2018 in Tetris

2018 in Tetris is an overview of events, including new releases, world records, and other noteworthy Tetris content.

New Releases

February

Puyo Puyo Tetris

• Originally released in Japan in 2014
• Released on Steam for Windows

Events

March

• Tetris Tournament Online V [1]

June

• Tetris turns 34 years old

October

• Tetrisconcept Eindhoven meetup [2]
• European Masters @ Eindhoven [3]
• North American Masters @ Seattle meetup

CTWC NES

• CTWC 2018 BEGINS: Round Zero
• CTWC 2018 Rd. 1 (pt. 1) - BEST Rd. 1 Matches Ever!
• CTWC 2018 Rd. 1 (pt. 2) - BEST Rd. 1 Matches Ever!
• 2018 CTWC Side Matches Top 32 - Part 1
• 2018 CTWC Side Matches Top 32 - Part 2
• CTWC 2018 Top 16 Pt. 1 Jeff/Svavar, Joseph/Jani
• CTWC 2018 Top 16 Pt. 2 - Jonas/Joey, Harry/Terry, Chad/Greentea
• CTWC 2018 Top 16 - Pt. 3 - Koryan/Buco, Alex/Quaid, Ben/Josh
• CTWC 2018 Top 8 - Pt. 1 - Koryan/Quaid, Harry/Joseph
• CTWC 2018 Top 8 - Pt. 2 - Jonas/Svavar, Greentea/Josh
• CTWC 2018 Top 4 - Pt. 1 - Joseph vs. Koryan
• CTWC 2018 Top 4 - Pt. 2 - Greentea vs. Jonas
• 16 Y/O UNDERDOG vs. 7-TIME CHAMP - Classic Tetris World Championship 2018 Final Round

November

• Hebomai becomes the ninth TGM3 Grand Master [4]

Records

March

• TGM3 - WORLD-MASTER - 4'32"95 - HBM@hebo-MAI - MasterM, Orange line

May

• Kashiwa0903 lowers his T.A.Death world record time to 4:49:66 [5]
• TGM3 - WORLD-SHIRASE - 3'59"78 - HBM@hebo-MAI

June

• Microblizz pushes the 40 lines world record below 17s with a time of 16.954s! [6]
• KevinDDR and KAN best their previous TAP doubles world record with a time of 3:13:26 [7]
• TGM3 - WORLD-SHIRASE - 3:53:85 - HBM@hebo-MAI YouTube

September

• Hebomai improves his Shirase(W) world record to 3:45:75 [8]

December

• Joseph Saelee has a perfect pre-transition game: (PAL) NES TETRIS - 758,360 World Record [9]
• NES Tetris lines record 326 lines by Joseph Saelee [10]