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[[The Great Restoration]] is an ongoing tennis archival and recovery project spearheaded by {{dani_phantump}}, {{VidTens443}}, RaymanChrome, and iminio that began in March and slowed in activity around May | [[The Great Restoration]] is an ongoing tennis archival and recovery project spearheaded by {{dani_phantump}}, {{VidTens443}}, RaymanChrome, and iminio that began in March 2026 and slowed in activity around May, but continued to produce results slowly throughout the year. Through specific means, it was discovered at the end of the month previous to the project commencing that it was possible to recover the videos of any YouTube account that had been terminated by a third party at any time. Previously, this method had been used by the Recycle Bin collective to locate and extract lost videos by MeiAIDS, at which point {{dani_phantump}} crafted a list of names essential in the world of tennis that could also benefit from such retrieval. The first tennis videos to be fetched in this way were the long-lost uploads of PapaGonzales; this allowed the beginning of the restoration of much missing data from the [[Tennis League 1]], including the first ever compilation of a full match from that event, Misselaioneous10 vs. PapaGonzales(2007). KonXII vs. XBR4D3NX(2008) became the 100th match to be restored through these efforts on April 28, 2026. | ||
The process is being carrying out through API downloader links at a rate of only a few each day depending on the allowed quotas; one source is reported to be anonymous, with initial requests sent through a chain of connections between the team and the one fetching the files. Recovery is additionally only possible if existing links exist for those works that were under terminated accounts, making the [[YouChew]] archives, the Wayback Machine and collections of crawled YouTube data indispensable resources for locating the desired material, the latter especially regarding certain videos for which no other source of a link exists. Initially progressing at a snail's pace, recovery efforts increased in activity dramatically once {{dani_phantump}} themselves gained access to a downloader link, and produced the bulk of restored videos from BMATF vs. conradslater(2007) onward. | The process is being carrying out through API downloader links at a rate of only a few each day depending on the allowed quotas; one source is reported to be anonymous, with initial requests sent through a chain of connections between the team and the one fetching the files. Recovery is additionally only possible if existing links exist for those works that were under terminated accounts, making the [[YouChew]] archives, the Wayback Machine and collections of crawled YouTube data indispensable resources for locating the desired material, the latter especially regarding certain videos for which no other source of a link exists. Initially progressing at a snail's pace, recovery efforts increased in activity dramatically once {{dani_phantump}} themselves gained access to a downloader link, and produced the bulk of restored videos from BMATF vs. conradslater(2007) onward. | ||
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=Matches Listed as Possible to Restore= | =Matches Listed as Possible to Restore= | ||
*DaftPunkYoshi vs. Mariofan141 (incomplete) | |||
*MSkull01 vs. ChrisGendo | |||
*ChrisGendo vs. OmgItsGaryBusey | |||
*MahsuginaChicken vs. WalrusGuy | |||
*crazyhtfremixs vs. SashicX2007 | |||
*Mariofan141 vs. SashicX2007 | |||
*AntiEthan vs. Toadomos | *AntiEthan vs. Toadomos | ||
*KonXII vs. gb7zone7 | *KonXII vs. gb7zone7 | ||
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*Malkmusian vs. MademoiselleTruc | *Malkmusian vs. MademoiselleTruc | ||
*ferretfreak111 vs. piodx (previously compiled by the former but eventually disappeared) | *ferretfreak111 vs. piodx (previously compiled by the former but eventually disappeared) | ||
=Sources= | =Sources= | ||