This Week in Tetris

Welcome back to a long overdue continuation of CTRank 2024. We arrive at the top 15: all these players have been ranked in the top 10 at some point this year, concluding at this point from wildly different trajectories. Our panel nonetheless evaluated them in 30 player ballots, awarding points 30 points for first and 1 point for 30th: those who received votes outside of the Top 25 were given honorable mentions . We considered all open playstyle tournaments (and, to some extent, single-player accomplishments) in this calendar year, with an emphasis on the standard 1v1, 18 start, 39DKS ruleset. A minimum of ten played matches was required to qualify for consideration. Intro & Honorable Mentions | 25-21 | 20-16 | 15-11 | 10-6 | 5-1 We're also proud to present a respective graphic alongside each ranked player, summarising their year. Some things to note: The W/L Record table shows how elo-rated matches and games they've won and lost versus...

Welcome back to CTRank 2024. We're continuing with the players ranked from 20th to 16th place as determined by our panel . To recap, our six contributors submitted 30 player ballots, awarding points 30 points for first and 1 point for 30th: those who received votes outside of the Top 25 were given honorable mentions . We considered all open playstyle tournaments (and, to some extent, single-player accomplishments) in this calendar year, with an emphasis on the standard 1v1, 18 start, 39DKS ruleset. A minimum of ten played matches was required to qualify for consideration. Intro & Honorable Mentions | 25-21 | 20-16 | 15-11 | 10-6 | 5-1 We're also proud to present a respective graphic alongside each ranked player, summarising their year. Some things to note: The W/L Record table shows how elo-rated matches and games they've won and lost versus those ranked in our top 10, top 25 (inclusive of the top 10) and the field (everyone else). ...

Welcome back to CTRank 2024, where we begin celebrating the masters of the game we love with ranks 25-21, as determined by our panel . To recap, our six contributors submitted 30 player ballots, awarding points 30 points for first and 1 point for 30th: those who received votes outside of the Top 25 were given honorable mentions . We considered all open playstyle tournaments (and, to some extent, single-player accomplishments) in this calendar year, with an emphasis on the standard 1v1, 18 start, 39DKS ruleset. A minimum of ten played matches was required to qualify for consideration. We're also proud to present a respective graphic alongside each ranked player, summarising their year. Some things to note: The W/L Record table shows how elo-rated matches and games they've won and lost versus those ranked in our top 10, top 25 (inclusive of the top 10) and the field (everyone else). The slash line sources from the Omni Match Statistics database, which tracks all prem...

We are pleased to present CTRank, the This Week in Tetris year-end rankings for 2024! Over the course of the next few weeks, we’ll reveal our picks for the best open-playstyle competitive NES Tetris players of the year. To arrive at these rankings, we had a panel of six Classic Tetris bloggers submit ballots. (We’ll reveal the rankings at the end of the series.) We each ranked the top 30 players of the year, and the top 25 vote-getters made the official list; be sure to scroll down to the end of this post to see our honorable mentions. We’ll reveal and discuss the players five at a time. Players had to play at least ten matches over the course of the year. Please join our Discord if you want to talk about this post or learn how to contribute. Huge thank you to everyone who made 2024 a fantastic year for Tetris! Ranker introductions Arbaro is the editor-in-chief of This Week in Tetris, general manager of Tetris for the Non-Pros, and a commentator for the Classic Te...

Sonic (@sonicthescrew) is a staff writer at This Week in Tetris, the main editor of the DAS Statistics Project, and a math graduate student who likes playing with numbers and computers. It's no secret that 2024 has been a huge year for NES Tetris. Over the course of the year, TWiT has covered many open playstyle tournaments, featuring rollers, tappers and DAS players, but one huge change in the landscape has fallen outside our coverage -- that of DAS-only matches. The DAS playstyle has seen a huge revival this year, with multiple new DAS-only tournaments popping up after the announcement of the Jonas Neubauer Cup at Portland in September. With this we saw the rise of many players who haven't had the spotlight before and are now garnering accolades for their abilities in the DAS playstyle. We began the year with five DAS 1.3 players (Tristop, Tugi, Mark Migas, Nenu, NGC Man), and ended the year doubling that count (adding PixelAndy, Matt Martin, Giovanni, Valor and Meme, who g...