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Shop official CTN & PDP merchandise only on https://shopctnmerch.com We have Chem, eh Jounce, ehm no Hydrantdude on the show today! Frank and Hydrant talked about the Jounce alt story, creating the first Same Piece Sets set and more!

We Love Classic Tetris!

Shop official CTN & PDP merchandise only on https://www.shopctnmerch.com/The owners of Padless, Ben & Ava are on the show. The full story of the padless controller will be told. From start to where we are right now! We also talked about the competition career of Ben and the rapid improvement of Avahttps://www.gopadless.com/CreditsGuests:https://www.youtube.com/@opaux5758 & https://www.youtube.com/@avasOnlineHost: https://www.youtube.com/@sirmaserEdited by: https://www.youtube.com/@sirmaserThumbnail by: https://www.youtube.com/@sirmaserhttps://linktr.ee/classictetrisnetwork---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Welcome to the Classic Tetris Network channel. On this channel you'll find original NES Tetris Topic video's, interviews, the latest news and much more about Classic TetrisWe Love Classic Tetris!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Topics:0:00 Intro1:58 How Ben & Ava got into NES Tetris8:16 Ben & Ava, how did they meet10:51 Rapid progression of Ava13:46 Ben being a sub top player19:29 Idea behind Padless22:15 Trying to get the first padless prototype30:35 For who is the controller?34:32 Still making changes to the design37:48 padless not being competition legal39:54 When is padless ready for launch?43:59 Making the right decisions50:31 Is NES Tetris really a dead game?53:51 Personal goals for Ben & Ava58:22 Outro

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PDP is back with a brand new season! We kick off the season with youngest maxouter in history ZRobot and his dad Duke. The conversation goes about the Jonas Cup debut in 2024, CTWC in 2025 and the friendship between Alex T and ZRobot.

Credits

Talent: ZRobot & Duke https://www.youtube.com/@zrobot-1

Hosted by: SirMaser https://www.youtube.com/@sirmaser

Edited by: SirMaser https://www.youtube.com/@sirmaser

Thumbnail by: SirMaser https://www.youtube.com/@sirmaser

https://www.linktr.ee/classictetrisnetwork

Topics:

0:00 Intro

1:43 How Zrobot & Duke got into NES Tetris

5:53 Zro being intersted in Tetris

10:18 Getting to know the competition scene

18:34 Jonas Cup 2024

26:16 Post Jonas Cup

33:06 2025 year of Zro

38:00 Friendship with Alex T

50:52 Going to CTWC 2025

57:18 Bronze Bracket

59:27 Duke vs SirMaser?

1:06:23 Back to the World Championship

1:10:40 CTWC being also a life changing event

1:12:31 CTM Masters debut

1:16:44 Future goals for Zrobot and Duke

1:28:11 Outro

A different episode compared to normal. SirMaser is on his own and tell his story in Classic Tetris.He talked about PDP, restreaming and much more0:00 Intro1:51 How SirMaser got into NES Tetris10:01 Frustration with playing the game15:17 Starting the Piece Dependency Podcast26:29 aGameScout27:40 Midroll28:51 Restreaming36:20 MrsMaser37:42 Classic Tetris Benelux/Low Lands42:20 Partnership with CTM51:36 Time to move on1:03:12 Future goals for SirMaser

Terry Purcell has been playing NES Tetris for a long time. He competed at CTWC between 2012 and 2023. Terry also shares his unique take on the game and the community Topics: 0:00 Intro 1:48 Chris Higgins is also here! 2:43 How Terry got into NES Tetris 6:19 Meeting Robin Mihara 12:15 Going to CTWC 2012 16:28 2025 vs 2012 19:45 Jani 22:29 Drunk Tetris 26:09 Game staying popular with teenagers 33:26 The grind 43:08 Midroll 43:52 Playing two different games 45:59 Not want to play competition 53:22 Has Classic Tetris become too serious? 1:29:29 Will we see Terry ever back in competition?

The creator of Tetris Gym Kirjava is on the show today! Frank and Kirjava obviously talk about Tetris Gym but also about Kirjava only playing Live events and much more!

Topics:

0:00 Intro

1:31 How Kirjava got into NES Tetris

6:47 Rolling at DAS only events

10:01 Learning Rolling

14:48 Staying focused

17:36 Playing Competition

21:54 Controller

25:16 Pasadena vs Portland

27:44 Midroll

28:28 Tetris Gym

33:45 Programming TetrisGym

38:49 Future updates

44:33 Tetris Gym getting popular

47:35 Not getting paid

50:14 SirMaser playing for fun

56:01 Legal issues?

1:03:27 implementing linecaps

1:07:23 How much space is left on the Tetris Gym cartridge?

1:12:06 Leaving gltiches & bugs in

1:19:34 Keep the Linecaps

1:25:25 Plans for 2025

1:30:15 Outro

The host of Monday night Mayhem is on the show today! The wizard of Birbs Birbwizard joins Frank as they talk about being the host of Monday Nights, Jonas Cup, Commentating and much more! Uploaded and edited by SirMaser https://twitch.tv/sirmaser https://www.youtube.com/@PieceDependencyPodcast https://bit.ly/pdpdiscord Follow us EVERYWHERE with links to all our Socials and Activity! ▶︎ https://linktr.ee/monthlytetris ▶︎ https://linktr.ee/piecedependency Classic Tetris Monthly is a series of monthly #Nintendo #Tetris tournaments, started by founding mother fridaywitch in December 2017, and resurrected by vandweller in October 2018. Nowadays, it's become the largest NES Tetris #Tournament expanding to seven events: The Masters Event, the Challengers Circuit, the Futures Circuit, the Hopefuls Circuit, the Community Tournament, Tetris Deathmatch and Monday Night Chasedown! Twitch (as of upload date) Host: https://www.twitch.tv/sirmaser Guest: https://www.twitch.tv/thebirbwizard Topics: 0:00 Intro 2:09 How Birb got into NES Tetris 6:06 DAS vs Rolling 13:14 Enjoying Live Events 25:51 Jonas Cup 29:05 Game still attracting young players 30:44 Host of Tetris Friendlies Monday Night Mayhem 48:10 Marts 51:13 Change of style 1:03:58 Hosting in Metro Detroit area 1:21:19 2025 1:25:01 Outro

Classic Tetris World Champion AlexT joins PDP today! Alex and Frank talk about the run that led to being a world champion. How Alex got into NES Tetris and what are his favorite level colors and much more! 

Follow us EVERYWHERE with links to all our Socials and Activity!    ▶︎ https://linktr.ee/monthlytetris    ▶︎ https://linktr.ee/piecedependency Classic Tetris Monthly is a series of monthly #Nintendo #Tetris tournaments, started by founding mother fridaywitch in December 2017, and resurrected by vandweller in October 2018. Nowadays, it's become the largest NES Tetris #Tournament expanding to seven events: The Masters Event, the Challengers Circuit, the Futures Circuit, the Hopefuls Circuit, the Community Tournament, Tetris Deathmatch and Monday Night Chasedown! Twitch (as of upload date) Host: https://www.twitch.tv/sirmaser Guest: https://www.twitch.tv/TetrisAlexT Topics: 0:00 Intro 1:38 How Alex got into NES Tetris 5:38 Playing on emulator 8:24 Youngest maxouter 13:06 Hypertapping 19:24 Being a goof 22:58 Finally switching to rolling 29:18 CTWC 2022 35:45 Explaining tetris in day to day life 39:11 Change to Alex's playstyle 47:48 Level colors 59:57 Winning money in tournaments 1:11:31 16 million World Record 1:24:28 Taking a break 1:30:27 CTWC 2024 2:08:34 Aftermath of CTWC 2:18:52 Outro

Before August of 2024, Mega Retroman was mostly known for defeating Jonas in his last Live CTWC event.

But things all changed when MRM posted a screenshot of a 1.36 million DAS run. Which is a World Record.. Or not?

Mega Retroman joins Frank to tell him all about it. They also talk about CTWC 2019, Legends Cup during CTWC 2023 and much more!

Uploaded and edited by SirMaser

https://twitch.tv/sirmaser

https://www.youtube.com/@PieceDependencyPodcast

https://bit.ly/pdpdiscord

Follow us EVERYWHERE with links to all our Socials and Activity!

▶︎ https://linktr.ee/monthlytetris

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Classic Tetris Monthly is a series of monthly #Nintendo #Tetris tournaments, started by founding mother fridaywitch in December 2017, and resurrected by vandweller in October 2018. Nowadays, it's become the largest NES Tetris #Tournament expanding to seven events: The Masters Event, the Challengers Circuit, the Futures Circuit, the Hopefuls Circuit, the Community Tournament, Tetris Deathmatch and Monday Night Chasedown!

Twitch (as of upload date)

Host: https://www.twitch.tv/sirmaser

Guest: https://www.twitch.tv/megaretroman

Topics:

0:00 Intro

2:00 How MRM got into NES Tetris

5:44 Seeing CTWC at PRGE

13:15 Playing in a different era

15:22 Tetris becoming more serious

24:07 DAS isn't dead

30:40 NWC 1990 game

36:08 Pushdown

39:03 CTWC 2019

57:25 Hand injury

1:05:43 First retirement

1:11:10 Legends Tournament CTWC 2023

1:22:03 Midroll

1:22:47 DAS 1.36 mil WR?

1:49:32 Jonas Cup

2:05:59 The future for MRM

2:17:01 Outro

The Season 5 premiere of the Piece Dependency Podcast is here!

Chris Higgins is joining Frank on PDP today! After 10 long years. The long awaited Best of Five series is finally here. Reason enough to invite Director, Writer, Editor, Man of the project Chris Higgins back on the show! Frank and Chris also talked about CTWC back in person and the future of Classic Tetris Documentaries!

The Season 4 finale of the Piece Dependency Podcast is here! aGameScout is joining Frank on PDP today! 2024 will go down as a major year in NES Tetris and aGameScout was a major part of that succes. With his viral videos about the Blue Scuti Game Crash and the WR from Alex T. Frank and David also talked about Still learning Youtube, Being a maxouter and all the changes in the Classic Tetris Scene

Doge is joining Frank on PDP Today! They talked about learning Rolling, CTWC, Life in general and much more!

Huffulufugus is joining Frank on PDP Today! They talked about being awkward, CTWC, Against Linecap and more!

NesTrisChamps creator Yobi is joining SirMaser on the show! They talk about the creation of NTC, Playing NES Tetris in Singapore and much more!

Longtime community member Alex 'Kitaru' Kerr is the guest on PDP. It turned out to be a very diverse conversation. Alex & Frank talk about CTWC, that we don't know who made NES Tetris, what are the policies for controller and much more!

TikTok star MylesTheGreat is the guest on PDP. It turned out to be a very fun and honest interview. Myles & Frank talk about CTWC, TikTok, the journey of being a Tetris player and much more!

It is always fun to talk to CTWC organizer Vince Clemente. You can see and hear that he has a lot of passion for both the game and the community. Vince & Frank talk about CTWC, playing online and much more!

Welcome to the season 4 premiere of the Piece Dependency Podcast. What a way to start with CTEC organizer Christoffer!

The Kiiing of the Restreaams is back on PDP. Kingsman joins Frank for the second time and there is a lot to talk about. Friendlies move to Classic Tetris, Owning Classic Tetris League and King is a Maxouter?

This is the season 3 finale of the Piece Dependency Podcast. It is also the start of something brand new. On Youtube we have a new home. This and every episode of season 4 will be available on the Classic Tetris Monthly Youtube channel. We have a special guest as our season 3 finale. The 2022 Classic Tetris World Champion. EricICX joins the show. Frank & Eric talked about CTWC 2022 but also learning rolling, the glitched color run and much more.

Today on the show we have the only written media journalist Wingfryer. Founder of tetrisinterest website. Frank and Wingfryer talked about the website, Jonas Neubauer and timestamping all CTWC streams.

We have a bit of a different show today. The original guest for this month couldn't record so I ask pumpyheart last minute for a no prep interview. We both didn't know what was coming or what the other one would bring to the table.

Today on the show we have a true community member on the show. She joined the classic tetris community before the very first CTM Masters and she saw it all. Good and bad. She is also the creator behind the very important classic tetris bot. I am talking about professor L. We talked about being in the community for over 5 years, the creation of the classic tetris bot and the work she does for the upcoming Classic Tetris Match Database

Today on the show have Youtuber and CTWC Gold bracket player Cobalt. Frank & Cobalt talk about Cobalt Youtube channel, his competitive career or.. lack of.. and the always changing landscape of NES Tetris

Today on the show we have a true das master as our guest.  NGC Man is the winner of both the Test and Real tournament of CT DAS. Frank and NGC Man talked about the 1.3 grind, NGC's game 7 in the finals of CT Das and his mindset during matches.

If I say two words. Everyone knows who I mean... Those words? HELL YEAH Oh yes, Grand Designs is joining Frank on the show today! They talked about the origin of the Hell Yeah cathphrase, creating Classic Tetris Wars and GD commentary career

The first episode of the new season feauters the first Dutch Maxouter, CTWC top 8 player and CTEC champion Sidnev! Frank and Sidnev talked about the journey to CTWC, focussing on playing the game and ofcourse how did Sidnev get into NES Tetris?

It has been announced that there will be a Classic Tetris DAS World Championship. Reason enough for me to meet up with some of the organizers!

The selfproclaimed 'worst good tetris player' Ben Mullen is joining Frank on the show today!

They talk about filiming the Ecstasy of Order documentary, the best of 99 match against Louie Skouie and being the original mullen who mullened a game out.

Today on the show we have the one who showed that a human player can reach the 'true' colors of NES Tetris. Frank is joined by fractal161 today! They talked about the glitched colors runs, CTWC, learning the rolling technique and much more!

Matt Martin and his wife Ashley Martin are joining Frank on the show today! Today we find out the answer to the million dollar question. Who the heck is Matthew Martin…. They talked about their debut year in 2019, staying under the radar, the switch to rolling and much more!

Chris number 52 is on the show today! Chris Bidwell is joining Frank on the show today They talked about being a commentator, the Dr. Mario championship, Chris view on the community and much more.

First show of 2022 and we start off with a BOOM!  Longtime CTWC commentator Chris Tang is joining Frank on the show today.  We talked about the Nintendo World Championship, CTWC, Commentating and much more.

Frank is joined by pumpyheart, the new owner of the NTSC Elo ranking and the lead statician for CTWC.
They talked about being the new owner of the Elo ranking, a new matchdatabase, being a statician for CTWC and much more!

Frank is joined by Rory, the creator of the NTSC Elo ranking and the person with the most matches and win under his belt.

They talked about, Tetris competition, Life after a maxout and the Elo ranking.

CTWC 2016 runner up Jeff Moore joins Frank on the show!  They talked about CTWC 2016, Jeffs career and apparently we got Jeff first maxout date wrong

3 time CTEC champion, Svavar joins Frank on the show!  They talked about CTEC, CTWC, getting the NTSC console and much more!

A podcast a year in the making. With CTWC around the corner. It is a great time to invite CTWC organizer Vince Clemente back on the show. Frank & Vince went through a brief history of CTWC, spoke about CTWC 2021 and more!

Season 2 is here and Frank is joined by both Steve DeLuca, owner of TotalRadNES, and Quaid, runner up of CTWC 2015. They talked about tWo, Hungover strats and more!

Frank is joined by skateboarder and huge tetris fan Aaron 'Jaws' Homoki.  They talk about Instagram, friendship with Steve DeLuca, the kitchen dwellers and much more.

Frank is joined by the standard Johann. They discuss Classic Tetris LATAM, CTWC, KIT IV PAL World cup and more.

Frank is joined by 2020 CTEC Champion Maiwingkos.
They are talking about CTEC 2020, KIT PAL,
switching between NTSC and PAL Tetris and more!

Frank is joined by Tugi. They talk about Tugi's CTWC experience, hosting Champions Summit and more.

Frank is joined by vandweller. They talk about CTM, Monthly Tetris, Chicken Sandwiches and more.

Frank is joined by ITZsharky. They discussed Classic Tetris Gauntlet, DAS, CTWC and more!

Frank is joined by aGameScout. They discussed his YouTube channel, Tetris Effect: Connected, CTWC and much more!

Frank is joined by 'Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champion' director Chris Higgins. They talked about the upcoming documentary and the roles Chris fulfilled during CTWC over the last couple of years. You can still help this amazing project. Go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrishiggins/best-of-five-the-classic-tetris-champions

Frank is joined by Kingsman. They discuss Kingsman Tetris Friendlies, Kingsman Invitational Tournament, being a commentator and much much more.

Frank is joined by Marq. Marq tells Frank about his experience he had during CTWC last year and how he co-organized a real life classic tetris tournament this year.

Frank is joined by AdamMts. They spoke about PAL19, why Adam won't compete in CTWC this year. match lengths and much more.