3-Way Tennis Tournament 2: Difference between revisions

This is the first tournament to feature the participation of soundphaseytp, portaldash, {{foldername}}, hitori, mahify, ElijahStar and Media904. It is also a return tournament for multiple of its participants; {{dew}} returned after having last played in the [[Doubles Cup 4]] in 2022, {{TheChutley}}, {{ThirtyTwelve}}, {{fiv95}} and TehShadzify after having last played in the [[Doubles Cup 3]] in 2017-2018, and {{CheeChee}} after having last played in the [[Match Voting Tournament 2]] in 2021. {{Sid}} and CRJ1_ both made guest appearances in Set 2, having not appeared in a tennis tournament since the Doubles Cup 3 and the Match Voting Tournament 2 respectively. {{GameBop}} also initially secretly joined under the name DisguisedSqueak43, revealing their true identity 10 days before Set 1 lineups were announced, also making their comeback after 2 years of no video activity period and their first tournament appearance since the Match Voting Tournament 2 as well. {{veritylarsen}} initially signed up, having last played in the [[Multi-Way Tennis Tournament]] all the way back in 2014, but then subsequently dropped out for personal reasons without having made any rounds. {{TheChutley}} and {{GameBop}} were the only two players returning from the original [[3-Way Tennis Tournament]]; Additional veteran {{trepmaws}} also started a "Three-Way Lobby Shuffle" parallel event to make up for all the player slots being filled but there being double the amount of players interested in participating. This marks trepmaws' own return to tennis after a roughly 7 year gap of any video activity in addition. All current members of the [[tennis staff]] except for AngryLuigi23 were able to secure spots in the tournament.

The commencement of the tournament coincided with a surprising turn of events in the community, in which several veteran members suddenly made a comeback starting in August of that year, both before and after the launch of the YellowTealPurple forums, largely spearheaded by its two lead admins {{dew}} and infinitysnapz. It is sometimes seen, in more ways than one, as the potential beginning of a bright new era for tennis, parallel to how the original instance of this tournament ended up marking a transition of eras in and of itself.

Much of the structure of the original tournament was retained for this competition, with the major differences being the turnover times being updated from 3 days to 5, and the maximum round length being eliminated as was such in the first [[Match Voting Tournament]], with a 20 second minimum limit. Conversely, trepmaws' "Three-Way Lobby Shuffle" established the inverse of this, with rounds deliberately having a 20 second Maximum limit in order to allow for quick, painless participation for all involved(and also happening to fit within a length that many of trepmaws' own previous videos have matched). This was subsequently doubled to 40 seconds.

There was discussion initially about possible ways to increase the player count from 27, but upon experimental calculations amongst the current tennis staff any possible number was deemed to be too unwieldy, especially for a competition on a new forum with a new burgeoning community. Consequently, signups filled very fast, and it eventually turned out that roughly twice the number of people were interested in participating in the tournament, which was less than what would have been required for a proper extension of signups but still far more than who could actually participate. trepmaws' parellel event thusly had no maximum limit of participants either, allowing everyone who had signed up as replacements to have something to do while they waited for a chance to participate in the official tournament.

===Gabiwoda vs. {{ThirtyTwelve}} vs. {{dani_phantump}}===