With that this concludes all the matches played at the genesis venue... But there is one more we have in store for you guys. A rare 3rd place match that was played online. This was one of the most memorable experiences for me. My commentary still needs some work so I hope to continue to improve by the time CTWC rolls around. Definitely my favorite event to attend so far in my entire career
Your commentary needs to be more subdued. Less hamming typical to sports announcers and more sedate, calm explanation of events typical to documentary narrators. Of course practice makes perfect.
@@ITZsharky1 If commentary is from single person then play-by-play is better option in my books. Might harken back to audio only-medium of radio when listeners had to be made aware of what is happening. With more visual medium of television color commentary became possible as viewers were able to see what happened. Just slight and flawed history lesson. If two announcers are there I think best choice is one providing color and one providing play-by-play and those roles can be switched around if necessary. Two announcers going on same track tends to overwhelm listener's attention span. You are good enough announcer and definitely can and should improve.
@@ITZsharky1 Agreed, since you are an experienced commentator, I am sure you understand how important having structure and mutual understanding with the co-casters is. I can imagine how frustrating it must be when you are constantly interrupting each other. For many people, especially when an exciting situation ensues, doing play-by-play is a natural impulse. In my opinion, you are hands down the best commentator in terms of the play-by-play style. It is up to you to find a great partner who compliments that style. Who knows? Maybe JD can hop on the mic with you if he shows up this year in Pasadena 👀👀👀👀👀👀
35:09 TAIKO MENTIONED AYYYYYYYY Being at Genesis was the most unique experience I've had at a tournament ever, easily one of my favorites. I'm hoping that I'll get to go again next year!
At around 13:26 or so, it’s absolutely insane to see how quickly Alex goes from a cluster of a board to the much cleaner one he ended up with, in literal seconds as well. That was utterly insane.
Having the commentators talking over each other made it very difficult to listen to. But I can watch Fractal and Alex all day even without sound. Those two along with Andy have to be the top 3 right now.
most other pro commentator systems allow for each to have space and finish and take it in turns to speak. and they know to let the other finish before the other continues. usually using some kind of signal. this commentary is just a mess
@andrewqi7404 Dog is my favorite player but I just haven't seen the 29 efficiency and stacking capabilities that the other three have. For me I have him number 4 but I get why one would think that.
Honestly it’s not one of my more proud commentaries. Normally when it gets to 29 I take the reins because I’m the best at casting it. But understandably so my co caster wanted some spotty too
I have never heard Chris Bidwell be this excited! He deserves so much to commentate the late stages of CTWC as well, after so many years having to commentate the group stages. :)
Nothing personal because he seems like a great guy, but Bidwells commentary is starting to become cringe. The screams and constant talking over the play by play of Sharkey is super distracting. Cowbell is also cringe. Feel bad writing this but its starting to become difficult to watch, maybe some gentle feedback and adjustments needed... Otherwise a really cool tournament!
It's hard for all of us to hear but most of the time the criticism we receive has some truth in it. He has a good voice for an announcer. and good announcers acknowledge valid criticism. I think you're helping him to be even better
I've never heard another commentator do what Bidwell did screeching like that on 29, it seems like a big distraction and it would be cool if he could stop doing that lol. I feel like he became a fanboy for a minute when he's supposed to be commentating.
I am little bit outside the tetris community, but can anyone explain why AlexT did 16 million points, 200 smth level and now they both were able to clear only 300 lines. Its still fun to see how good they play but im just concerned.
thing is there is super mega level 39 killscreen on tournaments and there is not on the alex t records. the killscreen also forces players to play more aggressively, causing more topouts.
In the original game, the speed does not increase anymore after level 29. Consequently, players who can play at level 29’s speed can play for so many levels until the color glitches or the game crashes. While impressive, each game may last for hours, which is not feasible for tournaments. Therefore, they play a modified version of the game, which increases the speed once again at level 39, ensuring that no current players can past the level.
Thats wack that theres two people just yelling over each other 😂 it should be like in football where theres a main guy and the other guy shows up sometimes
Normally I’m the play-by-play but in this particular pairing bidwell also want to do some play by play too. It was never communicated so resulting in a lot of overstepping.
every single matchup in the past 2-3 months has gotten better than the previous... 2025 will be who can go the longest with a perfect score, first one to take a burn loses :P
I think the commentators explained they were “push down points”, afaik if you press the down arrow in-game the pieces descend faster and this earns you points. It’s not something many players use to get points in-game as it’s only a tiny amount of points and generally you want more time to place the piece and think about your move for the next piece, not less 😅
Whelp, I can officially say that I'm azz at Tetris. These boys are on some Goku/Vegeta type of level. I can say I'm on a Krillen, but not a Yamcha kind of level. I might be on a Tien scale level at Tetris.
Please stop talking so close or yelling into the mic. Listen to an NBA game to hear how the audio is handled. I don't think Sharky understands the basic concept of levels and peaking.
I appreciate the feedback I do understand the levels. on my streams and when I commentate online it’s perfectly fine. But we were experience audio issues all weekend and working with an unfamiliar audio interface. Each time we changed scenes audio levels were never the same. We believed that there was a duplicate audio source leading to things being twice as loud as they were. I also had to be close to the mic so the PA system would actually pick up so the audience there could hear the commentary. CTWC it the mic won’t be peaking nearly as much simply because we’ll be working with a familiar audio interface and system
@@ITZsharky1 As a professional commentator, you should never yell into the mic regardless of how excited you are. The first 5 seconds of this video is an example of something you tend to do.
@@WPFDemos I disagree ! I much prefer the shouting, the scratching doesnt bother me much. But Im not very critical on commentators in a game like tetris, so what youre saying is probably right.
This is so confusing. What does "regional" finals mean? Is there a *real* non-regional finals, or was this all of it? Are there multiple CTWC championships? Is Genesis one of them? Which one is considered the *true* CTWC championship? Also, when did this event actually take place? Is there an official website with an up-to-date schedule of events, standings, results, prizes, etc. (a lot of thectwc site seems to be out of date by a few years)? I wish you would put all this info in the description box so people can more easily understand the significance of these events.
I'd recommend the website TetrisInterest, it's kept very up to date. Here's the page explaining Regional events and the schedule: tetrisinterest.com/2024-classic-tetris-world-championship-regional-tournament-dates/ And here's the page of prior results for this year: tetrisinterest.com/2024-classic-tetris-world-championship-regional-tournament-timestamps/
It means it’s the final match of a regional tournament The winner will get free entry to CTWC, the world championships. Genesis is a smaller tournament which is considered a regional, and they have a bunch of regionals all over the US
