Misselaineous10 is one of the oldest and longest serving staff members in our community. She has seen many events and forged through them with us to this day. Recently, she was been promoted to an administrator, and now I, Christoph of the YTP News, have the chance to interview this respected member of our community.
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With the Tennis Cup past it’s half-way point, only a small handful of matches remain to be seen. The following is a review of Temeku vs Crash2991’s gameweek 3 match. It was written by strong414bad. Forgive the tardiness of this article and enjoy this review. Thank you for your support and patience.
~Christoph
Round 1- Temeku- The King Is Sexually Confused
The first round is mainly AIDSless AIDS, using Hotel Mario and CD-i Zelda with a ton of visual and audio noise, although there was one part in which an old airline commercial was pooped. There are a ton of effects and really fast stutters, which is odd for a first round of a tennis match because they’re usually hard to poop. But it still is a great poop on its own and definately sets a challenge for the rounds to come.
Round 2- Crash2991- The King is Confused About Love
While the second round is a lot shorter than the first, clocking in at 34 seconds, it is full of more visual effects and a ton of random sounds. It uses the CD-i from the last round mixed with some creepy animes and such. At many points, the poop uses stuff like chroma keys and transparency, putting one clip over another to increase the insanity of the whole thing. Although it is short, it is a great round- the kind of thing you’d expect from a Round 5 or 6, not a second round, which makes it even more awesome.
Round 3- Temeku- Richard Simmons Makes Love to the King
And it keeps getting more insane. Round 3 is a superfast mess of more video effects, fast stutter loops, and general PiP craziness. There’s a lot of speed-ups in it, and a ludicrous amount of flashing lights. Temeku adds in some Whose Line Is It Anyway in the mix, but keeps it as over-the-top insane as the other round. It’s really hard to believe that this is only Round 3 of this match, which is probably one of the more insane and quick matches out there.
Round 4- Crash2991- Giant Robot Makes Love to SimmonsRichard
And yet Round 4 gets even faster and more intense. It’s getting to the point where I can’t describe the rounds as well anymore because I can’t actually discern or understand most of what’s going on. The round is a massive, superfast, layered mess of epic proportions, using a lot more PiP and fisual effects to generally make a round that ends up being total seizuretastic insanity, and something that will be hard to top.
Round 5- Temeku- Love is Irrelevant
Round 5 definately tops it by being both faster and slower at the same time. There are still fast messes in the mix, which are even faster and messier and now have audio editing and still pictures, but it also slows down to have stuff like a brief musical segment and some slower stutters. Temeku adds some Drake and Josh and Terminator 2, and integrates it seamlessly with the rest of the poop. It’s fast and totally brilliant, and I can’t wait to see what Crash does to try to top it.
Round 6- Crash2991- Irrelevancy is Relevant
Round 6 gets a bit slower, adding in some slowdown and some slower, less edited bits. But most of the poop is still the same awesome insanity that we’ve come to love from this match. There isn’t much I can say about it- there’s more speedups, more PiP, and more of basically everything that made this match awesome.
Final Thoughts
Temeku vs. Crash2991 started off with an unusually fast poop and kept getting faster and faster with every new round. There really isn’t much I can say about the match in general other than the fact that Crash and Temeku are both very skilled Tennis players and the fact that I absolutely loved it. This match is highly reccommended.
~Collaborated by Christoph and Strong414bad.
The following are two reviews on matches from the Tennis Cup’s second gameweek. They are written by users Furnessly and Strong414bad respectively. Please enjoy their individual analysis on two of the eight matches that took place this gameweek. Don’t forget to vote on the YouTube Poop Forums for each match before Sunday, June 29th, 2008. Simply create a PM on the forums addressed to user “John Madden,” and include your votes for all the matches you’re looking to vote on. You may on every match only once per gameweek. Thank you for participating.
-Christoph
Writer: strong414bad
Match: NS2 vs. MAZZ0Murder
Round 1 - NS2 - Revolver Ocelot Swims for His Life
NS2 started with a relatively simple poop using only Metal Gear Solid 2 as a source. It had a lot of stutter loops and catchphrases, and overall had very few effects. However, for a serve, which has to be edited, it was still a very well-done poop. Serves are tough to make, but NS2 did well, with a rather entertaining, if simple, poop.
Round 2 - MAZZ0Murder - Revolver Ocelot Can Swim But Fungus Drowned
And MAZZ0Murder hits the ball back hard. The second round is like the first, but a bit more extreme. He adds a clip from an anime, but doesn’t use it much- the main focus is remixing what’s already there. And Mazz does a great job remixing it, making the stutter loops faster and adding a lot of visual effects and what seems like some pitch change to spice it up. There are even what seem to be some short musical remixes in there as well. Overall, this is a great second round that still keeps the spirit of the original while taking it to the next level.
Round 3 - NS2 - Fungus Can’t Swim Like a Soul
And NS2 takes it even further. The stutter loops get even faster now and a lot of visual noise is added. NS2 added clips from Soul Calibur 2 and a brief clip from Haruhi Suzumiya, but again kept the focus on MGS2. There are more musical remixes and generally a lot more of what made Round 2 good. Overall, Round 3 was fast and rather awesome, and it’ll be rather hard to top.
Round 4 - MAZZ0Murder - Revolver Ocelot Finally Sinks and Trys to Become a Sniper
Round 4 is even faster, louder and awesomer. The stutter loops from the last round are speed up and even more loaded with effects, and the whole thing seems just one step away from seizure. Even the slow parts- specifically yet another musical remix- are still really entertaining and keep the pace going. This is a really great poop, and editing it will be a challenge.
Round 5 - NS2 - Sniper Sinks Ocelot’s Feelings
Round 5 has gone back into being 99% stutter loops like the first poop, but these loops are fast, loaded with effects, and generally seizure-inducing the whole way through. He adds some Captain Qwark, but it blends right in with the general madness. Round 5 seems like it set out to be the fastest poop in the game, and it definately succeeds. The lack of most poopisms except for stutter loops and, again, a brief musical remix may disorient some people, but I’m impressed with the poop exactly the way it is.
Round 6 - MAZZ0Murder - On Kaze’s Command Ocelot Sinks For Good
Round 6 is rather different from the rest of the rounds. It’s much shorter than the other ones- 48 seconds while the rest clock in at around a minute- and while there are some great stutter loops and effects and such in there, a lot of the poop is composed of slower clips from Final Fantasy Unlimited. It’s still extreme and fast, but it isn’t quite as good as the other rounds in my opinion. However, it still comes across as a great poop and a good end to the round.
Overall, NS2 vs. MAZZ0Murder was a great round. It started off slow, but that was only so every round afterwards could get faster and more extreme. The extreme use of stutter loops could turn some people off, but I enjoyed them all. The entire match was really great, and it ended up being one of the fastest and most extreme tennis matches I’ve seen.
Writer: Furnessly
Match: Ophios vs. rakninja
With the tennis cup having different and unique pairings, one of these most noticeable is Ophios, the moderator who is also an musician and rakninja being one of the oldest members as well as being a Staff member for the tennis section in the forum go head to head. So will it be Scratch or Megatron or both would get the title?
The round starts off with arrows playing with some classical music which relaxes the viewer that suddenly some Thai cartoon goes around tilted and mirrored. The arrows continue getting wider and wider with a slowdown and colour changed footage with red eyes unexpected appeared out nowhere switching to the blue arrows which reveal to be four picture in picture swirls with a hint of tilt, then stuttering between some chickens which is trait of Ophios and a green bottle being vertically flipped also ending the music. As the blue PIP changes to green and moving, some character from Sweeney Todd is singing and reversing back and forth turning into more familiar poop territory which quick a layer of distorted footage by a swirl as the other events are continuing is quite a nice touch that moves to a mirrored singer and completely colour changed the footage. The layer is removed and so are the PIP effects, but shifting to reversing/repeating as a different distorted layer appears, this rapidly changes to tilted and inverted footage with muffled ear rape of the movie as the classical music retuns thus ending the video.
This seems more like a hypnotist video, however it is a very good round and shows originality something of a rarity. Also interestingly are the comments on the video arguing about the English langauage which is unfitting. I wonder what rak would do to poop this yet make it more pooper friendly?
Starting off with a green screen effect and pitch altered (or possibly a different tune?) footage of the previous round, rak adds colour changed and repeated footage of Scratch on the plunger from the AoSTH intro which zooms out referring to both poop and indeed Ophios which makes the match from a hypnotist video to familiar grounds which I liked. The footage is rotated around which very rapidly using PIP and colour inversion of a man which a few seconds after changes by mirroring and using threshhold as well as lowering the pitch the colour changing Scratch returns moving left to right as that also including a quick picture too fast to see in general, however it is the singer from the previous round. Suddenly it refers back to the Thai cartoon from the previous round as a sped up Scratch as a layer is in the middle left. Very rapidly it goes from a jump of some footage in white, someone saying terrorism, Scratch sped up with a noise distortion effect, more from the last round, full screen sped up Scratch with the median effect in Vegas, ear raped white footage as the music slows down going back to the beginning rotating around which then fades out peacefully. To top this off, an unexpected picture zooming in with ear rape that actually gave a quick jump. Even though it was a good round and indeed beating Ophios’, however the problem so far is that many of the effects used so far for both are similar and feels like artwork not that it is a bad thing of course just not my cup of tea since I am no artist.
Going back to the distorted footage of the previous round juxaposition between the blue bit and the green bit which changes to something that you see in a nightmare with mirrored footage with only a white line remaining with quick rotated layers of mirrored footage which changes to a stutter of the green footage and the man being white quickly changing to footage of the threshhold part and the sped up Scratch moving around between black flashes. Now getting more familar Ophios has G-Minored and inverted Souija Boy, a rest, a man shooting Elmo first unaltered, then stuttered and flipped ending the segment with a picture of Bush with a hint of ear rape. Moving on to red Chroma Key screen of Souija Boy with the Flange audio effect, a break, repeated but pitch altered scenes from the last rounds going on and off while having a transparenacy layer of red screen Souija Boy changing the match from artwork to more video editing aspect of poop but then Ophios’ originality kicks in. He alternates between flashes black, the arrows and the white footage ending with a reversed ear rape of the picture of the last round fading out the stormy music. So far this has been the best round in the match altering between artwork and video editing which the previous round only used very little of the latter. Also it has that nightmareish effect which would be a good idea if Ophios directed a geniune horror movie.
rakninja has successfully emulated the video tape effect switching between the original source yet also including very brief moments of the previous rounds and Ren and Stimpy (names changed to protect the innocent) which was interesting that continued to the Ring part with a PIP of the last round. The Souija Boy footage was infra-red juxapositioning with the Ring tape which changed to repeating Ren chewing a lightbulb ending with a quick zoom, mirrored Souija Boy repeating slightly colour changed then zoomed in, moving to a scene of blood and finally a zoom of a chair. Going back to Ren and Stimpy staring as a still but started alongside a swirl in both directions with a zoom in with the Scotman’s butt, changing again with juxaposition between the ring footage and Ren and Smithy ending the segment. A quick break before the picture from the last two rounds looping twice before ending with some zoomed Ren and Stimpy. Fully enjoyed the round in this match so far as it references the nightmare part of the last round and during the round also uses the whaling sounds on the other footage which is a powerful touch as well as the footage used. Will Mr. Bird take down Megatron’s reign of terror?
The beginning starts off with someone reading out a poem while the tape interference repeats and speeds up which moves to repeating infra-red Souija Boy as the poem continues, then a scene of blood is slowed down before moving back to SB and ending with a break. The chair from the last round is coloured changed to orange but apart from that it is unaltered switching to another break. Continuing the nightmare theme, Ophios added cracking of the audio poem as the interference returns briefly beforing going to repeated Ring footage which then returns to the chair now zooming in and out but changed to purple. Finally the audio poem finishes with no footage and at the last second, the ring appears. Ophios has indeed put the stops to rakninja’s last round however I still prefered rakninja’s round on the grounds of more bang for your buck even though Ophios does have a style and high amount of originality though.
While the round starts off of sped up previous round footage with infrared SB and the interference, rakninja puts his favourite source (Transformers never the less) into very good use by putting a song as the truck (Optimus Prime?) starts normally which then stutters as using layers and PIP of the previous rounds moving across which then unsticks with a transparency layer of infrared SB. The stutters then alternate between two difference lots of TF footage with a transparency layer in between which was hard to make out. Some transformer then runs as it becomes threshholded and ear raped which then juxapositions between Optimus Prime and the ring footage from the last round, moving to Optimus and co while being lightly infra-red and continuing the segment with the interference with the song with a hint of scrolling TV interlacing effect in Vegas. The ring is then repeated and reversed very quickly as someone repeating saying Prime and speeding up, infra-red SB (a staple in the match) is repeated while being horizontally flipped ending with a pitch altered and ghosting effect as Optimus Prime says one of his catchphases… or is it? Na, mirrored Megatron ends the round and indeed the match which was icing on the cake.
While it did start off on a very shakey ground being more artwork which would appeal to only a few but it kicked off with the nightmare rounds and the last being a match worth mentioning. While it is hard to choose a favourite is due to different tastes while myself prefering rakninja due to him picking up the match and turned 90 degrees and then 180 degrees, artists would prefer ophios due to his uniqueness which unfortunately is not my cup of tea - not that Ophios is a bad pooper, on the contrairy he is very talented and did make a some good fads/poops in general but the problem is that he doesn’t realise that some stuff he likes is very niche especially in some areas (as pointed out by Vorhias in his music review). Still it was a match worth watching, just if you aren’t an artist skip the first two rounds okay?
Don’t forget to vote on the YouTube Poop Forums for each match before Sunday, June 29th, 2008. Simply create a PM on the forums addressed to user “John Madden,” and include your votes for all the matches you’re looking to vote on. You may on every match only once per gameweek. Thank you for participating.
~Collaborated by Christoph, strong414bad, and Furnessly
