2025 CTWC Kansas City Regional took place at Kansas City Retro at Municipal Auditorium: Lower Exhibition Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. It happened on September 6-7, 2025.
Open Tournament happened on September 6
DAS Tournament happened on September 7
Players could do their qualifying run either online and/or in-person.
Players that opted to qualify online were given a 90-minute session.
For In-Person qualifying, players waited in line for an open station where they get to play 1 game before having to go back in line. Players that did their online qualifying were allowed to try again at the in-person qualifying.
Classic Tetris Wars (CTW) format was used to determine seeding rank, where players earned qualifying points from each game.
- 0-999,999: 0 points
- 1,000,000-1,099,999: 2 points
- 1,100,000-1,199,999: 3 points
- 1,200,000-1,299,999: 4 points
- and so on…
The player’s highest score was used as a tiebreaker.
Top 12 players advanced to the Gold Bracket, while everyone else (13 players) advanced to the Silver Bracket.
All matches in the Gold Bracket were Best of 5.
In the Silver Bracket, all matches were Best of 3 until Finals which were Best of 5. Only the Finals of that bracket was livestreamed.
2025 CTWC Kansas City Regional: Timestamps
Qualifying
ClassicTetris
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ClassicTetris2
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Round 0 – Top 12
Match #1: Jedi Evan vs Josh Tolles
Match #2: James (JDH) vs Matt Martin
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Match #3: Lapis Lazuli vs Izobreen
Match #4: Jonesy vs Chance
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Quarterfinals
Match #1: TetrisTime vs Chance
Match #2: James (JDH) vs Blue Scuti
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Match #3: Winter vs Lapis Lazuli
Match #4: Jedi Evan vs DMJ
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Semifinals
Match #1
Match #2
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Silver Bracket Finals
Silver Bracket Finals Match
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Finals
Finals Match
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Interview with Winner
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