Emperor Ing vs. Moogle
Emperor Ing vs. Moogle was a YouTube Poop tennis match played as a part of the Tennis Season, taking place between October 12 and October 20, 2009. It was a part of the Week 12 lineup of matches, consisting of 6-Round "Limited" matches, meaning that source additions for each round were kept strictly at three, round length was limited to between 30 seconds and 3 minutes, and at least 20 seconds of the previous round was required to be used. Of the team match-ups posted for this gameweek, this represented the match-up of Windows Movie Maker Miscreants vs. Team Gilgamesh.
Due to both players having a penchant for "crude" humor-based YTPs, especially ones involving CD-i, Ing and Moogle both set out in this match to make "bad" responses to each other; visual effect editing was pushed into the background in favor of a match progression that focused mostly on sentence mixing and word replacement, often going for the low hanging fruit in terms of jokes, along with simple and strategically placed repetition of clips and stutters. With Emperor Ing subtitling the match thread as "NINJA CHALLENGE", much of the sources used revolve around the Z-grade Ninja films of Godfrey Ho, with Ninja: Silent Assassin(1987), Ninja Destroyer(1987), Ninja Empire(1990), Ninja Squad(1987) and Golden Ninja Warrior(1986) all seeing usage across the match. Link: The Faces of Evil(1993) is added into the match in Moogle's Round 2, and becomes an essential ingredient for many of the sentence mixes done in the remaining rounds, with "Fuck! YOOOOOOOU" being heard in some iteration all the way through to Round 6. Other sources added into the match include a circa 1950's interview with Lolita(1955) author Vladimir Nobokov, Megaman Legends, an 1873 colored engraving of British poet Lord Byron(1788-1824), the 1835 painting Lord Byron in Albanian dress by Thomas Phillips(1770-1845), a presumably NSFW Touhou image, Beauty & Warrior(2000) and Boku No Pico, the latter of which mostly only appears in Round 4.
NS2 best described the match as "A battle of wits. Who can lose the greatest in their adventure to win." A match greatly enjoyed by its participants, it has been acclaimed as one of the best and funniest 1v1 matches to happen in the season, and remains a textbook example of the humor and aesthetics of the original generations of tennis staff at their classic best. Moogle's rounds of this match spent many years gone/hidden from YouTube before being rediscovered and reuploaded in 2012 (Round 4) and 2020 (Round 2 and Round 6). Emperor Ing, who had so far lost every match he had played for his team in the season, was determined to win this match and exerted a considerable amount of effort in crafting each of his rounds. He would in fact end up achieving his one and only victory for this match, winning with 6 votes against 4.
The Full Match
Round 1
"Bruce Baron's Wacky Initiative to Consolidate his Constituency" by Emperor Ing
Round 2
"Vladimir Nabokov Initiates Waki Miko Constipation" by Moogle
Round 3
"Bruce's Investigation turns Fruitful upon following Nabokov's Lead" by Emperor Ing
Round 4
"Bruces Anime Investigation Turns Nabokovs Foolish Followers into Fruit" by Moogle
Round 5
"Mike Abbot Reveals himself to be the Stealer of Stuff" by Emperor Ing
Round 6
"The Culprit Was Lord Byrons Bastard Child All Along" by Moogle