MMC News 116

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┈┈┈┈Community News:┈┈┈┈


 * Square One 2023 Concludes


 * The biggest Tetris Effect: Connected event of the year has finished up, crowning Akashirobo as champion while Uyeshota and Kazu placed second and third respectively. The stream averaged over 400 viewers, and in total Square One raised over $3,500 and donated $1,227 to Trans Lifeline. Moose has stated that Square One 2024 will be a LAN event in Japan held in December.




 * TETR.IO World Championship Announced


 * As the Square One 2023 stream was coming to an end, Puzzle Kingdom announced the first iteration of the TETR.IO World Championship, which is being held in November. 64 participants will qualify by gaining points based on their placements in officially sanctioned tournaments.


 * TETR.IO Cup XV


 * The 15th run of TETR.IO Cup took place on the 28th of May, and was one of the most stacked Modern Tetris tournaments of all time as well as the first TETR.IO World Championship Qualifier. The top 12 ranked players in Tetra League all signed up, but unfortunately Rideris overslept and did not make it. The Team TSD stream of the event peaked at over 1,000 viewers during the grand finals between Czsmall0402 and Diao and the prizepool reached more than $2,100.



Other News


 * Tetra Developer Studio, the creators of Tetra Online, releases a trailer for their next stacker game.


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWvqRepNhQ



Reported by NOT_A_ROBOT


 * TGM2 will be made available on the Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4 on June 1st.


 * https://twitter.com/4GamerNews/status/1660586409575731201



Reported by Aftermoon


 * For a limited time, TTC is collaborating with McDonalds China to give out a “Chicken McNugget game device” that runs Tetris.


 * https://twitter.com/Tetris_Official/status/1661722269562064896



Reported by andrew4043


 * TTC also DMCA’s Techmino off of the Apple Store. The developer has released instructions that allow Apple users to continue playing.

Reported by QuickAndSmart

┈┈┈┈Records and Accomplishments:┈┈┈┈


 * Fortissim2 furthers the Jstris Ultra world record to 215,876 points!

https://jstris.jezevec10.com/replay/70075787




 * Fucidin returns and takes the Puyo Puyo Tetris Sprint world record, playing on PPT1 and finding three Tetris perfect clears for a final time of 29.55s beating the previous record by 0.21 seconds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FazYrgSOuWE



Vince_HD plays Blitz and accidentally ends up with a 10PC Sprint world record!

https://tetr.io/#R:Kai3kACjW Replay File Download

┈┈┈┈Tourney News:┈┈┈┈


 * Square One 2023


 * 🥇 Akashirobo
 * 🥈 Uyeshota
 * 🥉 Kazu
 * 4th: OSW


 * TETR.IO CUP 15


 * 🥇 Cz
 * 🥈 Diao
 * 🥉 Blaarg
 * 4th: Vince


 * Hummingbird Nest Winners
 * Stratosphere 35 winner - Ducklife4player
 * Radiant 39 winner - ___Nek0
 * Stratosphere 36 - Caboozled_pie
 * Radiant 40 winner - Ivan


 * TETR.IO Amateur Weekly Winners
 * TAWS 88 - cyanium
 * TAWS 89 - breads
 * TAWS America 51 - pedguh
 * TAWS America 52 - cyanium
 * TAWS U 52 - chotoarris
 * TAWS U 53 - e12345e
 * TAWS Asia 42 - roy101061


 * Upcoming:
 * June 3: Jstris Cup XVI Register
 * June 10: Summertize Splash Twitter & More Info (Wumbo Discord)


 * TETR.IO Amateur Weeklies TAWS Discord
 * June 4: TAWS 90
 * June 3: TAWS Asia 43
 * June 2: TAWS U 54


 * Hummingbird Nest Hummingbird Nest Discord
 * June 2: Radiant 41
 * June 3: Fusion 15 (Nuketris)
 * June 4: Stratosphere 38


 * July 8: Modern Tetris Showdown 3   MTS Discord
 * Aug 11-13: WPL Championship 2023 (NES, PPT2, TE:C, TETR.IO, and more! LogoWPL.png) World Puzzle League Discord WPL Website (merch, info, and schedule)

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