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The Great Restoration

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The Great Restoration is an ongoing tennis archival and recovery project spearheaded by dani_phantump, VidTens443 and RaymanChrome that began in March 2026. Through the use of an outside, anonymous extractor with access to the servers of YouTube, it was discovered at the end of the month previous to the project commencing that it was possible to recover the videos of any account that had been terminated by a third party any time up to the year 2023. Previously, this method had been used by the Recycle Bin collective to locate and extract lost videos by MeiAIDS, at which point dani_phantump crafted a list of names essential in the world of tennis that could also benefit from such retrieval. The first tennis videos to be fetched in this way were the long-lost uploads of PapaGonzales; this allowed the beginning of the restoration of much missing data from the Tennis League 1, including the first ever compilation of a full match from that event, Misselaioneous10 vs. PapaGonzales(2007).

The process is being carrying out through what RaymanChrome described as a "slow downloader" from YouTube's servers, roughly around a rate of about "one video per few hours". Videos are requested and fetched at a gradual rate of only a few a day in order to prevent the risk of a potential IP ban from too much activity. Recovery is additionally only possible if existing links exist for those works that were under terminated accounts, making the YouChew archives and the Wayback Machine indispensable resources for locating the desired material.

The name "The Great Restoration" has its origins in messages about tennis recovery written by dani_phantump in the Tennis Isles discord as early as September 2024, which they have subsequently jokingly described as "mad, prophetic visions" about the potential restoration of many matches that have been long lost. As of this writing, many names that contributed throughout tennis who had their accounts terminated by a third party stand to have their works recovered, including TyrannosaurusReich, theHappyFungus, the first and fourth accounts of vvaluigi, SergeantBacon, HighVoltageChrist, Ishkibibl, BMATF from his original account BigMarioAndTailsFan, Terroristx123, sonicnerd23, SushieBoy, MVJ52197, seconteen13, MilkR0und, Y2Zero, MasuginaChicken, Christoph2772, scimath12, KonXII, Nuthead from her original account jellytime69, Gnomebob, Tentor521, pimpsahoy, Glitchboyadvance, Zatchy, TangerineImpz, AmazingCucumber, RideTheCatfish, BSP666c's original account, ZippZapp, ADHDYoshi, and others.[1]

Matches Listed as Possible to Restore

Tournament Matches Listed as Possible to Restore

Tennis League 1

  • SushieBoy vs. Misselaineous10
  • PapaGonzales vs. SushieBoy

Tennis League 2

  • Terrorist vs. BMATF
  • BMATF vs. KingCornholio
  • Terrorist vs. LightningSpike
  • peskyplumber vs. Terrorist
  • KingCornholio vs. peskyplumber

Tennis Cup

  • AbsoluteBillion vs. Trogdor7190
  • Terrorist vs. Ishkibibl
  • Ishkibibl vs. MTB710
  • Ishkibibl vs. NS2

Tennis League 3

  • UncleChuckTH vs. theHappyFungus
  • RealGenericFilms vs. WowComics
  • MaRillion05 vs. vvaluigi
  • RealGenericFilms vs. Terrorist
  • theHappyFungus vs. Luioigi

Doubles Cup 1

  • UberNooberPooper + Luioigi vs. Futures Passed + SergeantBacon
  • TheChutley + vvaluigi vs. Futures Passed + SergeantBacon

Tennis Season

  • SergeantBacon vs. Futures Passed
  • Metroid998 vs. TyrannosaurusReich
  • SergeantBacon/TheChutley vs. theHappyFungus
  • LieutenantMiles vs. SergeantBacon (duel)

Grey Tennis Tournament

  • ferretfreak111 vs. MAZZ0Murder

Tennis Events Listed As Possible To Restore

Chain Poop

  • Rounds 42 (Zatchy), 46 (KonXII), and 51 (seconteen13)

Chain 2

  • ferretfreak111's remake of Round 1 (originally by ShadowWario)

Tennis Mini-Competition

  • MonsterSumoable's Round 8
  1. ↑ https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-backup-archives-history.2293/post-43753
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