3-Way Tennis Tournament 2

The 3-Way Tennis Tournament 2 is a currently ongoing YouTube Poop/Video Tennis tournament that started on December 1, 2024. It is the first tournament of the YellowTealPurple forums era and the first tournament since the Tennis League 4 to be mainly hosted by dani_phantump, making this also the first tournament hosted by an admin of the site it's hosted on since the Tennis Season in 2009. With the original 3-Way Tennis Tournament having started in early 2010, it is the first time this tournament variant has been played in almost 15 years. The tournament was a return to having unique, individual host accounts used for announcements and voting, and for this competition was Jonathan Frakes, with dani_phantump theming the tournament and the unveiling of match lineups and votes around a typical episode of Beyond Belief.

The commencement of the tournament coincided with a surprising turn of events in the community, in which several veteran members suddenly made a comeback starting in August of that year, both before and after the launch of the YellowTealPurple forums which was largely spearheaded by dani_phantump and infinitysnapz, its two lead admins. It is thus seen, in more ways than one, as the beginning of a bright new era for tennis, parellel to how the original instance of this tournament ended up marking a transition of eras in and of itself. This is the first tournament to feature the participation of soundphaseytp, GnarpyFan4000, portaldash, RaymanChrome, foldername, boundless_beta, hitori, mahify, Telegrosik, and Media904. It is also a return tournament for multiple of its participants; dani_phantump returned after having last played in the Doubles Cup 4 in 2022, TheChutley, ThirtyTwelve and TehShadzify after having last played in the Doubles Cup 3 in 2017-2018, CheeChee after having last played in the Match Voting Tournament 2 in 2021, and vel 17 after having last played in the Multi-Way Tennis Tournament all the way back in 2014. GameBop also initially secretly joined under the name DisguisedSqueak43, revealing their true identity 10 days before Set 1 lineups were announced, also making their comeback after 2 years of no video activity period and their first tournament appearance since the MVT2 as well. TheChutley and GameBop were the only two players returning from the original 3-Way Tennis Tournament; Additional veteran trepmaws also started a "Three-Way Lobby Shuffle" parallel event to make up for all the player slots being filled but there being double the amount of players interested in participating. This marks trepmaws' own return to tennis after a roughly 7 year gap of any video activity in addition.