Here's a little something I thought might be neat. I put it together with the magic of the wayback machine. If people find it interesting we could even make it a yearly thing. It's a chance to see how we've grown and matured as a community. It's not perfect, because it relies on leaderboard participation, but I think it's good enough to get a general idea. Our player base grew from 38 to 59. Welcome new players! May you all become grandmasters some day. Code: Ai Baxter Billmaan deepdorp DeHackEd DumbledorsArmy edo elph Gaby gs68 Lion m:) Meroigo mufunyo mushroom Nooshak radish rednefed shoryu statikeffect wksrdg The number of Gm players increased from 21 to 35. We have almost as many Gm players now as we did total players last year! Hats off to the new grandmasters: Code: Baxter Billmaan Bou deepdorp DeHackEd edo EIHoppe Ex Mosquito Gila Lion mushroom PetitPrince rednefed statikeffect Our player base grew from 33 to 50. Welcome new players! Code: (RA)Red Star Ai batmann Billmaan deepdorp DeHackEd edo EIHoppe floc4 gs68 kira LordPie mushroom rednefed shoryu sjoecool1991 Xkeeper In the master ranks we have little movement. Jago achieved Gm for the first time and colour_thief achieved M for the first time. May many follow! Ever the attractive challenge, our player base increased from 39 to 57. Welcome new players! Code: -jay- (RA)Red Star Ai Baxter DDRKirby(ISQ) deepdorp DeHackEd edo EIHoppe Gila gs68 kira L0st LorpPie mushroom necrosaro NoTGhost rednefed We have 4 new M players. Congratulations! Code: DeHackEd edo Kitaru Rosti LFC And 2 new Gm players! Code: colour_thief Jago
Man, I should play some TAP and get some leaderboard-worthy scores. TAP Master is so frustrating though... I must learn to overhang!
I'm one of the noobs what a great game! i didn't know they could improve the tetris formula to such an extent. coming from a history of nintendo tetris i almost feel ripped off :/ those of you who have made the GM grade have some serious tetris skillz.
Interesting thread and good work. Never too late to join. I haven't played TAP Master as much as I wanted. Normal mode and Death T.A. are the game modes where I spend most of my time when playing TAP.
Nice work c_t. I like seeing things like this. I've been on a hiatus from Tetris for a while now. I needed a break. I hope to get on that GM list someday...
I'll make it a new year's resolution to put myself on the TAP Master & Death leaderboards before colour_thief posts the 2009 TGM Census thread
2005 was the year I started playing Tetris(G seriously. (thanks to Spectre's videos) This year was seriously scary as I got so addicted to such an old game.. I played at least 5 hours every day on my GBC or GBASP. I saw blocks both when I was awake and sleeping. I dreamt of tetris and I even started to notice some Tetris-shaped furniture in school or other places. Also during an English test in school I closed my eyes to think for a while and blocks started falling down in my mind. And kept doing so even after opening my eyes again. Addiction was a fact. 2006 was the year I started playing Tetris DS seriously as well as find some nice clones thanks to this forum. 2007 was a year with very little Tetrising as my DS died in the spring, later during the year I played some heboris with TDS rules for a couple of weeks and then I forgot about it. 2008 was the year I started playing seiously again, this time focused primarily on TGM and it's clones. It was also the first time I played with MAME and started to keep statistics. 2008 was also the year I got my first stick (Hori FS3) But, I was still not satisfied with my progress. I've said to myself that I will not post in the Records section until I can get in the high S-ranks of TAP Master. My best has been an S4 in Texmaster I think, I want S7 at least before I post. Hopefully in 2009 I'll make it to the high S, or even reach M, it's a long year after all..
I was wondering if this will be updated? Do you save the leaderboards at the start of each year colour_thief? If so can you share those of previous years if you still have them?
I've completed this for 2009, did it new year's day even. I was just waiting for pici.se to go back online. And it has! So I should post it after work tonight.
