MycroProcessor vs. AshcrementVII
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| MycroProcessor vs. AshcrementVII | |
|---|---|
| Standard (Unfinished) | |
| Start Date | March 13, 2011 |
| End Date | March 20, 2011 |
| Rounds | 2 |
| Participants | MycroProcessor, AshcrementVII |
| Match Page | (to be added) |
MycroProcessor vs. AshcrementVII was a partial Youtube Poop/Video Tennis match that took place between March 13 and March 20, 2011. While only ever lasting for two rounds, the match is notable for these rounds adding to a total of 28 minutes and 10 seconds, several times longer than an entire standard 6 round match at the time. It was the only time these two players ever had any kind of tennis exchange with each other. Sources used include lengthy video recordings of both xylophone and koto playing respectively, along with Vuk(The Little Fox)(1981), Rehab Addict, Riven(PC, 1997), Crystal Maze(PC, 2003), Drakenguard(PS2, 2003), The Crystal Key(PC, 1999), Cowboy Bebop(Episode 20 - "Pierrot Le Fou"(1999)), Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals(SNES, 1995), Final Fantasy VII(PS1, 1997), The Legend of Korra, The Great Mouse Detective(1986), Bubblegum Crisis(including its opening theme "Konyawa Hurricane" by Kinuko Omori), "Sazh's Theme" from the Final Fantasy XIII(PS3/360, 2009) OST, "Luxemburg"(2009) by Jakob Pilger, and "Whipping Post"(1969) by The Allman Brothers Band. [Note: source list incomplete].
The general concept of this match has roots in an idea that RabbitSnore conceived for a new variant of tennis in November 2008, following his attendance at a local jazz concert. In line with traditional jazz improvisation, Rabbit considered undertaking what he described as "something like having a video jam session, with really long videos." He went as far as to produce an unrefined set of rules for this variant:
"Jazz Jam Session Tennis
- Six rounds.
- Videos must be 7:00 to 10:00 long.
- Each volley must use at least 3:30 of the previous round.
- Each player presents five to ten source videos before the game begins. These ten to twenty (in total) videos are the material for the match.
- Before each volley (not the serve), that player may add up to two source videos to the material pool.
- The serving player makes the opening video from the material pool, the longer the better. Play proceeds as usual."
At the time, YouTube initially had in place a hard upload limit of 10 minutes for each video, but in July 2010 this had become updated to a limit of 15 minutes[1], before sometime later being drastically extended to the modern limit of 12 hours. It was in this window of time that this match commenced, and MycroProcessor's 14 minute, 10 second long serve became the first known video within YTP/Video Tennis to make creative use of this new upload length, becoming at the time the longest tennis round ever made. With a number of players subsequently breaking this record, Mycro would eventually break this record again in Nineroe vs. MycroProcessor(2016), with the 6 hour long "Vore. Unbirth. Dinner." Coincidentally, during the long middle segment of this round in which Mycro converses off-camera to the viewer, he briefly touches upon this match, identifying the link between it and the much more drastic long form approach of the subsequent match, and also laments that he "never made Round 3".
Round 1's title "When Did You First Learn About Tennis?" comes verbatim from a YouChew thread title of the same name in the Tennis subforum, created by PokeFire50 on December 22, 2009. A lengthy silent segment of this round additionally involves GameBop's "Sid is NOT A BATTLE AXE"(2009), their Round 1 with AjaxCubed and well identified as one of Mycro's all-time favorite YTPs, being progressively edited over via "veg replacement" and recursive "recycling" inside of GameBop's project file for "ROBOTNIK PURCHASES THE OTHER HALF"(2008), their Round 12 with InsinerateHymn and zacheatscrackers. Round 2 of JackTron7000 vs. DanielRadcliffe777, "I WANNA DISCO ON YOUR RIDE TAKE A STICK"(2009), slowly fades in as a background layer of this silent segment, bottom-mirrored unto itself in horizontal split screen, until it becomes the only visible layer of video and is present enough to become visible in the serve's original thumbnail. The audio generated from this veg-replacing experiment is finally heard in the penultimate moments of the serve, distantly separated from the video it was originally attached to. Ashcrement's response, a defining representation of his early tennis style, includes the addition of images of the Pokemon Snorlax, followed by a series of edits that shape layers of video into a rough image of a Jolteon before then morphing into a similar rough image of a Snorlax, similar to techniques recently executed by Moogle in a similar fashion. During the long sequence in which Professor Ratigan's musical number "The World's Great Crimnial Mind" is shown on screen, AshcrementVII himself can be eventually heard reciting Ratigan's dialogue word for word in place of Vincient Price's (along with the drunken mouse who refers to him as a rat), the first of numerous of times his own voice appears in his videos. The Xylophone footage from the serve is briefly YTPMV'd to the "Victory Theme" variation as heard in Final Fantasy I through VI, and again in IX.
While initially received with great notice due to the many boundaries broken in just these two rounds in addition to a radically new language of approach being experimented with in tennis, MycroProcessor vs. AshcrementVII has subsequently retreated into a more obscure yet fascinating curiosity of a "match that could have been" due to it never properly progressing past this point and subsequently being eclipsed by the achievements of similar long form improvisational matches that followed in its wake. The rounds made continue to survive in their original uploads, and they were both first compiled into a single video on the YouWouldBeWelcome account in July 2026.
The Full Match
Round 1
"When Did You First Learn About Tennis?" by MycroProcessor
Round 2
"When? On a Whim! How? Quite Happily! Why? Was Not to Question!" by AshcrementVII