Tennis League 4

Hector Barbossa, one of the chosen mascots for the Tennis League IV

Tennis League 4 or TL4 was a Youtube Poop Tennis Tournament, the fourth tennis tournament of the league format, and the fourteenth tournament overall. It was hosted jointly by dani_phantump, GameBop, TheChutley, trepmaws and TheFXexpert, beginning on December 19th, 2014 and ended on November 13, 2015. The eventual winner was Peskeh, marking the second time in a row after LaVie CestLol that a relatively new player had won.

Like the Tennis Cup 4 and the Doubles Cup 2 before it, it was a deliberate reprisal/continuation of an older tournament, with this in particular looking back to the oldest form of competitive tennis to have historically occurred on the YouChew forums. This made it the longest gap of time to occur between two of the same format of competition at a length of roughly 6 years, with the previous league occurring in 2008.

The tournament is known today for its very playful and fun loving atmosphere, and for the very silly, experimental and unserious nature of many of the matches played, most notably by dani_phantump, TheChutley, GameBop, fiv95, CorruptionSound, Nineroe, Valkiriforce and others. This was furthered by the use of the voting account "Comrade Ebola", a chaotic character concocted by TheChutley depicting George Harrison in front of the flag for Nazi Germany, who often spoke as if subliminally espousing the praises of Communism in its announcement posts, including the oft quoted "GLORY TO TENNIS!". dani_phantump, in addition, often made announcement posts graced with the visage of Captain Barbossa from the Pirates of the Caribbean series of films, as if to conduct the tournament as a pirate captain commanding its crew and ship.

It was the first tennis competition to feature Nineroe, Razerek, JammeKamme, ravinrabbid123, Peskeh, NataliaHTTPS, CheeChee, Template:Theadventuretimefan, ThirtyTwelve, Squik Squik, laromande, Brick, and TehShadzify, the last tennis competition to feature Ideas, Cheedle and RapskallionXYZ, and the only tennis competition to feature theregularmaster, TugCoat, poppop17, OldFashionedLizard, InLivingTuna, ThemOldaBoys, Alfonzopancakes, NationOfOranges696, INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE, thewoof, and Luiginati512.

It also included the participation of HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine, a prank account run in secret by TheChutley, MycroProcessor, InLivingTuna and others during the course of the league, playing 4 complete matches. None of the participants of the Tennis League 3 returned, as virtually everyone who participated in it had long since retired. However, GameBop participated as the only remaining player to have been a part of the Tennis League 2.

Info

This was a more successful take of the expanded division system of TL3.

The overall winner was Peskeh.

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

Division B

Sploltoen vs. TugCoat^[x]

only progressed 3 rounds before TugCoat dropped out.

poppop17 vs. OldFashionedLizard^[x]

only a serve was made.

Division E

Alfonzopancakes vs. Theadventuretimefan/Treckasec^[x]

A serve was never made.

Soucisse Verte vs. Trepmaws^[x]

Only a serve was made.

Division F

NationOfOranges696 vs. INTERGALACTICDEATHRAPE

NationOfOranges696 vs. intergalacticdeathrape (TL4)

Set 2

Division A

Ninero vs. theregularmaster^[x]

Only progressed 3 rounds before theregularmaster dropped out.

Division B

Sploltoen vs. Cornflakes^[x]

Only progressed 3 rounds before TugCoat dropped out.

Another Brick in The Wall vs. laromande

Only a serve was made before poppop17 dropped out. The match was continued and finished in June when laromande replaced him.

Iamoutofideas1 vs. thewoof

This match was taken down from YouTube upon upload due to the use of pornographic content in thewoof's rounds. It is still available to watch on archive.org:

https://archive.org/download/ytptennistourney-tl4/tl4%20imoutofideas1%20vs%20thewoof%2002122015%2002282015.mp4

Division F

Foghorn Scorpio vs. JowlHog4^[x]

JowlHog4 dropped out before the serve was finished. The resulting serve ended up receiving no recipient.

Set 4

Division A

CorruptionSound vs. Razerek/GabrielPika^{(Round 4 was uploaded after match concluded)}

Only progressed three rounds before Razerek dropped out. gabrielpika replaced him for Round 4, but was disqualified from continuing in the tournament due to uploading it several weeks late.

Division C

HardcoreMormonFuckingMachine vs. Peskeh

HMFM made an unofficial 5th round for this match, clocking in at 12 hours long. It can be found here.

Division D

NITROCONCRETE1 vs. GameBop^[x]

Only progressed two rounds before NITROCONCRETE1 dropped out.

Set 5

Division A

Ninero vs. dew^[x][!]

While this match technically completed, It completed outside of the main competition under a different context. Only the serve was made properly within the context of the league.

Cross-division

NataliaHTTPS vs. InLivingTuna[x]

NataliaHTTPS and InLivingTuna played as the odd players out in Division D and A, respectively. Only a serve was made.

Final Match

TheChutley vs Squik Squik vs laromande vs Nineroe vs Peskeh vs TheFXexpert

The winner of the final match was Peskeh.