Doubles Cup 3

The Doubles Cup 3, or DC3 was the third doubles cup format Tennis Tournament, and the sixteenth tournament overall. It was hosted primarily by Metroid998 and lasted from May 24, 2017 to September 10, 2018; the last tournament of the YouChew forums era, ending only weeks before the site was shut down. The voting account used for this tournament was "Mother Harlot", in reference to a recurring character from the Shin Megami Tensei games.

Unlike the previous and subsequent Doubles Cups, the Doubles Cup 3 opted for 4 round League-style matches in which every single round was made collaboratively, much like the Doubles variant week of the Tennis Season. The event coincided with notable advances in technology since the previous Doubles Cup, with the use of software such as Parsec allowing multiple people to work remotely over a single computer, and multiple pairs of teammates utilized this to create their collaborative rounds. The tournament has been retrospectively noted for being a large, last blast of tennis creativity on the YouChew forums, with the ability to now seamlessly collaborate being one of the shining qualities of many matches and individual collab rounds. The winners were eventually the duo of CheeChee and Razerek.

It was the first tennis competition to feature lonrefne, mapo, Zekii, BoommDaCorgi1337, gsgiraffes, Dozzyrok and CamHead, the final competition to feature AshcrementVII, Baycunn(SergeantBacon), Soucisse Verte, LaVieCestLol, ravinrabbid123, Sid, laromande, MycroProcessor, TheFXexpert, Peskeh, Thatco, saper, DTN7758, pixuyx and CorruptionSound, and the only competition to feature Octagoncoil/Autoxy, Frankey, Orlyx, AntiCheese, Tetrareux, Ubriel, YTPNerdette, GTLYTP, Master Sword, dingoytp, ArbitraryData, and retrogenerics. AshcrementVII, GameBop, trepmaws, Sploltoen, CorruptionSound and Metroid998 all returned from the Doubles Cup 2 and the TheChutley, MycroProcessor and Baycunn all returned having previously played in the Doubles Cup 1, with GameBop and trepmaws the only two players to have been a part of every Doubles tournament since the original. TheChutley, Sid, TehShadzify, fiv95 and ThirtyTwelve would not properly return to a tournament until the 3-Way Tennis Tournament 2 in 2024, and trepmaws would not return to tennis entirely until 2025.

Info

This doubles cup was different compared to the others that have been played; instead of the usual 6-round format with collaborative rounds at the end, DC3 had four rounds per match, where all rounds were collaborative. This makes it the only tournament where every single round was done by more than one person.

Matches

The below matches are hyperlinked to individual playlists.

   Matches marked with [!] are missing rounds.
   Matches marked with [x] indicate unfinished/forfeited matches.

Set 1

Baycunn + Dozzyrok vs. fiv95 + Soucisse Verte^[x]

Only officially progressed 2 rounds before Baycunn + Dozzyrok dropped out, though an in-progress Round 3 was subsequently posted.

Lavie CestLol + RavinRabbid123 vs. Sid + Laromande^[x]

Only progressed 3 rounds before Sid and laromande dropped out.

MycroProcessor/TheChutley + GameBop vs. Master Sword + dingoytp/TheYTPkid859

MycroProcessor contributed to Round 1 before being replaced by TheChutley, and dingoytp contributed to Round 2 before being replaced by TheYTPkid859.

PaletteBlockhead + Sixtyforce vs. DarchYTPs + acm240^[x]

Only progressed 3 rounds before DarchYTPs and acm240 both nonconsecutively dropped out, though a Round 4 was made after the match failed.

Peskeh + Thatco vs. saper + 53v3n733n^[x]

Only progressed two rounds before Peskeh and Thatco dropped out.

Set 2

mapo + AntiCheese vs. TheChutley + GameBop[x]

A serve was never made.

fiv95 + Soucisse Verte vs. Frankey + Orlyx^[x]

a serve was never made.

Set 3

Frankey + Orlyx vs. Razerek + CheeChee^[x]

A serve was never made.

Mackenzie + Sploltoen vs. Lavie CestLol + ravinrabbid123

CorruptionSound dropped out shortly after this match began, citing a lack of ideas and motivation, and was subsequently replaced by Mackenzie.

AshcrementVII + TehShadzify vs. PaletteBlockhead + Sixtyforce^[x]

Only progressed 3 rounds before PaletteBlockhead and Sixtyforce dropped out.

Set 4

Razerek + PCB vs. TheChutley + GameBop^[x]

Only progressed 3 rounds before TheChutley and GameBop dropped out.

Set 5 (Finale)

retrogenerics + Sploltoen vs. Razerek + PCB

Mackenzie dropped out shortly after this match began and was replaced by retrogenerics, for whom this was apparently his first tennis match.