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==[[YouChew]] era==

The proper YouChew era of tennis tournaments is considered to have begun with the [[Tennis Cup]]. It was the first tournament to occur during the Rabbit/TINS era, and the first tournament where the [[tennis staff]] had become established as a central element to the tennis community. All members that would be on the staff during the event participated, and one({{NS2}}) even made it [[Ishkibibl vs. NS2|to the final match.]]

The proper YouChew era of tennis tournaments is considered to have begun with the [[Tennis Cup]]. It was the first tournament to occur during the Rabbit/TINS era, the first based around player elimination as determined by voting, and the first tournament where the [[tennis staff]] had become established as a central element to the tennis community. All members that would be on the staff during the event participated, and one({{NS2}}) even made it [[Ishkibibl vs. NS2|to the final match.]]

Up until about the end of the [[Tennis League 3]], an ill-fated event which became considered failed after only a month, competitive tennis was seen to have been at its most freewheeling, with players clearly participating out of a sense of mutual enjoyment. As the initial events mostly took place as a way to bring people together and play matches entirely, there was no clear "meta" for victory in competitive matches up to this point; players clearly engaged matches in the ways that they felt most comfortable, and whether or not they won was purely by fortunate happenstance. A clear moment when this began to change can be identified with the beginning with the [[Doubles Cup 1]], the first tournament in which the tennis staff assumed control and influence over their taking place. The match of Terrorist + Nuthead vs. GameBop + MycroProcessor(2008) ended up failing after only 4 rounds, with no collaborative rounds being made, due to Terrorist finding tennis becoming "more competitive and serious than it is fun" and subsequently deciding to retire from it:

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Whatever the case, a schism began to develop for the first time here, and the community at large began to ascribe many of their own individual values as to what made a good tennis round, especially with regards to this developing competitive context. The final match of the [[Doubles Cup 1]] became AjaxCubed + Aesaun vs. MycroProcessor + GameBop(2009), a lineup composed entirely of high intensity, high effect players, three of whom were still relatively new to the community as a whole. It can be argued that the reason that AjaxCubed and Aesaun won this tournament was entirely due to the execution of a 3D visual effect in Final Cut Pro 7 by the former player almost never before seen by the community at the time, gaining them their votes purely from the impression. In the early posts of the Tennis Theory thread on [[YellowTealPurple]], this was a theory posited by {{dew}} as she began to attempt to chronicle the journey of tennis to the present day<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-4873</ref>.

~~At some point during this early period~~, an image macro containing the phrase in impact font text "NO ONE WINS AT TENNIS EVER" began to get posted and circulated around the tennis section. This has since become embraced as the Golden Rule of tennis, a foundational principle upon which to remember to allow players to remember that fun, above victory, is what matters most in tennis. {{dew}} has subsequently referred to the very concept of tennis tournaments as the "Great Riddle" of tennis, outlining the question "How do you win in a game where no one wins?", with the answer intended to be that there isn't - or shouldn't be - any strictly defined way to do so.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-21591</ref><ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-three-way-tennis-tournament-ii-intermission-period.653/post-22775</ref>

On March 12, 2009, an image macro containing the phrase in impact font text "NO ONE WINS AT TENNIS EVER", created by Emperor Ing, began to get posted and circulated around the tennis section. This has since become embraced as the Golden Rule of tennis, a foundational principle upon which to remember to allow players to remember that fun, above victory, is what matters most in tennis. {{dew}} has subsequently referred to the very concept of tennis tournaments as the "Great Riddle" of tennis, outlining the question "How do you win in a game where no one wins?", with the answer intended to be that there isn't - or shouldn't be - any strictly defined way to do so.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-21591</ref><ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-three-way-tennis-tournament-ii-intermission-period.653/post-22775</ref>

Ultimately though, the readiness of the community at the time to fully and truly embrace this philosophy was either slow, scattershot or questionable at best potentially due to the social competitive nature of the rest of YouChew itself. 2009 in particular is seen as an era where the constituency for "simple, classic" tennis competed directly with the "complex, effect-based" constituency for attention across multiple tournaments that took place that year, though it was almost always done out of a positive, good-natured spirit. The [[Windows Movie Master]], [[Tennis Season]] and [[Grey Tennis Tournament]] all saw matches played separately in both camps of style preference as well as matches with a player each representing either side becoming directly matched with each other, leading to exchanges of near diametric opposite approaches such as piodx vs. RAKninja(2009), GameBop vs. Emperor Ing(2009), and [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]](2009). Around this same time, complex and heavy editing began to very definitively take over the very nature of tennis itself, as players such as {{CorruptionSound}}, rapskallionxyz, Skrimpish, DanielRadcliffe777 and Sploltoen either entered into the community already steeped in this language of editing out the gate or began to truly become prominent as they took on many elements of this language of editing that became part of their signature. During this era, older players such as TangerineImpz continued to express grievances with "what tennis has become" in regards to their own disenchantment<ref>https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/16-poop-tennis/57018-the-gray-tennis-tournament-champion-revealed/1</ref>. From late 2009 onward, a lot of these earlier generations of players would leave the game behind entirely.

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 ==[[YouChew]] era==
-The proper YouChew era of tennis tournaments is considered to have begun with the [[Tennis Cup]]. It was the first tournament to occur during the Rabbit/TINS era, and the first tournament where the [[tennis staff]] had become established as a central element to the tennis community. All members that would be on the staff during the event participated, and one({{NS2}}) even made it [[Ishkibibl vs. NS2|to the final match.]]
+The proper YouChew era of tennis tournaments is considered to have begun with the [[Tennis Cup]]. It was the first tournament to occur during the Rabbit/TINS era, the first based around player elimination as determined by voting, and the first tournament where the [[tennis staff]] had become established as a central element to the tennis community. All members that would be on the staff during the event participated, and one({{NS2}}) even made it [[Ishkibibl vs. NS2|to the final match.]]
 Up until about the end of the [[Tennis League 3]], an ill-fated event which became considered failed after only a month, competitive tennis was seen to have been at its most freewheeling, with players clearly participating out of a sense of mutual enjoyment. As the initial events mostly took place as a way to bring people together and play matches entirely, there was no clear "meta" for victory in competitive matches up to this point; players clearly engaged matches in the ways that they felt most comfortable, and whether or not they won was purely by fortunate happenstance. A clear moment when this began to change can be identified with the beginning with the [[Doubles Cup 1]], the first tournament in which the tennis staff assumed control and influence over their taking place. The match of Terrorist + Nuthead vs. GameBop + MycroProcessor(2008) ended up failing after only 4 rounds, with no collaborative rounds being made, due to Terrorist finding tennis becoming "more competitive and serious than it is fun" and subsequently deciding to retire from it:
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 Whatever the case, a schism began to develop for the first time here, and the community at large began to ascribe many of their own individual values as to what made a good tennis round, especially with regards to this developing competitive context. The final match of the [[Doubles Cup 1]] became AjaxCubed + Aesaun vs. MycroProcessor + GameBop(2009), a lineup composed entirely of high intensity, high effect players, three of whom were still relatively new to the community as a whole. It can be argued that the reason that AjaxCubed and Aesaun won this tournament was entirely due to the execution of a 3D visual effect in Final Cut Pro 7 by the former player almost never before seen by the community at the time, gaining them their votes purely from the impression. In the early posts of the Tennis Theory thread on [[YellowTealPurple]], this was a theory posited by {{dew}} as she began to attempt to chronicle the journey of tennis to the present day<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-4873</ref>.
-At some point during this early period, an image macro containing the phrase in impact font text "NO ONE WINS AT TENNIS EVER" began to get posted and circulated around the tennis section. This has since become embraced as the Golden Rule of tennis, a foundational principle upon which to remember to allow players to remember that fun, above victory, is what matters most in tennis. {{dew}} has subsequently referred to the very concept of tennis tournaments as the "Great Riddle" of tennis, outlining the question "How do you win in a game where no one wins?", with the answer intended to be that there isn't - or shouldn't be - any strictly defined way to do so.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-21591</ref><ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-three-way-tennis-tournament-ii-intermission-period.653/post-22775</ref>
+On March 12, 2009, an image macro containing the phrase in impact font text "NO ONE WINS AT TENNIS EVER", created by Emperor Ing, began to get posted and circulated around the tennis section. This has since become embraced as the Golden Rule of tennis, a foundational principle upon which to remember to allow players to remember that fun, above victory, is what matters most in tennis. {{dew}} has subsequently referred to the very concept of tennis tournaments as the "Great Riddle" of tennis, outlining the question "How do you win in a game where no one wins?", with the answer intended to be that there isn't - or shouldn't be - any strictly defined way to do so.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-21591</ref><ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-three-way-tennis-tournament-ii-intermission-period.653/post-22775</ref>
 Ultimately though, the readiness of the community at the time to fully and truly embrace this philosophy was either slow, scattershot or questionable at best potentially due to the social competitive nature of the rest of YouChew itself. 2009 in particular is seen as an era where the constituency for "simple, classic" tennis competed directly with the "complex, effect-based" constituency for attention across multiple tournaments that took place that year, though it was almost always done out of a positive, good-natured spirit. The [[Windows Movie Master]], [[Tennis Season]] and [[Grey Tennis Tournament]] all saw matches played separately in both camps of style preference as well as matches with a player each representing either side becoming directly matched with each other, leading to exchanges of near diametric opposite approaches such as piodx vs. RAKninja(2009), GameBop vs. Emperor Ing(2009), and [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]](2009). Around this same time, complex and heavy editing began to very definitively take over the very nature of tennis itself, as players such as {{CorruptionSound}}, rapskallionxyz, Skrimpish, DanielRadcliffe777 and Sploltoen either entered into the community already steeped in this language of editing out the gate or began to truly become prominent as they took on many elements of this language of editing that became part of their signature. During this era, older players such as TangerineImpz continued to express grievances with "what tennis has become" in regards to their own disenchantment<ref>https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/16-poop-tennis/57018-the-gray-tennis-tournament-champion-revealed/1</ref>. From late 2009 onward, a lot of these earlier generations of players would leave the game behind entirely.