Triples Tennis Tournament

The Triples Tennis Tournament or The Triples Cup was a Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament that was the last to be organized primarily by ChrisGendo, but hosted for the majority by trepmaws and later AshcrementVII from February to September 2013 on the YouChew Forums. It is the twelfth overall tennis competition. The layout was a further extension of RAKninja's original Doubles Cup idea, extending the teams from pairs to groups of three and also incorporating team names for each group. To date, it is the only Tennis Tournament to use the Triples Tennis format. The eventual Winning Team of the Tournament was a team made up of MycroProcessor, GameBop and eletricalmonkss under the name of The Complex Triangle, significant in that it would be the first tournament that MycroProcessor would finally win after having made it to the final match in two previous tournaments, and GameBop would become the first tennis player to win for a second time.

It was the first tennis competition to feature CreepahWeegie, HollowTheGuy/MaggedRat, imoutofideas1, cyclejunkie, and Cornflakes, and the last to feature RAKninja, ChrisGendo, eletricalmonkss, Rillion, lordbababa, and (to-date) MAZZ0Murder. It is also the only tennis competition to feature ArsenioGut, FishTitan and LoveForLogos, the latter whom infamously never contributed any actual videos of their own.

Background

The Triples concept had been a pet project of ChrisGendo's since 2010, and there was in fact a previous attempt to turn this into a tournament on the YouChew Forums in June 2011, originally set to have been the follow-up competition to The Three-Way Tournament following a 4 month period of competitive inactivity within the Tennis Section (Gamebop's Tennis Shuffle was put into place to alleviate this wait, but it proved overall to be ineffective as the only matches that really finished took most of the rest of the year to do so). The teams that signed up for this incarnation of the tournament would have been:

MAD MACHINE ZETTAI RYOUIKI, made up of ChrisGendo, AshcrementVII, and djninjalovemistake, potentially the first tournament for the latter two players.

Team Q T Q, made up of Metroid998, superkoffee, and dew, largely organized through skype and potentially dew's first tournament.

TFALL ZONE ACT II, made up of GameBop, MycroProcessor and TheChutley, which was noted at the time as an immensely stacked combination of players.

The Computer Jesus Refrigerator Tennis Team, made up of at-the-time all members that had been banned from the YouChew Forums: DoctorEggman, NESfanboi and RobochaoXX.

Splolteon FC, made up of BSP666c, CorruptionSound, and Kurkop, regarded similarly in combination to that of TFALL ZONE ACT II, since all three of them by this time had made the tennis community highly aware of their abilities.

Weeaboo's From Hell, made up of CaptainStringCheese, BMATF, and trepmaws, potentially Captain's first tournament.

TheRazorEdge(vel 17), vvaluigi and sanemurzu potentially also formed a team, although a name was never chosen and participation between all three was never officially confirmed. It would have been the first tournament for Verity and sanemurzu at the time.

The official 8th team to sign up was one made up of members who had mostly been active on other parts of the forum, and had all collectively tennised very little; a moderator, Intermission, and two other older members, RideTheCatfish and cantflyman. Upon noticing two then-recently banned members having joined the tournament, Intermission suddenly and unexpectedly became very vocal, ordering them to be removed.

At the time, the YouChew forums had been reeling from the aftermath of "The Oz Incident", a saga of events in early 2011 where a mysterious and shadowy figure named Oz had essentially manipulated and bribed his way into complete control of the forums, creating a massive infection of viruses within the forum software and impersonating staff members all in an immensely convoluted attempt to deliberately destroy the site. Ultimately this led to his complete removal from the forums, along with three months of unretrievable posts stretching from February to May 2011. This was a time when paranoia and concern of site safety was high and the moderation staff had become a lot more quick to jump onto potential offenses than usual as a result of it. They were under the suspicion that both of the recently banned members (NESfanboi and DoctorEggman) had associated very heavily with Oz during his forum seige, and were currently considered still dangerous due to the fact that superkoffee's account had been hacked very recently by them.

A schism occurred at this point, as ChrisGendo stood firmly in the position of believing that anyone, including banned members, should be able to participate in tennis tournaments (there was prior precedent of this as well) and Intermission stood firmly in the place of believing that this should not be the case with activities sanctioned officially by the YouChew forums. Arguements and tensions escalated and lasted for many more posts until the thread was closed following magmalord posting a video of King Harkinian saying "ENOUGH" for 10 minutes. A number of non-contributive posts were deleted right before.

The dispute carried over out of public sight and for a period there was a noticeable rift between the tennis staff and moderators. The tennis section would return to business as usual, although with a noticeable amount of less people present. In efforts to make amends, DaftPunkYoshi was promoted to moderator to provide a positive bridge between the two staffs and a few other moderators, namely Probo, Whelt and Smonge, would pay friendly semi-regular visits to the Poop Tennis Cafe thread. The original Triples Tournament thread would however never be reopened, and in it's place a Doubles Cup 2, with primary input from a recently returned RAKninja, would unfold, followed by the Tennis Cup 4 that further pushed the Triples Cup to a later date.

Finally in February 2013 the Tournament was officially reannounced for signups, starting with a clean slate due to the community having majorly evolved, with a number of players having either left or gone on a competitive/complete hiatus from tennis. This version of the tournament would see success through its end, though at this time be hosted majorly by trepmaws.

Teams

Super God Masterforce

trepmaws, Fujiyama Gangsta Breaks(ChrisGendo), RAKninja

The Aphotic Trio

Mashu, CreepahWeegie, vel 17

Fox Box Ang Clan

HollowTheGuy, ArsenioGut, FishTitan

The Complex Triangle

ElectricalMonkss, GameBop, LoveForLogos

Fredryx's Carmel Gang

iamoutofideas1, CorruptionSound, cyclejunkie

Triple Baka

Bloodis, dani_phantump, Rillion

The Superb Optimistics

ZACHTOMCAT, jacobketronCT, Metroid998

Cornflakes Murdering Ash Cream

AshcrementVII, Cornflakes, MAZZ0Murder