Tetris 99

Tetris 99
Developer(s)	Arika
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Release	February 13, 2019
Gameplay info
Next pieces	6
Playfield size	10 × 20
Hold piece	Yes
Hard drop	Yes
Rotation system	SRS

Tetris 99 is a game for the Nintendo Switch, based around battle royale-style play. It is available as a free download to subscribers of the Nintendo Switch Online service.

Overview

The game currently contains a single mode, Tetris 99. In this mode, the aim is to survive as long as possible among all 99 players.

Gameplay

The mode is garbage-based, with the player being able to send garbage to other players.

The player can earn badges from knocking out other players. Knocking out players with badges will cause the player to receive some (all?) of their badges. Collecting badges will increase the player's attack power.

As players get knocked out, the piece falling speed increases, eventually reaching 1G.

Badges

Badge number	Attack boost	Required	Total
1	25%	2	2
2	50%	4	6
3	75%	8	14
4	100%	16	30

Garbage

By clearing lines the player can send lines of garbage to opponents.

Lines received will go into the pending garbage queue, where there is a delay before the lines appear on the playfield. This delay decreases as players are knocked out. The active set of pending lines will change colour to indicate how close it is to appearing, and when the active set spawns on the playfield the next set will become active.

The player can have at most 12 lines of garbage in their pending queue, and can send at most 20 with one line clear. In both cases any excess lines are lost.

Base table

The game's base garbage table is consistent with most guideline games, with the exception of the All Clear bonus.

Line clear	Lines sent
Single	0
Double	1
Triple	2
Tetris	4
T-Spin Single	2
Mini T-Spin Single	0
T-Spin Double	4
Mini T-Spin Double	1
T-Spin Triple	6
Back-to-Back bonus	+1
All Clear bonus	+4

Combos

The game counts combos starting from the second consecutive line clear (as 1).

Combo	Lines sent
0	+0
1	+1
2	+1
3	+2
4	+2
5	+3
6	+3
7	+4
8	+4
9	+4
10+	+5

Target bonus

If the player is targeted by multiple opponents then they will receive a boost to attack power for each clear:

Opponents	Bonus lines sent
2	+1
3	+3
4	+5
5	+7
6+	+9

This boost is applied before the badge attack boost.

Targeting

The game provides four automatic targeting modes:

• Badges: Target opponents with many badges.
• KOs: Target opponents who are close to being knocked out.
• Attackers: Target opponents who are targeting the player.
• Randoms: Target opponents at random.

Alternatively, the player can also switch targets manually.

Events

Maximus Cup

North America

The Maximus Cup is Tetris 99's first event to be held on March 8 at 5 a.m. PT through March 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The contest will be available to players in Canada (excluding Quebec), US, and Mexico. Players must try to win first place as many times as possible. The top 999 players will win 999 My Nintendo Gold Points. A total prize pool of $9,990 US.

Japan

The Teto 1 cup held from March 21, 2019 (Friday) 22: 00 ~ March 11, 2019 (Monday) 15: 59. Winning first place during the period will enter you into the draw. Subsequent wins gain you an extra entry.

Europe & Co

Named TETRIS® 99: the TETRIS® 99 Grand Prix, From 13:00 (UK time) on March 8th until 06:59 (UK time) on March 11th. Winning first place once enters you into the draw. The number of Tetris Maximus wins achieved has no influence on the chance of winning a prize. If more than 999 participants achieve a Tetris Maximus win, winners will be determined by random draw.

Available to: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Italy

From 2:00 pm on March 8th to 7:59 am on March 11th. Winning first place once enters you into the draw. The number of Tetris Maximus wins achieved has no influence on the chance of winning a prize. If more than 99 participants achieve a Tetris Maximus win, winners will be determined by random draw.

Australia & New Zealand

The top 99 players with the most 1st place wins will each win 999 Gold Points.

12:00am AEDT / 2:00am NZDT on Saturday 9th March and running until 5:59pm AEDT / 7:59pm NZDT on Monday 11th March

External links

• Official site
• Nintendo.com Product page
• UK site