Hi humans.
For the first time in a pretty long time, I streamed some Tetris because I had a little bit of relaxing time.
I asked the Hard Drop shoutbox what they wanted me to stream, and the only main request that I got was to do a stream session together with Virulent.
The only Tetris game Virulent likes to play is Cultris II, so I went ahead and downloaded it, and streamed it for a few hours. Unfortunately, I happem to be really bad at Cultris II, and it didn’t end up too great for me.
Today’s highlight clip comes from the stream session, and is a simple, classic misdrop fail.
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Hi humans.
In my spree of streaming League of Legends on my personal Twitch.TV channel, I decided to throw some Tetris in there as well. For the first time in a really long time, I had a short session of Tetris Arena Live with Parkzer for the Hard Drop community.
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/358030585)
Overall a pretty normal stream with nothing too out-of-the-ordinary happening (relative to my other streams, at least, because we all know that all my streams are always out-of-the-ordinary).
Hi humans.
Earlier today, I streamed some Tetris from my psychology research lab while I was running participants for my experiment. My attention was very divided so I wasn’t really focused on Tetris much throughout the stream, but I still played and commentated a bit.
The stream started out with me trying to play Tetris Friends, then failing because there was too much lag. I transitioned to Tetris Online Poland for a little while, then switched back to Tetris Friends to spectate.
If you missed the live stream and want to watch the replay, it’s been embedded here:
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/346105010)
If you’re interested in more Tetris streams, I recommend following Hard Drop’s Twitch.TV channel. If you’re interested in more streams featuring me, you can follow Hard Drop’s channel, as well as my personal Twitch.TV channel, where I primarily stream League of Legends and other random games.
Hi humans.
If you’ve been an avid watcher of my stream shows, you might already know that I had a stream show that took place weekly, every Friday, back in the spring of this year. I discontinued that show when the summer started (in the northern hemisphere) because I was on break from university, and I no longer had a reliable schedule or Internet available for consistent streaming.
Upon returning to university, I still didn’t bring my show back right away because the Tetris Tournament Online II was going on, and casting tournament matches was taking up enough of my time that I felt it would be beneficial for me to not stream even more Tetris on top of that to ensure that I could tend to my other responsibilities as well.
I said that I would eventually start streaming Tetris again on a weekly basis in a form of a show once the Tetris Tournament Online II was over, but I never actually specified exactly when it would start again. Apparently, there was some miscommunication and pretty much everybody except me knew that I was supposed to be streaming tonight. I didn’t want to let anybody down, so I just hopped on stream and broadcasted a relatively short impromptu stream show on NullpoMino League without any preparation.
If you missed the stream, you can watch a replay of it below:
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/335364646)
I wouldn’t really say that stream was much of a success because it was on NullpoMino League, and not on Tetris Friends like my stream shows usually are. Of course, NullpoMino League is a lot less popular than Tetris Friends is, so we ended up having a very limited set of players to observe throughout the stream. Also, as I mentioned above, I wasn’t very prepared for this stream, so we ended up coming up with random stuff to do on the spot, including reading tongue twisters for the last 20 minutes of the stream.
I most likely will not be streaming next week, because I have to get a lot of other stuff done and organized before going live with a regular show again, but stay tuned to my blog for updates on when a show might be coming up. If you like watching Tetris in general, be sure to follow the Hard Drop Twitch.TV channel to be updated whenever we go live with some more Tetris.
Hi humans.
The grand finals of the Tetris Tournament Online II are now over. I posted a news article on HardDrop.com with the replay videos, statistics about the finals stream, and shout-outs and thanks to our supporters and sponsors. You can find that at http://harddrop.com/article/article_481/.
For archival purposes, I am also going to post the content of my message here as well.
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Hi humans,
Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for – the replays of all tournament matches have been edited, rendered, and uploaded for your viewing convenience.
If you’re unfamiliar with who I am, I’m Parkzer – one of the shoutcasters for Hard Drop, and the lead coordinator for live streaming for the Tetris Tournament Online II. I can honestly say I was very satisfied with how the stream of the finals turned out, and I’m glad that I was able to be a part of it. To demonstrate exactly why, I decided to share some stats about the stream.
First of all, I’d like to start with the number of concurrent viewers for Tetris Tournament Online I (last year’s stream): about 1,000 across two streams. This stream was run entirely by the staff members at Blue Planet Software through UStream, and there was a lot of controversy regarding the quality of their streaming and commentary.
Here are the stats for this year’s TTO2 stream, entirely managed and run by the streaming crew at Hard Drop via Twitch.TV.
Maximum concurrent viewers: 2,049. This means that, at one point during the stream, we had over 2,000 different people watching at the exact same time.
Total video plays: 74,564. This means that our stream was loaded 74.5k times throughout the event (this counts people who refreshed the stream as multiple plays).
Total unique visitors: 37,960. This means that we had almost 38k DIFFERENT PEOPLE who saw at least some portion of the finals tournament broadcast.
Of course, we definitely did not do this alone. First of all, I would like to give a huge shoutout and thanks to Twitch.TV for all the promotion and support they have given us throughout the tournament. They featured us on their home page, and I personally think it was one of the biggest influences to our viewership. Also, a very special thanks to Ernest Le from Partnership Strategy at Twitch.TV – he has worked with me closely leading up to and throughout the entire tournament to ensure we have the best streaming experience possible.
We also have thanks to give to Blue Planet Software and Tetris Online. Not only did they donate all the prizes for the tournament, they also helped us promote the tournament by posting a news story on the home page of TetrisFriends.com, bringing awareness to our event.
And finally, a huge shout-out and thank you to all our viewers and supporters who watched any portion of the stream. You guys are the reason we’re able to do this, and you guys are my primary motivation for getting back on the stream each week.
If you missed the stream, it’s definitely worth checking out the replays. If you’re interested in just the matches, you can use the videos embedded above. If you want to watch the whole stream, including the pre-game show, all the technical difficulties I had while the stream was live, and the fan games we had at the end of the tournament, you can watch the raw replay files on our Twitch.TV channel at http://twitch.tv/harddrop.
Disclaimer: the views and opinions expressed in this post are Parkzer’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the Hard Drop administration or community.
Hi humans.
The pre-game show of the Tetris Tournament Online II is streaming live now, and we are just about to get started with the semi-finals and grand finals. In case you’re not already watching it, I’ve embedded Hard Drop live channel player below.
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://twitch.tv/harddrop)
In case you got here a little late and the stream is no longer live, no need to worry. Immediately after the event is over, I will start working on getting the replays edited and uploaded to YouTube. Once all that is done, I will post an update on the Hard Drop website and link to the article from my website.
If you’re impatient, or if you want to see the raw footage from the stream, you can click on the “Videos” tab on the Hard Drop Twitch.TV channel to see if they are available yet.
Hi humans.
This is a quick reminder not to forget to tune in tomorrow for the finals of the Tetris Tournament Online II.
The event will be streamed on the Hard Drop Twitch.TV channel, and I will be the primary shoutcaster for both the semi-finals and the grand finals.
The pre-game show will start at about 4:30 PM PST. We don’t really have a lot planned for the pre-game show, and I plan on just chatting with viewers for half an hour before the games start. The primary reason for having the pre-game show is to get people starting to watch the stream before the games start, and to begin attracting attention to the event.
The actual games will start at 5 PM PST. The first set of matches will be the semi-finals, and will be between HD_Blink and HAHAHA1744. HD_Blink climbed his way up to second place in last year’s tournament; we’ll see if he can do that again this year.
The loser of HD_Blink vs. HAHAHA1744 will be crowned third place, and the winner will move on to the grand finals to face hebo_MAI. hebo_MAI is the current reigning champion, and will be defending his title to see if he can secure it two years in a row, or if we will have a new world competitive Tetris champion.
I know you guys love it when I show previews of the overlays I will be using, so I decided to post it here one day in advance again.
Of course, we don’t know the two players who will be playing in the grand finals, so I’m not going to show a preview of it here as the overlay itself has the names of the competitors on it, and we won’t know for sure whose name should be on it until tomorrow. However, I do have the one for the semi-finals set up, and it looks aesthetically identical to the one for the grand finals except for the fact that the words will be different.
We expect this to be an event of grand proportions, and it is definitely not something you want to miss, so be sure to mark it on your calendar.
I’ll see you all tomorrow!
Hi humans.
Last night, I live streamed and casted a Tetris Tournament Online II match between Blink and SirJeivus. If you’re familiar with the competitive Tetris communities, both of these competitors are very well-known individuals – Blink is the founder of Hard Drop, and SirJeivus is an ambassador for the Taiwanese Tetris community, as well as someone who works closely with the Tetris Company.
This match was a loser’s bracket match, which meant that both these competitors had already lost a game once during the tournament, and the loser of this match would be eliminated from the entire tournament.
My co-caster for this set was veteran caster Pierce, better known as Paradox in the Tetris community. The casting we did is actually very different than what you might normally see from me – I generally am a shoutcaster and my co-commentator is on analytical commentary, but for this set, Paradox and I basically split the spotlight in half and had more of a conversational and interactive commentary. Although it’s different, we both like how it ended up.
Time points of interest:
00:04 – Casters begin talking 09:42 – Parkzer (finally) joins the room, warm-up matches ongoing 11:26 – First tournament game begins 40:28 – Set ends, victor announced
If you’d like to find out more information about the tournament, you can head on over to the Hard Drop tourney page. If you’d like to be notified every time Hard Drop goes live with some more competitive Tetris, you can follow Hard Drop’s Twitch.TV channel.
Hi humans.
It’s Saturday, which means there was a competitive Tetris stream today for the Tetris Tournament Online II.
Today’s stream was a little strange because I wasn’t quite sure when the matches were going to start, as a lot of the competitors were from different time zones and had rescheduled their matches to either a half hour or a few hours before or after the regular stream time.
I ended up spending about an hour waiting around for matches to even start. If, for whatever reason, you’re interested in seeing the replay of that, it’s available at http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/332318217. I’m not going to embed the video here because it will most likely be a complete waste of your time watching that, and I don’t want it to take up unnecessary space.
The first match we had was between Johnny147 and ChrisW. The replay is embedded below:
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/332321510)
Then, for some sudden and random reason, my streaming software reset the stream, so the replay got cut into two parts. Here is the second part of the replay, which contains the remainder of Johnny147 vs. ChrisW, as well as the next set of matches between massi4h and BentoBoxer.
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/332327212)
If you’re interested in seeing more competitive Tetris streams, you can follow the Hard Drop Twitch.TV channel or check out the Hard Drop live stream calendar, which can be found on the Hard Drop forums.
Hi humans.
Earlier today, I streamed and casted the last round 5 match for the double elimination play-offs between massi4h and chrisw. In case you missed it, the replay has been embedded below.
(Embedded player not working? Try this link. http://www.twitch.tv/harddrop/b/331653523)
My analytical commentator for this game was caffeine. This was the first time I’ve casted a game with him, so our timing was a little off because it seemed like caffeine was a little unfamiliar with my casting style. Regardless, it ended up being a good series of games.
If you’d like more information about the tournament, check out the Hard Drop tournament information page. If you’d like to be notified whenever someone from Hard Drop streams Tetris live (tournament matches as well as other recreational streams), follow the Hard Drop Twitch.TV channel.
The next upcoming scheduled stream that I will be running is this coming Saturday at 3 PM PST. There might be some rescheduled matches taking place throughout the week, but I can’t guarantee that I will be able to make those because I’m quite occupied with other work from academics and my job.
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We expect this to be an event of grand proportions, and it is definitely not something you want to miss, so be sure to mark it on your calendar.
I’ll see you all tomorrow!
