Team Tennis

Team Tennis is a special type of Tennis that involves 'teams' of players going at it. This style often involves collab rounds - videos created by more than one person, usually at the match's conclusion.

Doubles Tennis

A team of two against another team of two.

While this was first attempted in March 2008 between RabbitSnore, Misselaineous10, Furnessly and strong414bad/TheHappyFungus, Rakninja successfully pulled a special twist in this category on November 17th, 2008, bringing the variant idea into a tournament setting, which ultimately brought significant attention to it and has since made it a standard. The standard method of play is:

A + B vs. C + D

A + B work collaboratively on odd rounds, while C + D do so on the even rounds.

This can be done in a 4 Round League format (as first done in the 2009 Tennis Season), a standard 6 Round format, or any other even number beyond that, depending on the players' determination to do so.

In RAKninja's Tournament adaption, the method of play has some changes:

A + B vs. C + D

• Player A makes a serve, Player C returns it.
• Player B volleys that, Player D volleys.
• Player A and B then collaborate to make their last round, then Player's C and D collaborate to finish the match.

In the Doubles Cup I, The match was scored by a Review Crew member, a Tennis Staff member, and a popular vote as the third "judge". In cases where a Review Crew or Tennis staff were involved in a match, the match was judged by two members of the other staff,(except in the case of RC vs TS) so if someone were in a match against anyone but a RC member, he/she would be judged by two RCs rather than a RC and TS.

In the Doubles Cup II though, since Review Crew had long since fused with the News Staff which had in time become the Writing Staff (who now were largely uninvolved with tennis altogether), vote was divided between a Judge and Public Vote, in which anyone could sign up as a Judge. A possible 2 of 3 points had to be awarded to a playing team in order to achieve a win, with one point decided by popular vote (which used MycroProcessor's "percentage" voting system from the Three-Way Tournament) and the second decided by Judge vote. If both teams each received one of these points, the third was decided by a panel of three Café Staff members using Olympic voting.

In the Doubles Cup III, matches were played for the first time in a 4 Round all-collaboration league format, while in the Doubles Cup IV it returned to the standard tournament adaption.

Triples Tennis

In June 2011, ChrisGendo further expanded upon RAKninja's original Doubles Cup idea and introduced the idea of Triples Tennis, which worked the same as Doubles Tennis except now with the addition of one more person on each side. The playout on a competitive field would be:

A + B + C vs. D + E + F

• A Makes Round 1
• D Makes Round 2
• B Makes Round 3
• E Makes Round 4
• C Makes Round 5
• F Makes Round 6
• ABC Make Round 7 collaboratively
• DEF Make Round 8 collaboratively

Matches of this type however did not see any footing until February 2013, and so far only 7 have ever been played, with 6 of those actually completing. All of these took place during the Triples Tennis Tournament.

This variant has not yet been attempted outside of a tournament setting.

Quadruples Tennis

Quadruples tennis is the final boss of team tennis - four players collaborating on a single video.

A tournament has yet to be hosted of this type, however it is unlikely it will happen due to it being a logistical nightmare.

Layout

Quadruples expands upon the triples format but with four people per group.

Assuming we have players ABCD on teams 1 and 2:

1. 1A
2. 2A
3. 1B
4. 2B
5. 1C
6. 2C
7. 1D
8. 2D
9. All of team 1
10. All of team 2

Notable Matches

This style of tennis has only been attempted once, in a match hosted by mrdoognoog.

Quadruples Match (2022)