026) as of present, and it remains the only thread on YellowTealPurple to reach over 100 pages. Skype versions of the Café have also existed, which has at times seemed to subtract from the discussion of the original threads, but the Café thread proper remains with a reputation of being more relaxed, controlled, and easy to follow conversation-wise nature, being considered much more refreshing and comfortable.



=Staff Choice Awards=
==Tennis Fuck Choice Award==
[[File:Tennischoiceaward.png|thumb|right|The badge for the award.]]
"Once a month, each member of the Tennis Café Staff may issue this medal to the players of a match which he or she feels highlights the month." - Badge Description <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180919073301/http://youchew.net/forum/index.php?app=awards&module=awards&controller=awards</ref>

The "Tennis Fuck Choice Award" was an award given by the staff "once a month" for outstanding tennis achievement. While it it known who got the award, few records exist on ''why''. Likely created around mid to late 2009<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-video-tennis-cafe-today-i-opened-the-gate-and-was-about-to-begin-modifications-when-a-figure-suddenly-appeared-on-the-other-side.30/post-25695</ref>, fifteen players received the award before it went defunct - many of whom were staff themselves. It was also potentially possible to win the award multiple times; this has complicated archival as award descriptions would overwrite in many cases.

A list of all players who received this award can be seen below. Dates are not given as many had to be re-awarded following the Invision transition of the YouChew forums in late-July to early-August 2010, and much of the original data has remained lost. Note that many reasons are speculative.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Player
! Given By
! Why?
|-
| Emperor Ing
|
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]]
|-
| {{Crash2991}}
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]], the award as given in late July 2010 is notated as being "for awesome retro tennis".
|-
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{RabbitSnore}}
| {{strong414bad}}
| For Moogle vs. RabbitSnore
|-
| conradslater
|
| unknown, likely for inventing tennis
|-
| {{RAKninja}}
|
|
|-
| {{GameBop}}
|
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and others
|-
| {{MycroProcessor}}
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{Piodx}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| vvaluigi
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{trepmaws}}
|
|
|-
| AjaxCubed
| {{rakninja}} + another
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{NS2}}
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| for [[ThePlasticCanteen vs. NS2]]
|-
| Furnessly
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]]
|-
| {{Moogle}}
| {{rakninja}}, {{strong414bad}} + another
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]], Moogle vs. RabbitSnore, as well as likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|}
=Choice Awards=
Plans to revive the choice awards began as late as June 2025<ref>Private Staff Discussion thread on YellowTealPurple, paraphrase by {{mrdoognoog}}</ref>, and were eventually brought into fruition on 5 November 2025, alongside the similar [[Match of the Day]] program on November 2nd. The new Choice Awards were split into four categories, representing four corners of the site - art, music, video art, and of course, tennis.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/forum-changelog.403/post-36506</ref> As of time of writing, nothing has been award for any of the four badges yet.

=Sources=

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Infinitysnapz: Infinitysnapz uploaded a new version of File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png

Tennis Staff Timeline (temporary sheets edition- up to date as of 27th feb 2025)

Tennis Staff

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Infinitysnapz: welcome back thechutley

The '''Tennis Staff''' (also known as the '''Café Staff''' or more immaturely the '''Tennis Fucks''') are the ''de-facto'' leaders of the [[tennis]] community.

[[File:Mako staff.png|thumb|right]]

=Roles and Jobs=
==Origins==
The '''Tennis Staff''' as a concept initially stems from a subforum moderator staff created by RabbitSnore on the [[YouChew forums]] on May 7, 2008. Their initial purpose was to moderate the "Poop Tennis" section of these forums, which included:

- moving match threads between the "Wanted", "In-Progress", "Completed" and "Failed" sections

- posting and updating tennis rosters in the "Poop Tennis Roster Thread"

- keeping friendly watch over the regulars in the section's long-running general chat thread, "The Poop Tennis Café", created by RabbitSnore as a way to congregate the burgeoning tennis community and allow it to form stronger connections with each other.

Their modern roles remain largely the same, easily adapting as new communication mediums like Discord became more prominent.

==Culture==
Per RabbitSnore's whimsical "café/restaurant/bar" theming around "The Poop Tennis Café" thread and its staff, it's become something of a lighthearted tradition to imagine the tennis staff as caretakers, baristas, and any-sorta-food-service-worker-related-symbolism-you-can-think-of. They have always been recognized by yellow colored names and forum insignia, consistent through forum sites and the [[The Tennis Isles]] discord group.

Besides just having subforum-specific moderation powers, the members of this staff over time have informally acquired a status and reputation of being "experts" at tennis, due to each member throughout its history having their own unique editing approaches, many having their own theories and perspectives on how different tennis matches play out, and usually having some of the greatest passion for the medium out of all tennis players. In recent years, members of this staff have been becoming seen as "role-models" for the community, effectively representing it through their respective eras past and present. This has also been becoming one of the deciding merits around which new members are selected. Besides this however, new members have almost always been traditionally chosen for their activity, knowledge, bonds with existing staff members, and/or their willingness to contribute.

The staff have also run almost all site sanctioned [[Tennis Tournaments]] since late 2008, following the "Gallers Era" of what are considered to be the first four official tournaments. At various times people not on staff at the time have hosted tournaments, usually leading to their eventual inclusion on the staff as the tournament was able to provide a demonstration of their abilities in managing the community. Anyone is able to start and host an event of their choosing, but it is generally the events that become officially sanctioned by the tennis staff that are considered "canon" within the ongoing history of tennis.

=List of Tennis Staff=
There have been 32 total members to have served as part of the Tennis/Café Staff, 33 if Emperor Ing is counted amongst its ranks.

Fun Fact, in this wiki, tennis staff will have a special label (which hasn't been decided yet) as a tooltip on their name. Look out for this!

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Tennis Staff, as of 4-12-2025
|-
! Name !! Active? !! Tenure !! Notes
|-
| {{Letycjusz S.}}|| Yes || 2025-present || First staff appointed on {{YellowTealPurple}}
|-
| {{CRJ1_}} || Yes || 2025-present ||
|-
| {{AngryLuigi23}}|| Yes || 2024-present ||
|-
| {{system128}}||Yes || 2022-present ||
|-
| {{Vidtens443}}||Yes || 2019-present||
|-
| {{infinitysnapz}}||Yes || 2023-present || First staff, along with {{dani}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{mrdoognoog}} ||No || 2019-2022 || First staff appointed during the post-YouChew era. Runs this website!
|-
|{{Gamebop}} ||No || 2008-2018 ||
|-
|{{Mycroprocessor}} ||No || 2009-2019 || The longest serving member of staff with a recognized tenure of 10 years, 7 months.
|-
|{{Corruptionsound}} ||No || 2014-2019 ||
|-
|{{dani}} || Yes || 2019-2020, 2024-present || First staff, along with {{infinitysnapz}}, to be a "Hybrid Fuck" since RabbitSnore
|-
|{{TheFXexpert}} ||No || 2014-2018 ||
|-
|{{RabbitSnore}} ||No || 2008-2010 || Formed the staff as admin of the [[YouChew]] Forums; moved to the tennis staff after retiring and held the position until the forum's closure
|-
|{{Zekii}} ||No || 2020-2024 ||
|-
|{{strong414bad}} || No || 2008-2012 || Holds record for youngest staff appointment (at 14)
|-
|{{TheChutley}} ||Yes || 2010-2016, 2024-2025, 2025-present ||
|-
|{{RAKninja}} || No || 2008-2010 || Appointed staff at 27, remains the oldest ever member to serve
|-
|{{Crash2991}} || No || 2008-2012 ||
|-
|{{theHappyFungus}} || No || 2008-2009 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2009, serving until 2010. The first female member of staff
|-
|Emperor Ing || No || 2008-2010 || The "unofficial fuck", formally an early moderator and admin of the Youchew Forums, became very inactive in the 2010s
|-
|{{Nuthead}} || No || 2008 || The only member of the staff to be banned from the YouChew forums
|-
|{{trepmaws}} || No || 2012-2018 ||
|-
|{{NS2}} || No || 2008-2012 || Had two different stints as a moderator on the Youchew Forums between 2008 to 2010
|-
|{{LaVieCestLol}} || No || 2016-2018 ||
|-
|{{Moogle}} || No || 2008-2012 || The first European member of staff
|-
|{{MrDrunkenFox}} || No || 2010-2015 || Was a moderator for the Youchew Forums from 2007 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2016, joined the Tennis Staff after initial retirement by formal request to continue serving under RabbitSnore, who had also moved to that staff as their only site role
|-
|{{DaftPunkYoshi}} || No || 2009-2011 || Became a moderator for the Youchew Forums in 2011, serving until 2016
|-
|{{Biodegradable}} || No || 2018-2019 || Currently the editor for the "Whang!" YouTube channel.
|-
|{{AshcrementVII}}|| No || 2012-2014 || Holds record for oldest staff appointment (at 29)
|-
|{{ChrisGendo}}|| No || 2010-2012 ||
|-
|{{nm41}}|| Yes || 2022-2024, 2024-2025 || Brief hiatus in 2024
|-
|{{Metroid998}}|| No|| 2016-2019 || Served as interim until October 8, 2022
|-
|{{Stuart K. Reilly}}||No || 2014 || Technically a "fuck by proxy"; was initially a Janitor on the YouChew Forums until the Tennis Staff and Janitors were combined to make the Café Staff. Never played a full tennis match of his own
|}

==Timeline==


[[File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png|960px]]

=History=
The chronology of the Tennis Staff has been organized by relatively arbitrary "generations" since 2019, with {{dew}} conceptualizing the original designations of generation. While {{dani}} originally organized these by a combination of relative group size (shooting for as close to seven members for each) and spans of time apart between additions, The generations were revised on February 27, 2025 by {{infinitysnapz}}, who organized them more by closeness in join dates for each group. This has additionally allowed the resignation of {{RabbitSnore}} and TINS from YouChew leadership to be better considered as a major pivot point between specified generations.

==First Generation(2008)==

[[File:Rabbitsnore-next-color.jpg|thumb|right|RabbitSnore, drawn by black_puffin.]]

Members: {{RabbitSnore}}, {{RAKninja}}, {{Crash2991}}, {{strong414bad}}, {{NS2}}, {{NutheadElMajestico}}, {{TheHappyFungus}} (and Emperor Ing).

One of the earliest prolific players of Youtube Poop Tennis was {{RabbitSnore}}, who was the co-lead admin of the YouChew forums alongside his real life friend Thereisnospoon303 (often called TINS for short) in the era that immediately followed the reign of Conrad Slater. A general chat thread unique to the newly made tennis subforum, called The Poop Tennis Cafe, was opened in the forums (and also on the backup site, Planet Freedom) in January 2008. This thread was made to discuss matches past and present, set up future matches between people, including a roster listing people that they want to play or have already played that might including variations of rules, and to have "refreshments". It would in time garner a notable reputation of mainly being a spammy thread of tennis staff members and its regulars sharing inside jokes to each other, often in the form of various different images. After 4 months of managing the section on his own, and following the forum switch-over from its Vanilla layout, Rabbit employed the first version of a new mod staff unique to the tennis subforums on the evening of May 7th, 2008 to deal with tennis related threads such as moving threads, updating rosters, and hosting tourneys. The staff at this time was made up of 7 members; {{Crash2991}}, {{NS2}}, {{TheHappyFungus}}, {{Nuthead}} and {{strong414bad}} were added first, with RAKninja being added a day later. These choices were made mainly for these seven being the most active posters in the Cafe and thusly having the closest connections with {{RabbitSnore}}. In time, they would become popularly known as the "Tennis Fucks", a term coined by {{RAKninja}} and used frequently by him to describe his fellow staff. RAKninja ended up becoming the most active and vocal of the original seven staff members, and it is with him that "theory" was introduced into tennis, as well as the tradition of staff members being the primary organizers of tennis tournaments from his [[Doubles Cup 1]] tournament onward.

It is also regarded that [[YouChew]] moderator/administrator Emperor Ing was always considered by the original staff as an "unofficial fuck"; while never actually being on the staff itself due to him already being instated with moderator and later administrator powers, Ing was close to the early staff members and had very in-depth involvement with the staff's activities in the early years to the point where he was considered just as essential. It is because of this that he is recognized as having served the staff in the past by having obtained an official service medal on the YouChew forums and also has a round made in a special multi-way match reserved exclusively for staff members only.

==Second Generation(2008-2009)==

Members: {{Gamebop}}, {{Moogle}}, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{DaftPunkYoshi}}

The staff has since undergone many changes in its lineup of members, beginning as soon as 5 days later when NS2 would be promoted by majority vote of YouChew staff to a moderator position. {{GameBop}} would become the next addition to the Staff on June 23, 2008 upon request for the purpose of managing the 2nd Tennis Chain and being able to edit the original post created by ShadowWario/FancySanta. During this era, the "Collaborations" subforum of YouChew would be created for the first time, and would be added to tennis staff jurisdiction. Moogle would join next on November 18, 2008. {{MycroProcessor}} would join by popular demand on February 27, 2009, essentially acting as the fill-in for Nuthead who left the staff around February 3, 2009, and would become the longest serving member of the staff with 10 years and 7 months in the position. {{theHappyFungus}} would become a moderator on March 1, 2009, though would revert her name back to tennis staff colors briefly during the [[Tennis Season]]. {{DaftPunkYoshi}} would also be added to the Staff on June 25th, 2009, later becoming a moderator of the forum on August 18, 2011. {{NS2}} would resign and return to being a moderator in April and October 2009 respectively, then resign permanently on August 6th, 2010 to return to being a full time Cafe Staff member, although activity wise would be very sparse. theHappyFungus would retire from her moderator position on the same day, and mysteriously vanish from the internet entirely.

==Third Generation(2010-2012)==

Members: MrDrunkenFox, {{ChrisGendo}}, {{TheChutley}}, {{AshcrementVII}}, {{trepmaws}}

Every branch of the community on the YouChew forums soon underwent a major change when, soon after the return of NS2 to the staff and the permanent departure of theHappyFungus, RabbitSnore and TINS retired from their admin and forum leader positions on August 14, 2010. RabbitSnore would then move to the Tennis Staff, as it was a staff that he helped create, with the promise of maintaining activity in that section. This would however never come to pass, and Rabbit's position on the staff marked the effective end of the era of him as an active community member. Some days in advance, RAKninja would publicly announce his retirement from the staff and forum on August 4th, 2010, the same day that MrDrunkenFox would step down from his long-time moderator position and upon personal request be added to the Cafe Staff, following in the footsteps of RabbitSnore. ChrisGendo and {{TheChutley}} would be jointly added to the staff on December 7, 2010, and from this point onward ChrisGendo would effectively take up RAKninja's de-facto leadership role as part of this newly created third generation of staff members, becoming its most active and vocal member for a period of about 2 years.

The following year marked the only period in which members from all generations of staff up to this point were present within the tennis community, whether active or otherwise. With only select older members contributing in terms of actual staff work, and ChrisGendo effectively managing the tennis section and sanctioning its community entirely on her own up to this point, AshcrementVII and {{trepmaws}} became the newest staff additions on January 22, 2012. Crash2991 retired from the staff somewhere between the spring and summer, followed closely by strong414bad. Subsequent to this period, ChrisGendo would publicly announce her retirement from staff and forum on August 22, 2012, and was soon followed by the simultaneous retirements of Moogle and NS2 on or before September 21, 2012.

==Fourth Generation(2014-2018)==

Members: {{CorruptionSound}}, {{theFXexpert}}, Stuart K. Reilly, Metroid998, LaVieCestLol, Biodegradable

AshcrementVII retired from the staff after an almost 2-year period on January 1, 2014, and {{CorruptionSound}} was chosen as his effective replacement on January 10. With YouChew's collab subforum having fallen woefully behind upkeep in this period, {{theFXexpert}} was newly recruited on June 13, 2014 with almost the express purpose of helping out in this section. The following day, a major staff change occurred on YouChew in which the Janitors(moderators assigned to very specific sections, at the time it was strictly the "Poop Talk" section) and Tennis Café Staff were merged into one, thus creating the Café Staff. This change gained the staff equal control over the entire "YouTube Poop" section of the forums(Poop Talk, Media Library, Collaborations, and Poop Tennis), and by complete anomaly would transition then-current Janitor Stuart K. Reilly over to the Café Staff, although he would only maintain this position for 2 months and contribute very little. He would however later on develop a significant acquaintance with the staff and tennis regulars, even going as far as to finally produce a series of episodes of his signature "YouTube Poop News" series covering many aspects of YTP tennis in early 2015. On May 19, 2015, MrDrunkenFox left the Tennis Staff and rejoined as a Moderator after a hiatus of 5 years, the longest gap of time in-between service of any moderator so far. On May 31, 2016, {{TheChutley}} announced her retirement from the staff and was replaced by Metroid998 on June 8. Due to being short-handed by theFXexpert's sudden long absence during this time, LaVieCestLol was also added to the staff on the same day. On April 7, 2018, {{Trepmaws}} would step down from his position and was replaced by Biodegradable on the same day.

==Fifth Generation(2019-2024)==

Members: {{mrdoognoog}}, {{VidTens443}}, {{dew}}, {{Zekii}}, {{system128}}, {{Nubman41}}, infinitysnapz, AngryLuigi23

With the YouChew forums about to close and the community set to split in two in August 2018, {{MycroProcessor}}, {{CorruptionSound}}, Biodegradable, Metroid998 and theFXexpert all agreed to migrate over to the more Youtube Poop-focused YTPMania forums, opened and run by Smonge, in order to build a new home for the Tennis Section. {{Gamebop}} opted not to immediately retain their staff position, effectively stepping down with the closing of the forum on September 30. LaVieCestLol also effectively departed from the community with the forums closing. The rest of the staff at the time eventually quietly retired after a slow, inactive first year on YTPMania; Biodegradable made a final statement on August 16, 2019, followed by Metroid998 on August 17, MycroProcessor on September 25, and CorruptionSound on October 11. theFXexpert also made his most recent post on the forum on December 6, 2018 and did not return to the community until years later, in late 2024.

This was the era of a complete system reset for the community, when many of a new generation were coming into the tennis section very curious about when the next tennis event would happen. Eventually, {{mrdoognoog}}, {{Nubman41}}, Morshe and VidTens443, four members who were around for the twilight years in tennis on YouChew, started the first tournament on the YTPMania themselves, the [[Tennis League 5]]. They also managed to persuade {{dew}}, an active tennis regular on YouChew from 2011 to 2016 and the first tennis player to complete 100 matches, to come out of retirement to participate and extend a guiding hand across the new generation of tennis players. With much of the previous staff now gone, mrdoognoog, VidTens443 and {{dew}} all became promoted to the new wave of Café Staff on YTPMania on October 6 and October 22, 2019 respectively. The YouChew forums returned in a new iteration in 2020, and the staff migrated back to it, with Metroid998, {{VidTens443}} and {{mrdoognoog}} as the active staff members and {{dew}} as one of the two admins and leaders of the new site. {{Zekii}} became the newest member of the staff on April 6, 2020. The new YouChew forums however did not last, suffering a managerial crisis that ultimately led to its shutting down in the middle of April 2020, moving everyone back to YTPMania except for {{dew}}, who was banned from the site for about a year, ultimately ending her initial tenure as an active staff member. Nubman41 and system128 were promoted to tennis staff on February 3, 2022, while {{mrdoognoog}} retired from active staff on October 1 of that year. infinitysnapz was promoted to staff on August 20, 2023, followed by AngryLuigi23 on July 5, 2024 following the departure of both {{Zekii}} and {{Nubman41}} on the same day. On October 6, 2024, TheChutley, {{dew}} and {{Nubman41}} all became the first members of the staff to return to their positions, following a late-summer burst of old regulars returning to the community after long absences.

==Sixth Generation(2025-present)==

Members: {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1_}}

Together, {{dew}} and {{infinitysnapz}} were instrumental in the construction, opening and current leadership of the [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] forums, a site with which the tennis community served as an initial foundation of its active userbase. This has made them both technically the first since {{RabbitSnore}} to serve in an official capacity as both site admins and official tennis staff members. {{Letycjusz S.}} became the first member of the tennis staff to be added during the era of this site on March 1, 2025, as chosen by {{dew}} and {{TheChutley}}. {{TheChutley}} stepped down again from staff on April 12 followed by nm41 on May 29, the latter whom was then subsequently replaced by {{CRJ1}} on June 10.

==The Café Today==

The active staff as it stands today is made up of {{VidTens443}}, {{Letycjusz S.}}, {{infinitysnapz}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, {{dew}}, {{CRJ1}}, and {{system128}}. On the [[Youchew|{{YouChew}}]] archive, {{RabbitSnore}} remains displayed as a staff member in order to recognize the staff's roots of creation and his contributions to the tennis section overall during his active period on the forum.

The Poop Tennis Café as it stands today now exists on YellowTealPurple, referred to as the Video Tennis Cafe. While it still retains some activity, it reaches no where close to where the Tennis Cafes of old used to reach as the result of the community currently being split between the forum and the discord group The Tennis Isles, which previously acted as a refuge in lieu of [[YTPMania|{{YTPMania}}]] losing the interest of almost everyone. The Café thread had 4 original iterations on the Youchew Forums: the first opened on January 28, 2008 and was locked on March 31, 2008 after 104 pages due to the switch from the vanilla forums to the phpbb forums, marking the moment when site leadership was turned over to RabbitSnore and TINS. The second was opened on April 2, 2008 and closed on January 8, 2010 after 883 pages, the third opened on January 8, 2010 and closed on October 11, 2012 after 842 pages(with about 4 months of posts in early 2011 lost as a result of Youchew's infamous "Oz incident"), and the fourth and final iteration opened on October 13, 2012 and lasted until the closure of the YouChew Forums on September 29, 2018 after 494 pages. {{RabbitSnore}} upon briefly returning to the Youchew forums in January 2013 expressed his complete disbelief that the then current version of the thread continued to persist. The Café Thread on YTPMania was first opened on August 21, 2018, and lasted for 1999 posts before being closed with the rest of the site at the end of the year (there are no pages in this version due to the unusual interface of the YTPMania forums). The current café thread on the YellowTealPurple forums opened on November 18, 2024 (with its first post being made as early as November 5 in order to establish its presence with the site's opening), and has seen a respectable 31 pages as of present. Skype versions of the Café have also existed, which has at times seemed to subtract from the discussion of the original threads, but the Café thread proper remains with a reputation of being more relaxed, controlled, and easy to follow conversation-wise nature, being considered much more refreshing and comfortable.



=Tennis Fuck Choice Award=
[[File:Tennischoiceaward.png|thumb|right|The badge for the award.]]
"Once a month, each member of the Tennis Café Staff may issue this medal to the players of a match which he or she feels highlights the month." - Badge Description <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180919073301/http://youchew.net/forum/index.php?app=awards&module=awards&controller=awards</ref>

The "Tennis Fuck Choice Award" was an award given by the staff "once a month" for outstanding tennis achievement. While it it known who got the award, few records exist on ''why''. Likely created around mid to late 2009<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-video-tennis-cafe-today-i-opened-the-gate-and-was-about-to-begin-modifications-when-a-figure-suddenly-appeared-on-the-other-side.30/post-25695</ref>, fifteen players received the award before it went defunct - many of whom were staff themselves. It was also potentially possible to win the award multiple times; this has complicated archival as award descriptions would overwrite in many cases.

A list of all players who received this award can be seen below. Dates are not given as many had to be re-awarded following the Invision transition of the YouChew forums in late-July to early-August 2010, and much of the original data has remained lost. Note that many reasons are speculative.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Player
! Given By
! Why?
|-
| Emperor Ing
|
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]]
|-
| {{Crash2991}}
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]], the award as given in late July 2010 is notated as being "for awesome retro tennis".
|-
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{RabbitSnore}}
| {{strong414bad}}
| For Moogle vs. RabbitSnore
|-
| conradslater
|
| unknown, likely for inventing tennis
|-
| {{RAKninja}}
|
|
|-
| {{GameBop}}
|
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and others
|-
| {{MycroProcessor}}
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{Piodx}}
| {{rakninja}}
| Likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| vvaluigi
| {{RAKninja}}
| for [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]]
|-
| {{trepmaws}}
|
|
|-
| AjaxCubed
| {{rakninja}} + another
| For [[GameBop vs. AjaxCubed]] and {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|-
| {{NS2}}
| {{ChrisGendo}}
| for [[ThePlasticCanteen vs. NS2]]
|-
| Furnessly
|
| Likely for [[Crash2991 vs. Furnessly]]
|-
| {{Moogle}}
| {{rakninja}}, {{strong414bad}} + another
| For [[Emperor Ing vs. Moogle]], Moogle vs. RabbitSnore, as well as likely for {{Piodx}} + AjaxCubed vs. {{ChrisGendo}} + {{Moogle}} during the [[Tennis Season]]
|}

=Sources=

Gachapon League

2025-10-18T05:17:26Z

Infinitysnapz: add citations

[[Category:Unofficial Tennis Tournaments]]

{{Ongoing}}

[[File:Rataton.png|thumb|right|Pyokorappa, the mascot of Ratatan and unofficial mascot of the Gachapon league.]]

The [[Gachapon League]] is an unofficial [[Tennis Tournament]] hosted by {{TheChutley}} on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] in October of 2025. This tournament focuses on the collaborative side of tennis as it tinkers the idea of assigning players into pods, pinning the blueprints of the HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine collaborative channel from [[Tennis League 4]] (which {{TheChutley}} was also involved in.) The nature of the matches involving four players all collaborating in some way together makes them the second earliest examples of [[Quadruples Tennis]], after the [[Quadruples Match (2022)|first one.]]

A "pod" is similar to that of a "team" of tennis players, which only seldom has been explored since the [[Tennis Season]] as well as the ill-fated [[Super Teams Tennis]]. Each one had their own name and personality. A friendly yet competitive nature was developed, with teams encouraged to talk smack to each other in a dedicated thread.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/gachapon-league-shittalking-thread-talk-shit-get-hit-kid-ya-boyyyyyyyy.1979/</ref>

The tournament is one of the first tennis events of its kind (as well as in general) to use the Collaboration feature on YouTube, introduced around August 2025.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-tests-new-video-collaborators-display-in-video-titles/756656/</ref> Videos were all uploaded to a special channel (also called Gachapon League) where collaborators could be mentioned in the channel section.

=Rules=
Once players sign up in this tournament, they are assigned into random groups of 4 players each. Each of these groups then becomes one "pod" that faces against another "pod" with a different set of 4 players. Pulls on this tournament involve a poll being created on the main league thread after each set, and this allows players and anyone spectating to vote to randomize the players inside the pods to form new pods, similar to pulling a lever on a Gachapon machine. Continuing on the YellowTealPurple thread:

- No max contribution duration limit, players must each contribute a minimum of 10 seconds each — meaning with 3 players per pod, minimum would be 30sec; with 4 players, it would be 40sec. 
- No voting; league ends after 4 "pulls" 
- No deadline, but match fails after 10 days without an update.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/</ref> 

=Participants=
1. {{TheChutley}} 
2. {{mrdoognoog}} 
3. Yottifferent 
4. {{snorp}} 
5. nonojuju 
6. greenXYZ 
7. {{NeuroFlexyna}} 
8. {{Kneesocks}} 
9. {{Metroid998}} 
10. {{Letycjusz S.}} 
11. {{CRJ1}} 
12. {{fiv95}} 
13. candycanearter 
14. soundphaseytp 
15. {{p1xlwitch}} 
16. {{infinitysnapz}} 
17. {{dani_phantump}} 
18. {{Gabiwoda}} 
19. {{AngryLuigi23}} 
20. Fozp1444 
21. Elijah Star 
22. {{Zekii}} 
23. {{NESfanboi}} 
24. cashlost2 

==Replacements==
- {{BortLoco}} 
- YooY 
- YellowCatBall 
- {{VidTens443}} 
- {{piotrek117studios}} 
- InfernAl Toad 

==Teams (Set 1)==
===KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK===
{{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1}}, nonojuju, {{p1xlwitch}}
===C44014-C0011===
(short for ''C4tr4str0ph1c4llyC0l0r1f1c'')<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/post-34700</ref>

greenXYZ, {{NESfanboi}}, {{fiv95}}, Fozp1444

===scuttlebug jamboree===
candycanearter, soundphaseytp, {{TheChutley}}, {{infinitysnapz}}
===Caffeinated4C===
(short for ''Caffeinated_Cat-Clawed_Cobun_Capsule_version_π.crt'')<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/post-34559</ref>

Yottifferent, {{Kneesocks}}, {{snorp}}, {{Zekii}}

===Synthesizer Fantasia===
{{dani_phantump}}, {{NeuroFlexyna}}, {{Metroid998}}, {{Gabiwoda}}
===Enterprise Rewards Club===
{{mrdoognoog}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, cashlost2, Elijah Star

=Set 1=
==KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK vs. Synthesizer Fantasia==

==Caffeinated4C vs. C44014-C0011==

==scuttlebug jamboree vs. Enterprise Rewards Club==

=Sources=

{{Tournaments}}

Gachapon League

2025-10-18T05:15:28Z

Infinitysnapz: /* Caffeinated4C */

[[Category:Unofficial Tennis Tournaments]]

{{Ongoing}}

[[File:Rataton.png|thumb|right|Pyokorappa, the mascot of Ratatan and unofficial mascot of the Gachapon league.]]

The [[Gachapon League]] is an unofficial [[Tennis Tournament]] hosted by {{TheChutley}} on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] in October of 2025. This tournament focuses on the collaborative side of tennis as it tinkers the idea of assigning players into pods, pinning the blueprints of the HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine collaborative channel from [[Tennis League 4]] (which {{TheChutley}} was also involved in.) The nature of the matches involving four players all collaborating in some way together makes them the second earliest examples of [[Quadruples Tennis]], after the [[Quadruples Match (2022)|first one.]]

A "pod" is similar to that of a "team" of tennis players, which only seldom has been explored since the [[Tennis Season]] as well as the ill-fated [[Super Teams Tennis]]. Each one had their own name and personality. A friendly yet competitive nature was developed, with teams encouraged to talk smack to each other in a dedicated thread.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/gachapon-league-shittalking-thread-talk-shit-get-hit-kid-ya-boyyyyyyyy.1979/</ref>

The tournament is one of the first tennis events of its kind (as well as in general) to use the Collaboration feature on YouTube, introduced around August 2025.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-tests-new-video-collaborators-display-in-video-titles/756656/</ref> Videos were all uploaded to a special channel (also called Gachapon League) where collaborators could be mentioned in the channel section.

=Rules=
Once players sign up in this tournament, they are assigned into random groups of 4 players each. Each of these groups then becomes one "pod" that faces against another "pod" with a different set of 4 players. Pulls on this tournament involve a poll being created on the main league thread after each set, and this allows players and anyone spectating to vote to randomize the players inside the pods to form new pods, similar to pulling a lever on a Gachapon machine. Continuing on the YellowTealPurple thread:

- No max contribution duration limit, players must each contribute a minimum of 10 seconds each — meaning with 3 players per pod, minimum would be 30sec; with 4 players, it would be 40sec. 
- No voting; league ends after 4 "pulls" 
- No deadline, but match fails after 10 days without an update.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/</ref> 

=Participants=
1. {{TheChutley}} 
2. {{mrdoognoog}} 
3. Yottifferent 
4. {{snorp}} 
5. nonojuju 
6. greenXYZ 
7. {{NeuroFlexyna}} 
8. {{Kneesocks}} 
9. {{Metroid998}} 
10. {{Letycjusz S.}} 
11. {{CRJ1}} 
12. {{fiv95}} 
13. candycanearter 
14. soundphaseytp 
15. {{p1xlwitch}} 
16. {{infinitysnapz}} 
17. {{dani_phantump}} 
18. {{Gabiwoda}} 
19. {{AngryLuigi23}} 
20. Fozp1444 
21. Elijah Star 
22. {{Zekii}} 
23. {{NESfanboi}} 
24. cashlost2 

==Replacements==
- {{BortLoco}} 
- YooY 
- YellowCatBall 
- {{VidTens443}} 
- {{piotrek117studios}} 
- InfernAl Toad 

==Teams (Set 1)==
===KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK===
{{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1}}, nonojuju, {{p1xlwitch}}
===C44014-C0011===
(short for ''C4tr4str0ph1c4llyC0l0r1f1c'')

greenXYZ, {{NESfanboi}}, {{fiv95}}, Fozp1444

===scuttlebug jamboree===
candycanearter, soundphaseytp, {{TheChutley}}, {{infinitysnapz}}
===Caffeinated4C===
(short for ''Caffeinated_Cat-Clawed_Cobun_Capsule_version_π.crt'')

Yottifferent, {{Kneesocks}}, {{snorp}}, {{Zekii}}

===Synthesizer Fantasia===
{{dani_phantump}}, {{NeuroFlexyna}}, {{Metroid998}}, {{Gabiwoda}}
===Enterprise Rewards Club===
{{mrdoognoog}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, cashlost2, Elijah Star

=Set 1=
==KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK vs. Synthesizer Fantasia==

==Caffeinated4C vs. C44014-C0011==

==scuttlebug jamboree vs. Enterprise Rewards Club==

=Sources=

{{Tournaments}}

Gachapon League

2025-10-18T05:15:14Z

Infinitysnapz: add pod full name 2

[[Category:Unofficial Tennis Tournaments]]

{{Ongoing}}

[[File:Rataton.png|thumb|right|Pyokorappa, the mascot of Ratatan and unofficial mascot of the Gachapon league.]]

The [[Gachapon League]] is an unofficial [[Tennis Tournament]] hosted by {{TheChutley}} on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] in October of 2025. This tournament focuses on the collaborative side of tennis as it tinkers the idea of assigning players into pods, pinning the blueprints of the HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine collaborative channel from [[Tennis League 4]] (which {{TheChutley}} was also involved in.) The nature of the matches involving four players all collaborating in some way together makes them the second earliest examples of [[Quadruples Tennis]], after the [[Quadruples Match (2022)|first one.]]

A "pod" is similar to that of a "team" of tennis players, which only seldom has been explored since the [[Tennis Season]] as well as the ill-fated [[Super Teams Tennis]]. Each one had their own name and personality. A friendly yet competitive nature was developed, with teams encouraged to talk smack to each other in a dedicated thread.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/gachapon-league-shittalking-thread-talk-shit-get-hit-kid-ya-boyyyyyyyy.1979/</ref>

The tournament is one of the first tennis events of its kind (as well as in general) to use the Collaboration feature on YouTube, introduced around August 2025.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-tests-new-video-collaborators-display-in-video-titles/756656/</ref> Videos were all uploaded to a special channel (also called Gachapon League) where collaborators could be mentioned in the channel section.

=Rules=
Once players sign up in this tournament, they are assigned into random groups of 4 players each. Each of these groups then becomes one "pod" that faces against another "pod" with a different set of 4 players. Pulls on this tournament involve a poll being created on the main league thread after each set, and this allows players and anyone spectating to vote to randomize the players inside the pods to form new pods, similar to pulling a lever on a Gachapon machine. Continuing on the YellowTealPurple thread:

- No max contribution duration limit, players must each contribute a minimum of 10 seconds each — meaning with 3 players per pod, minimum would be 30sec; with 4 players, it would be 40sec. 
- No voting; league ends after 4 "pulls" 
- No deadline, but match fails after 10 days without an update.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/</ref> 

=Participants=
1. {{TheChutley}} 
2. {{mrdoognoog}} 
3. Yottifferent 
4. {{snorp}} 
5. nonojuju 
6. greenXYZ 
7. {{NeuroFlexyna}} 
8. {{Kneesocks}} 
9. {{Metroid998}} 
10. {{Letycjusz S.}} 
11. {{CRJ1}} 
12. {{fiv95}} 
13. candycanearter 
14. soundphaseytp 
15. {{p1xlwitch}} 
16. {{infinitysnapz}} 
17. {{dani_phantump}} 
18. {{Gabiwoda}} 
19. {{AngryLuigi23}} 
20. Fozp1444 
21. Elijah Star 
22. {{Zekii}} 
23. {{NESfanboi}} 
24. cashlost2 

==Replacements==
- {{BortLoco}} 
- YooY 
- YellowCatBall 
- {{VidTens443}} 
- {{piotrek117studios}} 
- InfernAl Toad 

==Teams (Set 1)==
===KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK===
{{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1}}, nonojuju, {{p1xlwitch}}
===C44014-C0011===
(short for ''C4tr4str0ph1c4llyC0l0r1f1c'')

greenXYZ, {{NESfanboi}}, {{fiv95}}, Fozp1444

===scuttlebug jamboree===
candycanearter, soundphaseytp, {{TheChutley}}, {{infinitysnapz}}
===Caffeinated4C===
full name - ''Caffeinated_Cat-Clawed_Cobun_Capsule_version_π.crt''

Yottifferent, {{Kneesocks}}, {{snorp}}, {{Zekii}}

===Synthesizer Fantasia===
{{dani_phantump}}, {{NeuroFlexyna}}, {{Metroid998}}, {{Gabiwoda}}
===Enterprise Rewards Club===
{{mrdoognoog}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, cashlost2, Elijah Star

=Set 1=
==KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK vs. Synthesizer Fantasia==

==Caffeinated4C vs. C44014-C0011==

==scuttlebug jamboree vs. Enterprise Rewards Club==

=Sources=

{{Tournaments}}

Gachapon League

2025-10-18T05:14:21Z

Infinitysnapz: /* Caffeinated4C */

[[Category:Unofficial Tennis Tournaments]]

{{Ongoing}}

[[File:Rataton.png|thumb|right|Pyokorappa, the mascot of Ratatan and unofficial mascot of the Gachapon league.]]

The [[Gachapon League]] is an unofficial [[Tennis Tournament]] hosted by {{TheChutley}} on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] in October of 2025. This tournament focuses on the collaborative side of tennis as it tinkers the idea of assigning players into pods, pinning the blueprints of the HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine collaborative channel from [[Tennis League 4]] (which {{TheChutley}} was also involved in.) The nature of the matches involving four players all collaborating in some way together makes them the second earliest examples of [[Quadruples Tennis]], after the [[Quadruples Match (2022)|first one.]]

A "pod" is similar to that of a "team" of tennis players, which only seldom has been explored since the [[Tennis Season]] as well as the ill-fated [[Super Teams Tennis]]. Each one had their own name and personality. A friendly yet competitive nature was developed, with teams encouraged to talk smack to each other in a dedicated thread.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/gachapon-league-shittalking-thread-talk-shit-get-hit-kid-ya-boyyyyyyyy.1979/</ref>

The tournament is one of the first tennis events of its kind (as well as in general) to use the Collaboration feature on YouTube, introduced around August 2025.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-tests-new-video-collaborators-display-in-video-titles/756656/</ref> Videos were all uploaded to a special channel (also called Gachapon League) where collaborators could be mentioned in the channel section.

=Rules=
Once players sign up in this tournament, they are assigned into random groups of 4 players each. Each of these groups then becomes one "pod" that faces against another "pod" with a different set of 4 players. Pulls on this tournament involve a poll being created on the main league thread after each set, and this allows players and anyone spectating to vote to randomize the players inside the pods to form new pods, similar to pulling a lever on a Gachapon machine. Continuing on the YellowTealPurple thread:

- No max contribution duration limit, players must each contribute a minimum of 10 seconds each — meaning with 3 players per pod, minimum would be 30sec; with 4 players, it would be 40sec. 
- No voting; league ends after 4 "pulls" 
- No deadline, but match fails after 10 days without an update.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/</ref> 

=Participants=
1. {{TheChutley}} 
2. {{mrdoognoog}} 
3. Yottifferent 
4. {{snorp}} 
5. nonojuju 
6. greenXYZ 
7. {{NeuroFlexyna}} 
8. {{Kneesocks}} 
9. {{Metroid998}} 
10. {{Letycjusz S.}} 
11. {{CRJ1}} 
12. {{fiv95}} 
13. candycanearter 
14. soundphaseytp 
15. {{p1xlwitch}} 
16. {{infinitysnapz}} 
17. {{dani_phantump}} 
18. {{Gabiwoda}} 
19. {{AngryLuigi23}} 
20. Fozp1444 
21. Elijah Star 
22. {{Zekii}} 
23. {{NESfanboi}} 
24. cashlost2 

==Replacements==
- {{BortLoco}} 
- YooY 
- YellowCatBall 
- {{VidTens443}} 
- {{piotrek117studios}} 
- InfernAl Toad 

==Teams (Set 1)==
===KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK===
{{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1}}, nonojuju, {{p1xlwitch}}
===C44014-C0011===
greenXYZ, {{NESfanboi}}, {{fiv95}}, Fozp1444
===scuttlebug jamboree===
candycanearter, soundphaseytp, {{TheChutley}}, {{infinitysnapz}}
===Caffeinated4C===
full name - ''Caffeinated_Cat-Clawed_Cobun_Capsule_version_π.crt''

Yottifferent, {{Kneesocks}}, {{snorp}}, {{Zekii}}

===Synthesizer Fantasia===
{{dani_phantump}}, {{NeuroFlexyna}}, {{Metroid998}}, {{Gabiwoda}}
===Enterprise Rewards Club===
{{mrdoognoog}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, cashlost2, Elijah Star

=Set 1=
==KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK vs. Synthesizer Fantasia==

==Caffeinated4C vs. C44014-C0011==

==scuttlebug jamboree vs. Enterprise Rewards Club==

=Sources=

{{Tournaments}}

Gachapon League

2025-10-18T05:14:13Z

Infinitysnapz: team full names, p1

[[Category:Unofficial Tennis Tournaments]]

{{Ongoing}}

[[File:Rataton.png|thumb|right|Pyokorappa, the mascot of Ratatan and unofficial mascot of the Gachapon league.]]

The [[Gachapon League]] is an unofficial [[Tennis Tournament]] hosted by {{TheChutley}} on [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] in October of 2025. This tournament focuses on the collaborative side of tennis as it tinkers the idea of assigning players into pods, pinning the blueprints of the HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine collaborative channel from [[Tennis League 4]] (which {{TheChutley}} was also involved in.) The nature of the matches involving four players all collaborating in some way together makes them the second earliest examples of [[Quadruples Tennis]], after the [[Quadruples Match (2022)|first one.]]

A "pod" is similar to that of a "team" of tennis players, which only seldom has been explored since the [[Tennis Season]] as well as the ill-fated [[Super Teams Tennis]]. Each one had their own name and personality. A friendly yet competitive nature was developed, with teams encouraged to talk smack to each other in a dedicated thread.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/gachapon-league-shittalking-thread-talk-shit-get-hit-kid-ya-boyyyyyyyy.1979/</ref>

The tournament is one of the first tennis events of its kind (as well as in general) to use the Collaboration feature on YouTube, introduced around August 2025.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-tests-new-video-collaborators-display-in-video-titles/756656/</ref> Videos were all uploaded to a special channel (also called Gachapon League) where collaborators could be mentioned in the channel section.

=Rules=
Once players sign up in this tournament, they are assigned into random groups of 4 players each. Each of these groups then becomes one "pod" that faces against another "pod" with a different set of 4 players. Pulls on this tournament involve a poll being created on the main league thread after each set, and this allows players and anyone spectating to vote to randomize the players inside the pods to form new pods, similar to pulling a lever on a Gachapon machine. Continuing on the YellowTealPurple thread:

- No max contribution duration limit, players must each contribute a minimum of 10 seconds each — meaning with 3 players per pod, minimum would be 30sec; with 4 players, it would be 40sec. 
- No voting; league ends after 4 "pulls" 
- No deadline, but match fails after 10 days without an update.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-gachapon-league-sign-ups-still-open-set-1-start.1978/</ref> 

=Participants=
1. {{TheChutley}} 
2. {{mrdoognoog}} 
3. Yottifferent 
4. {{snorp}} 
5. nonojuju 
6. greenXYZ 
7. {{NeuroFlexyna}} 
8. {{Kneesocks}} 
9. {{Metroid998}} 
10. {{Letycjusz S.}} 
11. {{CRJ1}} 
12. {{fiv95}} 
13. candycanearter 
14. soundphaseytp 
15. {{p1xlwitch}} 
16. {{infinitysnapz}} 
17. {{dani_phantump}} 
18. {{Gabiwoda}} 
19. {{AngryLuigi23}} 
20. Fozp1444 
21. Elijah Star 
22. {{Zekii}} 
23. {{NESfanboi}} 
24. cashlost2 

==Replacements==
- {{BortLoco}} 
- YooY 
- YellowCatBall 
- {{VidTens443}} 
- {{piotrek117studios}} 
- InfernAl Toad 

==Teams (Set 1)==
===KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK===
{{Letycjusz S.}}, {{CRJ1}}, nonojuju, {{p1xlwitch}}
===C44014-C0011===
greenXYZ, {{NESfanboi}}, {{fiv95}}, Fozp1444
===scuttlebug jamboree===
candycanearter, soundphaseytp, {{TheChutley}}, {{infinitysnapz}}
===Caffeinated4C===
full name - ''Caffeinated_Cat-Clawed_Cobun_Capsule_version_π.crt''
Yottifferent, {{Kneesocks}}, {{snorp}}, {{Zekii}}

===Synthesizer Fantasia===
{{dani_phantump}}, {{NeuroFlexyna}}, {{Metroid998}}, {{Gabiwoda}}
===Enterprise Rewards Club===
{{mrdoognoog}}, {{AngryLuigi23}}, cashlost2, Elijah Star

=Set 1=
==KURWAMERDEFUCKSUCK vs. Synthesizer Fantasia==

==Caffeinated4C vs. C44014-C0011==

==scuttlebug jamboree vs. Enterprise Rewards Club==

=Sources=

{{Tournaments}}

File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png

2025-10-10T02:04:40Z

Infinitysnapz: Infinitysnapz uploaded a new version of File:Tennisstafftimelinetemp.png

Tennis Staff Timeline (temporary sheets edition- up to date as of 27th feb 2025)

YTP Tennis

2025-10-04T01:52:38Z

Infinitysnapz: update mr1k count

<youtube>md_OYyhPWUQ</youtube>

YTP Tennis, also known as Youtube Poop Tennis, Video Tennis, Remix Tennis or simply Tennis, is a artistic medium derivative of [[Photoshop Tennis]] and [[Youtube Poop]] involving the back-and-forth editing of video projects, often absurdist in nature.

While starting mainly as a derivative of YouTube Poop, and in the early years much more embraced by the full Youtube Poop community, it has increasingly become its own thing as time went on and the community of mainline Youtube Poop and the community of tennis have grown largely seperate. Much of modern tennis is a completely different beast in comparison to [[Youtube Poop]], often veering into much more experimental, atmospheric, avant-guarde and generally much more overstimulating territory.

There are many different types of tennis that have evolved over the years, but the tried and true "vanilla" 6 round 1v1 has held steady just as much.

This wiki is dedicated to everything about the sport - so if you want to know more, you're in the right place!

If you know ''nothing at all'', see the [[Getting Started]] page to... get started!

=History=
==Origins==
<youtube>nRB-O214ezg</youtube>

The idea of remixing another person's video can be supposedly traced back as early as April of 2007, when dvariano uploaded a video called "Elated Chronological Junctures" that was supposedly the first "[[repoop]]" video, and thus considered to be technically the first "Round 2" ever made. However the original video that he edited, made by a user named bahbugandhum, has yet to be found again. Alongside this, Photoshop Tennis already existed, and original YouChew admin conradslater was a fan and an avid participant of it; there exists evidence of him engaging the community with it as early as June of 2007. As someone who took YTP seriously enough to consider it genuine art at that time, the equation to put together the tennis format with video, especially YTP, seemed to be a natural one for him to make.

<youtube>9SZvloYgu-s</youtube>

The first full match, also the first time that tennis was ever applied to the medium of video entirely on the internet, was in the form of [[Conradslater vs Misselaineous10|Conradslater and Misslaineous10]], starting on August 11th, 2007 and ended on August 21st. In it's taking place, this match forth the full idea of someone doing a remix of someone else's video, and having the original maker do the same back, creating a "Tennis" like pattern. From this match onward the concept greatly expanded to great - and at the beginning considerably unimaginable - lengths of development and refinement.

==The "Freewheeling" Era (2007-2008)==

At first, there was hardly any tennis community in a well defined sense to speak of; much of the tennis matches that did happen following the first one was done so in a way that would be seen by modern standards as very disorganized, as many merely skirted around the concept in curiosity without ever really committing fully to the potential that tennis in a YTP/Video context could offer. That being said, there were a handful of notable early names that became early fixtures in the world of tennis: BMATF played the second ever tennis match with Markie, and UncleChuckTH played the third ever tennis match with conradslater (the latter's second match), and both UncleChuckTH and BMATF would continue to exist in the world of tennis until the early 2010s. TangerineImpz vs. SeductiveBaz was played entirely start to finish on August 21, 2007, the day that the final round of the first tennis match was uploaded, and this was for a very long time the fastest tennis match ever played; SeductiveBaz would also be an early fixture and continued to tennis in some capacity until a full 12 years later. Second only to conradslater's early activity in tennis was that of MrDrunkenFox, who played multiple early games including with Tentor, plex14, PapaGonzales and Furnessly. This latter player, along with other such players such as InsinerateHymn, JazzDanceForChildren, TyrannosaurusReich, MelvanaInChains, dvariano, {{Luioigi}}, ADHDYoshi, GameCubeHero, Intenseowl, MVJ5197, 3inchhorse, ELPSteel, SushieBoy, Vorhias, sonicnerd23, and SesakaGenX would also serve to play their own individual roles in defining the nature of tennis at its earliest onsets. Tennis is considered to have reached one of its first peaks in its intersection with "Robotnik YTP" at the time - videos that focused entirely on remixing episodes of ''[[The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' and its main antagonist - in particular the matches of UncleChuckTH vs. Wikiwow(2007), the first ever match to reach ten rounds, Stegblob vs. TyrannosaurusReich (2007), and especially [[BMATF vs. UncleChuckTH vs. Wikiwow]](2007). All of these would build a foundation for a strand of tennis that would eventually continue long separate from the main tennis community, which, although small, would localize and organize itself largely on the YouChew forums.

Aside from all of these other players however, one of the most important to come out of these first months was RabbitSnore, who played his first tennis match with real-life friend Thereisnospoon303, or TINS, in October 2007. Rabbit immediately came to develop a passionate and vested interest in tennis - the places that it could go and the ways in which it could develop - from the very offset of his entrance into it, and he sought to give the medium the attention and the analysis that it deserved through his initial position on the "Vanilla" YouChew forums as chief editor of the forum's "newsroom" - from October/November 2007 onward, Rabbit began his regular "Tennis Review" series of articles, with InsinerateHymn vs. PukingCyberman(2007), GameCubeHero vs. Intenseowl(2007) and Furnessly vs. MrDrunkenFox(2007) the first three matches he covered in this matter. He would contribute a "retrospective review" of conradslater vs. Misselaineous10 shortly thereafter, and it is from this point onward, largely through his insistence, that the importance and the nature of the first ever tennis match began to become recognized in the way it now is today.

His prominence in this activity and the quality of his articles for the time gained him the trust and admiration of Conrad himself, and he was able to use this sway to convince him to allow the tennis section to begin hosting its first [[tennis tournament]]s, with Gallers being the initial organizer of the first few to take place. After Rabbit had accumulated a respectable roster of completed matches including with YamiMario, SushieBoy, Miss10, and PapaGonzales, Rabbit took on Conrad himself in the now legendary match of [[RabbitSnore vs. conradslater]](2007). At a time when tennis usually came in the language of either "comedic" or of the extreme varieties conceived in the first match, this match was seen as a completely different third approach - of tennis as very much an art and of a thoughtful exchange in and of itself, even if this exchange was liable to get wild in other ways.

In January 2008, Rabbit had gained enough of an influence over tennis - having played further matches with MrDrunkenFox, pimpsahoy, strong414bad, and UncleChuckTH, that he was able to create some of the earliest foundational texts on how tennis was meant to be played and approached: the Observational and Recreational Guides to tennis. On January 28, Rabbit also created the first of the "Tennis Café" threads, a general chat for the tennis section that allowed for the community to begin to consolidate together and organize themselves properly for the first time. Around this time, newer members began to enter into the community or gain a greater degree of visibility in the section, including {{Crash2991}}, {{strong414bad}}, {{GameBop}}, and {{Nuthead}}. For much of the original Cafe thread's incarnation, only Rabbit and Crash would be doing the majority of the regular posting, and between them talked about tennis matches often, with RabbitSnore vs. conradslater, conradslater vs. Miss10 and [[MilkR0und vs. Y2Zero]](2007) receiving repeated reference and discussion as part of an early canon of foundational matches for the community. Somewhere in this period due to his enthusiasm and prolific activity, RabbitSnore even began being regarded by a few as "The King of Tennis" - a title he never was comfortable with.

Conrad's last match played was with TheDarkRises in January 2008. He began to make a lot of strange, aggressive and elitist decisions in how he shaped and restructured the forum community, including among other things enforcing his "War on [[AIDS]]"(a crusade against what he termed to be low effort YTPs based on source and editor preference) upon the community in addition to a requirement for forum users to play at least one tennis match in order to be eligible to be "featured" on the site. The decline of his reign on the "Vanilla" forums coincided with the tennis community, in the absence of most everyone else, continuing to grow and consolidate around a growing collection of regular tennis players and posters in the Cafe. {{RAKninja}}, {{theHappyFungus}}, and {{NS2}} became such members at this time, and all engaged in tennis matches both with each other and other exterior players, with Temeku/MTB710, GreatBritishTurd and TheDarkRises all beginning to make regular tennis appearances. The "Vanilla" forums officially shut down at the end of March 2008, as conradslater relinquished control over to {{RabbitSnore}} and TINS, who purchased new forum software and a new server to give the community a fresh, laid-back start - free from the drama and the hardship of the site's original incarnation. Rabbit promptly created a new version of the Tennis Cafe, and it was shortly in the wake of this site's beginning that the official rules of tennis were finally laid down for the first time, stipulating the 6-round standard with which all tennis would orient itself around from this point onward.

===RabbitSnore, as Admin and the "First" "Tennis Fuck"===

The spring of 2008 was a prolific time for tennis under Rabbit and TINS' administration. RabbitSnore himself however began to considerably slow in activity around this point, with some of his matches played in this era being with the likes of BMATF, theHappyFungus, GameCubeHero, Christoph and Nuthead. He was now an administrator and "second in command" of a forum that was ever so steadily growing in activity and users of all personality types - often the overwhelm of the rest of the site would get to him, resulting in him often retreating to his second Tennis Cafe thread to get away from it all. Multiple regulars of the Café would over time make this thread their only home on the entire site, and the tennis section the only active place that they would visit during their periods of activity.

Rabbit took the initiative to create a separate staff for this subforum in order to take the weight off of him managing the entire section on his own, and thus - the [[tennis staff]] was first formed in May 2008. A matter of months later, RAKninja, the oldest and last chosen of the first generation of staff, would christen them with the informal moniker of the Tennis Fucks, a name that has stuck into the present on occasion. While there were originally six members chosen, making for a total of seven when counting Rabbit, the lineup would continue in a state of flux from its inception onward with the promotion and departure of various members, but generally settled around an early core of {{RAKninja}}, {{Crash2991}} and {{strong414bad}} as those the most faithful to the tennis section in this initial phase. [to be continued]

==The first matches==

The following is a list of the first 50 matches ever played (or alternatively, every match from August to the start of November 2007). The timestamps are based on their time started/completed on the [[YouChew]] forums. As there was yet to be a concept of a "failed" match, ever match is here is listed as complete, even if some only go to 2-3 rounds.

Matches are sorted by date ''started'', with the precise order going by when matches started sometimes by the hour and minute the first round of a match was posted if multiple matches start on the same day. Date format is MM-DD-YYYY.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!
! Match
! Start Date
! End Date
! Verification
|-
| 1
| [[conradslater vs. Miss10]]
| 08-11-2007
| 08-21-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 2
| [[BMATF vs. Markie]]
| 08-19-2007
| 09-03-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 3
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIgVeim2Qp0 UncleChuckTH vs. conradslater]
| 08-19-2007
| 08-29-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 4
| TangerineImpz vs. SeductiveBaz
| 08-21-2007
| 08-21-2007
| YouChew
|-
|5
| ZippZapp vs. ADHDYoshi
| 08-30-2007
| 09-02-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 6
| [[KingCornholio vs. Ophios]]
| 08-30-2007
| 09-14-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 7
| MrDrunkenFox vs. Tentor
| 08-31-2007
| 09-02-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 8
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSONj5IwwRw UncleChuckTH vs. Yenehckcid]
| 09-01-2007
| 10-07-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 9
| glitchboyadvance vs. conradslater
| 09-01-2007
| 10-19-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 10
| seconteen13 vs. 1upclock
| 09-01-2007
| 09-02-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 11
| Plex vs. MrDrunkenFox
| 09-02-2007
| 09-07-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 12
| AimManEXE vs. Arufonzu
| 09-10-2007
| 09-23-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 13
| Wikiwow vs. MetalAcid5
| 09-14-2007
| 09-15-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 14
| JazzDanceForChildren vs. TyrannosaurusReich
| 09-22-2007
| 09-24-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 15
| PapaGonzales vs. MrDrunkenFox
| 09-23-2007
| 09-28-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 16
| conradslater vs. Gnomebob
| 09-27-2007
| 10-04-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 17
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fOhGrzFwiw&pp=0gcJCU8JAYcqIYzv Idiotska vs. SoldierElerium]
| 09-28-2007
| 10-04-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 18
| BMATF vs. Dhgriff9/UberNooberPooper
| 09-29-2007
| 10-05-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 19
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-NOY6MKD4 hom906sar vs. strong414bad]
| 09-30-2007
| 10-08-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 20
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otQNk7rua_4 Bobomb99 vs. {{Miss10}}]
| 10-03-2007
| 11-07-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 21
| Luioigi vs. scimath12
| 10-03-2007
| 10-10-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 22
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2gOPcHvxc SeductiveBaz vs. UncleChuckTH]
| 10-05-2007
| 10-17-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 23
| azsxdc vs. Y2Zero
| 10-06-2007
| 10-12-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 24
| [[Chain Poop]]
| 10-06-2007
| 12-29-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 25
| KittyGabyIMEANGOAT vs. MelvanaInChains
| 10-13-2007
| 10-14-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 26
| TantricNferno vs. {{Terrorist}}
| 10-17-2007
| 10-19-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 27
| MelvanaInChains vs. TyrannosaurusReich
| 10-17-2007
| 10-21-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 28
| MetalAcid5 vs. Tentor
| 10-21-2007
| 10-25-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 29
| ADHDYoshi vs. Ikwaylx
| 10-23-2007
| 10-27-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 30
| [[Wikiwow vs. UncleChuckTH]]
| 10-23-2007
| 11-18-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 31
| Nimrodpowerz vs. MelvanaInChains
| 10-24-2007
| 10-24-2007
| [https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/19-tennis-completed/83520-poop-tennis-nimrodpowerz-vs-melvanainchains/1 YouChew]
|-
| 32
| [[RabbitSnore vs. Thereisnospoon303]]
| 10-24-2007
| 10-30-2007
| YouChew
|-
|33
| cloggedone vs. hom906sar
| 10-24-2007
| 10-28-2007
| YouChew
|-
|34
| SushieBoy vs. kiz038
| 10-24-2007
| 10-27-2007
| YouChew
|-
|35
| SpamNapkin vs. {{BMATF}}
| 10-24-2007
| 10-26-2007
| YouChew
|-
|36
| [[Furnessly vs. MrDrunkenFox]]
| 10-26-2007
| 11-03-2007
| YouChew
|-
|37
| Wizkid837 vs. UberPooper12
| 10-27-2007
| 11-01-2007
| YouChew
|-
|38
| GameCubeHero vs. Intenseowl
| 10-27-2007
| 10-31-2007
| YouChew
|-
|39
| heartlessmushroom vs. Razor64a
| 10-27-2007
| 10-28-2007
| YouChew
|-
|40
| MVJ52197 vs. 3inchhorse
| 10-28-2007
| 11-04-2007
| YouChew
|-
|41
| MesuginaChicken vs. SeductiveBaz vs. hom906sar
| 10-28-2007
| 11-05-2007
| [https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/19-tennis-completed/83799-mahsuginachicken-vs-seductivebaz-vs-hom906sar/1 YouChew]
|-
|42
| BMATF vs. ELPSteel
| 10-28-2007
| 11-05-2007
| YouChew
|-
|43
| SobmicSSBB vs. plex14
| 10-29-2007
| 11-07-2007
| YouChew
|-
|44
| InsinerateHymn vs. PukingCyberman
| 10-29-2007
| 11-01-2007
| YouChew
|-
|45
| RabbitSnore vs. SushieBoy
| 10-30-2007
| 11-05-2007
| YouChew
|-
|46
| Cortes vs. MelvanaInChains
| 10-30-2007
| 11-06-2007
| YouChew
|-
|47
| DrKelexo vs. Vorhias
| 10-31-2007
| 11-19-2007
| YouChew
|-
|48
| sonicnerd23 vs. Hoss1993/HossTehMaster
| 10-31-2007
| 11-03-2007
| YouChew
|-
| 49
| {{BMATF}} vs. conradslater
| 10-31-2007
| 11-5-2007
| [https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/19-tennis-completed/83459-tennis-bmatf-vs-conrad-slater-please-vote/1 YouChew]
|-
|50
| EdE0tt vs. MAXXNinja
| 11-01-2007
| 11-06-2007
| YouChew
|}

==Further Developments==
The very first rematch in tennis (players going at it more than once) took place between MelvanaInChains and nimrodpowerz, with their second match going from November 17th to the 24th, 2007 - ending exactly a month after their first match concluded. <ref>https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/19-tennis-completed/85033-melvanainchains-vs-nimrodpowerz-again/1</ref>

=Typical Game Format + Etiquette=
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Lf7zolg-U</youtube> 
The rules of YTP Tennis are often customized to suit each pooper's needs. However, one of the original, and well known, formats is as follows:

* One player (P1) asks another, or in some cases the community as a whole, whether or not they would like to participate in a game. Here the number of videos to be made (or rounds, typically 4 or 6) is defined, as well as the length of each, and any other additional conditions. If an open challenge is made, a video is sometimes supplied. This is "Round 1", the serve of the tennis match.
* Another player (P2) accepts the challenge, and edits over P1's first video to make "Round 2". In addition to editing the video supplied, P2 can add new sources to mix in with it if they so choose.
* P1 follows through by remixing the new video to make "Round 3", adding sources of their own if they so choose. The game continues in a back and forth fashion like this until the round limit is met.
*It is always absolutely essential that the previous round always be used in some way to make each subsequent round, otherwise it is not considered true tennis.

For additional conditions to a match, they are usually outlined in these such ways:

- specific sources that are to be used for a match, like "video games only" (Furnessly vs. {{MycroProcessor}} (2008-2009)), "Final Fantasy only"({{Moogle}} vs. Mazz0Murder(2009)) or having each round correspond to a sequential letter of the alphabet with added sources and time limit (CorruptionSound's "ABC" Tennis Multi-Way (2011-2014))

- the amount of sources that can be added (in the early years, it was commonly suggested that added sources be capped at a maximum of three per round; in Kurkop vs. Metzgorrre(2010), the condition was that No sources were to be added)

- specific software to be used, such as WMM ([[Dani vs. GameBop (WMM rematch)|dani_phantump vs. GameBop]](2012-2014), [[Vanilla WMM 5-Way|CorruptionSound vs. Massivezephyr14 vs. GameBop vs. BSP66c vs. Metroid998]](2010-2012))

- editing restrictions, such as "no visual distortion/ear rape"({{NS2}} vs. {{ChrisGendo}}(2009))

- a nonstandard match type, such as [[Wildcard]] ([[RabbitSnore vs. Crash2991]](2008)), [[Multiplied Time]] ([[quax94 vs. MycroProcessor]](2009)) or [[Panic Tennis]] ({{dew}} vs. {{Gamebop}} vs. LeSuperKoffee(2012))

=Exceptions + Special Cases=
Often, 6 rounds in total is the conventional amount of rounds made that make a normal match considered "complete". However, in certain circumstances, especially if the players enjoy working off of each other, the number of rounds can often get extended to 8 or more. [[The 100 Round Tennis|{{TheChutley}} and vvaluigi began a match together]] with the intent of playing 100 rounds in total beginning in 2008, and have gotten as far as Round 75 in the present day, with a five year window of inactivity between 2011 and 2016. TheChutley is also known for often playing matches with various opponents that get extended to 8 rounds, having done so in her matches with {{GameBop}}, [[TheChutley vs. quax94|quax94]], [[TheChutley vs. ChrisGendo|ChrisGendo]], [[AbsoluteBillion vs. TheChutley|AbsoluteBillion]], JakeSteel, Rarenut59 and SesakaGenX, to name some. Her first match with Imaperson additionally extended all the way to 10 rounds, at a time when the only known instance of this otherwise was Wikiwow vs. UncleChuckTH(2007), the first 1v1 match to go this far.

In some cases, especially in tennis's early years, matches could be declared "complete" at an odd number, as well as one under the conventional amount of 6. This usually came about as a mutual agreement between the players involved that the match had reached a natural end, if not exactly a conventional one. Matches such as Crash2991 vs. strong414bad(2008) and [[AshcrementVII vs. UncleChuckTH]](2012) were called complete at 5 rounds, and in another, much rarer instance, RabbitSnore vs. {{NS2}} (2008-2009) was given "honorary completion" after only 3 rounds. Other matches like [[RabbitSnore vs. conradslater]] (2007) and {{Kurkop}} vs. LeSuperKoffee (2010) were declared complete at the unusual amount of 9 rounds. These circumstances usually only happen when the last even round of a match is either unable or unwilling to be made by the volleying side, but there is not a desire to consider the match "failed" for sentimental reasons, usually due to the players being close as friends or the quality of the match as it stands being considered too great for failure.

Additionally, matches can sometimes stall at an odd number with an even finishing round never being made and the match being considered neither completed nor failed due to a loss of communication. These include matches such as [[BMATF vs. Markie]](2007, the second ever tennis match), {{NS2}} vs. Markie(2012), {{dani_phantump}} vs. robochao1(2015-2016) and SushieBoy vs. guysafari(2010), all matches that never received a Round 6.

Ultimately though, a match is traditionally considered "failed" when one or both players have lost the desire to continue a match and the agreed number of rounds is not reached, and every player in tennis comes to play at least one, and often at least a few failed matches throughout their tennis career. There is however no definitive time limit to how long a tennis match must take. {{Metroid998}} vs. {{AshcrementVII}} notably took an entire 5 years to complete, lasting from 2011's Round 1 to 2016's Round 6. {{dani_phantump}} vs. {{verity larsen}} additionally took 4 years to complete, lasting from 2012 to 2016. Whether or not a match fails depends entirely on the players involved and their willingness to continue the match.

Etiquette is generally recommended when it comes to starting matches with people - like the game itself, communication is key. In the early days of tennis a direct challenge to a specific player would sometimes be cast without any prior planning to ultimately spotty success, and it was generally considered not the most popular way to start matches with people. Throughout Tennis's history, it has seen some players such as HerpyWhooves and {{autumnithink}} who were notorious for their habit of uploading serves to whoever they wanted as an opponent with no prior (or subsequent) communication whatsoever. While most of these serves were not volleyed, they on occasion were and did in fact blossom into full matches, such as {{autumnithink}} vs. {{CorruptionSound}} (2011) and HerpyWhooves vs. {{Gamebop}} (2011). It is still overall highly discouraged that one start matches with anyone this way however.

==Doubles Tennis==
Doubles Tennis is the practice of teams of two going at it. See [[Team Tennis#Doubles Tennis|here]] for more.

==Triples Tennis==
Tennis with three! See [[Team Tennis#Triples Tennis|here]] for more information.

==Multi-Ways==

Larger matches with more than two people, but still in a repeating pattern. See [[Multi-Way Match|here]] for more information.

==Poop Chains==
A '''Poop Chain''' is a longer match where a different person makes each round. These are usually large, community-wide collaborative events. See [[Chains|here]] for more.

=Tennis Café and Café Staff (Tennis Staff)=

The '''Tennis Café''' is the great congregation place of the world of tennis. Historically started on [[YouChew]] before first moving to [[YTPMania]], then to [[YellowTealPurple]] later on, it is where tennis is discussed, matches are born, and people generally have a good time. While it has become much less active due to services like Discord, it still exists and serves as an important resource to this day.

This Café (along with tennis as a whole) is overseen by the [[Tennis Staff]], the moderators that oversee the tennis section of the medium's given forum home, and a group of individuals who strive for the success of the community and keep it stimulated and active through the hosting of events, the organization of interesting tennis matches and unique setups, and (under a more modern understanding) helping to set an example of a great person... and a great player. If you ever need help with something in tennis and can't get answers elsewhere, they are the best people to ask.

'''See [[Tennis Staff|here]] for more!'''

=Achievements=
As stated above, the first tennis match took place in '''2007''', between [[Conradslater vs Misselaineous10|Conradslater and Misslaineous10.]]

The longest accepted tennis round is '''"Vore. Unbirth. Dinner." by {{MycroProcessor}}''', at a whopping '''six hours'''. The round is the final (sixth) round of [[Nineroe vs. MycroProcessor]], taking place during the first set of the [[Match Voting Tournament]]. While there are rounds longer, these are usually not counted due to lack of content or effort.

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The longest true self-match is the "idc r1k" by dillon, a match that is at over a thousand rounds long. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtz_UBFzs0Jg6EeYXbnq2hkEMFGVVAPh6

The longest 1v1 match is {{system128}} vs. The British YTPer.

The longest tennis match is '''[[Missadaxio]]''', at nearly '''14000 rounds and counting'''. It isn't likely to be passed any time soon, as the match plan to go on forever.

Not a single player has won more than one individual [[tennis tournament]]. However, if counting collaborative matches, {{GameBop}} has the most wins with three: [[GTT]], [[TTT]], and [[MVT]]. For other tournament-related achievements, see [[Tennis Tournaments#Achievements|here.]].

The first time two [[tennis staff]] played each other was [[strong414bad vs. Nuthead]] in December, 2007. The first time this happened in a tournament environment was in [[TL2]] Gameweek 2, between [[strong414bad vs. RabbitSnore|{{strong414bad}} and RabbitSnore]].

The most viewed tennis round is "(YTP Tennis Round One) 20th Century Fox and Universal have a party" by Paperking, a serve for their match against TrickyMario7654. As of June 14th, 2025, it sits at 2,072,180 views!

<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsHviQDa0XA</youtube>

{{Types}}

{{Tournaments}}

=Sources=

Godot

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Infinitysnapz: i have only used Godot in r1 vs system128, and r2/r4 vs AngryLuigi - i dont think this is one that'll really catch on

[[Category:FOSS Programs]]

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'''Godot''' is free and open source video game engine akin to GameMaker and Unity. It can be used to make a wide variety of 2D and 3D games.

[[File:Godotbook.jpg|right]]

https://godotengine.org/

Godot has seen fringe use in [[tennis]] as a tool for creating 3D scenes. Some have even made "games" within their rounds!

=Usage=
Godot uses GDScript as its main programming language.

=Notable Usage=
- [[Tennis staff]] member infinitysnapz was one of the first to popularize the use of Godot, using it in a handful of rounds.

GameSetMatch

2025-10-03T05:08:53Z

Infinitysnapz: page done for the time being

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[[File:Gsm-icon.png|200px|thumb|right|The logo for GSM]]

[[GameSetMatch]], or GSM for short, is an python-based open-source video tennis compilation tool created by {{infinitysnapz}}.
<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/resources/gamesetmatch.72/</ref> <ref>https://git.yellowtealpurple.net/infinitysnapz/GameSetMatch/releases</ref>

Development and planning began in April 2025, to combat compilation inefficiencies, user mistakes, as well as to create a standard look for compilations.
The first video produced using the tool was the {{YouWouldBeWelcome}} compilation of {{NS2}} vs {{WowComics}} on April 5th - This also serves as an archetypical example of what a GSM-powered compilation looks like:

<youtube>oOI_Zbv6UBY</youtube>

=Usage=
Detailed writeup coming soon - for now, please refer to this video guide for the UI, created by {{dani_phantump}}:

<youtube>jIhaPP8nzgw</youtube>

To install, run {{Inline-code | install-requirements.bat}} from the git repository
Example usage of GSM-CLI: {{Inline-code | py gsm.py input.csv output.mp4 -f h264_amf -nr }}
Help command: {{Inline-code | py gsm.py -h }}

==Features==
GSM supports GPU acceleration - but by default it uses x264. To change this, set Output to {{Inline-code | amf}}, {{Inline-code | nvenc}}, or {{Inline-code | qsv}}
The fonts can be changed by editing {{Inline-code | fonts.json}},

=Technical information=
At its core, GSM is powered using Python and FFMPEG, using CSV files to provide information on round titles.
Internally, it uses the Pillow library to generate titlecards, and FFmpeg to turn the titlecards into videos, and rescale all rounds to match.
GSM-UI uses FreeSimpleGui - a TkInter wrapper - as its framework, though a future rewrite may happen some day due to lacking performance.

== Trivia ==
See what happens if you type STRANGECREATURES into an entry box..

File:Gsm-icon.png

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Infinitysnapz: Game Set Match program icon

== Summary ==
Game Set Match program icon

File:Gsm1st.png

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Infinitysnapz: first ever image output from GSM

== Summary ==
first ever image output from GSM

Template:Inline-code

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Infinitysnapz: Created page with "<onlyinclude>{{#if:{{yesno|{{{nowrap|}}}}}|<templatestyles src="Template:Nowrap/styles.css"/>}}{{#tag:syntaxhighlight|{{{code|{{{1}}}}}}|inline=1 {{#if:{{{id|}}}| id = {{{id|}}}}} | class = {{#if:{{yesno|{{{nowrap|}}}}}|nowrap}} {{{class|}}} | style = {{{style|}}} | lang = {{{lang|{{{2|php}}}}}} }}</onlyinclude> {{Documentation}}"

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{{Documentation}}

GameSetMatch

2025-10-03T04:34:27Z

Infinitysnapz: even more

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[[GameSetMatch]], or GSM for short, is an python-based open-source video tennis compilation tool created by {{infinitysnapz}}.
<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/resources/gamesetmatch.72/</ref> <ref>https://git.yellowtealpurple.net/infinitysnapz/GameSetMatch/releases</ref>

Development and planning began in April 2025, to combat compilation inefficiencies, user mistakes, as well as to create a standard look for compilations.
The first video produced using the tool was the {{YouWouldBeWelcome}} compilation of {{NS2}} vs {{WowComics}} on April 5th - This also serves as an archetypical example of what a GSM-powered compilation looks like:

<youtube>oOI_Zbv6UBY</youtube>

=Usage=
Detailed writeup coming soon - for now, please refer to this video guide for the UI, created by {{dani_phantump}}
<youtube>jIhaPP8nzgw</youtube>

To install, run {{{install-requirements.bat}}}

=Features=

=Technical information=
At its core, GSM is powered using Python and FFMPEG, using CSV files to provide information on round titles.
Internally, it uses the Pillow library to generate titlecards, and FFmpeg to turn the titlecards into videos, and rescale all rounds to match.
GSM-UI uses FreeSimpleGui - a TkInter wrapper - as its framework, though a future rewrite may happen some day due to lacking performance.

== Trivia ==
See what happens if you type STRANGECREATURES into an entry box..

GameSetMatch

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Infinitysnapz:

GameSetMatch

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Infinitysnapz: more

GameSetMatch

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Infinitysnapz: uh

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[[GameSetMatch]], or GSM for short, is an open-source video tennis compilation tool created by {{infinitysnapz}}.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/resources/gamesetmatch.72/</ref> <ref>https://git.yellowtealpurple.net/infinitysnapz/GameSetMatch/releases</ref>

Replication

2025-10-03T03:50:34Z

Infinitysnapz:

[[Category:Techniques]]

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'''Replication''', also known as '''Tiling''' is the process of having multiple copies of the same footage on screen at once, usually in a grid format.

[[File:Tilingexample.png|thumb|right|Replication done with [[Cycore FX|CC RepeTile]] in [[After Effects]].]]

== Pinwheels ==
A '''pinwheel''' is a replication where everything shifts to its side, creating a "pinwheel" effect. This can be combined with [[Recursion]] to make very cool sequences.

== Replicator Plugins ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Effects that can perform replication
|-
! Name !! Source !! Notes
|-
| S_WarpTransform || [[Sapphire]] || Can rotate in pseudo-3D space. Very common for its quick use.
|-
| CC Tiler || [[After Effects]] || Part of the built-in [[Cycore Effects]] suite
|-
| CC RepeTile || [[After Effects]] || Part of the built-in [[Cycore Effects]] suite
|-
| Motion Tile || [[After Effects]] || Built-in plugin.
|-
| NewBlue V6 Tile || [[NewBlueFX]] || Can have a set number of tiles that can be edited in different ways.
|-
| Replicate || [[Premiere Pro]] || Built-in plugin.
|-
| Bororo 3D Double Vision || [[Bororo 3D]] || Tiles one at a time, needs to be stacked (but gives you more control)
|-
| Mir || [[Trapcode Suite]] || Incredibly versatile, but harder to set up
|-
| Array || [[Blender]] || Tiles an object in a straight line. Requires two to make a grid.
|-
| Shader Nodes || [[Blender]] || When the UV of an image is multiplied, the image tiles as the coordinates wrap around.
|-
| PixelStretch || [[Wax]] || The top-left corner of the footage can be tiled.
|-
| Dynamic Transform || [[BetaFX]] || Similar to S_WarpTransform, but with extra oscillation and parenting features.
|-
| OpenCL Kernel || [[BetaFX]] || Has a Dynamic Transform API, but can also be programmed freely.
|}

YellowTealPurple

2025-09-08T04:09:00Z

Infinitysnapz: adding 18+ change

[[Category:Websites]]

{{WIP}}

[[File:Yellowtealpurplelogo.png|thumb|right|The logo for YellowTealPurple]].

{{YellowTealPurple}} is an art forum website primarily maintained by {{dew}}, infinitysnapz and {{pjfrix}}.

While it is considered the spiritual successor to [[YTPMania]], YellowTealPurple focused on a much broader range of art, through videos, images, and more. As said in its introduction, it is "not [[youchew]]".

The name comes from the acronym for [[Youtube Poop]]; You = Yellow, Tube = Teal, Poop = Purple - but it was also chosen because the name by itself does not directly elicit "poop" associations - honouring its roots, but allowing room for expansion.

=History=
Towards the end of 2024, it was announced that YTPMania would be going down at the end of the year. The webmaster {{Smonge}} had less and less drive to continue maintaining the forum when it was already quite inactive, so it was determined the plug would be pulled on December 31st, 2024.

A new forum site to replace YTPMania had been proposed and speculated since Smonge's first departure from the community in the early 2020's; one of these was the ill-fated [[Pinchbacks]], as well as {{Retrospections}}' RemixSphere project. In October of 2024, the groundwork for {{YellowTealPurple}} had been proposed- the name coined by {{MemeKirisame}}- and with funding and a server being found later than month, it looked like a successor would finally happen.

The forum opened up on November 18th, 2024, to much fanfare.

On March 9th, 2025, after roughly 4 months of user testing, the "de-YTPification" of the website was undertaken; all references to [[YTP]] in any way were removed. In its place were blanket terms related to "video art"/"video tennis"/etc. The age limit was set to 16+ sitewide; it originally was 13+ only for the YTP section but this was deemed unconstructive.

On July 25th, the site's age limit was once again increased to 18+ in the name of safety and responsibility. Unlike the previous increase, this came with no grandfathering in of underaged users who had signed up previously.

=Forum Layout=
The website is split into many categories, each for different types of art or community discussion. Unlike its predecessors, {{YellowTealPurple}} has no "forum games"; these were considered spammy and unconstructive.

==Video Tennis==
Within the Media Remixing/Video Art Center (formerly YTP-Centric category) lies the tennis section, similar in format to previous iterations.
* The main section, which contains general discussion as well as the [[Tennis Cafe]]
* "Tennis:Wanted" where people can release serves for others to take, as well as plan new ones
* "Tennis:In Progress" for matches currently ongoing (not in tournaments)
* "Tennis:Failed" for matches that failed... :(
* "Tennis:Completed" for matches that finished (or are considered finished)
* "Tennis:Archives" for archives of existing matches, often from many years ago
* "Tennis:Tournaments" for tournament matches. The tournament thread itself resides in the main category, this is for match threads only.
* There also exists a secret "staff category" for [[Tennis Staff]] to discuss private endeavors...

Pinchbacks

2025-09-08T03:53:23Z

Infinitysnapz: fleshing out forum info a bit more

[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:Discord Servers]]

[[File:Pinchbacks.png]]

'''Pinchbacks''' was a forum site and discord server that was initially hosted by {{MemeKirisame}} and {{nm41}}. Intended to be a spiritual successor to [[YTPMania|{{YTPMania}}]] made during its webmaster {{Smonge}}'s prolonged absence, it was the next big attempt at making a new "active" home for [[YTP]] and [[YTP Tennis]], as well as other forms of art. Pinchbacks' name comes from one of the taglines for YTP, sampled from ''Hotel Mario'': "Where there's smoke, they '''pinch back'''."

Pinchbacks had great ambitions but ultimately fell flat; the forum faced many problems and permanently closed shortly after launch, while the discord carried on until mid-January 2025, when it was closed by its then-owner, {{ThirtyTwelve}}.<ref>Discord voice conversation with {{Ivan187}}, 7 September 2025</ref>

=History=
The Pinchbacks website was launched in February 2022 as a SimpleMachines forum- a software considerably more 'old-fashioned' than that of YTPMania or even late-YouChew, yet one of the notable perks of the website was the ability for users to have custom HTML on one's user page, achieved via plugin.

In early June, the site "exited beta" - and with that came a slight design refresh. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220610143336/https://pinchbacks.net/</ref> Unfortunately, this did not fix many of the bugs: The site was incredibly unreliable to use and there were many problems with showing posts in the correct order, as well as many confusing buttons that did nothing across the site.

Like [[YouChew]], Pinchbacks had custom banners submitted by users, but these did not see any use past the June refresh. The thread for [[Doubles Cup 4]] was also (temporarily) migrated to the forum (and now is unfortunately lost).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220610143336/https://pinchbacks.net/</ref>

As time continued, interest in the site dwindled - with the persistent technical issues, and a lack of passion and interaction from the staff, and the Discord server overshadowing the site, users never really found any attachment to the forum, and so it closed around September 2022.<ref>Discord voice conversation with {{infinitysnapz}}, 7 September 2025</ref> Forum activity generally returned to YTPMania, however Discord servers like [[The Tennis Isles]] became more and more of a home for tennis. This would remain the case until YTPMania's closure and the launch of [[YellowTealPurple|{{YellowTealPurple}}]] in late 2024.

=Archives=
There is no official archive of the forum, however traces of it still exist on the Wayback Machine.

=Sources=