Ahoy!

[add1ctus]

Hi there Harddroppers, nice to meet you.
My name is Aleksandar, nickname Addictus, and I recently became a tetris fan.

My story about tetris is the following. Started playing the game a bit more several months ago in school during some boring lessons together with my classmates and competing in highscores. Before that, I had played tetris only several times in my life, never seen the game attractive at all. Some time ago I started playing Tetris on Facebook (think it was called Tetris Battle) and I am around rank 15-20, (just stacking bricks with 1 column empty which I put I pieces in to make a Tetris). I am active on ESL (playing CoD4) and after I noticed tetris being put there, I started playing it on ESL also. After losing and winning several games (I lost to XeaL and RaDeR, think they're both members here?) a guy named Gangstaboi destroyed me in around 20 seconds sending me around 35+ lines. He pointed me that on a website called HardDrop I can learn to play tetris well, so here I am.

So, I'll be trying to improve my game in Tetris at a very slow but sure pace, going step by step with dedicating lots of practice to each step. Anyone could reccomend me how should I start my learning process? Probably a list with things such as downstacking, T spins and any other moves/techniques? I went through the forums and read some stuff, but that's just not my way of learning with getting general tips. I prefer to practice something until I learn it well enough.

Incase you're wondering about my skill level, I scored 156166 on Marathon (TetrisFriends) and 02:32.77 on Sprint (both from one try), Rank 13 on 2P Battle.

[salami_pastrami]

hi!

[Paul676]

heya - Xael is a member here but RaDeR isn't - if you look on my ESL profile page, all the people in team HardDrop are members - but some people who are members aren't yet in the team...but most active ones are

If you look at the main forum section, under Strategy there is a link called Learn - if you go there, you'll find links to all good threads on a particular subject - they (and the harddrop wiki) give you the theory which you can apply in practice.

welcome!

[DarthDuck]

Hey Addictus, despite what Xael may tell you he's one of our top players so don't feel bad about that heh. Welcome.

[XaeL]

dont tell him i was only using softdrop when i vsed him.. i do that against all the rank 1's so they stop saying "HOW DOES HE CHEAT" because i cbb linking to vids.

[joeybeans]

Thanks Gangstaboi for the referral and welcome Addictus!

[add1ctus]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

I also started blogging about Tetris on my blog and I'll be probably writing frequently about my learning process and how much progess have I made. You might want to check it out.

[tjenyao]

Just read your blog post. Well-written!  after some chat with the 'tetris gods'. Hahah. Oh and I forgot to mention, I'm also very very new here. Oh welcome!