Tetris Sport - summary of 3 first years Options

[massi4h]

Although I personally don't like the idea (could be cause I can't play it without lag though), but would you guys think that Battle 2P (TF/TB) could be more spectator friendly? Games don't end really fast and you can kinda watch a game go back and forth as one guy gets KOed, then the guy down a KO comes back and gets one, etc.

[Jupiter_Joe]

Although I personally don't like the idea (could be cause I can't play it without lag though), but would you guys think that Battle 2P (TF/TB) could be more spectator friendly? Games don't end really fast and you can kinda watch a game go back and forth as one guy gets KOed, then the guy down a KO comes back and gets one, etc.

That's the only thing it has going, but the "buzzer beater" aspect- tie or lead as time expires- is interesting for spectators. However, it would be too rare at any rate.

[tepples]

Rosti's comment about an "independent international governing body" leads to another point:

Mr. Pajitnov and Mr. Rogers want Tetris to become a sport at least comparable to tennis (after which Tetris is named). But as long as The Tetris Company exercises its exclusive right in arranging Tetriminos into horizontal rows, this will not come about.

Nobody needs permission from The Tennis Company to manufacture equipment for recreational tennis. Nobody needs permission from The Chess Company to build a chess set, and FIDE takes no legal action against the play of variant games. Cross-training exercises done with homemade equipment that is not tournament legal can make players stronger. Tetris, on the other hand, relies on one supplier. Cross-training was the explicit goal of some fan games, but the recent ruling that fan games infringe copyright endangers this. Even StarCraft, another proprietary game seen as a sport in Korea, allows for creation of mods as training tools. What Tetris product has such modding tools? That's one reason why I don't see Tetris becoming a sport equal to even StarCraft within the next seven decades.

I used to play StarCraft.

I used to play Tetris.

[caffeine]

Nobody needs permission from The Tennis Company to manufacture equipment for recreational tennis. Nobody needs permission from The Chess Company to build a chess set, and FIDE takes no legal action against the play of variant games. Cross-training exercises done with homemade equipment that is not tournament legal can make players stronger. Tetris, on the other hand, relies on one supplier.

Another example that comes to mind is the World Cube Association . It organizes "twisty puzzle" competitions, but it doesn't have a rule saying the competitor must use a Rubik's brand cube.