"Next Piece" Player Spotlight Nominations

[pokemino]

TOP sprint 43 down to 38.

nice sub 40  

Null sprint 36:98 down to 34:33

nice sub 35^-^b

[Destiny]

nice sub 40  
nice sub 35^-^b

Thank you ^.^

[Confugal]

Rather unquantifiable achievement:

Survived 1000-1100 on Sudden Ti starting with a stack about 15 high, unfortunately topping out at 1135, unable to set a new personal best.

Month's Improvements (nothing significant this time around):

Sudden Ti: whatever that shit above can be called
Special Ti: M4 -> M5

[jezevec10]

Null sprint 36:98 down to 34:33

Wow Destiny pro , nice, gratz

[Destiny]

Wow Destiny pro , nice, gratz

Thank You  

[MarioThePhenom]

http://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4947
VOTE VOTE VOTE!
and submissions for January's POTM begin NOW

[Confugal]

First improvement in who knows how many weeks! Finally feel like I'm able to keep up with the speed of 1100.

Sudden Ti 1153 -> 1182

[Extruderx]

Thanks to HardDrop community for the existence of this thread, as it has inspired me to push myself and become better.

To boost my stacking skills and speed, I have been practicing 40L sprint time.
At first, I've got 1.19 result in Cultris 2 a month ago, but decided to improve it in other Tetris variants that support hold and several previews, namely BB and Nullpo.
That's my Nullpomino League table. Not all of these plays are on my online profile, but still.

I've got 1.06 in Blockbox as well, but that was after more struggling.
Finally, I've tried to go back to Cultris 2 just to see how I'd go, and was very surprised to get a sub-60 time almost immediately!
And that's after I thought previews and hold will boost my sprint time the most. They did, but the deciding factor was the game I liked more. :-)
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My second improvement is: beating my Shi Tai Ye (invisible challenge in Cultris 2) record, set the same time in the past, by 6 lines.
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^It's notable that I've did a perfect clear start in this mode on one of my attempts, but wasn't able to replicate it, so it's not seen in the replay.

Swiss cheese challenge - 18.02 -> 14.86
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The replays of the last two are viewable in the game on the leaderboard.

List of my goals for future:
- Learn finesse
- Learn to use 180% fluently
- Learn to use T-spins offensively (in the games that give bonuses for that)
- Improve all of my online challenges in Cultris 2
- Beat a deadly bot in Cultris 2
- Improve sprints in other clients
- Improve block driller and block survivor
- Finally find someone to play Blockbox with.

[UJS3]

I'm trying to learn finesse, and to become less focused on the ghost piece when I play. So I decided to go for caffeine's evil challenge here. My goal was to get within 120% of my fastest 40L time. I could already play a zero finesse mistake game fairly comfortably, so I thought I'd be OK with some practice. I was so wrong...

When I started out I'd have to literally stop and contemplate whether to rotate my J CW or CCW. I constantly mixed up pieces with their mirror images  

Finally beat 1:20 after about a month of trying on and off, improved on my second best attempt by six seconds  

[Extruderx]

Nullpo sprint - 1.02.61 -> 1.01.75
Cultris sprint - 57.23 -> 56.73

Updated 27.01.2013:
Got my best time, 56.14 with XaeL's 40L game (found here: http://users.tpg.com.au/onged/40L.rar). Many thanks for making it.

[UJS3]

Didn't get to play as much as last month, but I still made some progress.

I've focused mostly on stacking, and not using hold as much. Completed TF marathon with only tetrises.

My 40L time is finally sub60! From 66.80 to 58.68 this month.

[PurpleCoin]

A few days ago I broke my 40 line record by over a minute and ten seconds.

3:29.98 -> 2:18.95 YEAH!

OOOH! And I beat Nullpo marathon for the first time.

Oh yeah! I also cleared 100 line sprint for the first time!

Also, I downloaded Cultris II and completed a mission.

And, I started my first Let's play -- Nullpo!

Wow, and I also came to this forum this month.

There are a lot of things you can do better when you're horrible at Tetris

EDIT: Now I sub 2 minutes'd 3 times and my record is 1:49.88! VOTE MEH!

[virulent]

- lowered 40L record several times
- increased bb rating by almost 200
- in game t/s/z/j/l 180 rotations particularly s/z after they've been rotated accidentally
c2:
- broke personal records in 4 single player modes [maserati, survivor, fortnight, & quickstart]
 - ended maserati challenge w/ a perfect clear [38.78s]
 - improved survivor time by over half a minute [2:50.91]
 - ranked 13th in survivor
 - multiplayer cheese record of 6.1s [december]
 - sent 112 lines in 1 minute on fortnight challenge
 - ranked 16th in quickstart mode
- dropped rank down to top 19/20 in multiplayer [depending on the day/on how players around that rank do that day]
- raised top speed by ~5 bpm
- after not hitting any 12 combos for almost 10k games, now getting them weekly, sometimes several times a week.

[pizzapizza]

made my 1:05:9 to 1:05:36 on tetrisfriends sprint  

[XaeL]

made my 1:05:9 to 1:05:36 on tetrisfriends sprint  

Nullpo sprint - 1.02.61 -> 1.01.75
Cultris sprint - 57.23 -> 56.73

Updated 27.01.2013:
Got my best time, 56.14 with XaeL's 40L game (found here: http://users.tpg.com.au/onged/40L.rar). Many thanks for making it.

I'll probably make an even fasterâ,,¢ one soon