Tennis League 5

The Tennis League 5, also known as TL5 was a tennis tournament held from 2019 to 2020 on YTPMania. It was the seventeenth tournament overall.

It was hosted by the newly appointed mrdoognoog and VidTens443, not-yet-appointed nm41 and dani_phantump, and Morshe, marking the official beginning of the post-YouChew era of tennis tournaments. It returned to many of the fundamental tenants of the Tennis League 4, now with the added gimmick of divisions rotating through different match types like the Tennis Season, including Wildcard, Single Source, Multiplied Time, Noplug, and Standard/"Vanilla". It was eventually won by Razerek, making him the second ever person to win a tennis tournament twice, and the first to win two tournaments in a row.

The tournament captured the tennis community in a complete system reset, with nearly all the old community having since scattered or retired from tennis. It was the first tennis competition to feature CRJ1, Milk, system128, nm41, mrdoognoog, Wodienfor, Insert Name Here, Gabiwoda, BENT_DATA, BortLoco, AngryLuigi23 and ZeroLittleWords, the final tennis competition to feature Sploltoen, BoomDaCorgi1337, CamHead, aw8qn and gsgiraffes, and the only tournament to feature Kinoszoros, Extrenor, PoopTV, TyrannosAsh420, poprox101, afterbirth!, SuperPoopBros, sull0, KaiPixelLeap7800 and Ian O'Keefe.

History

Tennis was in a very troubled time after the shutdown of YouChew. Many of the staff were completely gone, and it was up to the younger crowd to pick up the pieces. With no staff, who would run tournaments?

Due to the general immaturity of many of the staff in hosting tournaments, TL5 was a growing pain in rebuilding that side of the community. It was largely agreed upon that the League format no longer worked for the modern meta and likely would never happen again, unless the scale was brought down significantly or other major changes were made to ease the load.

Layout

TL5 was laid out very similar to TL4, with a twist. In a blend of the match variation system of Tennis Season, there were five different match types one could get. These were:

• A regular match
• Multiplied Time Tennis (starting at 16 seconds)
• NoPlug Tennis
• Single Source Tennis
• Wildcard Tennis

While interesting on paper, many of these special tennis types resulted in unfair advantages for players depending on if they made even or odd rounds (in particular, MTT and Wildcard).

Players

Division A

- mafar_ - Glaci - MemeKirisame - CRJ1 - Morshe - CamHead

Division B

GSgiraffes

VidTens443

dani_phantump

nm41

Extrenor

Kinoszoros

Division C

- BoomDaCorgi1337

- BENT_DATA

- Gabrielpika

- Gabiwoda

- Brick

- pacboy

Division D

- mrdoognoog

- lonrefne

- Ian O’Keefe

- poprox101

- sull0

- CheeChee

Division E

• Sploltoen
• ZeroLittleWords
• mapo
• Razerek
• Wodienfor
• Instert Name Here

Replacements

• afterbirth
• PoopTV
• KaiPixelleap7800
• Ivan187
• Milk Gaming Channel
• Zevio
• ClassicBirch
• GameBop
• CorruptionSound
• ThirtyTwelve
• tetrareux
• SneakyBoots
• Retroguy129

Matches

TL5 had six sets - five main 'rotation' sets and a sixth final (containing the winner of each group).

Set 1

Winners of each match are bolded.
Matches in italics tied.

Division A

THEME: Single Source

• MemeKirisame vs. CRJ1
• CamHead vs. mafar_
• Morshe vs. Glaci

Division B

Theme: Multiplied Time

• BananaMannafoot vs. Extrenor
• GSgiraffes vs. VidTens443
• Nubman41 vs. dew

Division C

Theme: Wildcard

• Zevio vs. Lopunnyboy
• BoomDaCorgi1337 vs Ghostland811 (Gabiwoda)
• DatCorrupterGuy vs. Brick

Division D

Theme: Regular

• mrdoognoog vs. Ian O'Keefe
• sull0 vs. CheeChee
• poprox101 vs. lonrefne

Division E

Theme: NoPlug

• Sploltoen vs. ZeroLittleWords
• mapo vs. Razerek
• Wodienfor vs. Instert Name Here

Set 2

Division A

Theme: Wildcard

• afterbirth! vs. CamHead
• mafar_ vs. Morshe
• Glaci vs. CRJ1

Division B

Theme: NoPlug

• Nubman41 vs. VidTens443
• dew vs. KaiPixelleap7800
• GSgiraffes vs. BananaMannafoot

Division C

Theme: Normal

• DatCorrupterGuy vs. BoomDaCorgi1337
• Ghostland811 (Gabiwoda) vs. LopunnyBoy
• Zevio vs. Brick

Division D

Theme: Single Source

• CheeChee vs. poprox101
• mrdoognoog vs. sull0
• lonrefne vs. ClassicBirch

Division E

Theme: Multiplied Time

• mapo vs. Instert Name Here
• Razerek vs. ZeroLittleWords
• Wodienfor vs. Sploltoen

Set 3

Division A

Theme: Regular

• system128 vs. mafar_
• afterbirth vs. Morshe
• CamHead vs. CRJ1

Division B

Theme: Wildcard

• BananaMannafoot vs. Nubman41
• VidTens443 vs. dew
• PoopTV vs. KaiPixelleap7800

Division C

Theme: Multiplied Time

Gabiwoda vs. BENT_DATA

This match spawned the relatively popular tournament meme of "Green Grandpa".

Division D

Theme: NoPlug -mrdoognoog vs. poprox101

- sull0 vs. lonrefne (Pseudo-Tie)

-aw8qn vs. CheeChee

Division E

Theme: Single Source

• Sploltoen vs. Razerek
• mapo vs. Wodienfor
• ZeroLittleWords vs. Instert Name Here

Set 4

Division A

Theme: Multiplied Time

• afterbirth! vs. mafar_
• system128 vs. CamHead
• CRJ1 vs. Morshe (CRJ1 pass)

Division B

Theme: Single Source

• dew vs. PoopTV/TyrannousAsh20
• Ivan187 vs. VidTens443
• hackerytp vs. Nubman41

Division C

Theme: Noplug

• DatCorrupterGuy vs Zevio
• Brick vs Ghostland811 (Gabiwoda)
• LopunnyBoy vs. Milk Gaming Channel/SuperPoopBros

Division D

Theme: Wildcard
(sull0, lonrefne Bye)

• CheeChee vs mrdoognoog
• poprox101 vs Metroid998 (Metroid998 pass)

Division E

Theme: Regular

• GameBop vs Sploltoen
• Wodienfor vs. ZeroLittleWords
• Razerek vs Instert Name Here

Set 5

Due to mistakes in matchmaking, set 5 had to be split up to avoid duplicate matches occurring. That alongside increasing dropouts made planning the final set a nightmare. But it was done.

Division A

Theme: Noplug

• mafar_ vs. CRJ1
• afterbirth! vs. system128
• AngryLuigi23 vs. CamHead

Division B

Theme: Regular

• The Bronze Cat vs. dew
• Nubman41 vs. MAZZ0Murder (Nubman41 pass)
• VidTens443 vs. Zekii

Division C

Theme: Single Source

• SuperPoopBros vs. Brick
• LopunnyBoy vs. DatCorrupterGuy
• Gabiwoda vs. Zevio

Division D

Theme: Multiplied Time
(mrdoognoog, poprox101 Bye)

• lonrefne vs. CheeChee
• sull0 vs. Metroid998

Division E

Theme: Wildcard

• ZeroLittleWords vs. GameBop
• Sploltoen vs. Insert Name Here
• Razerek vs. Wodienfor

Set 5.5 - Division D

Theme: Regular
(CheeChee, Metroid998 Bye)

• mrdoognoog vs. 3tp

Final Match

• CheeChee vs nm4ourty1ne/VidTens443 vs mafar_ vs TacoShantae vs Razerek

Razerek won this match, making them the winner overall.