Tennis Cup

Tennis Cup
Cup Standard
Host(s)	Gallers, Christoph
Start Date	May 8, 2008
End Date	August 19, 2008
Number of Participants	32
Tournament Page	Archive Thread
Results
Winner	Ishkibibl
Runner-Up	NS2
Third	MTB710, ophios
Navigation
Predecessor	Tennis League 2
Successor	Tennis League 3

The Tennis Cup, retrospectively known as Tennis Cup 1, was a Tennis Tournament hosted initially by Gallers and subsequently by Christoph; it was the first tennis competition based around a player elimination format, the third tournament overall, and the first one to be officially billed as a Tournament. Marking the beginning of the proper YouChew forums era, It ran from May to August 2008 and was the largest tournament to happen at the time, with 32 participants and nearly all of them having considerably at the time some kind of large following either within the community or beyond. Similar to other tournaments of this era, Sets were given a fixed "gameweek" schedule, with every match being required to be completed in two weeks. This was the first tournament to use a separate forum account for collecting votes, being named "John Madden" in this instance. It's eventual winner would be Ishkibibl.

This would be the first tennis competition to feature RAKninja, NS2, theHappyFungus, Nuthead, Crash2991, Terrorist, Temeku/MTB710, MAZZ0Murder, Luioigi, uncle69er, TheDarkRises, GreatBritishTurd, TheRoboticRobot, Fiddlesticks411, and Markie, the last tennis competition to feature Gallers himself, and the only tennis competition to feature MilkR0und, Intenseowl, ophios, Domorat0, Ishkibibl, Captpan6, Sonicnerd23, FourTwoNineStudios, AbsoluteBillion, Trogdor7190 and GameCubeHero. It is also the only tennis tournament where the entire active Tennis Cafe Staff, first formed around this tournament's inception, participated in at least one match at the same time. Ishkibibl, theHappyFungus, Terrorist, Sonicnerd23, MilkR0und and Trogdor7190's rounds are slated to be potentially restored through the efforts of The Great Restoration.

Matches

Set 1

Cristoph vs. theHappyFungus

theHappyFungus' rounds are slated to be potentially restored.

sonicnerd23 vs. RabbitSnore

Sonicnerd23's rounds are slated to be potentially restored.

GameBop vs. strong414bad

Only progressed three rounds before strong414bad dropped out.

RAKninja vs. Gallers

Only progressed three rounds before Gallers dropped out.

AbsoluteBillion vs. Trogdor7190

Trogdor7190's rounds are currently lost.

uncle69er vs. SeductiveBaz

Only a serve was made.

Domorato vs. MTB710

Domorato's rounds remain currently lost.

FourTwoNineStudios vs. Crash2991

FourTwoNineStudios' rounds remain currently lost.

Markie vs. Nuthead

Only lasted 4 rounds before Markie dropped out. Nuthead's rounds remain currently lost.

MilkR0und vs. Intenseowl

Only lasted 3 rounds before MilkR0und was disqualified; the match was started incredibly late, with Set 2 already well in progress.

Set 2

Temeku vs. Intenseowl

Only a serve was made, later used as the serve to Crash2991 in Set 3.

Cristoph vs. Ishkibibl

Ishkibibl's rounds are slated to be potentially restored.

Nuthead vs. RabbitSnore

All rounds except for Round 2 remain currently lost.

Set 3

Ishkibibl vs. GameBop

Only progressed three rounds before GameBop dropped out, but an in-progress Round 4 was eventually uploaded.

Nuthead vs. NS2

Nuthead's rounds remain currently lost.