#ctwc 2024

[dadwhosagirl]

so classic tetris has been one of my hyperfixations since the first game crash and i’ve been watching the classic tetris world championships

just happen to pull up the stream at like ten last night and logan paul was there?? just like. competing.

had to take a screenshot to confirm this was in fact reality

[criticalthinkingwitches]

CritWitchCon 2024!

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[classic-tetris]

ctwc 2024 is this weekend!

the two agreed favorites to win the whole tournament would probably have to be alex and fractal - alex has been on fire these last few months, and fractal will look to be defending his world championship title after a ridiculous streak of wins at the start of the year!

sidnev and blue scuti are perhaps the next most likely contenders for the title! blue scuti got 3rd at the world championships last year and has since become a cultural phenomenon - and as for sidnev, she'll want to improve on her 2nd place from 2023 and win the whole thing!

but even in this new era of tetris, we can't count out the artiaga brothers... since 2020, at least one of them have made the top four, and it's usually been both of them! could andy win his first world championship, or could dog become the first and only person to win the title with two different playstyles?

with how good tetris players are getting in 2024, though, someone unexpected could always come out of nowhere and pull off an incredible bracket run! noah, myles, danv, rahmations, huff - all of these players are regulars to the top level and have potential to cause some chaos for the favorites! or maybe even... someone else???

the classic tetris world championships are taking place june 7th to june 9th, and all the action will be livestreamed on the ClassicTetris twitch page! be sure to check it out this weekend

-jynx, signing off

[mikeperrucci]

Classic Tetris World Championship

CTWC 2024 starts today, and you can watch it here. If you're not familiar with it, it's a tournament where participants play on the 1989 version of NES Tetris.

Players are doing insane things these days. A new technique called rolling lets them move pieces faster than ever before, leading to scores of over 10,000,000 points and even lasting so long the game crashes. They inspired me to play the game again after many years.

While I'll never be as good as the pros, I set what I felt was an achievable goal. A lot of players dream of a maxout (999,999 points, the highest Tetris can display), but I would've been satisfied with half of that. I played for a few months, and on January 23rd, 2023, I got this game:

I was so close, and it looked like I'd reach 500,000 soon. Instead, my play seemed to get worse, and the fun slowly faded. I tried to tell myself it's just a game, but the failure to reach my goal reminded me of all the other failures in my life, and I had to stop.

I've barely played any Tetris since then. I put my focus into finishing my comic without my unrealized goal creating self doubt in the back of my mind. Maybe now that Chuck's Devils is done, I'll get back into the game.

I have nothing but respect for Tetris players, as well as speedrunners, who can start a game, not reach their desired score/time, and restart from scratch over and over again. That requires a level of mental fortitude I apparently don't have. And that's why I'll be watching CTWC 2024.

[onenettvchannel]

FLASH REPORT: Oklahomian Tetris Kid 'Blue Scuti' failed to advance Semi Finals against New Yorker 'Tristop' at the 2024 CTWC in California [#OneNETnewsEXCLUSIVE]

(Written by Craig Ichabod Williams & Mitch Williams / Herkleton Oaks Elementary School news intern of Cartoon Network News and Senior Tech Correspondent of Nickelodeon News)

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA -- E-sports in the Tetris world would fire up the annual offline competitions, rising to new heights at the Classic Tetris World Championship in Pasadena, California, United States of America (U.S.A.) last Sunday afternoon (June 9th, 2024 - Pacific local time), using a classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version of the 1989 Tetris game.

A classic Tetris player from New York named 'Mr. Tristan Kwai', known as 'Tristop' with 3 gaming session points scored in the Quarter Finals and 311 Tetris lines, while 'Mr. Willis Gibson', knowningly also as 'Blue Scuti' with his plushie toy of Yoshis from Super Mario games, has failed to advance to the Semi Finals with 1 gaming session point and 328 Tetris lines, supposedly compete against the last remaining Tetris players in the Grand Finals, where it potentially headlined with 'Alex T.', 'DogPlayTetris' and 'TheDengler'.

Before that in a Special Event last week on Friday (June 7th, 2024). A multimedia YouTube podcaster, social media influencer, pro-wrestler of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s current U.S. champion and the now-guest Tetris player named 'Mr. Logan Alexander Paul', lose himself out with zero (0) gaming session point in 4th place at CTWC 2024's Special Event. Gibson received 2 gaming session points against Mr. Logan, embarking his way to a Special Grand Finals with 'PixelAndy'.

In the early-Q1 2024, Gibson has broken and beat the entire game with a kill screen crash of nearly 160 levels that breaks its unreachable code, and crushing its Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) combined. It is fully unclear if gaming developers originated from the Soviet Union in Russia and the United States of America, who legally bought copies of the Tetris game may potentially receive a 3-digit or above the 5-digit figure offline cash incentive as a reward only for Gibson.

E-sports enthusiasts across the world are feeling really low because it's the big disheartening loss of Mr. Gibson, who personally, didn't make it to the top in the upcoming Grand Finals of his Tetris game on this same night in Pasadena.

Wrapping the e-sports competition, Gibson did pull it off and missed the Tetris drop within minutes before his latest defeat for this year's annual e-sports Tetris competition: "I thought i was but I screamed of, I misdrop the 'T' and I couldn't get 3 Tetrises after that", he said in an exclusive post-defeat interview thru TeleRadyo Serbisyo: Dumaguete and OneNETnews.

Online and in-person, friends and families of 'Blue Scuti' are in the fullest of support in Pasadena, despite his loss before entering the Grand Finals. Gibson ends in 5th Place for this year's offline E-sports competition of CTWC.

SCREENGRAB COURTESY: CTWC via YT LIVE VIDEO BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: *https://liquipedia.net/tetris/Classic_Tetris_World_Championship *https://liquipedia.net/tetris/CTWC/2024/Special_Event *https://liquipedia.net/tetris/CTWC/2024/ and *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jeaamhqfG8 [Referenced YT RECORDED LIVE VIDEO via ClassicTetris]

-- OneNETnews Online Publication Team

[criticalthinkingwitches]

Critical Thinking Witch Collective Presents:

CritWitchCon2024 Sept 27th - 29th A Virtual Convention

This year's theme: Perception (Perspective) Check: Life through a Seekers Lens. Join us while you discover and discuss some of the different ways we see the witchy world. Connect, learn, and get involved with community of science-minded witches and seekers!

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

Critical Thinking Witch Con 2024 Sept 27th - 29th A Virtual Convention

Our much anticipated 2024 Con is in the works! And we'd love some of you - yes, you - from our community to be a part of it.

Are you interested in speaking during the Con? Sharing your passion for things thoughtful and witchy with a world-wide community of #ScienceWitches#SkepticalWitches#AtheistWitches#SecularWitches#AgnosticWitches and other critical thinking seekers?

This years theme is: Perception (Perspective) Check: Life through a Seekers Lens. Some topics we have tentatively mapped out are: - Cauldron Talks: Shifting One's Perspective (that can mean a lot of things!) - Cauldron Talks: Power of Perception (so many ways to take that!) - The Scientific Method and Building a Craft - Panel: Building Visible Communities - Mundane Magic / The Magic of Understanding the Mundane / Mindfulness - Shadow Work and Perception - Crafting in the Craft Workshops - art! - Movement Sessions: led stretching, warm ups, or group dance - Expressing Magic: Art as a Craft & more!

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

Not sure what CritWitchCon is all about? No problem! Join us for a free virtual live event!

As a lead into our Con's theme of "Perception (and Perspective) Check!" we are starting the conversation with special guest, @DaylinaMiller. Daylina (they/them) is a full-time multimedia journalist at the Tampa NPR affiliate, where they’ve covered health and the LGBTQIA+ community for nearly ten years. They’ve also been a practicing atheist witch for the past 17 years and regularly help their coven mates research and debunk misinformation related to witchcraft.

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

It's time for a Pre-Brew!

Not sure what CritWitchCon is all about? No problem! Join us for a FREE virtual live event!

As a lead into our Con's theme of "Perception (and Perspective) Check!" we are starting the conversation with special guest, Daylina Miller. Daylina (they/them) is a full-time multimedia journalist at the Tampa NPR affiliate, where they’ve covered health and the LGBTQIA+ community for nearly ten years. They’ve also been a practicing atheist witch for the past 17 years and regularly help their coven mates research and debunk misinformation related to witchcraft. On the personal side, they also happen to be a huge tabletop role play gamer and are currently writing their own TTRPG!

Sunday, August 25, 2024 8:30 AM PST/11:30 AM EST/4:30 PM BST/1:30 AM AEST (8/26)

Sign up on our website for FREE ticket and we look forward to seeing you there.

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

Our much anticipated 2024 Virtual CritWitchCon is in the works! And we'd love some of you - yes, you - from our community to be a part of it.

Are you interested in speaking during the Con? Sharing your passion for things thoughtful and witchy with a world-wide community of Science Witches, Skeptical WItches, Athiest Witches, Secular Witches, Agnositc Witches, and other critical thinking seekers?

This years theme is: Perception (Perspective) Check: Life through a Seekers Lens. Some topics we have tentatively mapped out are: - Cauldron Talks: Shifting One's Perspective (that can mean a lot of things!) - Cauldron Talks: Power of Perception (so many ways to take that!) - The Scientific Method and Building a Craft - Panel: Building Visible Communities - Mundane Magic / The Magic of Understanding the Mundane / Mindfulness - Shadow Work and Perception - Crafting in the Craft Workshops - art! - LANA (Low-Accessory and No-Accessory) Craft - Movement Sessions: led stretching, warm ups, or group dance - Expressing Magic: Art as a Craft & more! Interested in speaking on one of these topics? Or, have a possible topic that aligns with the theme? Apply to be a moderator, speaker, or panelist! Remember, you know more then you think you do and you have so much to share!

Apply on our website www.critwitches.com/events

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[criticalthinkingwitches]

Hello #CritWitches! Our much anticipated 2024 Con is in the works! And we'd love some of you - yes, you - from our community to be a part of it. Are you interested in speaking during the Con? Sharing your passion for things thoughtful and witchy with a world-wide community of #ScienceWitches#SkepticalWitches#AtheistWitches#SecularWitches#AgnosticWitches and other critical thinking seekers? This years theme is: Perception (Perspective) Check: Life through a Seekers Lens. Some topics we have tentatively mapped out are: - Cauldron Talks: Shifting One's Perspective - Cauldron Talks: Power of Perception - The Scientific Method and Building a Craft - Panel: Building Visible Communities - Mundane Magic / The Magic of Understanding the Mundane / Mindfulness - Shadow Work and Perception - Crafting in the Craft Workshops - art! - Movement Sessions: led stretching, warm ups, or group dance - Expressing Magic: Art as a Craft & more! Interested in speaking on one of these topics? Or, have a possible topic that aligns with the theme? Apply to be a moderator, speaker, or panelist! Remember, you know more then you think you do!

Apply on our website www.critwitches.com/events or links in bio.

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[classic-tetris]

as ctwc 2024 draws ever closer...

fractal's unbeaten streak in CTM tournaments has finally come to an end, dropping matches in april and may to pixelandy and sidnev! even still, the quality of play was unbelievably high...

the summoning salt tetris video was released a few days ago, as part of the most hype evening classic tetris has seen in a while! myles streamed games with summoning salt himself in the chat cheering him on, and managed his first ever glitched colors with a run that puts him 4th on the score and level leaderboards...

while myles played this game, the two-time world champion dogplayingtetris was on a run of his own! he reached level 145, his first ever glitched colors run too, but his 5.9 million score wasn't enough to move him up from 9th on the overall score leaderboard...

finally, a player on the rise lately - danv, part of team UK in the upcoming world championships! he's been tearing apart the established top seven, not only winning against gerald freeman but defeating blue scuti 4-1 in the ctwc paris qualifier!

the quality of play has skyrocketed lately, and anyone could make a potential bracket run in the world championships next month! watch this space for more...

[classic-tetris]

april has been busy!

fractal has continued his domination over competitive tetris, with a killscreen-speed dig for the ages to win a third consecutive CTM event in the deciding game against gerald freeman...

alex t is dominating the score world records, being the first to reach "satan spawn" on the original cartridge and then crashing the game AGAIN on his very next try!

and noah "pace master" dengler achieved the first ever perfect game, with an insane 43 tetrises in a row from a level 18 start to max out the score counter with no lines wasted! give it up 👏

special mention this month goes to hydrantdude, the original rollover-er and community educator on how the game works, making a PB jump to 2.3 million! he's on the rise, and i expect to see him somewhere in the top 25 in this month's premiere poll of tetris journalists...

that's all for now! in may, i expect to see a lot of familiar faces getting back in practice as CTWC 2024 is just around the corner - i'll be giving my personal predictions on that event as it gets closer...

may the longbars be ever in your favor!

-jynx