gosokkyu

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in reply to @gosokkyu's post:

It could, but I'd want to be comprehensive, and I don't know that there's a neat way to exclude games to begin with—like, I could strictly track games with direct interactive versus play but a ton of people only care about NES Tetris and other games with more indirect competition; I could limit coverage to official modern games but that'd exclude the scenes and tournaments that exist on any one of the several well-populated unofficial clients, etc.

On top of that, I have my doubts about how much crossover actually exists between even hardcore Tetris players and other nominally similar vs. puzzle games, and I wonder if it might ultimately be beneficial to ignore it entirely.

Makes sense to me.

I’d love to see this kind of site as your posts and Puzzle Wednesday account for the bulk of my exposure to games and competitions outside of what I’m aware of, but also absolutely understand how huge a task it would be!

there are really only two modern versions with any registrable competitive attention still: tetrio and tetris effect. T99 never had competitive legs and PPT has fizzled out at this point because of bad netcode, other than some notable exceptions like kemonomichi. there are really only two modern LANs I can think of that get attention, world puzzle league (WPL) and xeno tetris, the latter of which is irregular right now. modern mino community (MMC) are pretty much the only people covering the scene on their discord, which would be a useful starting point since they do keep on top of the smattering of tetrio tournaments. I would say that if you were to draw a line with only covering official guideline games, you'd be excluding the vast majority of mindshare that exists on both the modern and classic sides.

to answer your question though, there's very little crossover to other games among modern players. most of the top players I can think of play modern exclusively, and that's because tetrio is free and can be played on chromebook-level devices. the axiom for the last few years has been that it's a scene dominated entirely by people under 18, which isn't unlike classic's scene at this stage, but modern has never had the benefit of competitive scaffolding that classic gained from the NWC and later the CTWC. it's overall a very immature scene.

I mean, "registrable" is relative: I could go dig up a no-name weekly in Jstris or Cultris right now that'd eclipse the turnout for most "big" non-Tetris game events, and my own preference would be to cover everything or nothing, so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ofc I say that knowing I'd break my own rule if and when TGM4's released, anyway