Carnival of Death
The Carnival of Death is a yearly celebration of T.A.Death, a game mode in TAP, held on the week of March 25th. Players have a week to submit scores from the mode, from the original game or fan made games to a leaderboard. At the end of the week, all the scores are tallied up into a DEATH TOLL.
History
"So in Japan, when TAP was the latest TGM installment, players would meet up for a "celebration of death mode". These gatherings, wholly unofficial, were simply a way assemble enough players together to have a vs death mode tournament, to share strategies, or even to just simply observe famous players in action. Awesomely enough, when machine translated, "celebration of death mode" turned into carnival of death. Hardcore. Twisted Evil
I'm looking to try and organize a carnival of death on the March 25th, or 3/25 by the American calendar. The so called "torikan date"." --colour_thief, 2008
| Year | # Players | Death Toll |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 17 | 7,906 |
| 2009 | 46 | 19,365 |
| 2010 | 41 | 20,596 |
| 2011 | 41 | 22,082 |
| 2012 | 25 | 14,963 |
| 2013 | 22 | 13,583 |
| 2014 | 34 | 20,797 |
| 2015 | 53 | 27,201 |
| 2016 | 63 | 30,520 |
| 2017 | 89 | 42,045 |
| 2018 | 58 | 30,477 |
| 2019 | 46 | 22,304 |
Carnival of Derp
The Carnival of Derp is a side event, originally organized by TPM2209, that takes place at the same time as the Carnival of Death. First held in 2016, the aim of Carnival of Derp is to play T.A. Death mode using a ruleset different from normal (e.g. Ti-ARS, SRS). Since its inception, the Carnival of Derp has turned into a demo scene of rule exploitations, looking for ever more creative ways to bend the rules of a rotation system to get an optimal score in a game mode that's still technically T.A. Death.
Because players can play multiple rulesets and submit one score per ruleset, the Carnival of Derp has two tolls: a Derp Toll, which counts all scores from all players and all rulesets, and a Herp Toll, which only counts the best score from each player.
| Year | Derp Toll | Herp Toll |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1,998 | 1,998 |
| 2017 | 5,072 | 3,131 |
| 2018 | 12,460 | 6,562 |
| 2019 | 12,213 | 6,583 |
Carnival of Darkness
The Carnival of Darkness is another event held on May 23 (5/23, the "torikan date" of level 800 in Phantom Mania), to encourage the playing of Phantom Mania, a version of Death where the pieces turn invisible once they lock.
There are three possible rulesets to play for Phantom Mania, each with its own leaderboard.
- The Classic leaderboard tracks plays using the Classic ARS ruleset (Classic2 in Nullpomino).
- The Terror leaderboard tracks plays using the Ti-ARS ruleset (Classic3 in Nullpomino).
- The Super leaderboard tracks plays using the SRS ruleset (Standard-Hard or Standard-EXP in Nullpomino).