Ultrasimplicity Tennis
Ultrasimplicity Tennis is a type of tennis where the editing style is intentionally limited to an extreme amount. While originating as a response to the increasingly complex tennis meta, in instead became complex in its own way, seeing how much could be limited in a match while still keeping the key ideas of tennis intact. Over the years this idea has spread to YTP and various collaborations.
Rules
- No plugins (or any video or audio effects for that matter) can be used of any kind (NoPlug)
- Two tracks, one for video and one for audio. Nothing else
- Videos can not be reversed, panned/cropped, sped up/slowed down, or pitch-shifted
- Transitioning, opacity changes (fading, etc.), as well as layering videos on top of each other are also not allowed
- All footage must be quantized to frames (if applicable) - no hyperstuttering or other related techniques
- A source's audio and video can be separated and edited individually
- Add at least one source per round[1]
History
The original idea for Ultrasimplicity came as a derivative of the simplicity collabs: a series of YTP collaborations started by Smonge with the following rules:
- No plugins (or any video or audio effects for that matter) can be used of any kind (NoPlug)
- Three layers maximum (3 video, 2 audio + 1 video, etc.)
The concept was initially thought of by aw8qn before the idea was expanded upon into a match with mrdoognoog. The match played from the 13th to the 15th of December 2020, showing how quickly one could be made.[2] This led to a large influx of similar matches with others wanting to try the style out.
Collabs
There were two collaborations based on the ultrasimplicity concept. The first one was by gsgiraffes and released on August 24th, 2021. [3] The second was on by the RYTP community October 23rd, 2022 (ультрасимл фестиваль, English:"UltraSimple Festival"[4]), hosted by Autoxy.