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At some point during this early period, an image macro containing the phrase in impact font text "NO ONE WINS AT TENNIS EVER" began to get posted and circulated around the tennis section. This has since become embraced as the Golden Rule of tennis, a foundational principle upon which to remember to allow players to remember that fun, above victory, is what matters most in tennis. {{dew}} has subsequently referred to the very concept of tennis tournaments as the "Great Riddle" of tennis, outlining the question "How do you win in a game where no one wins?", with the answer intended to be that there isn't - or shouldn't be - any strictly defined way to do so.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-21591</ref><ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-three-way-tennis-tournament-ii-intermission-period.653/post-22775</ref>

Ultimately though, the readiness of the community at the time to fully and truly embrace this philosophy was either slow, scattershot or questionable at best. 2009 in particular is seen as an era where the constituency for "simple, classic" tennis competed directly with the "complex, effect-based" constituency for attention across multiple tournaments that took place that year. The [[Windows Movie Master]], [[Tennis Season]] and [[Grey Tennis Tournament]] all saw matches played separately in both camps of style preference as well as matches with a player each representing either side becoming directly matched with each other, leading to exchanges of near diametric opposite approaches such as piodx vs. RAKninja(2009), GameBop vs. Emperor Ing(2009), and [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]](2009). [''Note: to be continued'']

Ultimately though, the readiness of the community at the time to fully and truly embrace this philosophy was either slow, scattershot or questionable at best. 2009 in particular is seen as an era where the constituency for "simple, classic" tennis competed directly with the "complex, effect-based" constituency for attention across multiple tournaments that took place that year. The [[Windows Movie Master]], [[Tennis Season]] and [[Grey Tennis Tournament]] all saw matches played separately in both camps of style preference as well as matches with a player each representing either side becoming directly matched with each other, leading to exchanges of near diametric opposite approaches such as piodx vs. RAKninja(2009), GameBop vs. Emperor Ing(2009), and [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]](2009). Around this same time, complex and heavy editing began to very definitively take over the very nature of tennis itself, as players such as {{CorruptionSound}}, rapskallionxyz, Skrimpish, DanielRadcliffe777 and Sploltoen either entered into the community already steeped in this language of editing out the gate or began to truly become prominent as they took on many elements of this language of editing that became part of their signature. During this era, older players such as TangerineImpz continued to express grievances with "what tennis has become" in regards to their own disenchantment<ref>https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/16-poop-tennis/57018-the-gray-tennis-tournament-champion-revealed/1</ref>. From late 2009 onward, a lot of these earlier generations of players would leave the game behind entirely.

The turn of the 2010's now saw competitive "metas" for tennis having fully set in with regards to how the continued influx of players was now interpreting it; as a result of many older players withdrawing from the scene marking a decline in their school of thought around tennis, a sizeable portion of the community now fully believed that a prowess with cutting edge and well-presented visual/audio effects and dense, intricate editing was the way that "good" tennis was played, at times irregardless of how the previous round was used at all. The [[Grey Tennis Tournament]], [[3-Way Tennis Tournament]] and the [[Doubles Cup 2]] all saw their final matches make up players who advanced that far at least somewhat embodying this. The final match of the Grey Tennis Tournament([[piodx vs. GameBop]](2010)) and the final match of the Doubles Cup 2(dani_phantump + robochao1 vs. ChrisGendo + AshcrementVII(2012)) were instances where an important distinction around this approach prevailed in regards to both match's winners; it was not how well the previous round was edited by the winning player, but how the previous round was "used" in and of itself, in terms of the ideas created/responded to and the overall creativity of the responses themselves. Even through the gradually increasing misconceptions magnified through a competitive lens, enough players still existed in this era with a passion and a knowledge for tennis to know how to engage with it like they believed tennis should be and how they remembered it being played in years previous. ''[Note: to be continued]''

Throughout all of its iterations, YouChew hosted every tennis tournament from their inception up until [[Doubles Cup 3]], with the site going under shortly after its completion.

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 At some point during this early period, an image macro containing the phrase in impact font text "NO ONE WINS AT TENNIS EVER" began to get posted and circulated around the tennis section. This has since become embraced as the Golden Rule of tennis, a foundational principle upon which to remember to allow players to remember that fun, above victory, is what matters most in tennis. {{dew}} has subsequently referred to the very concept of tennis tournaments as the "Great Riddle" of tennis, outlining the question "How do you win in a game where no one wins?", with the answer intended to be that there isn't - or shouldn't be - any strictly defined way to do so.<ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/tennis-theory-five-oh-build-me-up-and-tear-me-down.15/post-21591</ref><ref>https://yellowtealpurple.net/forums/threads/the-three-way-tennis-tournament-ii-intermission-period.653/post-22775</ref>
-Ultimately though, the readiness of the community at the time to fully and truly embrace this philosophy was either slow, scattershot or questionable at best. 2009 in particular is seen as an era where the constituency for "simple, classic" tennis competed directly with the "complex, effect-based" constituency for attention across multiple tournaments that took place that year. The [[Windows Movie Master]], [[Tennis Season]] and [[Grey Tennis Tournament]] all saw matches played separately in both camps of style preference as well as matches with a player each representing either side becoming directly matched with each other, leading to exchanges of near diametric opposite approaches such as piodx vs. RAKninja(2009), GameBop vs. Emperor Ing(2009), and [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]](2009). [''Note: to be continued'']
+Ultimately though, the readiness of the community at the time to fully and truly embrace this philosophy was either slow, scattershot or questionable at best. 2009 in particular is seen as an era where the constituency for "simple, classic" tennis competed directly with the "complex, effect-based" constituency for attention across multiple tournaments that took place that year. The [[Windows Movie Master]], [[Tennis Season]] and [[Grey Tennis Tournament]] all saw matches played separately in both camps of style preference as well as matches with a player each representing either side becoming directly matched with each other, leading to exchanges of near diametric opposite approaches such as piodx vs. RAKninja(2009), GameBop vs. Emperor Ing(2009), and [[vvaluigi vs. MycroProcessor]](2009). Around this same time, complex and heavy editing began to very definitively take over the very nature of tennis itself, as players such as {{CorruptionSound}}, rapskallionxyz, Skrimpish, DanielRadcliffe777 and Sploltoen either entered into the community already steeped in this language of editing out the gate or began to truly become prominent as they took on many elements of this language of editing that became part of their signature. During this era, older players such as TangerineImpz continued to express grievances with "what tennis has become" in regards to their own disenchantment<ref>https://ftlfw.net/archives/websites/youchew.net/archive/forum/16-poop-tennis/57018-the-gray-tennis-tournament-champion-revealed/1</ref>. From late 2009 onward, a lot of these earlier generations of players would leave the game behind entirely.
+The turn of the 2010's now saw competitive "metas" for tennis having fully set in with regards to how the continued influx of players was now interpreting it; as a result of many older players withdrawing from the scene marking a decline in their school of thought around tennis, a sizeable portion of the community now fully believed that a prowess with cutting edge and well-presented visual/audio effects and dense, intricate editing was the way that "good" tennis was played, at times irregardless of how the previous round was used at all. The [[Grey Tennis Tournament]], [[3-Way Tennis Tournament]] and the [[Doubles Cup 2]] all saw their final matches make up players who advanced that far at least somewhat embodying this. The final match of the Grey Tennis Tournament([[piodx vs. GameBop]](2010)) and the final match of the Doubles Cup 2(dani_phantump + robochao1 vs. ChrisGendo + AshcrementVII(2012)) were instances where an important distinction around this approach prevailed in regards to both match's winners; it was not how well the previous round was edited by the winning player, but how the previous round was "used" in and of itself, in terms of the ideas created/responded to and the overall creativity of the responses themselves. Even through the gradually increasing misconceptions magnified through a competitive lens, enough players still existed in this era with a passion and a knowledge for tennis to know how to engage with it like they believed tennis should be and how they remembered it being played in years previous. ''[Note: to be continued]''
 Throughout all of its iterations, YouChew hosted every tennis tournament from their inception up until [[Doubles Cup 3]], with the site going under shortly after its completion.