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<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold">MMC Weekly #116 & 117 (May 21, 28)</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold">┈┈┈┈Community News:┈┈┈┈</div>

*'''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. 

[[File:TWC worlds.png|frameless|center|450px]]

*'''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.'''

[[File:TETR.IO_Cup_15_winnerscene.jpg|frameless|center|400px]]

<span style="font-size:1.25em">'''Other News'''</span>

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

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

[[File:Tetra Game Teaser yt.png|frameless|300px]]

''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

[[File:Tgm2announcementtwitter.png|frameless|300px]]

''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

[[File:TETRIS CHICKENNUGGET.png|frameless|300px]]

''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''

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold">┈┈┈┈Records and Accomplishments:┈┈┈┈</div>


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

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

[[File:Jstris ultra may28.png|frameless|700px]]

*'''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 

[[File:Fucidin ppt wr.png|frameless|300px]]

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

https://tetr.io/#R:Kai3kACjW [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/674421736162197515/1112552365439074364/Kai3kACjW_vincehd_10pc_sprint.ttr Replay File Download]

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold">┈┈┈┈Tourney News:┈┈┈┈</div>
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File:TWC_poster.png|The '''TETR.IO World Championships''' is a 64 player tournament taking place across 2023. <br> https://worlds.tetr.io/ <br> [https://discord.gg/fBp8ExSDfQ Join the Discord]
File:TWC_Roadmap.png|Your total points will be added from your top 3 placements at Major tourneys and your top 5 placements at Minor tourneys. All qualified participants will receive an exclusive TETR.IO badge! Support the prizepool at the [https://matcherino.com/t/twc2023 Matcherino!]
File:TWC_schedule.png|The tournament is divided into 3 stages: <br> '''Qualification Stage''' - May 27 to October 21 <br> '''Main Event''' - November 3 to November 11 <br> '''Finals''' - November 17 and November 18
File:TWC_Points.jpg|A chart of how many points will be awarded for each eligible placement.
File:HN_TWC_POSTER.jpg|Hummingbird Nest's '''Stratosphere''' and '''Radiant''' are eligible for TWC points! These are U-rank floor tournaments held weekly. <br>[https://discord.gg/gHsPdCPjga Join The Discord]
File:MTS3_Poster.jpg|📍'''MODERN TETRIS SHOWDOWN 3 - PHILADELPHIA'''<br>Join us in the greatest city in the world for the biggest in-person event of the East Coast!<br>[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehGb7DoDggVOKW6WVuzpgZcn8Djpz5mizMBL62MPm3iTvkJw/viewform Sign up now!] <br>Join the [https://discord.gg/dggyNXhYG3 MTS Discord] for updates, carpooling, and more!
File:Summertize2.jpg|A new Summertime Tetris tournament is on the block - '''Summertize Splash'''. ☀️🏄‍♂️ <br> This '''Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 tournament''' features a prize pool starting at '''$1000''' thanks to our sponsor '''Metafy''', in addition to crowdfunding via [https://matcherino.com/t/summertize_2023 Matcherino] <br> Stack against the best in the world, including players such '''Wumbo''' and '''Amemiya'''! <br> [https://twitter.com/Wumbotize/status/1657501393182240773 Twitter & More Info (Wumbo Discord)]
File:Tetris_Survivor_Poster.jpg| (ongoing) Hello everyone!!!!! Welcome to '''Tetris Survivor'''! This is a gameshow featuring some of your favorite Tetris community leaders, content creators, players, commentators, and more, roughly based on the Survivor series. Watch them work together in Tetris related challenges before inevitably backstabbing each other in this exciting social game. Spectate here: https://discord.gg/xkuzFXyD2t
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*'''Square One 2023''' {{logoTEC}}

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

*'''TETR.IO CUP 15''' {{logoTetrio}}

:🥇 Cz
:🥈 Diao
:🥉 Blaarg
:4th: Vince

*'''Hummingbird Nest Winners''' {{logoTetrio}}
:Stratosphere 35 winner - Ducklife4player
:Radiant 39 winner - ___Nek0
:Stratosphere 36 - Caboozled_pie
:Radiant 40 winner - Ivan

*'''TETR.IO Amateur Weekly Winners''' {{logoTetrio}}
: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'' {{logoJstris}} [https://battlefy.com/team-tsd/jstris-cup-xvi/6456819caae0f5410330569e/info?infoTab=details Register]
:June 10: ''Summertize Splash'' {{LogoPPT2SW}} [https://twitter.com/Wumbotize/status/1657501393182240773 Twitter & More Info (Wumbo Discord)]

:'''TETR.IO Amateur Weeklies''' [https://discord.gg/aHtFMvsABn TAWS Discord]
:June 4: ''TAWS 90'' {{logoTetrio}}
:June 3: ''TAWS Asia 43'' {{logoTetrio}}
:June 2: ''TAWS U 54'' {{logoTetrio}}

:'''Hummingbird Nest''' [https://discord.gg/gHsPdCPjga Hummingbird Nest Discord]
:June 2: ''Radiant 41'' {{logoTetrio}}
:June 3: ''Fusion 15'' (Nuketris)
:June 4: ''Stratosphere 38'' {{logoTetrio}}


:July 8: ''Modern Tetris Showdown 3'' {{logoTetrio}} {{logoTEC}} {{LogoPPT2SW}} [https://discord.gg/dggyNXhYG3 MTS Discord]
:Aug 11-13: ''WPL Championship 2023'' (NES, PPT2, TE:C, TETR.IO, and more! [[File:LogoWPL.png|frameless|18px]]) [https://discord.gg/7mXJ4YW World Puzzle League Discord] [https://thewpl.net WPL Website (merch, info, and schedule)]


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