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Tetris 99 Maximus Cup online event announced; top 999 players receive 999 My Nintendo Gold points (~$10 for eShop)
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I'm just quoting you so I can laugh at everyone upset at this post lol.
Almost thousand people getting almost 10 bucks is nice.
How about almost a hundred people getting almost 100 dollars. That'd be good.
How about almost a hundred people getting almost 100 dollars. That'd be good.
Someone with a Hardcore History avatar posting dumb things like this makes me sad.
It's ten bucks, though! Shit, if I won anything in Tetris 99, I'd be happy.
Hope there's a real-time leaderboard during the competition. Dunno how much I'd want to grind for wins if I can't even tell where I stand at the moment.
Other Battle Royals: Battle Pass, Loot Boxes, Cosmetics! Give us YOUR MONEY!!
Nintendo/Tetris: Play fun game! Win! Take OUR MONEY!!
Nintendo/Tetris: Play fun game! Win! Take OUR MONEY!!
Of course they do this when I'm on holiday.
This is absolutely amazing, though, what a great idea.
This is absolutely amazing, though, what a great idea.
Well for one thing, newly manufactured Switches have had a patched bootloader that doesn't allow for the initial entrypoint for that since mid-last year.
As for the vulnerable ones still out there, I haven't been following the situation terribly closely, but my understanding is that Nintendo has been applying the banhammer pretty liberally with hacked Switches that go online.
Splatoon 2 isn't a mess anymore. They added some new cheat detection in December and it's seemingly quite solid. I don't expect anyone to crack it within the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, Tetris 99 runs on dedicated servers(!?), so it's probably less at risk than Nintendo's other multiplayer games. Doesn't appear like they added anything client-side to detect cheats however.
Since you mentioned dota prize pool, the nintendo pool is 10,000.
Not exactly. I'm aware of two guys who are dedicated Tetris players and solely got the Switch to play 99.
I'll be impressed if neither get another game for the next 4 months.
it conveys the knowledge that someone found out how to make a pie chart in excel. The same day they got a look at some videogame sales data.
This has got to be the most infamous pie chart in video game history. Polygon will never live this down, lol
And there are still people saying how Nintendo gets away with everything.
Nintendo gives away money and they still get shit on............
I'm thinking this is likely because they saw a jump in online subscribers or just generally this game is far more popular than they ever anticipated. Pretty cool to see though, Nintendo usually misses out on things like this. Hope it's a huge success.
I'm ready to lose...in style. Highest place I got in the game is 4th, but I'll participate anyways, game is fun.
this is a cool idea, but since i've never won it practically makes no difference for me, lol.
in the future they should try doing contests that can involve and motivate more people even if they aren't exceptionally good at tetris. maybe offering alternate background music options or double exp or something just for participating?
in the future they should try doing contests that can involve and motivate more people even if they aren't exceptionally good at tetris. maybe offering alternate background music options or double exp or something just for participating?
Neat idea, but the highest I've ever placed is 8th, so it doesn't really mean much for me :P
...and made a pie chart out of the sums of both sets of data. (Which of course is a completely nonsensical way to present that info.)
From the line graph, you can actually glean some interesting info, like attach ratios. The infamous pie chart, however, is such a dumb oversimplification of the data that it looks like a total apples-to-oranges comparison.
They basically took this far more helpful graph:
...and made a pie chart out of the sums of both sets of data. (Which of course is a completely nonsensical way to present that info.)
From the line graph, you can actually glean some interesting info, like attach ratios. The infamous pie chart, however, is such a dumb oversimplification of the data that it looks like a total apples-to-oranges comparison.
Yeah, but $1000 would be even better... *sigh*
This "prize" isn't meant to be some "wow-look-at-the-prizes-in-Tetris-99-!!!!", it's just a plus for the best players, a way to acknowledge them.
This guy is freaking machine.
Found him in search for good streamer of this game, but I didn't expect THAT.
Splatoon 2 hasnt been a mess in months every since they reactivated the anti-cheat.
That said considering Tetris has its own actual server, combined with Nintendo's much quicker system bans whenever a consoles goes online, probably not vulnerable. A lot of the times you'll hear people suddenly get stacks of junk with no real time passing after start, but that's mostly from near-instant perfect clears.
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I never understood how to do a T-spin thing, I'll never win :(
That MK sell roughly the 1/5 of console hardware so MK8 in Wii U would barely sell 2 millions (it sold more than 8 millions).
Seems like they're picking the winners randomly like in they're doing in Japan.
I struggle through life and death to crack top 10, so no way in hell I would be the happy winner of this incredible prize.
For Europe, From the website :
"Winners & prizes
Out of all participants that finish at least one match of Tetris® 99 in first position ("Tetris Maximus") during the event, 999 can win a prize of 999 My Nintendo Gold Points each, delivered to their Nintendo Account. The number of Tetris Maximus wins achieved has no influence on the chance of winning a prize. If more than 999 participants achieve a Tetris Maximus win, winners will be determined by random draw. If less than 999 participants achieve a Tetris Maximus win within the period, the number of winners will be reduced accordingly."
so the number of top 1 don't matter
"Winners & prizes
Out of all participants that finish at least one match of Tetris® 99 in first position ("Tetris Maximus") during the event, 999 can win a prize of 999 My Nintendo Gold Points each, delivered to their Nintendo Account. The number of Tetris Maximus wins achieved has no influence on the chance of winning a prize. If more than 999 participants achieve a Tetris Maximus win, winners will be determined by random draw. If less than 999 participants achieve a Tetris Maximus win within the period, the number of winners will be reduced accordingly."
so the number of top 1 don't matter
Cool that they are doing this for Europe too!
I'm gonna have my wife playing it, because I suck at Tetris. :p
EDIT: For all the people complaining about the prize value, 9.99 $ times 999 people is 9980,01 dollars, and that's just in the US.
No other game gives you a monetary prize by playing for free, at home.
I'm gonna have my wife playing it, because I suck at Tetris. :p
EDIT: For all the people complaining about the prize value, 9.99 $ times 999 people is 9980,01 dollars, and that's just in the US.
No other game gives you a monetary prize by playing for free, at home.
