Tennis Season

The Tennis Season was a Youtube Poop Tennis Competition hosted primarily by RabbitSnore, that ran from June to November of 2009, concurrently with the Windows Movie Master and later with the beginning of the Grey Tennis Tournament. It is the seventh tennis tournament overall. An entirely new and unique calibur of competitive play, the layout was to treat a tournament like something akin to American football - there were "gameweeks" where matches of certain distinct types would be played. Players competed on "teams" and each had "powers" they could use during matches to give them an advantage (or their opponent a disadvantage) with the players of each team all working together to collectively gain match win points. The eventual winners of this event would be a team made up of Emperor Ing, Cristoph, quax94, RideTheCatfish and MrDrunkenFox, almost all of whom used WMM, and as such went by the team name of The Windows Movie Maker Miscreants. The host account used for this tournament went under the name of Keanu Reeves.

This would be the first tennis competition to feature the participation of ChrisGendo, JakeSteel, AmiralMachin, eletricalmonkss, wwefan3333, piodx, Metroid998, Combuskenisawesome, lordbababa, and rapskallionxyz/mYZterbattyX, and the final tennis competition to feature RabbitSnore, Crash2991, strong414bad, Aesaun, zacheatscrackers, JazzDanceForChildren, TheRoboticRobot, TheSfarioBros, Erarg and Emperor Ing. It was additionally the only tennis competition to feature CommanderSky, GasmaskAvenger, Malkmusian, ampithecat, InsinerateHymn, architect1, MorfGworfmim, TyrannosaurusReich, Blueseraph, ButtonsTheDragon, SesakaGenX, Bya, PolyCement, NEVERGONNAGETIT92000, MVJ52197, TheAirPump, olfi500, Arkunos, shroomhead1, RideTheCatfish, MrDrunkenFox and smog133.

Layout

There were fifteen "gameweeks", each with a different style of match play. These were:

1. 4-Round League Official
2. 4-Round Single Source
3. 6-Round Limited
4. 4-Round Wildcard
5. 4-Round Doubles
6. 4-Round League Official
7. 3-Round Poop Duel
8. 4-Round Single Source
9. 4-Round League Official
10. 3-Round Poop Duel
11. 4-Round Wildcard
12. 6-Round Limited
13. 6-Round Standard
14. 4-Round League Official
15. 4-Round League Official

Variant Styles

The rules for each variant went by the following, some borrowed directly from RabbitSnore's established Official Rules:

League Official

- Rounds: 4. - Video Length: 30 seconds to 3 minutes. - Required Usage: At least 20 seconds of the previous round. This rule is rarely an issue and is rarely enforced. - Materials: Up to three sources introduced per video. When a source is introduced in a League match, documentation is especially important. A source can refer to a video or series of videos, depending on how it is documented. For example, AoStH: Full Tilt Tails could be one source or AoStH could be one source. In the former case, if the volley includes clips from Full Tilt Tails, even if the clips were not used in any previous round, it does not count as introduction of a new source. In the latter case, any and all clips from AoStH could be used without counting as a new source added. - Turnover: 36 hours, unless a reason is given ahead of time for a delay.

Round Poop Duel

A Poop Duel is not a Tennis variant in strict terms, since it does not involve remixing prior rounds. Rather, each participant makes videos based on common source material.

A round of a Poop Duel comprises a video from each participant. A standard Duel, then, consists of three rounds for a total of six videos. Participants do not remix each other's videos.

Before each round, each participant adds a source video to a common pool of materials. When making videos, participants are limited to using the material introduced to this common pool. One more video per participant is added before each subsequent round, so the pool of material increases as rounds proceed. Players compete to see who can make the best video using only the material in the common pool.

-Rounds: 3. -Video Length: No restrictions. -Required Usage: Previous rounds not used. -Materials: Common pool. -Turnover: 36 hours.

Round Doubles

Each round, including the serve, is done as a collaborative effort between the two poopers of the respective team. One pooper should make a poop video with sequences of pooped footage and several areas of blank video, without sound or visual. In these areas of blank space, the second pooper of the team adds his or her own edited footage, as well as minimally editing the footage made by his or her partner. The emphasis should be on working with the partner instead of against him or her.

The video resulting from the collaboration is the serve. The volley of the serve is done in a similar fashion: one pooper from the opposed team remixes the previous round, just as in singles tennis, though leaves blank spaces in which his or her partner can add his or her own footage. The second editing pooper should also use material from the previous round, if so desired.

-Rounds: 4, collaborative. -Video Length: No restrictions. -Required Usage: No restrictions. -Materials: No restrictions. -Turnover: 60 hours.

6-Round Limited

- Rounds: 6. - Video Length: 30 seconds to 3 minutes. - Required Usage: At least 20 seconds of the previous round. This rule is rarely an issue and is rarely enforced. - Materials: Up to three sources introduced per video. When a source is introduced in a League match, documentation is especially important. A source can refer to a video or series of videos, depending on how it is documented. For example, AoStH: Full Tilt Tails could be one source or AoStH could be one source. In the former case, if the volley includes clips from Full Tilt Tails, even if the clips were not used in any previous round, it does not count as introduction of a new source. In the latter case, any and all clips from AoStH could be used without counting as a new source added. - Turnover: 48 hours.

6-Round Standard

- Rounds: 6. - Video Length: No restrictions. - Required Usage: No restrictions. - Materials: No restrictions. - Turnover: 48 hours.

4-Round Wildcard

Prior to each round, the player opposing the serving or volleying player creates a single restrictive rule that governs that round. The restriction can apply to material, length, technique, or nearly anything within reason. Restrictions are adjudicated by the judges of the tourney if contended to be unfair.

- Rounds: 4. - Video Length: No restrictions. - Required Usage: No restrictions. - Materials: No restrictions. - Turnover: 36 hours.

4-Round Single Source

- Rounds: 4. - Video Length: No restrictions. - Required Usage: No restrictions. - Materials: One source (as per League Official definition), as selected by the serving player. The source must be available to both players equally. - Turnover: 36 hours.

Abilities

A player could unleash an "ability" to force certain rules or techniques to be applied to the match/round. These were:

Ability	Description	Users
Signature Material	A player with this ability selects a source material when choosing this ability. Before volleying a round or serving, regardless of the rules of the game, the player may invoke this ability and use his or her chosen source material in addition to whatever other material is permitted in the match, for that round	GasmaskAvenger, Malkmusian, eletricalmonkss, ampithecat, zacheatscrackers, SeductiveBaz, TangerineImpz, Maxinsc, JazzDanceForChildren, TyrannosaurusReich, ButtonsTheDragon, SesakaGenX, FinalSquadalah, Markie, AmiralMachin, NEVERGONNAGETIT92000, MVJ52197, shroomhead1, Marty, ChrisGendo, KlausTheWizard, Quax, RideTheCatfish, MrDrunkenFox
Stifle Effects	Once per match, prior to the opponent volleying a round, a player with this ability may declare two techniques and/or effects which cannot be used in the following round.	Architect1, AjaxCubed, piodx, DaftPunkYoshi, JeffH01, MAZZ0Murder, and RealGenericFilms
Relax Rules	Once per match, before volleying a round or serving, a player with this ability may declare that he or she will ignore part of the rules of a match for the next round, such as video length, required usage, or material restrictions. In a Wildcard match, this ability may be used to cancel a Wildcard effect. (Note that this ability may not be used to relax turnover time, as those rules are in place to keep the Season on schedule.)	trepmaws, SergeantBacon, InsinerateHymn, Aesaun, Crazythesecond, Moto200, LieutenantMiles, DoctorOktorok, BMATF, TheSfarioBros, olfi500, AshMadeOurEyes, Arkunos, RetardedAnimeParody and uncle69er
Soloist	Once during a Doubles Match, before volleying a round or serving, a player with this ability may declare that he or she will make the next round on his or her own, without a collaborator.	ThaNuke and TheRoboticRobot
Ace in the Hole	Once during a Poop Duel, before making a round, a player with this ability may declare that he or she will use up to two sources outside of the common pool of material for the next round	JackTron7000, Lightning Spike and TheAirPump
Coerce Material	Once during a match, before an opponent volleys a round, a player with this ability may declare that the opponent must include at least 20 seconds of a specific source material in the next round. The player using this ability must provide access to the material if the opponent does not already have access to it.	GameBop, MetalKoopa, and Cristoph
Wildcard Permanence	Prior to a Wildcard Match (before the serve), a player with this ability may declare that each of the restrictions declared in the match will apply to each of the subsequent rounds, not only the immediately following round	RAKninja
Limit Material	Once during a match, before an opponent volleys a round, this ability may be invoked to preclude the usage of a source (as defined by the League Official rules) in the following round.
Single Source Switch	Once during a Single Source Match, before a round is made by either the owner of this ability or an opponent, this ability may be invoked to change the selected single source for the remainder of the match. The new source must be equally available to both players
Forever Wild	Before a match begins (before the serve), this ability may be invoked to add Wildcard rules to the match. If this ability is used in a Wildcard match, before each round, two restrictions are created.	RabbitSnore, Crash2991, lordbababa, and Moogle
Coerce Single Source	Before a match begins (before the serve), this ability may be invoked to add Single Source rules to the match. That is, the serving player chooses a single source that must be used exclusively through the whole match. This ability may not be used if the match is already a Single Source match.	TheChutley, MorfGworfmim, and Blueseraph
Extended Performance	Once per match, before an opponent volleys a round, this ability may be invoked to override the match's Video Length rules and force the opponent to make his or her next round at least 4 minutes long	vvaluigi, Futures Passed, TheSuperUngieReport, Erarg, theHappyFungus, JakeSteel and Emperor Ing
Limited Engagement	Once per match, before an opponent volleys a round, this ability may be invoked to override the match's Video Length rules and force the opponent to make his or her next round no more than 40 seconds long	Metroid998
Isolation	Once per match, before an opponent volleys a round, this ability may be invoked to prevent the opponent from adding any more sources to his or her next round.	wwefan3333, SpiralWeirdo, MycroProcessor, Combuskenisawesome, strong414bad, McMANGOS, Bya, PolyCement, Luioigi, and Rillion

Teams & Players

This competition is well-known for being the largest single event to take place on the forum with the largest amount of newcomer players (many of them one-offs) as well as the only tournament in which a traditional team system was used. The team system was to allow players the benefit of players not having to play 5 straight months of tennis, as they could work around their personal schedules thusly. A total of 16 teams of players with a combined 82 total players took part and were the following by team with abilities used by each player:

Team Name	Players & Abilities
27 Layer Marble Cake	TheChutley using Coerce Single Source, trepmaws and SeargentBacon using Relax Rules, JackTron7000 using Ace in the Hole, and CommanderSky using Limited Engagement.
The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus	GasmaskAvenger, Malkmusian, eletricalmonkss, and ampithecat, all unanimously using Signature Material with "Atop the Fourth Wall".
THE CLEVELAND STEAMERS	ThaNuke using Soloist, InsinerateHymn using Relax Rules, Architect1 using Stifle Effects, wwefan3333 and SpiralWierdo using Isolation, and LightningSpike using Ace in the Hole.
The Electric Teal Joltoen of Terror	MycroProcessor using Isolation, GameBop using Coerce Material, Aesaun using Relax Rules, AjaxCubed and piodx using Stifle Effects, and MorfGworfmim using Coerce Single Source.
The Elitests	Metroid998 using Limited Engagement, CrazytheSecond, Moto200 and LieutenantMiles using Relax Rules, Combuskenisawesome using Isolation, and zacheatscrackers using Signature Material with "Home Movies".
Incredible Laser Sword	an almost all Cafe Staff team with RabbitSnore and Crash2991 using Forever Wild, RAKninja using Wildcard Performance, strong414bad using Isolation, vvaluigi using Extended Performance, and DaftPunkYoshi using Stifle Effects.
The Pachinko Warriors	SeductiveBaz, TangerineImpz, Maxinsc, JazzDanceForChildren, and TyrannosaurusReich, all unanimously using Signature Material with "'Rocky Just wants to Have Fun' from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers".
The Righteous Left	Futures Passed/RobotComics using Extended Performance, Blueseraph using Coerce Single Source, JeffH01 using Stifle Effects, ButtonsTheDragon using Signature Material with "Whose Line is it Anyway", McMANGOS using Isolation, and SesakaGenX using Signature Material with "Samurai Pizza Cats".
Rumble Stumble Vanger Flanger Stranger Danger Power Rangers	TheSuperUngieReport using Extended Performance, DoctorOktorok using Relax Rules, and TheRoboticRobot using Soloist.
Screamin' Eagles	Bya using Isolation, FinalSquadalah using Signature Material with "Trauma Center: New Blood", and MetalKoopa using Coerce Material.
STAR SPANGLED SCRANDER	Markie using Signature Material with "Powerpuff Girls", BMATF and TheSfarioBros with Relax Rules, Erarg with Extended Performance, lordbababa with Forever Wild, and PolyCement with Isolation.
Stone	Luioigi using Isolation, AmiralMachin using Signature Material with "Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3", NEVERGONNAGETIT92000 using Signature Material with "Spongebob Squarepants", MVJ52197 using Signature Material with "Final Destination", and TheAirPump using Ace in the Hole.
Super Blitzkrieg Bros	a mostly/all German team of Rillion using Isolation, Olfi500, AshMadeOurEyes and Arkunos using Relax Rules, shroomhead1 using Signature Material with "Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog", and Marty using Signature Material with "himself".
Team Gilgamesh	ChrisGendo using Signature Material with "Welcome to the NHK", MAZZ0Murder using Stifle Effects, Moogle using Forever Wild, RetardedAnimeParody and uncle69er using Relax Rules, and theHappyFungus using Extended Performance.
The Wilkinson's Family Restaurant Managerial Staff	JakeSteel using Extended Performance, RealGenericFilms using Stifle Effects, and KlausTheWizard using Signature Material with "IGSRJ's Super Mario 3 Review".
Windows Movie Maker Miscreants	Emperor Ing using Extended Performance, Cristoph using Coerce Material, Quax using Signature Material with "The O'Reilly Factor", RideTheCatfish using Signature Material with "Donkey Kong Country TV Show", and MrDrunkenFox using Signature Material with "Looney Tunes".

Matches

Gameweek 1

RabbitSnore vs. TheAirPump

Match is fully lost.

Gameweek 13

6 round "vanilla" match.

Only three matches for this gameweek ever even started.