Multi-Way Tennis Tournament

The Multi-Way Tennis Tournament, or MWTT, was a Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament hosted on the YouChew forums by an revolving assortment of hosts starting with dani_phantump, the original creator/organizer, then switching over to GameBop, before finally being managed to its finish by a joint effort between trepmaws and Sid from September 2013 to October 2014. It is the longest running tournament that has ever taken place, with the shortest duration of time (14 hours) between the start of this tournament and the end of the previous one. 10 of its 18 original participants would replaced more than one time throughout its run with a total of 14 additional participants, currently the most ever. The primary concept focused around the idea of a Multi-Way Match, expanding upon the 3-Way Tennis Tournament to feature matches of up to 6 players at one time. This was the fourth and final tennis tournament to use the voting account "Gendo Ikari", in reference to the character from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The tournament was plagued with internal issues of the then-current era of tennis staff, but was somehow able to make it through and finish successfully, and is 100% archived in the present day. It is notable for also having a replacement, LaVie CestLol, controversially joining very late and winning the whole tournament, despite playing for only three sets. It was the first tennis competition to feature Sid, fiv95, Nitroausome, LaVieCestLol and valkiriforce, the final competition to feature CreepahWeegie, eletricalmonkss, Bloodis, and sanemurzu, and the only competition to feature JowlHog4, MaggedRat/HollowTheGuy, 3tp and plasticfishtank.

Layout

Initially conceived by both dani_phantump and CaptainStringCheese in 2011, the original concept was a massive 20-way match that slowly decreased in number until there was one player standing. Together with much of the other Tennis Staff members of the time, the present form that the tournament would take eventually molded together through group discussion.

The layout of the MWTT was rather unique. Each set had 3 matches each, organized for fun into Yellow, Teal and Purple categories (which spelled out YTP!)with a maximum of 6 players in each match lineup. Each match went a normal three rotations in the volleying order set for the match before being voted on with an Olympic voting system (contributed by trepmaws). Each player in a match would be scored 1 to 10 by a given vote, and then all vote scores would be calculated for an average. The player with the lowest average score in each set would be eliminated.

The layout of sets were drawn as:

Set 1: 18 Players, 3 6-way matches

Set 2: 15 Players, 3 5-way matches

Set 3: 12 Players, 3 4-way matches

Set 4: 9 Players, 3 3-way matches

Set 5: 6 Players, 3 standard 2-way matches

Set 6: 3 Players, 1 3-Way Final Match, with the winner going to the receiver of the highest score.

The round time limit was also deliberately set to half the max time limit of the standard (0:20 to 1:30), as dani_phantump anticipated that many extensions would be needed and that this would hopefully be a way to compensate for the time that people would spend on each round, de-emphasizing the utilization of long round times. The turnover time was also reduced back to 3 days, as opposed to 4 which had been used over the last few tournaments.

Penalties for lateness/going outside of rules was fixed at one point for each off the total average score, the lateness being for every 3 days a player was late, resulting in disqualification after 9. It would be after this a replacement would be requested.

dani_phantump wrote regarding replacements:

"During a match, if a player decides they will no longer be able to participate in the tournament, they may select a player from the list to play for them, who will simply pick up from where the player left off in a match*. Note that a replacement is permanent**, and once chosen they will take the place of the original player for the remaining course of the tournament. In the event a player is disqualified due to late penalties or does not choose a replacement, the replacement players will be contacted about the open spot and whoever volunteers first will play in place of the disqualified.

(*)This rule is exempt in the 2 way matches of Set 5. In this set replacements will be chosen like that of the 4th tennis cup; if a player decides they will no longer be able to participate in the tournament, they may select a player from the list to play for them. If done so, the match will restart from the beginning, using the un-replaced player's first round as the serve. In the event a player is disqualified due to late penalties or does not choose a replacement, their opponent may choose to either accept the win automatically and move on to the next set of matches, or select a new player from the replacement list to play against. If the replacement is disqualified then the opponent will automatically move on."

(**)If in the beginning of a tournament a player drops out before submitting any rounds for their match (or the tournament entirely) their replacement essentially acts as the original player of said match and the dropout can rejoin the tournament as a replacement if they wish to later on. Once a round is submitted by a player however, this window becomes invalid and dropouts afterward become permenant as originally. This also only applies to conditions in Set 1.

The reason for the second exception was due to the numbers who originally ended up not being able to stay committed before start, including dani_phantump herself, but would possibly be more committed at a future time and still want to play.

Players

-dani_phantump (replaced by eletricalmonkss, then Foghorn Scorpio and finally valkiriforce)
-GameBop
-MycroProcessor
-Bloodis(replaced by saper)
-HollowTheGuy/MaggedRat(replaced by Razerek)
-Cornflakes(replaced by trepmaws)
-Ideas
-Sid(replaced by ThirtyTwelve)
-plasticfishtank
-JowlHog4(replaced by fiv95)
-BSP666c/Sploltoen
-CorruptionSound
-CreepahWeegie
-TheRazorEdge(vel 17)
-StickerBoyTheNextGen(replaced by dani_phantump(replaced by CaptainStringCheese))
-Cheedle(replaced by NITROCONCRETE1(replaced by 3tp(replaced by LaVieCestLol)
-trepmaws(replaced by fiv95(replaced by djninjalovemistake))
-sanemurzu(replaced by MAZZ0Murder(replaced by CaptainStringCheese(replaced by AshcrementVII))

Matches

Set 1

Six players per rotation.

Yellow

Therazoredge vs. MaggedRat/Razerek vs. CreepahWeegie vs. StickerBoyTheNextGen/dani_phantump vs. CorruptionSound vs. MycroProcessor

Razerek and dani_phantump respectively replaced MaggedRat and StickerBoyTheNextGen after one round from each original player.

Teal

sanemurzu vs. Jowlhog4 vs. imoutofideas1 vs. ZACHTOMCAT/NITROCONCRETE1 vs. fiv95/djninjalovemistake vs. Sploltoen

NITROCONCRETE1 and djninjalovemistake respectively replaced ZACHTOMCAT and fiv95 after one round from each.

Purple

Cornflakes vs. plasticfishtank vs. Sid vs. Bloodis vs. GameBop vs. eletricalmonkss

Set 2

Five players per rotation.

Yellow

CreepahWeegie vs. djninjalovemistake vs. Cornflakes vs. therazoredge vs. MAZZ0Murder/AshcrementVII

sanemurzu was replaced after three later penalties by MAZZ0Murder, who after one round was also replaced for the same reason by AshcrementVII. Only progressed 13 rounds.

Teal

Jowlhog4 vs. MycroProcessor vs. GameBop vs. dani_phantump vs. Bloodis/saper

saper replaced Bloodis for Round 15.

Purple

eletricalmonkss vs. B5P666c vs. Sid1325 vs. 3tp vs. CorruptionSound

Set 3

Four players per rotation.

Yellow

djninjalovemistake vs. JacobketronCT/valkiriforce vs. MycroProcessor vs. Sid/ThirtyTwelve

ThirtyTwelve replaced Sid for round 8 and 12 and valkiriforce replaced JacobketronCT for Round 10.

Teal

3tp vs. CreepahWeegie vs. GameBop vs. JowlHog4

Only progressed 5 rounds.

Purple

dani_phantump/Captain vs. Sploltoen vs. AshcrementVII vs. Cornflakes

dani_phantump was replaced by Captain for Round 5. Only progressed for 8 rounds.

Set 4

Three players per rotation.

Yellow

GameBop vs. MycroProcessor vs. Sploltoen

Teal

AshcrementVII vs. djninjalovemistake vs. LaVieCestLol

LaVieCestLol entered in as a replacement for 3tp.

Purple

valkiriforce vs. trepmaws vs. fiv95

trepmaws stepped in as a replacement for Cornflakes, and fiv95 re-entered the tournament as a replacement for Jowlhog4. Only progressed 7 rounds.

Set 5

Two players per rotation, or a regular match.

Yellow

Sploltoen vs. valkiriforce

Teal

GameBop vs. AshcrementVII

Purple

LaVieCestLol vs. fiv95

Set 6/Final Match

The final match was a 3-way between the winners of the (arbitrary) Yellow, Teal and Purple groups. This ended up being Sploltoen vs. LaVie CestLol vs. AshcrementVII.