Video Tennis: Difference between revisions

The first full match, also the first time that tennis was ever applied to the medium of video entirely on the internet, was in the form of [[Conradslater vs Misselaineous10|Conradslater and Misslaineous10]], starting on August 11th, 2007 and ended on August 21st. In it's taking place, this match forth the full idea of someone doing a remix of someone else's video, and having the original maker do the same back, creating a "Tennis" like pattern. From this match onward the concept greatly expanded to great -  and at the beginning considerably unimaginable - lengths of development and refinement.

At first, there was hardly any tennis community in a well defined sense to speak of; much of the tennis matches that did happen following the first one was done so in a way that would be seen by modern standards as very disorganized, as many merely skirted around the concept in curiosity without ever really committing fully to the potential that tennis in a YTP/Video context could offer. That being said, there were a handful of notable early names that became early fixtures in the world of tennis: BMATF played the second ever tennis match with Markie, and UncleChuckTH played the third ever tennis match with conradslater (the latter's second match), and both UncleChuckTH and BMATF would continue to exist in the world of tennis until the early 2010s. TangerineImpz vs. SeductiveBaz was played entirely start to finish on August 21, 2007, the day that the final round of the first tennis match was uploaded, and this was for a very long time the fastest tennis match ever played; SeductiveBaz would also be an early fixture and continued to tennis in some capacity until a full 12 years later. Second only to conradslater's early activity in tennis was that of MrDrunkenFox, who played multiple early games including with Tentor, plex14, PapaGonzales and Furnessly. This latter player, along with other such players such as InsinerateHymn, JazzDanceForChildren, TyrannosaurusReich, MelvanaInChains, dvariano, {{Luioigi}}, ADHDYoshi, GameCubeHero, Intenseowl, MVJ5197, 3inchhorse, ELPSteel, SushieBoy, Vorhias, sonicnerd23, and SesakaGenX would also serve to play their own individual roles in defining the nature of tennis at its earliest onsets. Tennis is considered to have reached one of its first peaks in its intersection with "Robotnik YTP" at the time - videos that focused entirely on remixing episodes of ''[[The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' and its main antagonist -  in particular the matches of UncleChuckTH vs. Wikiwow(2007), the first ever match to reach ten rounds, Stegblob vs. TyrannosaurusReich (2007), and especially [[BMATF vs. UncleChuckTH vs. Wikiwow]](2007). All of these would build a foundation for a strand of tennis that would eventually continue long separate from the main tennis community, which, although small, would localize and organize itself largely on the YouChew forums.