Classic Tetris World Championship

Alex T 2025 CTWC

Alex T Wins The 2025 Classic Tetris World Championship

Alex T wins the 2025 Classic Tetris World Championship, becoming a back-to-back Tetris Champion. Alex Thach (aka Alex T) got 16 maxouts and a 971,440 kicker in the Qualifying Round, to clinch the #1 seed. He broke the previous qualifying record of 16 maxouts and a 649,940 kicker. (Kicker is the highest non-maxout score, used […]

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How To Watch The 2025 Classic Tetris World Championship

The 2025 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) is happening this weekend from June 6-8. Here is how you can watch the tournament live. The tournament will be live streamed on their Twitch and YouTube channel. Twitch Channels ClassicTetris – Gold Bracket ClassicTetris2 – Gold Bracket Classictetris3 – Silver Bracket ClassicTetris4 – Bronze Bracket YouTube Channels […]

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How To Attend The 2025 Classic Tetris World Championship

The 2025 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) will be at the SoCal Retro Gaming Expo in Pasadena, California. The Tournament is on Friday through Sunday, June 6-8, 2025. When booking flights and hotels, make sure the dates you selected are correct. People have mistakenly booked the wrong months. Registration to enter the tournament is open […]

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Alex T Wins The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship

Alex Thach, who goes by Alex T, was a top contender going into the 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship. He had multiple World Records in separate categories and became the 4th player to crash the game. Going For The High Seeding Rank The qualifying round was the same as last year, where players raced against […]

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How To Watch The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship

The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) is happening this weekend from June 7-9. Here is how you can watch the tournament live. (Update 6/11/2024: Tournament is done, here are the videos) The tournament will be live streamed on their Twitch and YouTube channel. YouTube Channels Classic Tetris Twitch Channels ClassicTetris – Gold Bracket ClassicTetris2 […]

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CTWC 2024 Special Guest Revealed

Tetris Creator, Alexey Pajitnov, Will Attend The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship

Tetris creator, Alexey Pajitnov, will attend the 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) in Pasadena, California. Henk Rogers (Founder of the Tetris Company) and Maya Rogers (CEO of the Tetris company) will also be at the event. They were all featured in The Pop Insider last week. It is unknown what day they will be […]

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Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions Review

Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions is a documentary series that covers the 2014 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC). Where players compete head-to-head on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version of Tetris. Jonas Neubauer had won the last 4 tournaments and entered the 2014 CTWC as the defending champion once more. It will not […]

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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 […]

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Sergio And The Holograms Perform Tetris Anthem

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. […]

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2024 Classic Tetris World Championship Will Be In Pasadena, California

The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) will be at the SoCal Retro Gaming Expo in Pasadena, California on June 7-9. In a surprise announcement, the Classic Tetris World Championship has relocated from Portland, Oregon to Pasadena, California. From 2012-2019 and 2022-2023, the tournament was held at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in Portland, Oregon. […]

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