Partly because it's not accurate and partly because I got disconnected a bunch of times recently. Right now my rating is 6872, but usually it's never below 7000. I dont know whats wrong with my blockstats image because it never gives me the correct rating.
I don't think it's fair to cap it at 27... Mihara is how old and he rocked wifi like a mofo? Also a sizeable portion of strong TGM players grew up with Sega Tetris in '88, putting them in the late 20s early 30s age bracket. Our own jagorochi is 30. ...Though you were probably simply desbribing the people who current pass for pros, not potential pros. I thought it would be good to clarify, as too many people think that youth is a necessity for competitive performance.
i don't like anymore than the next guy, but reaction speed starts to leave us as we near closer to our thirties. it's not much, but around that time, you'll see professional gamers (those who make a living off of playing pc games) start fading out. there's a really good national geographic documentary about pro gaming you should dig up. i'm not saying older players can't be skilled. i'm just saying players prime between 16 through 27.
I would be happy if you give me a real explanation matt_hatter, how do you explain the fact in the past, me, colour_thief and mfm we had reached Gm1 grad a long time before you..And 6 months later you have exceeded us with a "M" grad..How did you do? You've played 7 hours per day every days for one year? Maybe you are an exceptionally gifted ..?
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with that. I just don't think that raw reaction time is the end all be all of tetris skill. Raw reaction time goes up, but skilled reaction, that involves complex decision making that draws on experience, is relatively stable. I'm probably just biased because I had a prof that really stressed this angle (and he himself biased because he's old). Apparently this attitude towards aging is a recentish development and textbooks are having to rewrite that section etc. The course was developmental psychology.
He was a strong player before starting with TGM. He used to play Tetris Worlds and a few no longer popular clones. Also, he gets to practice TAP with savestates past lvl 400, something my computer can't satisfactorily do. Though I'm still impressed even considering that.
Hmmm oairff.. I always don't understand : Tetris World is one of the most horrible tetris I've seen... How did he do to become strong with this Tetris???
lol, i don't know of any tetris pro gamers. it'd be awesome time find some way of making money by playing it, though.
I know that on the Tetris that was subscription based for cellphones there was contests for BestBuy gift certificates and the like, and they'd switch out the prizes fairly frequently. Playing with a number pad is so rough, though. I was hoping that with the advent of Wi-Fi and leaderboards Nintendo would seek out top people and reward them, or invite them to tourneys (a Japan vs. US. tourney would be VERY awesome to watch), but it's a shame that this hasn't come to fruitation. I don't know why not, it'd sell tons more copies, re-interjecting life into the sales of the cartridge. Hopefully it's an Ace-In-The-Hole.
... ... I hear the US won the World Series of baseball again this year. ... *insert american pig-dog comment here*
Why would it be Japan vs US anyway? I mean, of course the US would win, but why exclude all other countries?
See, talking smack like that is ok. It's accidentally forgetting the rest of the world exists that gets me. And I won't say any more than that for fear of bringing up the flame bomb that is international politics.
