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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.]]

Up until about the end of the [[Tennis League 3]], an ill-fated event which became considered failed after only a month, tennis was at this point seen to have been at its most freewheeling, with players clearly participating out of a sense of mutual enjoyment. 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 with every approach having its constituency. 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":

<small>"I don't like the way Tennis is now, Effects everywhere, Videos flying around, and just [loud distorted audio] with it."

"Fun: Making the Previous round funnier, Better, and more enjoyable.

Competitive: Making the round have loads of Ear rape, Lots of effects, Making the round more Non-enjoyable." -Terrorist, December 29, 2008</small>

Tennis staff member {{Crash2991}} was in agreement:

<small>"Well, it has sorta become competitive. Several players have made it become competitive and made several others think that it was supposed to be the uptight thing, rather than just playing around with each other's videos and showing them to each other."</small>

From a modern perspective, while the original nature and spirit of tennis was well embodied and understood in this period, the frontier of what could be achieved in terms of finding one's unique editing style still had an immense amount of unexplored territory, and these sentiments seemed to surface as a reaction against styles that were unfamiliar and potentially abrasive to those unaccustomed to them. 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>

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. 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. 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). [''Note: to be continued'']

Throughout all of its iterations, YouChew hosted every tennis tournament from their inception up until [[Doubles Cup 3]], with the site going under shortly after its completion.

~~The Golden Rule came about during this time, likely as a response to regular matches (not necessarily tournaments) having winners voted upon (citation needed).~~

==YTPMania era==

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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.]]
+Up until about the end of the [[Tennis League 3]], an ill-fated event which became considered failed after only a month, tennis was at this point seen to have been at its most freewheeling, with players clearly participating out of a sense of mutual enjoyment. 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 with every approach having its constituency. 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":
+<small>"I don't like the way Tennis is now, Effects everywhere, Videos flying around, and just [loud distorted audio] with it."
+"Fun: Making the Previous round funnier, Better, and more enjoyable.
+Competitive: Making the round have loads of Ear rape, Lots of effects, Making the round more Non-enjoyable." -Terrorist, December 29, 2008</small>
+Tennis staff member {{Crash2991}} was in agreement:
+<small>"Well, it has sorta become competitive. Several players have made it become competitive and made several others think that it was supposed to be the uptight thing, rather than just playing around with each other's videos and showing them to each other."</small>
+From a modern perspective, while the original nature and spirit of tennis was well embodied and understood in this period, the frontier of what could be achieved in terms of finding one's unique editing style still had an immense amount of unexplored territory, and these sentiments seemed to surface as a reaction against styles that were unfamiliar and potentially abrasive to those unaccustomed to them. 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>
+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. 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. 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). [''Note: to be continued'']
 Throughout all of its iterations, YouChew hosted every tennis tournament from their inception up until [[Doubles Cup 3]], with the site going under shortly after its completion.
-The Golden Rule came about during this time, likely as a response to regular matches (not necessarily tournaments) having winners voted upon (citation needed).
 ==YTPMania era==