“If 10 people are attacking you, and you target attackers, you can send garbage to 10 people simultaneously. “Then you target the attackers,” Neubauer said. (The others are random, attackers, and badges.) That’ll send a lot of attackers your way. When your screen goes red, it tells the system that you’re near a knockout, which is one of Tetris’ four attack modes. “The strategy I employ most is pretending like you’re in trouble by building super high and having a couple of Tetrises cued up,” he said. Neubauer says that it’s critical to focus on knocking other people out while consistently amassing badges.
That’s why it’s so important in the end game: you need to make sure you can defend against players aggressively attacking you. “If you have four badges, you send eight lines of garbage, which is the equivalent of two Tetrises.”īadges work defensively by helping to mitigate the garbage sent to you by other players. “Badges amplify the damage you send,” Neubauer says. The more badges you have, the more garbage you send to other players. Badges are a sign of prowess in Tetris 99, awarded to players for knocking out others. It’s too easy for other players to get rid of individual lines of garbage, so you’ll never be able to really knock out other players, which is how you get badges. Keeping your stack low by constantly clearing single or double lines means that you’re never throwing a ton of garbage - the gray stuff that’s added to the screen - at other players. As it turns out, both strategies are bad. But I can typically make it to the top 10 in most games by employing two different strategies: slipping under the radar by not attacking anyone and doing anything to keep my stack low. As you can see, my confidence in my place in the top 999 was slightly unfounded. During that time, I won… a total of two games. “The strategy I employ most is pretending like you’re in trouble.”īefore talking to Neubauer, I’d racked up around 50 hours playing Tetris 99. “ it’s about strategy to go deep in the game if you’re tired of being knocked out in the first 20. “You can absolutely play your own game and just keep very safe and low,” Neubauer says.
Certainly not enough to be within the top 999 Tetris 99 players in the world. While you can - and many do - play Tetris 99 without any of the extra doo-dads that give the game its battle royale elements, that typically won’t get you lots of wins. Neubauer told me it’s a very different game than Tetris 99, despite the similar looks. (He was unseated as champion by Harry Hong in 2014 and teenage Tetris player Joseph Saelee in 2018.) That event is played on the 1989 version of Tetris, using the NES and CRT TVs. Neubauer won the Classic Tetris World Championship from 2010 to 2013, and then from 2015 to 2017. So to give me an edge up heading into the Tetris 99 Maximus cup, I asked seven-time Classic Tetris World Championship player Jonas Neubauer to coach me in brick-dropping.
Those aren’t exactly the qualifications of a tournament winner. Prior to Tetris 99, I played Tetris casually I pulled out the classic version on my phone or Puyo Puyo Tetris on the Switch to kill time. And so, I spent my weekend doing little other than playing Tetris 99.īut unlike everyone else vying for those Nintendo points, I had the help of a champion as my guide. Unfortunately, this has given me a false sense of confidence and the thought that I could actually land somewhere in the top 999 Tetris 99 players in the world. We pile into a Discord server and ignore each other while we’re wrapped up in the intense moments of battle. I have a group of friends who are all playing Tetris 99. Instead, 999 winners will each get 999 My Nintendo Gold Points, which is equivalent to $10. Points were awarded only for first-place wins, but there’s no singular winner for the event. The Tetris 99 Maximus Cup ran from March 8th until March 10th, and participants were tasked with playing - and winning - as many games as possible over that short span. Over the weekend, Nintendo held its first competitive tournament for the surprise battle royale hit Tetris 99.
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