For those of you who are unfamiliar with the long and winding list of contributions that former admin RabbitSnore made to the forum during his main period of time from September 2007 to August 2010, one of his earliest was contributing to the rise in popularity of YTP Tennis by publishing regular Poop Tennis Match Reviews to give it a sense of publicity, something that would be continued by the Writing Staff in addition to the publication of Tennis Tournaments that would occur on the site, which lasted until late 2009 with The Grey Tennis Tournament being the last competition to be sponsored. Due to the efforts of me and various tennis players to bring about a revival of the sport, since it has become largely underground over the last several years, I have decided that this should definitely get a revival of it's own, in order to keep YTP tennis at the very most visible to the general public, through blog entries if anything else. I plan to make this a weekly/semi-weekly thing as much as possible, to keep in the spirit and regularity of the old reviews, and will also plan to write about and publicize Tennis Tournaments when they are to occur. I'll be reviewing tennis matches from both past and present, to cover up for the span of time in which no reviews took place, and I will always appreciate any suggestions sent to me for a match to review at any time.
![Posted Image]()
To Kick this off, I shall review a match that completed very recently that I consider to be easily one of the greatest matches to have happened in recent times. This match is
![Posted Image]()
Ninero has been on youtube since around the Fall of 2013, and has primarily worked with a number of classic YTP sources through the majority of his current career, such as Robotnik, The Super Mario cartoons, Hulk Hogan and the Mega Man cartoon, winning noticeable popularity with his more Robotnik-centered ones. valkiriforce on the other hand has been making videos since at least 2007-2008, remaining a complete unknown to the majority of the community until only just this year. His commonly used sources contain a very diverse range, with particular fascination given to Sherlock Hound and anything related to the disney character Goofy i.e. the Goofy movies and so on. He has also been known to dabble in the multimedia output of various bands/musicians such as Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Genesis and King Crimson. For this match, valkiri had already had the chance to show some of his stuff in a few tennis matches as well as a tennis tournament, but for Ninero this would be his very first. The match that took place was very much a sight to behold.
Round 1Permeated throughout this entire match is the running gag having to do with the inclusion of King Crimson music within the round as well as King Crimson song titles within the video. This begins in the serve with "Robotnik waits in the air", taken from the line of lyric "she waits in the air" from King Crimson's song "Matte Kudasai" from their
Discipline album(1981). The song "Discipline" itself from the same album as well as "21st Century Schitzoid Man" from
In The Court of the Crimson King(1969) would be the songs featured in this round, which was otherwise a very straightforward Robotnik YTP, with appearances also made by the Super Mario World cartoon with King Koopa exclaiming "CHILI DOG?" in Robotnik's voice, and Bill O'Reilly with "TRADE SANCTIONS". All these factors served as the starting points for what would develop throughout the course of the match.
Round 2valkiriforce now comes in with the first volley, the title being "The Discipline of Dr. Ivo Robotnik" in a continuation from the album referenced in the title of Round 1. No new songs would be added in this round, but it would very much step up the pace of the match with his very fast and much heavier editing style, which would take "CHILI DOG" and now put it over Bill O' Reilly's dialogue, and add in many explosions including a humorusly spliced version of the climactic explosion from the end of Robotnik Express, which had the last bit of the hard "G" in Robotnik's last scream of "HEDGEHOG" trailing at the very beginning. Sherlock Hound, the infamous "DO IT LIVE" clip from Inside Edition and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show would be added into this round as well as the Mega Man cartoon, which seems to be a direct communication to the tastes of his opponant. A very basic-in-form YTPMV is started here, the video ending being valkiri "showing the kids how he makes his videos" by featuring a scene from Goof Troop in which Pete proclaims "OKAY, IM OFFICIALLY.....BOREDeh" before then bursting into flames. The previous round is edited incredibly well here, and much more is introduced to
be built off of which helps the match greatly.
Round 3Ninero takes to editing the previous round surprisingly well, continuing the trend with the title "One More Robotnik Nightmare", which references the song "One More Red Nightmare" from King Crimson's album
Red(1974) and also begins with a YTPMV of that very song. The "G(explosion)" clip as well as numerous distorted segments of the previous round is used for that peice, when then follows into a building upon the YTPMV suggested by valk in Round 2 very nicely. More Mega Man footage is added with Wily edited to say "Aye Hate CHILI DOG, hee hrueens EVHERYZHING" along with footage from
A Goofy Movie(1995) as a direct communication to the tastes of valk, which adds to the new mix of sources quite nicely. Pete is now edited to say "OKAY, IM GAY" which he calls a "silly joke" with a live-action segment from the Mario Super show also added in, and in between all the madness are some surprisingly well executed visual moments, matching to that of his opponant with equal strength. A new King Crimson song is finally added with "I talk to the Wind" from
In the Court of the Crimson King playing over the slowed down clip of the para-goombas, which is edited to "I talk to the CHILI DOG, my words are all-". The ending bit is now edited so it's "'ninnuree' showing us how he edits his videos", which is the same clip of Pete as before with the exception of it getting rudely interrupted by a distorted clip of Goofy's car crashing through road construction. "G-explosion" can be heard at the videos cutoff in text-to-speech, parodying it's phonetically correct pronunciation. The increased time limit of this round along with all of its additions make this round very strong, definitely the strongest to come from Ninero's side so far.
Round 4From a personal perspective, this was the point in the match that had me on the floor in tears laughing. With the title of "The 21st Century Guide to Robotnik" (referencing a compilation titled
The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, released in 2005, which coincidentally was how valkiriforce himself was introduced to the band), the round begins with an intense and moody slow segment that is technically a pseudo-YTPMV of the intro to "Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part I" from King Crimson's
Larks Tongues in Aspic(1973). The round then proceeds to edit much in the way as his previous although the amount of explosions throughout is vastly increased, including the white house being decimated from
Independance Day(1996) and Nathan Lane being engulfed in flames inside of a chimney from
Mouse Hunt(1998). Also making an appearance in this round is Arnold Shwartznegger as Mr. Freeze from
Batman and Robin(1997), in what is overall an utterly mad and hilarious video in many ways. Pete is now edited to say "OKAY, IM OFFICIALLY GAY" along with Luigi opening the cupboard to now find Pikachu accompanied by Bill Cosby dialogue(or so it's made to sound like). The Round is much shorter in length which makes it considerably weaker in that realm, but it more than makes up for it in quality and presentation, keeping valkri around the same level as his opponant still.
Round 5Ninero now closes off his side with "Starless and Robotnik Black"(parody of the title of the King Crimson album
Starless and Bible Black(1974)), which is almost exactly twice the length of the round it volleys. It begins with an interview with Robert Fripp from 1985 edited in such a way in which he explains that "the top of his head blew off when he read the second inaugural address of DOCTOR IVO ROBOTNIK", before going into mega-overdrive throughout the rest of the video. Much of this is edited explosively, with many heavily edited effects and visuals backed by variou King Crimson songs, a very sharp contrast to his first two rounds. It is nonetheless however an amazing sight to behold, both on the technical and humor side, as much of his additions continue the absurdity presented by valk in his previous round expertly. There's a particular segment in which the round becomes flooded with Phil Collins related material, inlcuding Dr. Wily edited to be singing "In the Air Tonight" in Phil Collins' voice with a drumming gorilla appearing repetitively throughout. The "CHILI DOG" clip is also used all over the round and much of the video is also intersparsed with many CDi bits of audio including with "Roxanne please DIE" and "IT BURNS" playing as a robot from the Mega Man cartoon is crushed by chunk of steel. Pete now says "OKAY, IM A FISH" which by impulse causes him to turn into a dolphin, which would segue into the videos ending peice. This round is for sure just as equally as entertaining if not more entertaining than the last round, and it sets up for valkriforce the opprotunity for an epic conclusion to the match.
Round 6And an epic conclusion is exactly what we get, and more. The last round of the match, titled "Robotnik....A Beginning, An End" (taken from the songs "Peace - A Beginning" and "Peace - An End" from King Crimson's
In The Wake of Poseidon(1970)) is, like the round it volleys, over twice as long once more, bringing a total run time of nearly 6 and a half minutes. The first 54 seconds have some rather amazing visual tricks done with the previous round, intersparsed on top with Phil Collins from the music video for "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis, which would be used repetitvely throughout the round. The next segment opens up rather quietly, with a solo piano playing King Crimson's "Cadence and Cascade", before then launching back into loud mode with "EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS" and restoring the original pace of the video from that point onward. Notable in this round are the scene in which Nathan Lane screaming inside the chimney is masked onto the ancient awoken spirit from
Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981), in which the Nazi villian of the film screams back at it before being peirced along with his troops through their souls, and the scene in which Goofy awakens from a surreal reality as if the round itself was a dream taken from
An Extremely Goofy Movie(2000) in response to the college professor's command of "Pencils down!". Goofy is then edited to respond, "Wait a minute! SMOKE" before then launching into more madness. Too many sources to name are added throughout this round, although noticably older rounds from the match make reappearances here with it all edited in an almost collage like format, making extensive use of composite layers and the addition of several images, keeping true to the silly rumor in which many people jokingly believe that valkiriforce is in fact MTB710, which is only escalated when none other than MTB's trademark Mr. Clean face is added towards the end. An extensive Phil Collins segment featuring every King Crimson and Genesis album cover flashing quickly under a video layer with the music video for Genesis's "In Too Deep"(1986) is also featured in this video before being cut off by King Harkinians "ENOUGH". Pete is then made to say "OKAY, IM A GAY FISH" in which the Nostalgia Critic and M. Bison respond with "OF COURSE". In no video have I ever seen prior to this have I seen as many explosions as contained as I have in this video, either visually or audially or both they are virtually everywhere , and its amazing.
I was beyond words upon finishing watching this match, with the only thing I could manage to get out of my mouth was the fact that this definitely was my favorite tennis match that I had ever watched in my entire career. I highly recommend it to those who like humor, and also ones that like technicality in videos, or even those who like both, because in my mind I feel that this match has univseral appeal and has the potential to be appreciated by just about anyone. I know I'm definitely hoping to get a similar experience out of playing them myself, for as of right now they are both amongst my current favorite players of the game.
Full Match PlaylistOriginal Match ThreadNinero's YTP Channelvalkiriforce's YTP Channel
