NES Tetris players have begun a new initiative, Online tournaments played of multiperson video-chat. The rules were as follows for the first one (they will change): we all played 5 games total with the highest cumulative score winning (the lowest game was a "burn" game, not counted in the total) results 1) Ben Mullen 2) Matt Buco 3)Robin Mihara 4) Jesse Presnall 5) Adam Cornelius "games of note"(in normal play after the officialish thing): Robin Mihara: 724k Matt buco 600 somethingk starting on 19! the full results can be found on this spreadsheet, http://bit.ly/w04525 more will be coming as well, nearly weekly, and with more participants (hopefully), or at least different ones. If you want to participate you can... maybe. Space is limited to 10 (i think) in this particular form of mutiperson video chatroom so space must be left for "contenders" wanna be one?... get a big score on youtube.
Technical note: if one person has a decent internet connection (like Fios or something) they can use screen capture software to stream the "grid" of video conference feeds onto a public streaming site like twitch.tv for others to watch. Tetris is after all a great spectator sport
update... round 2: not many people showing this week, oh well, but Matt Buco did and as the guy with the highest proven non maxout score he has a big old target on his back as far as im concerned: results: mixed. we added seperate level 18, 19, and potentially 9 competitions (depending on who comes) with side games to follow. 18 round (rules: play 6 games total best 3): I won soundly averaging 662k pts game in my top 3 to bucos 501202. John Byram (my former roomate and and ok player might sum up how the average joe would do with some practice... he averaged 123535) 19 round (rules 25 minutes highest score wins): Matt Buco won soundly with a 514985 to my paltry 229600. my internet quit at minute 16 and i conceded, my 19 play was pitiful johns was ... worse but he'll improve here again is the spreadsheet with the results... if you think your good... join us and find out http://bit.ly/w04525
Another NES Tetris Tournament this week. Results: Level 18 competition: we play 6 games total the top 3 of them, highest wins. 1) Ben Mullen average 687,109 2) Eli Markstrom average 512,356 3) Matt Buco average 498,551 4) Robin Mihara average 304,490 5) Jesse Kelkar average 192,020 Level 19 competition: we play 25 minutes worth and total our best 3 games. 1) Eli Markstom average 304,931 2) Ben Mullen average 293,508 3) Matt Buco average 249,153 4) Jesse Kelkar average184,477 5) Robin Mihara average 136028 Level 9: play 3 games top 2 are totaled (Eli and Jesse were the only participants, I enjoyed watching) 1) Eli Markstrom average 576026 2) Jesse Kelkar something lower (didn’t put in both games lol) “silly sidegame” section Start from 0 first to level 11: winner Ben Mullen B type level 19-0 lowest score 5 attempts (must complete level): winner is a tie between Ben Mullen and Jesse Kelkar, (both perfect) B mode level 9-5 3 attempts high score: winner Jesse Kelkar Full results here: http://bit.ly/s0xBgr
Another NES Tetris Tournament this week. Results: Level 18 competition: we play 6 games total the top 3 of them, highest wins. 1) Ben Mullen average 657,624 2) Eli Markstrom average 584,020 3) Matt Buco average 576,617 Level 19 competition: we play 25 minutes worth and total our best 3 games. 1) Eli Markstom average 323,866 2) Matt Buco average 210,408 3) Ben Mullen average 154,280 side note: I'm going to inject a small amout of personal pride. We have had 4 competitions, with very strong competitiors and i remain undefeated on level 18, and have the highest score in these competitions at 841... but others should be proud too... both eli and matt have gone above 600k from 19, i have sucked on 19 another side note: my exroomate john byram scored a personal best at 523k last night, not too shabby, if i dont write it somewhere he'll forget it Full results here: http://bit.ly/s0xBgr