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The [[Tennis Cup 5]] was a Youtube Poop [[tennis tournament]] that took place between June 16, 2023 and August 7, 2024. The 20th tennis tournament overall, it was the first tennis competition of the standard cup variety in over a decade, following the [[Tennis Cup 4]] in 2012, and the fourth and final tournament of the YTPMania era. ~~Its~~ eventual winner was infinitysnapz.

The [[Tennis Cup 5]] was a Youtube Poop [[tennis tournament]] that took place between June 16, 2023 and August 7, 2024. The 20th tennis tournament overall, it was the first tennis competition of the standard cup variety in over a decade, following the [[Tennis Cup 4]] in 2012, and the fourth and final tournament of the YTPMania era. As the YTPMania forums themselves were seeing almost no use in this era, this event ended up be the biggest source of site activity through its duration, and was otherwise run mostly over on [[The Tennis Isles]]. This was the third of three tournaments to use the voting account "tournamentacc", described by mrdoognoog as "almost entirely utilitarian" due to Smonge, YTPMania's owner, having a strictness about alt accounts and the "lapse of YouChew knowledge" regarding the community's past history with being more playful with these accounts.<ref>https://ytptennis.com/w/images/d/d2/About_tournamentacc.png Screenshot from Discord</ref> The tournament's eventual winner was infinitysnapz.

In subsequent years, the Tennis Cup 5 has been retrospectively seen as a low point in tennis history. With the presence of absolutely no elder players in the community during this era, some have regarded this as an event where technical proficiency with effects took precedent above all else in the matches that occurred, with the players advancing the farthest being those who took visual editing to its absolute maximum height. Exterior software such as Blender saw very prominent usage, with an extensive focus on massive-in-scope deployment of 3D visual effects across rounds, an approach that has come to be referred to with occasional derision as "Trapezoidium" from 2024 onward. Many players from this tournament have also reserved feelings regarding their negative experiences from it, relating to a combination of performance expectations, percieved requirements to gain respect, and the pressure of having to do so within deadlines. infinitysnapz, the winner of this tournament, has also become increasingly critical of his performance, considering it to have intensified harmful precedents regarding the already prevalent generalizations within tennis:

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-The [[Tennis Cup 5]] was a Youtube Poop [[tennis tournament]] that took place between June 16, 2023 and August 7, 2024. The 20th tennis tournament overall, it was the first tennis competition of the standard cup variety in over a decade, following the [[Tennis Cup 4]] in 2012, and the fourth and final tournament of the YTPMania era. Its eventual winner was infinitysnapz.
+The [[Tennis Cup 5]] was a Youtube Poop [[tennis tournament]] that took place between June 16, 2023 and August 7, 2024. The 20th tennis tournament overall, it was the first tennis competition of the standard cup variety in over a decade, following the [[Tennis Cup 4]] in 2012, and the fourth and final tournament of the YTPMania era. As the YTPMania forums themselves were seeing almost no use in this era, this event ended up be the biggest source of site activity through its duration, and was otherwise run mostly over on [[The Tennis Isles]]. This was the third of three tournaments to use the voting account "tournamentacc", described by mrdoognoog as "almost entirely utilitarian" due to Smonge, YTPMania's owner, having a strictness about alt accounts and the "lapse of YouChew knowledge" regarding the community's past history with being more playful with these accounts.<ref>https://ytptennis.com/w/images/d/d2/About_tournamentacc.png Screenshot from Discord</ref> The tournament's eventual winner was infinitysnapz.
 In subsequent years, the Tennis Cup 5 has been retrospectively seen as a low point in tennis history. With the presence of absolutely no elder players in the community during this era, some have regarded this as an event where technical proficiency with effects took precedent above all else in the matches that occurred, with the players advancing the farthest being those who took visual editing to its absolute maximum height. Exterior software such as Blender saw very prominent usage, with an extensive focus on massive-in-scope deployment of 3D visual effects across rounds, an approach that has come to be referred to with occasional derision as "Trapezoidium" from 2024 onward. Many players from this tournament have also reserved feelings regarding their negative experiences from it, relating to a combination of performance expectations, percieved requirements to gain respect, and the pressure of having to do so within deadlines. infinitysnapz, the winner of this tournament, has also become increasingly critical of his performance, considering it to have intensified harmful precedents regarding the already prevalent generalizations within tennis: