TETR.IO/Badges

A summary of certain badges and their awarded player count.

Badges are simple graphics placed on a registered user's userpage or player card signifying that user's achievements. Most badges are timestamped with the format MM/DD/YY, HH/MM/SS AM or PM, readable after hovering over the badge. When a moderator or administrator adds a badge manually, the badgeholder may gain a badge without a timestamp. Badges are ordered chronologically from left to right and top to bottom, and in some cases only found in the standalone TETRA CHANNEL site. For example, if one were to get the Secret Grade badge before the end of the INFDEV phase, then got a 20TSD badge, the badges would be ordered with Secret Grade first, then INFDEV, then 20TSD. The order arrangement ignores the lack of a timestamp.

Obtainable badges

Ordered chronologically based off the time they were added to the game, these are badges new accounts can still gain without moderator or administrator intervention.

Number 1

The badge awarded to any player who completes this challenge

This badge is automatically awarded to any player confirmed to have beat the current world record in 40 Lines, Blitz, or Quick Play through a strict replay validation protocol involving every input being played back server-side with the same seed to ensure the run was legitimate.

• The current 40 Lines world record is 0:13.430, being ran by WESTL.
• The current Blitz world record is 2,417,435 points, being scored by ANTI-LIME.
• Quick Play records reset weekly, and only the player with the highest-altitude game at the end of the week receives the badge. Players are eligible to receive a badge from both normal and Expert brackets.

The leaderboards were blank at the start of INFDEV and at the start of Alpha, allowing a few players to get the Number 1 badge with relatively lower scores.

This was the second badge players could obtain without moderator or administrator intervention, and was the only one until the Secret Grade badge was added in the 0.4.2 update.

As of December 5, 2020, 19 players possessed this badge. 17 more players had gained this badge in-between then and February 13, 2023, some having being earned via the 5,000,000 Blast competition. The first player to obtain this badge was VinceHD_, however the timestamp is relatively recent due to him having remade his account on September 12, 2020.

KO'd Founder

The badge awarded to any player who completes this challenge

This badge was likely added somewhere during the release of 4.0.0 on July 22, 2020 to June 25, 2020, as the earliest known instance of this badge, being on user swomp's profile was obtained then. To achieve this badge one must KO osk, the founder of TETR.IO, in any online mode. There are also several conditions to note of:

1. The only qualifying user to KO is osk. One may not attain this badge by KO'ing Co-Founder Kagari.
2. An Indirect KO, Direct KO, or Spike KO all count as long as the player is shown credit for the kill.
3. If one matches against osk in Tetra League, only one round is needed to obtain the badge, not the entire set.
4. osk cannot obtain the badge by topping themself out, as when a user tops out without being sent garbage, the killer is internally defined as null, thus the system would attempt to award user null with the badge rather than osk.

osk usually goes on the dev servers or private testing with personal friends to test TETR.IO features when they aren't developing TETR.IO. osk also used to be found in Quick Play (now Royale) after planned server maintenance for a few rounds. osk could sometimes be found when popular Twitch channels streamed TETR.IO, and would join in if the streamer ran a public custom room.^{[citation needed]} The TETRA CHANNEL's Tetra News section and TETRA CHANNEL API's All Latest News call can signal activity when the badge is awarded to a player. Most requests for 1v1's via Discord, Twitter, E-mail, GitHub reports, or messages through in-game chat are ignored.

When osk is found in a three- or more player Battle Royale, one may adjust between the four targeting modes, or click on osk's board to set them as the manual target if the Allow Manual Targeting room setting is enabled.

As of December 5, 2020, 245 players have KO'd osk since the creation of the badge. On March 7, 2022, the amount of players with the badge increased to 551. On February 13, 2023, a total of 674 players had the badge. The first known occurrence of this badge is on user swomp's profile. Several exceptions have been made to the aforementioned process of obtaining the badge. During the closed testing period of Tetra League where access was limited to supporters and users with the INFDEV badge, some players preserved images of them KO'ing osk before the creation of the badge, leading to two cases of a moderator awarding the badge manually and without a timestamp on them.

Super Lobby

The badge given to those who emerge victorious in a super lobby.

This badge originated in Tetris 99. After the game's 2.0.0 update added Invictus mode in September 2019, Games Done Quick had a Tetris 99 portion in their GDQx 2019 event, where Hard Drop founder Blink would play a few rounds of Invictus mode, encouraging viewers on Twitch to snipe him live with their own copy of Tetris 99. Afterwards, on October 26, 2019, player and streamer Tafokints wanted to gather top players into an Invictus room, where it would be easier for players to queue into the same room. This eventually led to Hard Drop announcing Tetris 99 Super Lobbies as a monthly event. Later on, Hard Drop would organize a TETR.IO Super Lobby, first during the Hard Drop Open XXI, then later as its own standalone monthly event with a unique badge for the winners.

The Hard Drop Super Lobby brought in need for optimizations regarding large TETR.IO rooms as many players were lagging. Shortly after the first Hard Drop Super Lobby which was canceled midway for technical difficulties, Super Lobby Mode was revealed on the 5.2.2 patch, introducing extra animations and performance enhancements whenever any room had more than 100 players playing in it. This badge was added on March 16, 2021, alongside the 6.0.3 update. This makes it the second badge to have been directly named in the patch notes, the first of which being the Number 1 badge.

To obtain this badge, one needs to win a match with over 100 players (excluding spectators). Rooms qualified for Super Lobby Mode have unique animations surrounding it, including the rotation of each board in a large 3D dome-like environment and the amount of players playing shown in a large cut-in alongside special fanfare not normally played. A special system message shown to all current and future members of the room is published to the room chat when the room reaches enough players to be a Super Lobby.

The first player to officially emerge victorious in a TETR.IO Super Lobby was Caboozled_Pie, an hour and thirty-five minutes after the patch notes announced the badge. As of March 7, 2022, 1,839 players have won one or more TETR.IO Super Lobbies. As of February 13, 2023, it was the third-most obtained badge with 2,572 owners, despite its relatively late release date.

KO'd by Founder

The badge awarded to any player who is KO'd by osk.

This badge was added on May 23, 2022, and is eponymously named after the KO'd founder badge and has similar award conditions. To attain the badge one must be KO'd by osk, the founder of TETR.IO, in any online mode. There are also several conditions to note of:

1. The only qualifying user to KO is osk. One may not attain this badge by KO'ing Co-Founder Kagari.
2. An Indirect KO, Direct KO, or Spike KO all count as long as the player is shown credit for the kill.
3. If one matches against osk in Tetra League, only one round is needed to obtain the badge, not the entire set.
4. osk cannot obtain the badge by topping themself out, as when a user tops out without being sent garbage, the killer is internally defined as null, thus the system would attempt to award user null with the badge rather than osk.

In a multiplayer room, one can search for osk's board and top out if incoming garbage is received near the area, potentially awarding the badge via an Indirect KO.

osk has KO'd 158 unique players as of February 13, 2023.

Discontinued badges

With the release of Beta on July 26, 2024, three badges previously attainable in 40 Lines (as well as Custom for Secret Grade) became unobtainable. They were replaced by achievements with the same requirements. Some achievements show more information, such as clear time or relative ranking compared to all players with the achievement.

Secret Grade

The badge awarded to any player who completes this challenge.

An example of a completed Secret Grade.

The unique confirmation pop-up for Secret Grade that appears on the bottom-right of the screen whenever its requirements are fulfilled.

This was the first badge players could obtain without manual addition from moderators or administrators, being added on February 9, 2020 alongside the 0.2.2 update. To have obtained it, one must have built a Secret Grade pattern in any online or solo mode that does not have undos, e.g. Zen or a custom room's Practice mode. Solo Custom games configured to have no gravity, no line limit, or over 20 board height are still accepted for the badge, and are a common way to complete the achievement. TETR.IO checks for the following criteria to decide the validity of a Secret Grade pattern:

1. The pattern is similar to a > shape rather than a < shape
2. Rows 1–19 are fully filled except for the defining diagonal holes in the pattern itself.
3. The leftmost block on row 20 is filled

If the aforementioned requirements are satisfied, topping out, running the clock out in timed objective modes, or finishing the lines cleared requirement will end the game and show the confirmation pop-up, thus, Secret Grade runs done in 40 LINES or BLITZ can be uploaded as public replays.

As of December 5, 2020, 2,075 players held this badge. As of March 7, 2022, along with the publication of 5,000,000 BLAST, up to 9,173 players had the badge. On February 13, 2023, there were 13,870 issues of the badge. The first player to gain this badge is Omio9999. Upon the release of Beta, live information of the total achievement count can be found in-game or on TETRA CHANNEL.

10PC

The badge awarded to any player who completes this challenge.

Previously the third badge added to the game obtainable without intervention, this badge was added on June 2, 2020 alongside the 3.1.0 update. To have received it, one must have cleared ten All Clears in one 40 Lines run. This was the second-rarest badge one could obtain without moderator or administrator intervention, followed by the Number 1 badge. Unlike Jstris's PC mode, players can place above the fourth row, allowing for DPC loops to be used when accompanied with two-line PCs. Due to the popularity of this badge, former world record holder for TETR.IO's Blitz and Jstris's PC mode JimothyJimothy made a specialized site with a specific section titled 10 PC Guide. The only conditions the game checks for when validating a run are:

1. The run was played in 40 Lines.
2. The replay was verified and submitted to online servers.
3. The run ended with greater than or equal to 10 All Clears.

Additionally, the run doesn't need to finish on an All Clear, meaning 2-line PCs could form leeway for other methods of finishing.

On December 5, 2020, 146 players had the badge. On March 7, 2022, 743 players had the badge. On February 13, 2023, 1,359 players had the badge. The first player to get this badge is Caboozled_Pie.

20TSD

The badge awarded to any player who completes this challenge.

20TSD is currently the last Solo badge to be added, being a response to persistent calls for a 20TSD mode similar to the one found in Jstris.^{[citation needed]} This badge was added on September 28, 2020 along with the 5.0.0 update. Soon afterwards, someone guessed the URL used for the badge graphic due to the popularity of the request at the time.^{[citation needed]} The objectives for this badge to be awarded were:

1. The run was played in 40 Lines.
2. The replay was verified and submitted to online servers.
3. The replay ended with 20 T-Spin Doubles and no other types of line clears except for Mini T-Spin Doubles.

Many players obtained this badge with setups such as Mechanical TSD v3 or Reliable TSD into Mechanical TSD v2, allowing memorized repeated sequences. Other popular methods include LST stacking or freestyling without a designated pattern.

On December 5, 2020, 449 players had attained the badge. On March 7, 2022, 4,062 players had attained the badge. On February 13 2023, 7,595 players had attained the badge, making it the second-most obtained badge at that time. The first player to obtain this badge is RZA.

"Exclusive Badges"

As with all the "obtainable badges", these "exclusive badges" follow most of the same rules as far as obtainable badges follow in terms of how they are layed out in a userpage or player card. from left to right, and in some cases, top to bottom. For the most part, these are standard badges that are notable for the fact that an administrator or moderator must add the badge manually from the admin panel.

Miscellaneous

A lot of these badges are simply given out based on the badgeholder's account age, though there are a few exceptions.

Founder

The badge exclusively given to osk

An image of osk in the quick play player list. They have a solid color tag similarly colored and designed as the Founder badge in place of a regular Verified checkmark.

In addition to the special graphics shown on the player list, osk also has an "admin green" playername, as well as the optional ability to make special "admin announcements" with that same shade of green.

This badge has existed since the beginning of TETR.IO, and is presumably the very first badge to exist. It signifies a simple fact: the badgeholder created the game you are looking at.

As of September 17, 2021, only 2 players have founded TETR.IO. The first of which is osk, and you can view the badge on their userpage[1]. Interestingly enough, the INDEV and INFDEV badges are missing from osk's userpage+player card. The second badge holder is user Kagari; while the badge has the same Founder design, if hovered over, the tooltip will reveal the badge's text as "Co-Founded TETR.IO". You may view this special Co-Founder badge on her userpage[2].

INDEV

The badge given to INDEV testers.

The INDEV development phase likely began on the 19th of February, 2019 and ran til the start of the INFDEV phase on January 31st, 2020. During it, close friends would test TETR.IO privately while osk geared up for a more public release. It's highly likely this badge also existed before anyone had the Number 1 badge, however these badges lack a timestamp to confirm this assumption with.

As of February 13, 2023, there are 7 INDEV badgeholders. Even though this badge was added to every INDEV tester at the same time, user gebruikersnaam[3] was likely the technical first due to his User ID.

INFDEV

The badge given to INFDEV testers.

Similar to the INDEV badge, this badge was given out to every account registered from the start of INFDEV at January 31st, 2020 to the end of INFDEV, and the enabling of fully public account creation, at March 22nd, 2020.

This is also the very first badge that gave the badgeholders special access to something non-INFDEV players couldn't access without paying for the supporter "role" on osk's patreon. Specifically, before the Tetra League was public for all to access, it was limited to players with the INFDEV badge and supporters.. It would stay this way for two weeks, until the League was made available to the general public

The INFDEV "logo" as seen on osk's blog post announcing the INFDEV development phase

Another interesting fact stems from the blog post that started off this development phase. In it, there was already an INFDEV "logo" long before the badge was released, and even before players knew they were getting a badge in the first place. This logo would eventually be polished and end up the finished badge graphic. Going off some speculation, assuming we are to get an Alpha badge, we may already know the design of this badge from the Alpha blog post's "logo". Going even further off track, one can even assume the "phase colors" of the Beta and Release phases (being green and red accordingly), from this chart osk posted on the TETR.IO Discord server long before the alpha logo was announced[4].

As of February 13, 2023, there are 2126 former INFDEV testers with the badge, a curious extra 2 since the first badge values were revealed. The technical first was, once again, user gebruikersnaam[5]. If you were looking for another account not created during INDEV, then you may be interested in user flash[6], as they were the technical first non INDEV tester to have the badge.

P.O.O.P.

The badge given to user "animecake" exclusively.

The P.O.O.P. badge is an example of an inside joke left at its logical end. A simple search for "poop badge" on the TETR.IO Discord shows first public reference coming from moderator alcazar#0078 demanding a "POOP BADGE" for AmijoKaegger#8277 with a ping towards osk#9999 on the 14th of June, 2020. One day later, AmijoKaegger#8277, also known as animecake, would make the announcement that the poop badge had indeed arrived, then would follow up a day later with picture evidence of the badge in question, confirming its existence on the 16th of June, 2020 as the badge lacks a timestamp. The badge is actually an acronym, meaning:

• Pioneer
• Of
• Our
• Place

It was given to animecake for being the "first ever player on TETR.IO", as explained with hover text.

Only one person has obtained this badge, and its probably defined as an "Other badge" on the badge sheet. It is exclusive to user animecake[7].

Huge Supporter

The badge given to huge supporters.

This badge began its existence sometime before the 4th of December, 2020, however was confirmed to have existed after user Zudo#0800 made a public request for ingame user Archina's information with Hiyajo Maho#2356's ">tetr" command on the TETR.IO Discord server. Zudo was a supporter at the time, so a rolling theory explains that osk may have tipped off supporters in the exclusive #supporter-lounge leading up to the very moment that command was utilized. None-the-less, it was given to user Archina[8] for an undefined amount of donations. Archina was a supporter at the time, and is included in the special thanks of TETR.IO.

Arisa Ichigaya would have been the second known huge supporter, as they had the badge alongside Archina. This badge, unlike Archina's, came with a local news announcement, proving it came into existence on the 30th of December, 2020. The badge itself still lacked a timestamp, however. Unfortunately, Arisa Ichigaya would go on to recreate their account on the 18th of July, destroying the badge in the process. It is theorized image or video footage proof of the badge on this user exists, however, I could not find any screenshots in my limited search.

Starting December 25th, 2020, only one player had this badge. Most likely categorized as an "Other badge" on the badge list, the badge itself can be viewed on Archina's userpage[9]. Parallel to his userpage, beginning precisely on December 20th, 2021, top members on TETR.IO's special thanks section in the config, which is a list sorted by total amount spent on TETR.IO Supporter, also recieved it. As of writing, with this knowledge in hand, only three new badges exist in this form. You may view them on the userpages of either BARHO, RINSE, or ZUDO. These badges are added realtime, as soon as a member passes an as-of-yet unknown cutoff for total support, which is measured in TETR.IO's CONFIG. The latter of these members, user ZUDO, had confirmed that this cutoff at least surpasses €1,000(one thousand Euro).

Early Supporter

The badge given to early supporters.

The Early Supporter badge was automatically awarded to every registered user who had subscribed to osk's Patreon page, regardless of amount donated, before the 6.0.0 update on the 31st of January. This badge exists due to the platform switch osk underwent, swapping Patreon out for an ingame system backed by the oskVault, which, in turn, is powered by Xsolla as of writing. Ingame rewards also recieved a price cut, so this badge adds a little bit more value to the prices supporters were paying before this switch. Specifically, the "Deca tier" costed 10 Euros a month, but now, the ingame rewards only cost 5 Pounds a month. (or 4 Pounds a month if you end up buying in bulk, or gifting to another user)

The badge itself is modeled to resemble the $\alpha$ Greek symbol, as Patreon was used and subsequently ditched during TETR.IO's Alpha period.

As of February 13th, 2023, 354 users hold this badge. It is likely user gebruikersnaam was the technical first, and the badge can be viewed on his userpage[10].

Bug Bounty

The "bounty" itself, awarded to players who responsibly report vital issues.

This badge is TETR.IO's cost effective way of rewarding players who do two very important things in order:

1. Find a harmful bug in TETR.IO which may be abused by possible bad actors. Such exploits may involve a form of "arbitrary code execution", which would, for example, allow a bad actor to run code on a target's machine to gain unauthorized access to their TETR.IO account. Another example would be sending maliciously created data to the TETR.IO servers, rendering all connected clients softlocked/crashed or the TETR.IO server itself temporarily offline.
2. Responsibly report this exploit directly to osk through the appropriate communication channels, without abusing the reported issue for personal gain. As listed on https://tetr.io/about/support/, these lines of communication are 100% private, as to not publicise potential exploits others may abuse.

Historically, of the few users to have obtained this badge, several additional perks have followed the badge decoration. While these may not be absolutely assured, the perks are as follows:

1. A variable duration of ingame TETR.IO Supporter, free of charge, gifted by osk himself.

• For a real life example, according to Discord user "Тhе buttег mаn bоbi#4190", the pay for his found exploits totaled up to 3 years of supporter! For context, TETR.IO Supporter is valued at 4 Euros per month so long as it's being gifted. This means BOBI got €144 worth of Supporter.

2. The exclusive "Contributor" role on the TETR.IO Discord server.

Evidently, these special gamebreaking bugs do not show up often in TETR.IO. The bounty badge itself was only added on the 27th of June, 2021, however the badge was retroactively given to user SZY for reporting an exploit during the INFDEV, far before this badge existed. At least ten users hold this bounty, of which eight are known. In sequence, these users are BOBS, SZY, MANABENDER, KAMINARI14, ZUDO, AZURAHORIZONS, OPYUWUWU, and ALHANALEM.

Competition Badges

This section will go into detail regarding TETR.IO's many officially partnered third party tournaments, which contain badges for the top three placements as well as an additional badge for the winner of certain Twitch chat participation campaigns when applicable. As of writing, TETR.IO has partnered with many distinct tournament organizers with many more separate badges. Many of these tournaments ran, and continue to run, several tournaments, meaning several people hold badges for placing first in an "Underdogs Cup" tournament, for instance.

Over 525 "Event badges" have been awarded, as of February 13th, 2023.

Garbo Gamble Cup

From left to right, the badges awarded for placing #2nd, #1st, #3rd, and the badge for the winning Gambler of the Garbo Gamble Cup.

The "Garbo Gamble Cup" was the very first partnered TETR.IO tourney, and with it, brought four exclusive badges for the top three players to emerge from the tourney, as well as an extra badge for the Twitch user to win the "Gambling Competition". It was announced on the 2nd of June, 2020 and took place on the 7th later that month. The tourney featured 132 players and took place over nearly five hours. The replay of the Tournement can be viewed on garbocan_'s Twitch channel, split up into two parts[11][12]. The first part is spent largely fixing technical issues with the Twitch bot GGC staff utilized. The first match can be viewed nearly twenty-two minutes in[13].

The actual games would take place in 2 player custom rooms, with default settings. The selected format was a simple "First to 7 points wins the set.", and every player is allowed to lose up to two sets before being eliminated entirely. This is a well known format known as double elimination and is the norm for most, if not all, TETR.IO tourneys.

Over the course of the tournament, a free betting game was played by players in Twitch chat. Every user in Twitch chat would start with 1000 "chips" free of charge, then, when a two player 1v1 match would begin, players would "bet" their chips on who would win for either a payout or a loss depending on who actually ends up winning. Their bet chips are multiplied by a variable factor decided by how many chips are bet on the opposing player- the "odds" of a player winning- if the bet happens to be correct, and is then added directly to that user's chip balance. If the bet is incorrect and the other player ends up with a victory, the player who bet simply loses their bet chips. In the event that a player ends up "bankrupt", that is, they bet every chip and end up with a flat value of zero chips, a "Welfare Check" worth 100 chips is payed out to the bankrupt user, allowing them to continue making bets from the brink of financial crisis.

There was only one Garbo Gamble Cup hosted, and the stream lacks any indication towards a second one. As such, only four badges for this tourney exist, and of those four, one has been destroyed. The top three, and the gambling champion, would receive badges as well as prize money, as shown below:

An image of the announcement garbo made in the fourwi.de Discord server above an archived photo of caboozledpie's player card at the time.

1. ajanba: 619.93$ in cash, as well as the First Place badge for that tourney. Later on, ajanba would delete his account, thus destroying the GGC #1 badge. However, the badge graphic is still hosted on TETR.IO[14].
2. rideris: 247.90$ in cash, as well as the Second Place badge for that tourney. It can be viewed on their userpage[15].
3. qmk: 123.98$ in cash, as well as the Third Place badge for that tourney. The badge can be viewed on their userpage[16].

• realkokon: 175$ in cash(down from the technical 247.90$ he should have won. realkokon declined the full sum and let garbo keep 72.90$) and the Gambling Champion badge. You can view the badge on his userpage[17]

Notably, realkokon had biological ties to another TETR.IO player who had actually competed in the Garbo Gamble Cup, but had been eliminated long before the tourney ended. Specifically, realkokon is user "Caboozled_Pie"'s father, and realkokon passed down the badge to his son, named caboozledpie ingame at the time, for a short period of time after the tourney had ended. Seemingly days later, realkokon made an ingame account named "kokon" and the badge was transferred over, due to the small issue with a competitor having a badge he didn't exactly deserve.

WPL Tetr.io Open

From left to right, the badges awarded for placing #2nd, #1st, #3rd, in the World Puzzle League.

Despite actually predating the Garbo Gamble Cup, being established on the 12th of April, 2020, the WPL Tetr.io Open wouldn't receive special badges for the top three placements until their 5th TETR.IO tourney announced on the 8th of June, 2020, and hosted on the 13th of that same month. A recap of the final set played on that tourney is available from the official World Puzzle League YouTube channel[18].

All matches were played in custom 1v1 rooms with most of the stock settings, aside from "Gravity Margin Time" beginning far later, specifically changing that value to 7200 from 3600, and having it affect gravity much more, specifically changing that value to 0.0035 instead of 0.0025. This was "done to mirror Tetra League settings.". The tournament was largely played with the "First To 7" goal, however for the Winners Semifinals, Losers Quarterfinals, and any match played these two it would be a "First To 11" match. This tourney would also be played in a "Double Elimination" format, and features 174 contestants in total. Of those 174, here are the top three:

1. ajanba: First Place. Once again, ajanba would go on to delete his account after obtaining this badge, thus destroying the badge in the process. However, since the WPL is a reoccurring tournament, there are plenty of more people with the WPL #1 badge.
2. qmk: Second Place[19].
3. KABUTOMUSIAAAAA/gamaover, otherwise known as Kazu: Third Place[20].

It is interesting to note that the two badges linked to above do in fact contain timestamps. This is notable due to the fact that many other "tournament badges" lack timestamps. Even First Place badges from this same organization lack them!

On the 3rd of June, 2020, the 6th WPL TETR.IO tourney would be played. A recap of the grand finals can be viewed from the official WPL YouTube channel[21]. It too, would have the same settings as its predecessor played last month. 154 players would compete; the top three are listed below:

1. FireStorm: First Place[22].
2. qmk: Second Place[23]. As a repeat second place win, qmk would keep their 2nd place badge from the last tourney, as proven by the timestamp included.
3. puyodialgao7, otherwise known as Diao: Third Place. This account was also deleted for whatever reason some time after this match was played.

Later that month, on the 18th, the 7th WPL Open would be played. It features the same ruleset as the 5th and 6th WPL's played just weeks before. Like the others, you can view a recap of this tourney's grand finals on the WPL YouTube channel[24]. Only 126 players would show up this time, and from those 126, there would be three victors:

1. FireStorm: First Place[25]. A repeat, so there's no new badge here
2. cz0402: Second Place[26].
3. qmk: Third Place[27]. qmk placed lower than 2nd this time around, so new badge here either

Later, on the 15th of August, 2020, the 8th WPL for TETR.IO would take place. At a glance, this tournament copies the ruleset of the previously defined tourneys, however it includes a direction to turn off the "Scale Garbage Travel Speed" option. At the time, osk was running a test with differing garbage speeds. Later on, osk would remove the feature. Back on track, you can view this tourney's grand finals on the WPL YouTube[28]. This tourney would have 147 contestants fighting for glory, and quite possibly, money. Of those 147, these three would win:

1. ningcha, once again credited as Diao: First Place. This is the second account credited as being "Diao" in the results annoucements that has been deleted.
2. cz0402: Second Place[29]. This would be the second time cz obtained second place, and as such it is a duplicate badge that wasn't awarded.
3. FireStorm: Third Place[30]. FireStorm already had the first place badge, so they didn't replace it with a badge of a lower tier here.

A little later, on the 19th of September, 2020, the 9th WPL would be hosted. You know the deal now, same settings as last time, and as usual there's a video recap of the grand finals from the WPL YouTube channel[31]. Out of 150 players in this tourney, here are the three most important ones:

1. majimedewanai, once again credited as Diao: First place. Yet again, Diao would go on to delete this account, like many others, trashing the special badge with it.
2. qmk: Second Place[32]. A repeat of the first time qmk got 2nd place many months ago. Their badge is still timestamped from that tourney
3. ZeroT: Third Place[33].

Finally, on the 23rd of October, 2020, the 10th, for now at least, the last WPL was hosted. It features one neat addition to the rulebook, imposing a "First To 11 and Win By 2" on the Winners Semifinals and Losers Quarterfinals and on every other match played after. Another recap of the grand finals was uploaded to the WPL YouTube channel[34]. Out of 164 total players, here are your top three:

1. cz0402: First Place[35]. This "upgrades" his Second Place badge into a First Place one.
2. FireStorm: Second Place[36]. As he already had the First Place badge, no new badge was given out here either.
3. PekoDialga0, otherwise known as Diao: Third Place. As said before, account PekoDialga0 doesn't quite exist anymore, as the account was deleted.

Hard Drop Open XII

From left to right, the badges awarded for placing #2nd, #1st, #3rd, in the Hard Drop Open XII.

This tourney was the twelfth in the long running "Hard Drop Open" series of tournements which started in July 19th, 2009 as a tournement hosted on the Blockbox fangame. On June the Ninth, 2020, the "Hard Drop Open XII" event would be announced via Twitter. It would be another double elimination tourney hosted on the 20th later that month, featuring entirely default settings and a First To 7 format during the earlier rounds, and a First To 10 format during, and after, the Round 5 upper bracket and Round 7 lower bracket. If you're interested in viewing a recap of the tourney hosted live on Twitch, you can obtain such a thing from Hard Drop's official Twitch channel[37]. A total of 256 players would attend this event. Of them, here are the top three who earned special badges for accomplishing such a feat:

1. Calcu1ation: First Place[38].
2. FireStorm: Second Place[39].
3. qmk: Third Place[40].

This tournement would also feature a "Special Event", which ended up being a "Super Lobby", such as the ones previously hosted by the same organization on Tetris 99. It was entirely open to the public watching the stream, as the room itself was actually "private" ingame with the direct link and room ID being shared through Twitch chat. 168 players would join the room, but due to server constraints and no optimised system in place for such huge rooms, 42 people would disconnect before the game even started leaving 126 players to battle it out. Of them, jason0107 would win the room alongside a cash prize of 100$. There was a badge graphic created for winning this room and it was touted as a possible reward for winning on the Hard Drop Discord server, but it was never added to jason0107's TETR.IO profile due to an oversight from either Blink, the founder of Hard Drop, or osk, the guy in charge of adding the badge in the first place. A replay of this special lobby can be found on the same VOD as the tourney itself, six hours and twenty-five minutes in[41].

Infinite Finesse

The first Infinite Finesse tournament to give out badges was Infinite Finesse IV (also known as Infinite Finesse: Passthrough, or just IFT (tournament)) on October 17, 2021, the fourth tournament in a running series of tournaments by Nysdey and Keshy. The Infinite Finesse tournaments mainly feature various gimmicks or formats other than the standard 1v1, such as teams formats or joining a team to give one side in Grand Finals an advantage by a score handicap.

Super Streamer Lobby

The Super Streamer Lobby badge was obtained by winning once in the lobby. Same event that took place on Saturday, December 2, 2023 on wyliecanttwitch's Twitch channel being this host it was an event where he what was sought was to bring together the community of Tetrio creators. The Wumbo player was the first to obtain this badge.

Santa Lobby

The Santa Lobby badge was obtained by winning a game once. This event took place on Saturday, December 23, 2023 on the HardDrop Twitch channel, hosting blink, a Christmas event to share the magic of Christmas. The Gyozan player was the first to obtain this badge.