RAKninja vs. GameBop vs. magmalord

RAKninja vs. GameBop vs. magmalord
Three-Way Match
"worse Worse WORSE WORSE W-"
Start Date	June 1, 2010
End Date	June 19, 2010
Rounds	9
Participants	RAKninja, GameBop, magmalord
Match Page	Thread
Winner
GameBop

RAKninja vs. GameBop vs. magmalord was a YouTube Poop/Video tennis match played as a part of the 3-Way Tennis Tournament, taking place between June 1 and June 19, 2010. It was a part of the Set 1 lineup of matches, before any specific brackets had been drawn between players. Despite RAKninja and GameBop having existed around each other in the community and on the tennis staff for two years up to this point, this would be the one and only time they would be in a match together. It was additionally the only time that either player would be in a match with magmalord. Sources used include Star Trek: The Original Series(Season 3 Episode 1 - "Spock's Brain"(1968) and Season 1 Episode 28 - "The City on the Edge of Forever"(1967)), The Transformers(Season 2 Episode 27 - "The Golden Lagoon"(1985)), the intro to Dinobabies, Rosie & Ruff in Puppydog Tales, Kyorochan(specifically its Hungarian dub, known as Kukucska Kalandjai), the Sally Cruikshank animated short Face Like a Frog(1987), Kivanci Fanci, the Street Fighter animated series, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, a Simpsons short from The Tracy Ullman Show(Season 1 Episode 12 - "Eating Dinner"(1987)), a commercial for an unknown British News special, a video known only as "La Poulette Oof", The 7th Guest(PC, 1993), Myst(PC, 1993), Riven(PC, 1997), Donkey Kong 64(N64, 1999), Lighthouse: The Dark Being(PC, 1996), and Torin's Passage(PC, 1995).

It was the 29th match played by RAKninja, the 44th match played by GameBop, and the 17th match played by magmalord. Largely due to the presence of GameBop in the match and the enduring popularity of the 3-Way Tennis Tournament as a whole, it is also arguably the most popular tennis match played by RAKninja in the present day. His Round 1, "HIS BRAIN IS GONE", was embraced as a solo video in its own right outside of the tournament, gaining as of current a respectable 9,400+ views and being remembered for its stark, minimalist and humorous nature when compared to the tennis output it found itself surrounded with. GameBop's Round 2, "HIS BRAIN IS OVER THERE", is considered to be the strongest and most signature round of the entire match as well as one of their most signature videos, with MycroProcessor at the time considering it "one of my new favorite videos of GameBop's" and "definitely in my top three favorite videos of 2010". Also embraced as memorable moments in the match include RAKninja's Round 4, "THE KILLERS ARE OVER THERE", noted by players such as ChrisGendo for its distinctive use of audio reverb, delay and distortion, and GameBop's Round 5, "the trouble there is not over", for taking the match into an experimental pivot with their own take on one of RAKninja's signature response techniques(he himself would use this same technique in his Round 7, "YES, I INDEED WENT THERE").

Ultimately, GameBop had the strongest performance personality in the match coupled with the best and most creative uses of previous rounds, and won the match with an average score of 0.92, receiving both the highest average popular and judge vote combined. This continued a winning streak over from their recent win in the Grey Tennis Tournament, observed to have been tied at that moment with the winning streak of DaftPunkYoshi, who also won his Set 1 match with AmiralMachin and vvaluigi. magmalord's account was deleted in 2011, taking his original uploads of his rounds, and for a period in the early 2010's all of RAKninja's uploads were made private, making GameBop's rounds the only videos from the match to have remained unaltered from their original upload. Despite these occurrences, the full match has been preserved and magmalord's rounds were restored to YouTube in June 2012. It was first compiled as a single video on the YouWouldBeWelcome account in August 2021.

The Full Match

Round 1

"HIS BRAIN IS GONE" by RAKninja

Round 2

"HIS BRAIN IS OVER THERE" by GameBop

Round 3

"THE BRAIN ISN'T OVER THERE" by magmalord

Round 4

"THE KILLERS ARE OVER THERE" by RAKninja

Round 5

"the trouble there is not over" by GameBop

The sequences seen overlayed with Kukucska Kalandjai can be seen deobfuscated in GameBop's "Bits and Pieces of Stuff" (which contains a compilation of various Puzzle Pieces and alternate sequences.) It can be found at roughly 0:28 to 0:56.

Round 6

"not over for the trouble is there" by magmalord

Round 7

"YES, I INDEED WENT THERE" by RAKninja

Round 8

"Oh, No, I can't go there" by GameBop

Round 9

"THIS CONVERSATION IS OVER" by magmalord