Game Theory: How to BREAK Mario! (Mario Tennis Aces)

Its confirmed! balls are the strongest weapon in Mario tennis aces, including... Some other type of balls...

"Maybe you'll get to watch it in class"
(Has flashback to luigi bulge)
Nope

“Tell your math teachers, maybe you’ll be able to watch it in class”
Me in quarantine with online classes:
*watches it while doing math work*

"Tell your math teacher about this. Maybe you'll get to watch this in class..."
AFTER TALKING ABOUT HOW LONG LUIGI'S WARP PIPE IS?! *I THINK NOT*

Matpat: Mario is the strongest character in videogames.
steve: hold my gold blocks... oh wait, you can't

I have an idea for a theory: What is the actual nutritional value of the stuff Link eats in BOTW (including the specific animals the meat comes from)? How much weight would he gain in reality, and would the calories he burns off during his adventure actually offset all that?

So, basically what you're saying is that the Mario Tennis rackets have a severe design flaw where the handles are manufactured separately from the rest of the racket and rather than being properly anchored together, they have a simple weak adhesive attaching them.
Alternatively, there's a tennis-racket conspiracy that intentionally introduces defects into the handle...
Essentially, any entrepreneur-engineer Toad could make a fortune by revolutionizing the racket manufacturing process, unless the conspiracy exists .

Scott cawthon after watching a theory- eh i’ll slip that in the game.
Nintendo after watching a theory -*confused screaming*

Mat pat flexing on us all with his math skills

You overlooked the obvious reason why they break at those speeds. They're playing with plastic rackets because Mario's hoarding all the coins.

I bet Bowser clicked on this video...

Well...
I think I just finished my Physics Homework

I told both of my math teachers in different classes (different days) and I told them his video was good for physics..
I forgot about the whole luigi balls thing.... ehhhhhhhhhhhh
I got a 2 week detention...……………………………………... T^T *cries self to sleep*
Im still really bad at maths.

It's the weekend... I don't feel like listening to math and equations
But it's matpat so I'll stay...
(Edit: woah thanks for the likes! *senpai noticed me..* )

*Wario gets a hole in his stomach*
Wario:Y....you...you shouldve aimed for the head

He didn't even mention that to hit a ball fast enough to break another person's racket, you would break your own racket
Edit: yeah I was wrong thanks everyone for helping me see why

As a tennis player, I can agree that these figures are very accurate!

"The challenger approaching from the rear..." Whoa! Chill, Dadpat! Little Matpat might watch these videos some day.

As somebody who's worked with 3d models I know it's much easier to animate the racket coming apart at a segmented piece such as near the handle. So in your joke about being too hard to implement in the game is somewhat true as it happens so quick so wouldn't have to be as precise looking in-game and is only shown to represent it happening compared to promo photos which use higher quality models that are pre-rendered and don't have to worry about causing lag as they're just photos. It's like claiming the balls used to represent Mario's hands in 64 are what his actual hands look like and not just a representation do to limitation. This just shows despite rapidly advancing hardware, cuts like these made to only represent something and not it's exact physical properties in their world are still being made today, whether it be time constraints, memory, stylistic, or just not wanting to spend hours of modeling individual pieces and keeping a low poly count on the base model to improve stability. Long story short it's more likely promo images are more trustworthy to go on as it's more likely to better represent what's actually supposed to be happing as the modelers have a lot more control and less restraints on properly portraying what's actually happening in them. (However not all promo pics and renders are perfect since cloth generators, alpha channels, etc can act a little goofy and when you're rendering an extremely high resolution model it takes a long time and a lot of money so if something small messes up the company may just chose to use the image anyways rather than go back into the model, try to edit the issue and not make it worse and then hope it's fixed for the next render attempt.) Of course I'm no professional but going off my own experiences I really believe that's what's actually happening here.

Yo I swear I showed my teacher this before school and she said we can watch it! That’s legendary

“Maybe you’ll get to watch this episode in class” Matpat you already mentioned the OtHeR ePiSoDe three times

So that means someone is cheating and sabotaging the rackets prior to the game's start.
Probably is Waluigi because he's mad he's not in Smash.

You should calculate how hard Mario jumps and punches to be able so shatter brick blocks

Galactic empire: we got a planet killer
Mario: where's my coffee and racket, gotta play some tennis

I’m literally watching this doing my solid mechanics homework. I was like what unit is shear strength again and then MatPat was like SHEAR STRENGTH IS EQUAL TO 207 MEGA PASCALS and I was like ooooo ... thanks MatPat

Tell your teacher about this episode, maybe they’ll let you watch it in class.* coughs * didn’t you reference waluigi GRINDING on MARIO, also referencing your episode on measuring Luigi’s pipe?!?!

Nintendo: We're going to put all the effort into this game to make it as absolutely realistic as possible!
MatPat: *This is the most realistic Nintendo game of all time!*
Nintendo: Well then... we can't have that now! *_YOU CAN ALSO RETURN THE BALL AT OVER 100,000 MPH!!!_*
MatPat: .... (╯ಠ_ಠ )╯︵ ┻━┻

10:39
Shows 7.4 cm squared.
Says 7.4 cubic cm.
As clear as FNAF is...

8:10 Uhh... with the constant reminder of Luigi’s... luigi, definitely not!

Seems to me that the racquets might have a sheer point that is designed to fail first, kinda like a fuze, perhaps to prevent injury to the player?

...or the grip is just... Glued to the rest of the racket. With weak glue.

Matpat better at teaching physics than my physics teacher

All bow down to the physics, math and science lord XDDDD

So to break Mario we just have to hit him really hard... *TOGETHER*

You should do Prince of Tennis in film theory. That anime shows the real power of tennis as a weapon of mass murder. Mario Tennis Ace crumbles in front of it.

Me: I’m going to tell my math/science teacher
Mat: tell this to your teacher
Me: wait how did you know

The only game waluigi is respected in

game theory but everytime matpat uses mario's height it gets faster
*sun dies*

What I got out of this: I want a Mario wrestling game with weight classes.

Or
Lucasfilm: we gotta planet killer
Nintendo: hold my beer

Excuse you Matpat, did you just body shame chain chomp ?!?

No matpat I can't show this to my teacher because you made to many Luigi bulge jokes

Matpat: I have seen some crazy numbers in this show and even was shocked.
Mario maker: Hold my drink.

8:09 About a week ago I convinced my science teacher to let us watch your "is SpongeBob adopted" video in class

Looking at the pictures of the rackets breaking apart and at their shape, I think it is more likely that the Rackets are made from wood. A little research shows that Ash is a fairly common wood that is used to make wooden rackets, it has a shear Strength of 10 MPa.
Secondly, the racket acts as a lever. In this case I would treat it as a Cantilever. I don't have the expertise to count pixels and compare, but for sake of argument lets say the racket is 72 cm, this falls in regulation size and judging from the screen shots the racket is about 1/2 the size of Mario, it also makes for easier math. The "sweet spot" for a tennis racket can vary, how ever, if we assume that it is 1/4 of the way from the top of the racket and that the top of Mario's hand is 1/4 from the bottom that would mean we have a cantilever with a length of 360mm.
To find the force exerted on the racket at the top of Mario's hand we use (Force*lengthFromOrgin)/CrossSection = (65N*360mm)/740mm^2 = 31.622N/mm^2 = 31.622 MPa
Meaning the 65N the ball generates is about 3 times the force needed to break a racket made of Ash wood. Of course an actual racket would be made of laminated wood, for which I could not find a shear strength of and would vary greatly anyway depending on the adhesives used. Then again, it is 3am, I may be wrong about all of that.

On KRplus you learn how to break Mario. In soviet Russia Mario learns how to break you.

"Momentum is equal too-"
**Video starts buffering**
I...have lost all momentum ;-;

"7.4 cubic centimeters"
²: am I a joke to you
Yeah u said cubic instead of squared

*_Yea, but a Chain Chomp who plays Tennis is totally normal. xD_*

* show this to your teacher, maybe you can watch it in class or something *
*i tried to... then you started talking about walauigi...*

1:41 just lovely. 😂

Matpat: Things are more expensive than ever!
The Great Depression: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

Wouldn't you be liable to breaking your own racket if you launch such a shot?

"...no one can afford more than one racket in this universe." You actually do have multiple rackets, seemingly by default; this makes decision by KO that much more brutal, in my opinion.

imagine if he was a teacher

Dad: “Go practice your serves today.”
Me: *Watches this video*

so, the one thing to take away from this, the mushroom kingdom makes really shoddy tennis rackets?

*It’s a me.... MARIO*
playing a tennis

MatPat has taught me more math than my entire school career

I wanna see this episode Austin style, with all the screaming and yelling and with Hall of the Mountain King blasting in the background as those huge numbers appear on screen 😂😂

Wario, with gaping hole through him: ...
Peach: *OH NOOOOOOOOOO*

Imagine that the net dosent break but the shaft breaks.....nets of titanium

What if those tennis rackets have some kind of special ability? I mean this world has magical mushrooms.

9:50 Just wanted to say thanks for putting that image in my head ☺🥰

Upcoming theory: The Mushroom Kingdom is in the same world/timeline as Fallout.

How to REALLY break Mario
1. Play Mario Maker
Enough said

So middle school was fudging dope because I gave it a try to my science teacher when I was in middle school to watch this so it can help us with the test and he allowed us to watch this on a Friday (cause he thought it was a fun day to watch it and he pushed the test to Monday) and it actually helped alot of students including me and 85% of the class got an A or B plus on that test so now he put this video on his "teaching my kid physics" youtube playlist for future students. Thank you matpat for making learning fun 💖

2:41
Yes, I’m real life it has happened to me many times before. I am a junior tennis player and I have been hit plenty of shots that forced my racket to snap in half.

So Adventure time just ended,
Could you please make a theory on Adventure time' s timeline???

...yeah I think I'll just play Mario Golf

I honestly feel that MatPat is like a tutor.. I learn more from him than I do in school, and he teaches it in an american way, but I'm British and still understand him more than my teachers

Ok so been a long time channel lurker but I love the content matpat steff and team. Thanks for genuinely making learning fun. I was never engaged much in highschool yet I feel a lot smarter now because of your content. Anyone ever wondered if ninja gaiden has any theories to be found. Across at least 4 games I know of some very odd activities happen and I wonder what can your charcter do that trained people still cant achieve

yeah my teacher is going to let me play this especially when you talked about luigi's AHEM tennis balls if you know what I mean

Man i love this channel because it solves every freaking game mystery

11:40 😂 LOL did anyone else get a laugh seeing the fig newtons all over the screen?

I learn way more watching this channel than math class
Take that lewis

Plot twist:the tennis balls are made of concrete and lead

Wow #2 on trending and you didn't have to show a dead body

Matpat is the main reason I WANT to learn physics because it’s always so cool when he gets going

I just came back to this one after the big announcement, as for some reason, this is one of the videos that has stuck with me the most, and I was not disappointed.

OMG You mentioning watch game theory in class reminded me of the time I tricked my teacher to play the death star episode because i was in a microeconomics class

My maths teacher loves u and always makes us sit in class and watch it and will always say " if u want to be a youtuber be a theorists"

I’ve learned and remembered more watching MatPat’s videos, than going to school. Like his videos on Genes and Traits definitely helped. Like, can MayPat be our teacher?

Sometimes I just love how much effort and video length MatPat put into promoting his sponsors

You know how bad I'm at tennis?...One time I tried to hit the ball I somehow got it stuck at that hollow part under the racket.

I can finally understand the Physics jokes cuz I’m in AP Physics now :D
Oh wait

Love the physics throwback to the first What If xkcd blog post on baseballs thrown at near relativistic speeds

Your intro goes on
Me: dances to it ridiculously

now that I'm currently taking a physics class, the physics discussed in game theory episodes make so much more sense and are more relevant to me lol

Mario,where tennis balls hit like bullets and bullets hit like tennis balls...wait WHAT?!?!

Im not sure what is cooler, the fact that I learned something new about a familiar subect (serve speed measurement specifics) or the fact that Mario games continue to follow real-life physics and/or phenomena.

Who needs school when you got mat pat I literally was learning about cells in school and I was like dude game theory pretty much taught me this

I feel like Nintendo is making their games more realistic so you stop calling them deadly lmao

Reminder that it actually takes multiple hits to break a racket in Tennis Aces, so the force would actually be less as the racket is damaged over time rather than breaking in one hit.
Also, it probably would have been better to calculate it as if the rackets had broken at a hollow neck, as the official art shows, rather than basing it off of the cheap graphical trick used to split the rackets cleanly in half in-game.

I love how matpat says "Shear Shtrenght" at 10:23. SO CUTEEEEE!!!!!

or ya know... considering how clean the break is for being caused by sheer speed, maybe it deliberately breaks along a certain point to avoid actual breaks in the racket

I like how the point at the end was to find how fast the ball would have to move to break the racket, but he said the ball would kill everyone and cause havoc. So you'd need to set off an nuclear reaction explosion to break a racket. I know you wouldn't need to do that, I just find it funny that to get a tennis ball to break a racket there, would need enough force to set off an explosion.

To whoever's interested, there is a blog on the Internet called 'What If' by Randall Munroe which taps further into that last question: Just what would happen exactly to the ball at this speed? In that blog he talks about baseball and the ball travelling at 90% of the speed of light but I think the outcome would be similar. I highly recommend you read it if you want to know more about wacky science questions.

Mass of the ball, speed into the racket, speed going opposite way, content time,and more

You could get a colleg degre make quantum theories but u make video game theory’s.
I respect it