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<small> ''"A legendary tennis match as old as time. Or, at least, as old as 2009. This decade long match and counting has long been written in stone by the Fucks of old and through successive generations of time and staff turnover. It weaves a multi-directional, evolving narrative of the warrior CHEN, born from the serve of the fabled Moogle, who has lived to survive 15 grueling tennis rounds of absurdity, complexity, humor, music, and NINJAS, which have been and continue to have been served only by those who have been presently or previously chosen by the Golden Bunny Breasted Racquet of Servitude, now represented equally by the Silver Racqueted Shield of the Knights of Justice (“We Don’t Care Who You Are, We’re Ready To Meet You”). CHEN The Warrior is themselves never seen until the fabled TheChutley's Round 15, but their immediately recognizable Battle Cry has pierced the heavens and cut through every tennis round gauntlet they have found themselves faced with, aided with by the awesome strength of their mighty weapon, The Incredible Laser Sword. Truly, nothing can stop The Warrior CHEN. In short, This is The Tennis Fuck Story. A theoretically endless multi-way in which only café staff may volley."''

-{{dani}}, in the OP of the [[YTPMania]] continuation thread<ref>https://ytpmania.net/t/tennis-staff-multi-way-the-story-continues/5247</ref>, October 22, 2019 (revised as of the [[YellowTealPurple]] continuation thread<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-tennis-staff-multi-way.1730</ref> created on July 19, 2025</small>

Crash's Round 2, uploaded on the same day as the serve, cuts out a good portion of the original source pool, preferring to focus just on largely Norm Augustinus, the ''Ninja: Silent Assassin'' Footage, the ''Chrono Trigger'' anime, ''Higurashi'' and much of Moogle's source representation, singling out the CHEEEEEN at a notable moment where Jim Kelly in the blaxploitation film ''Black Belt Jones''(1974) performs a judo chop on another's neck. The line "I'M GONNA KILL YOU LIKE I KILLED YOUR WIFE" is repeated from the serve, and the depiction of Adolf Hitler from ''Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo''(1978) appears for the first time very briefly. After the brief Gato's Theme interlude from the Chrono Trigger anime is shown, the full song from the original game plays over footage of Charles Gordone as the character "Preacherman" in one of ''Coonskin''(1975)'s live-action segments. The round ends with a brief coda following the THE END title card, with "EE-EE-EE-EE....BURRR-?" over Ninja Silent Assassin footage, immediately followed by a brief clip of Lupin smiling mischievously. A product of his "[[Windows Movie Maker|WMM]] year" of late 2008 to late 2009, this was the only time that Moogle and Crash shared a direct tennis exchange with each other.

With the previous 2 rounds being noted for their long-ended runtime, RAKninja posted Round 3 on June 1, 2009, saying "I fixed that, sorry", with a run time of just over a minute. Beginning immediately by mirroring and slowing down the Hitler face, much of the video is dominated by Gato's Theme from Chrono Trigger and the addition of Dr. Rockso from Metalocalypse, which serves to represent and acknowledge the existence of Nuthead, the only other first generation Tennis Staff member who never participated. Like the rounds before it, it continues the usage of CHEEEEEEN from the serve, reversing it and stretching it out for the first time in the match, concluding with "I'M GONNA KILL YOU LIKE I KILLED [COCAAAAAAAINE]". RAK's Round 3 remains today as the earliest video of the match to exist as its original upload. This was the second and final time after [[Crash2991 vs. RAKninja|their original match]] that Crash and RAK shared a direct tennis exchange with each other.

A gleeful energy pervades the course of Emperor Ing's Round 5, uploaded June 24, 2009, as he proceeds to immediately edit over the Hitler face, proclaimed by him as his favorite moment from the previous round (which makes brief reappearances across the entire video), and introduces some of his signature sources into the match. The most significant new addition is the Rankin-Bass adaption of ''The Hobbit''(1977), namely a song from the film which includes the lines:

At one point the video freeze frames on a frame of Gandalf making what looks to be a perplexed expression, referred to by Ing as the "Gandalf Stare". Also added into the video are mostly unedited clips from the 1985 anime film ''Space Transformers''(which shares an executive producer in the Godfrey Ho Ninja films with Joseph Lai), utilized largely to exploit its legendarily corny English dub ("YES WELL YOU KNOW MY SISTER COMES IN HERE ALMOST EVERY DAY WHATS THE PROOOBLEMM"). This was the second and final time after [[Emperor Ing vs. theHappyFungus|their original, coincidentally ''Lord of the Rings'' themed match]] that Ing and Happy shared a direct tennis exchange with each other.

Rabbit's Round 6, uploaded July 9, 2009, is notable for being edited with his trademark style of picture-in-picture layering, and for introducing Sonic The Hedgehog (OVA), one of Rabbit's signature sources, into the match's pool. Among notable moments are Tails' line "Oh Sonic, thank you!" with the frame proceeding to zoom in on Sonic winking at Tails with loud and distorted audio, along with Tails yelling "You're No HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" The original upload was viewable until about early 2010, and then able to be viewed unlisted in the original [[YouChew]] thread from January 2013 until October 2019, when {{RabbitSnore}}'s YouTube account was deleted. A saved copy of this round by anyone who has it remains highly sought after to make the match complete once again. This was the second and final time after their original match that Rabbit and Ing shared a direct tennis exchange with each other.

strong414bad's Round 7, originally uploaded July 13, 2009, adds in Hotel Mario and James Earl Jones counting to 10 on Sesame Street, the latter whom, true to the videos title, does proceed to recite 9 digits of pi interspersed throughout the response (3.14159265). CHEEEEEN is heard over a zoom in onto Mario's nose and over a screen-flipping of the "Gandolf Wizard Stare", and the "sleep will ease your mind" song is repeated over the word "problems", increasing in volume to the point where James Earl Jones reciting 2 and 6 is only barely audible. As the second WMM response of the match, much of the editing is simplistic yet effective, with many repetitions, stutters and and drastic speed ups of the previous round that were well received by the other participants. This was the second and final time after [[strong414bad vs. RabbitSnore|their Tennis League 2 match]] that strong and Rabbit had a direct tennis exchange with each other.

Gamebop's Round 8, uploaded July 16, 2009, serves as the first appearance of the second generation of tennis staff into the match, and marks the round number by duplicating the "8" from the James Earl Jones footage across the screen. Lots of Kukori Es Kotkoda footage is added to the round, including a clip of Kukori next to Kopasznyakú holding a microphone as "Sleep will ease-" is heard. The CHEEEEEN now players over a zoom in shot of James Earl Jones' chin, making for a clever visual pun. (WIP, more to be added soon). This was the third and final time that GameBop and strong had a direct tennis exchange with each other.

One of the most intense rounds of the entire match, Round 10, uploaded December 12, 2009, indulges greatly in DaftPunkYoshi's now-cemented and legendary mastery of Windows Movie Maker, seeming to one-up even MycroProcessor's contribution in its drastic increase of pace and heavy use of transitions and speed-up clips that were signature to his style at its peak. This is hampered only by it seeming to struggle with a shifting frame rate but is nonetheless captured wonderfully still in its manic audio. The Alfred Kwak SLEEP moment is mirrored and reversed into SLEELS, with the often-traded "clip rearrangement" technique in order to pull off the reverse with its signature WMM stutter. The ''Home Improvement'' intro is the only added source into this match, with Tim Allen's "HOOH" and "AAAAUEEEH??" being stuttered to humorous effect. This was the second and final time after their [[Windows Movie Master]] match that DPY and Mycro had a direct tennis exchange with each other.

Round 11, uploaded May 29, 2010, serves to be the first second response made to the match made by one of its members. It features a much more experimental style compared to RAK's previous contribution, stating in the video's description "I am very rusty." Beginning with a clip from ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' of Kirk exclaiming "I'M LOSING COMMAND.....IM LOSING THE ENTERPRISE...", It features RAK's attempt to create a "3d rotating tornado of picture in picture" using the 9's from DaftPunkYoshi's round, and otherwise very minimally editing it between blocks of blank space and the addition of footage from ''Dolemite''(1975)("DOLEMITE MOTHER FUCKER YOU-") The round ends with a clip from the 1995 comedy film ''The Jerky Boys'', where Johnny B. asks Kamal "you think these fucking cocks can hold us?" while holding a rope of linked sausages next to a window. This is insofar the only round of the chain not to include CHEEEEEEN in some way. This was the only time that RAK and DPY shared a direct tennis exchange.

The third generation of staff makes its debut appearance into the match at this point, with ChrisGendo uploading her Round 12 only a day after being promoted, on December 11, 2010. Spawn Spencer from ''Psych'' opens the video, exclaiming "YEEEEAAAAAA" with a blue photo filter applied to him, something that would be done directly by fellow staff member NS2 in a similar fashion in "Luck, You Bluffer"(2010) the immediate day after, therefore acting as his indirect representation in this match. As this melts into a strobe, the following video proceeds in a music video fashion set to the Ling Tosite Sigure song "Sergio Echigo"(2004), editing the previous round in what had by then become {{ChrisGendo}}'s signature style. Her staple of ''Welcome to the NHK'' is one of the main added sources featured, along with footage of Gendo Ikari from ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' from which her alias originates. This was the only time that Gendo and RAK shared a direct tennis exchange.

Due to YouTube more often than not muting copyrighted material rather than just "claiming" it during the era of its original upload, this round remained nearly 90% muted for years, until it was finally re-uploaded with proper audio restored. This was the only time that strong and Ash shared a direct tennis exchange.

Round 15, uploaded October 26, 2014, almost four years after {{TheChutley}} was first promoted to staff, is a product of her now famous middle period (once referred to by {{dani_phantump}} as "Cool Mode") and is thusly edited in her much more humorous, irrelevant and stream-of-conscious driven style from that period. It was also the only time that TheChutley and strong414bad ever shared a direct tennis exchange. Chen makes her actual first on-screen appearance, sliding down the quill of a giant Sandslash to the sound of CHEEEEEEEN before being impaled by another, followed by the text "Loading Chen.... Please Wait" with a screen flipping gif of David Bowie (from his ''"Heroes"''(1977) album cover) that was being used by dew around this time. Following this, The Ninja: Silent Assassin clip of the phone being answered is redubbed with {{TheChutley}}'s own voice, with an image of an old woman appearing on the opposite half of the screen, voiced to say:

This was the last round produced during the [[YouChew]] era, and currently the only time that FX and TheChutley have shared a direct tennis exchange.

mrdoognoog has mentioned he is planning a "remaster" of the round to improve the pace and some audio errors throughout, without removing any existing ideas. This has been somewhat controversial, because it goes against the idea of just letting imperfections be and moving on. This is currently the only time that doog and FX have shared a direct tennis exchange.

Round 18, uploaded April 2, 2020, ended up as the longest round of the entire match, surpassing the first two rounds by over a full minute. It was the second time that dani and doog had shared a direct tennis exchange, occurring concurrently with the early stages of their separate match.

Spot claimed by {{TheChutley}} as of July 19, 2025.

==Round 24==

Spot claimed by {{VidTens443}}, after having previously claimed spot 19.

Spot claimed by {{Letycjusz S.}}