Last weekend played host to both the Tetris 99 Grand Prix in Europe, and the Tetris 99 Maximus Cup in North America, both of which gave players the chance to earn a lovely 999 My Nintendo Gold Points. It seems that European players have started to receive their rewards, so make sure to check your inboxes.
Participants have started to share their good fortunes on social media and the like, indicating that Nintendo has already issued the Gold Points to the lucky 999 players. Reddit user Hegarol says "I just got an email from Nintendo that I won 999 gold coins. Already added to my MyNintendo Account."
The European version of the competition is a random draw, with all those who managed to claim one victory or more being entered into a raffle. If you've been chosen, you should find an email waiting for you in your inbox, similar to the message above; if you haven't been as lucky, you'll notice a message on your My Nintendo account saying the following:
"Kudos for achieving TETRIS MAXIMUS during the TETRIS® 99 Grand Prix! Sadly, you missed out on the points this time. But don't worry! More events and chances to win prizes are coming soon!"
It would seem that North American players might have to wait a little longer, perhaps thanks to the different format for that region's competition. Either way, good luck if you took part - we hope you have some delicious Gold Points waiting for you.
[source old.reddit.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Best I've ever managed is 6th. Kudos to anyone who has ever won a game of Tetris 99. It's tough as hell.
I've managed to finish 10th on 2 separate occasions so I know I've got no chance
It gets insanely fast towards the end and I don't care how good you are at it, to win a game has to involve a lot of luck in terms of other people targeting you etc
4th 3 times now! Very frustrating!
Hmmm, nothing yet. I definitely got the message acknowledging I'd won a game during the event, though. Screencapped it and everything...
I got four Tetris Maximus wins during the event itself, and saw the kudos message on my account yesterday.
Good event though, looking forward to more.
I managed to place 2nd place and 4th place the other day. Is it just me or did it feel like everyone playing during the Grand Prix was a god-level pro player? I was struggling to make it into the top 30 but after the tournament finished, I could easily get past that.
The game is so surprisingly awesome! My son and I were playing against each other last week laughing our heads off! I’ve got 10th place twice now, so hard, so one more go!
I won 10+ games(no idea how much exactly) during the weekend but no Nintendo points.
The European contest was worse than the American one. In Europe the winners were chosen at random and it didn't matter how many games you won.
I won kudos rather than coins. Ah well, perhaps next time.
best place since release was 3rd, but not over last weekend ... my best place last weekend was 4th ... average 8~12th place. no money for me then ;D but the game is fun, even without being a winner haha
Got my Tetris Maximus. Got my Kudos. Well done for all those who grabbed the coins! What will you be spending it on?
After many unsuccessful games I once managed to get first, but unfortunately, no coins for me. I am still happy about the first place though. Hopefully, Nintendo will do something similar again, mabye even with a different game. The competitiveness really puts a new spin on things.
I couldn't get a single win, couldn't go past 3rd place, but considering I've been told 3 people of a Catalan (so small) group have been awarded the points, out of 999 winners, it turns out it wasn't that difficult to receive the points after winning a game. I used to think 999 people around the EU was so small a chance it was nearly impossible, but not so many people must get to the peak, after seeing this.
@Arcade91 Too bad... But what you suggest is really interesting. The problem is -and it has surprised me this time around, especially with money involved from a people who can't even get you your age in Gold Points when it's your Birthday- Nintendo doesn't appear to encourage competitivity, or at least this has been the reason behind the lack of shareable achievements in their systems.
According to the website, North American players will be notified March 24th. Good luck everyone!
@HumanDog Good. Rest of world just meant how hard you could [removed].
I played for a bit on Friday night and Saturday afternoon and got six wins during that time but I got kinda bored after that and haven't played since. It's only $10 so wasn't worth forcing myself to go hard for it.
@Moroboshi876 @Arcade91 I remember Nintendo saying something a good while back about rewarding players for playing games. I think it was when they first introduced Gold coins. So it seems like this has been planned for a while.
@BenAV For me it was more about the joy of winning the free coins rather than the coins themselves. Or at least it would've been had I won them. It's not often we win stuff in life haha
I got the email and the coins yesterday. It’s a really cool way of encouraging people to play I think. I’m probably going to put the coins towards Turok next week. 😀
For the US, I am curious to know what the fewest number of wins were to be in the top 999.
@TechaNinja Please mind your language!
Best place I landed was 18. My wife was consistently in the top 10, though. Neother of us won (obviously) but we'll definitely participate in future events.
@OorWullie I might have been more motivated to play more if there had have been some sort of leaderboard so I could see if I was sitting in the top 99 for wins (Australia/New Zealand was 99 winners) or not. I'd already put a lot of time into the game and didn't feel like blinding grinding out wins all weekends without knowing how the competition is doing.
@BenAV Multiple wins didn't increase your chance to get the gold coins according to the terms & conditions.
I only won twice. I doubt it will be enough to win in the US competition, but I had a lot of fun!
@Lord_X Pretty sure it was only Europe that did the dumb random draw thing, wasn't it?
Didn't even bother. I place in the top ten quite often, but I've only actually triumphed over everyone else once in my five hours or so of playtime.
@HumanDog Actually the European rules were better than the American ones.
@Cosats I disagree. I can understand how the European rules would appeal to anyone not good at Tetris as it gives them a chance to win something but it comes at the expense of anyone who's actually good at the game as getting one win is just trivial. Almost might as well just hold a raffle for all Nintendo Switch Online subscribers and cut out Tetris 99 completely.
I didn't have time to play on the event
I only won once during it. Was ecstatic considering Ive only won 5 times before that.
Spent Saturday afternoon grinding for a win before I went out.
Was very much worth it - got £9.99 worth of points sitting in my account!
If I knew I would have stopped playing after 1 win. Won 5 times but got no coins 😔 Well at least I had fun!
Don't have the membership, 7 day free trial up, and my best I ever got from the free trial was 11th. So anyways I probably wouldn't win that sweet 999 gold coins.
I live in the fabulous province of quebec so I didn't even bothered to participate cause we can't win prize in a contest that is not approuved by loto-quebec, best rank to date was 11th.
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