How To Watch The 2024 Classic Tetris World Championship

CTWC 2023 Finals - Audience Perspective
CTWC 2023 Finals – Audience Perspective. Source – EricICX

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

Twitch Channels

Here are the Results

2024 Classic Tetris World Championship Schedule

Here is the schedule (subject to change), all times listed are in Pacific Daylight Time (-7 UTC)

Friday, June 7 – Day 1

There are 3 qualifying time slots happening on Friday. Each player is assigned a time slot.

In each time slot, players have 2 hours of unlimited attempts to get the most Maxouts (where the score counter maxes at 999,999). The player’s highest non-maxout score (kicker) is used as a tiebreaker.

Here is the time slot schedule with all the players listed, including the ones that will be shown in the livestream.

Time Slots (all times are in PDT)

  • 10:30 AM -12:30 PM
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

It will be livestreamed on YouTube and Twitch

CTWC YouTube Channels
Classic Tetris | CTWC Archives

CTWC Twitch Channels
ClassicTetris | ClassicTetris2 | classictetris3 | ClassicTetris4

Special Event

The Special Event happens at 6:30 PM PDT/9:30 PM EDT (1:00 UTC).

ModRetro teams up with CTWC to host a Tetris tournament on ModRetro’s game system, Chromatic.

This is an 8-player invitational tournament featuring a surprise celebrity guest.

Watch the event live on Youtube and Twitch..

Saturday, June 8 – Day 2

Last Qualifying Time Slot

There is one more qualifying time slot. It will last from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM.

  • Seeds 1-48 (48 players) advance to Gold Bracket
  • Seeds 49-80 (32 players) advance to Silver Bracket
  • Seeds 81-112 (32 players) advance to Bronze Bracket

Here are the Qualifying Rankings.

The Gold Bracket is where the Top 48 players compete head to head to become the World Champion.

In the other brackets, other players get to have the experience of competing in a Tetris match. The winners of those brackets get a small cash prize.

All 3 tournaments are scheduled to start at 12:30 PM PDT/3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC).

Gold Bracket – Round 0-1

CTWC 2024 Schedule - Round 0 and 1
CTWC 2024 Schedule – Round 0 and 1

For the Gold Bracket, Round 0 (Top 48) and Round 1 (Top 32) will be played that day. All matches in this bracket are a Best of 5 (first to 3 wins).

At the end of the day, the Gold Bracket will be down to 16 players.

It will be streamed on these channels

CTWC YouTube Channels
Classic Tetris | CTWC Archives

CTWC Twitch Channels
ClassicTetris | ClassicTetris2

Silver and Bronze Bracket

Most of the Silver Bracket and Bronze Bracket rounds will happen that day.

In the Silver Bracket and Bronze Bracket, the first 3 rounds are a Best of 3 (first to 2 wins). While the Semifinals and Finals are a Best of 5.

The Silver and Bronze Bracket will be streamed on Twitch.

Twitch Channels

Sunday, June 9 – Day 3

At 10:30 AM, the Top 16 players will take a group photo. Afterwards, Sergio and the Holograms perform the Tetris Anthem.

Top 16 Compete To Become Tetris World Champion

CTWC 2024 Schedule - Top 16
CTWC 2024 Schedule – Top 16

At 11:00 AM PDT/2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC), the Top 16 Gold Bracket begins. For the rest of the day, the 16 players compete head-to-head to become the World Champion.

The Final Round is scheduled to start around 4 PM or 5 PM PDT.

Top 16 rounds will be livestreamed on the following

CTWC YouTube Channels
Classic Tetris

CTWC Twitch Channels
ClassicTetris | ClassicTetris2

The Quarterfinals thru Finals will be live streamed on Youtube and Twitch.

Follow CTWC on Social Media to get up to date information.

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