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2023 CTWC DAS: Timestamps
The 2023 CTWC DAS Championship took place at XPERION Cologne in Germany from September 9-10. This was the second annual CTWC DAS tournament. During the qualifying rounds, players signed up for a 90-minute time slot where they had unlimited attempts to get the highest score. The Top 48 players qualified for the tournament. The tournament […]
2022 CTWC DAS: Timestamps
The 2022 CTWC DAS Championship took place in at the Cineplex Fürth in Fürth, Germany. It took place from August 20-21. This was the first ever CTWC DAS Championship. In this tournament, players used the DAS play-style. With the DAS (Delayed Auto-Shift) playstyle, players move the pieces by holding down the Directional Pad (D-Pad). Players […]
How Does A Classic Tetris World Championship Game Work?
At the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC), players compete one-on-one. In each match, both players play on separate NES consoles and separate CRT Televisions. The judge or commentator does a countdown for the players to start their game at the same time. How do you win a game at CTWC? At the end of each […]
Noah Dengler Gets A Perfect Maxout In NES Tetris
On April 15, 2024, Noah Dengler became the first player to achieve a perfect Maxout in NES Tetris. A few days earlier (April 9), he was one Tetris away from getting the perfect maxout. But could not pull it off because he could not set up another Tetris without burning lines. He had 42 Tetrises […]
Fractal Wins 2024 CTM Mega Masters and $10K
In March 2024, Classic Tetris Monthly (CTM) hosted the annual Mega Masters tournament. Where 64 players compete head to head to become the Mega Masters champion for a portion of a fan funded prize pool. Fractal qualified for Mega Masters as the #5 Seed. In his Round 1 games, he built a large lead into […]
Alex T Beats NES Tetris Twice: 4th Player To Beat Tetris
In March 2024, Alex T was the first player to reach the 10 million point score and claimed the fan-funded bounty. He was playing on a ROM that patched the game crash. With the bounty claimed, he set his sights on other Tetris goals. On the evening of April 2, 2024, Alex T was live […]
Tetris Anthem at the Classic Tetris World Championship
Before the Tetris matches start on the last day of the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC), someone performs the Tetris anthem. Which is the Tetris theme song that everyone is familiar with. Traditionally, everyone stands up right before the anthem is played. After having 7 annual Tetris tournaments, the organizers decided to have an anthem. […]
Alex T Becomes The First Player To Reach 10 Million Points In NES Tetris
On February 1, 2024, the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) set up a fan-funded bounty for the first player to reach 10 million points in NES Tetris. Prior to the bounty, PixelAndy had the world record with an 8.9 million score on January 11. So it was only a matter of time before someone claimed […]
Classic Tetris Monthly Mega Masters 2024: March Madness of Tetris
Classic Tetris Monthly (CTM) is hosting a 2024 Mega Masters this month. Usually, CTM has a 16-player tournament in their Masters event each month. For this occasion, 64 players will qualify for the Masters tournament. Fittingly, this is happening during March Madness. Last year, the prize pool was over $17,000, with the winner getting over […]
The Rolling Revolution: The Never-Ending Story of NES Tetris
In the past few years, the Classic Tetris community has broken boundaries in the game of NES Tetris. In 2017, the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) started going viral when YouTube was recommending the 2016 Finals video to people. That is how 15-year-old, Joseph Saelee, discovered the CTWC. From there, he decided to pick up […]