wayward, errant tetris master
2006-09-19 09:23:19
dear tetris blog,i know you've been waiting for me to play games while i wasn't at work and the time has finally come: monday i hired some guy to work at my shop m-f from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. so now I DONT HAVE TO BE THERE. which is very nice.
Yeserday i sauntered over to a rival coffee shop (which is closer to my house), drank a 4 shot americano pretty quickly and started to play 2 player (i know i know).
I bumped into Millar and we exchanged a few games which bolstered my rating nicely (he was at about 8000 and i at 7700). Then i ran into TCM-DDD2 about 10 games in a row (he quit after each win) and he walloped me SO HARD. I have never seen my screen fill with garbage so quickly. I'm convinced DDD2 is probably the best 2p player in the world. anyway, he was at about 8080 so i only lost 3 points per game -- which was nice.
anyway i ran into an assortment of players... about 5 7500 players, a couple 6700ers and one 7850 fool and had a winning streak of about 30 games, a few favorable disconnects... and voila:
7930.
a new personal high for moi (that means "me" in french).
THE MAIN THING THAT HAPPENED: is this:
i played 2 4p games during the whole rigamarole. One was against a 7300 and some 5000's and i only gained THREE POINTS in each game. I think it's a helluva lot more worth it to play 2p games because i can gain the same paltry 3 points with SO much less risk and SO much less work.
Not that i'm advocating 2p games... but they're kind of nice after playing so many 4p games (i'm up to 4650 wins by the way for your information).
Anyway... after new tetris high i went to the martini bar and got promptly fucked up to celebrate my tetris score:
in case you're keeping tabs i had:
a 6 shot grey goose slightly dirty martini
an "alize-tini" 3 shots vodka, 3 shots alize
a grasshopper-tini
one glass of chardonnay
and then the bartender decided to give me free champagne so we could toast to my new high tetris score
and then he gave me another free glass of champagne so we could toast to a myriad of other things worth toasting to.
The End.
Now i'll probably pull a TGM-Liem and never play again.
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I still prefer 4 player. I dislike gaining less than 5 points for a win against a high level opponent. On 4 player, yes I only get a few points if I beat a few 5000's, but I can play them 10 times and win comfortably each time, I just have to take care not to screw up.
Does this guy mean you only have to work on weekends? That means 12 hours/day Tetris sessions are possible. You could easily get 9999 4p wins.
Rosti LFC - 2006-09-19 11:21:00
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