Carnival of Death

The Carnival of Death is a yearly celebration of T.A.Death, a game mode in TAP, held on the week of March 25th. Players have a week to submit scores from the mode, from the original game or fan made games to a leaderboard. At the end of the week, all the scores are tallied up into a DEATH TOLL.

History

"So in Japan, when TAP was the latest TGM installment, players would meet up for a "celebration of death mode". These gatherings, wholly unofficial, were simply a way assemble enough players together to have a vs death mode tournament, to share strategies, or even to just simply observe famous players in action. Awesomely enough, when machine translated, "celebration of death mode" turned into carnival of death. Hardcore. Twisted Evil

I'm looking to try and organize a carnival of death on the March 25th, or 3/25 by the American calendar. The so called "torikan date"." --colour_thief, 2008

As of 2021, the Carnival of Death is now hosted on theabsolute.plus.

Past Carnivals of Death

Year	# Players	Death Toll
2008	17	7,906
2009	46	19,365
2010	41	20,596
2011	41	22,082
2012	25	14,963
2013	22	13,583
2014	34	20,797
2015	53	27,201
2016	63	30,520
2017	89	42,045
2018	58	30,477
2019	46	22,304
2020	59	33,390
2021	118	52,447

Carnival of Derp

The Carnival of Derp is a side event, originally organized by TPM2209, that takes place at the same time as the Carnival of Death. First held in 2016, the aim of Carnival of Derp is to play T.A. Death mode using a ruleset different from normal (e.g. Ti-ARS, SRS). Since its inception, the Carnival of Derp has turned into a demo scene of rule exploitations, looking for ever more creative ways to bend the rules of a rotation system to get an optimal score in a game mode that's still technically T.A. Death.

Because players can play multiple rulesets and submit one score per ruleset, the Carnival of Derp has two tolls: a Derp Toll, which counts all scores from all players and all rulesets, and a Herp Toll, which only counts the best score from each player.

Note that the 2021 Carnival of Derp is not hosted on TetrisConcept. Instead, it is hosted on the Cambridge Discord, which is linked in the table.

Past Carnivals of Derp

Year	Herp Toll	Derp Toll
2016	1,998	1,998
2017	3,131	5,072
2018	6,562	12,460
2019	6,583	12,213
2020	1,998	5,976
2021	10,168	28,192

Carnival of Darkness

The Carnival of Darkness is another event held on May 23 (5/23, the "torikan date" of level 800 in Phantom Mania), to encourage the playing of Phantom Mania, a version of Death where the pieces turn invisible once they lock.

There are three possible rulesets to play for Phantom Mania, each with its own leaderboard.

• The Classic leaderboard tracks plays using the Classic ARS ruleset (Classic2 in Nullpomino).

• The Terror leaderboard tracks plays using the Ti-ARS ruleset (Classic3 in Nullpomino).

• The Super leaderboard tracks plays using the SRS ruleset (Standard-Hard or Standard-EXP in Nullpomino).

The scores from all three leaderboards are added up to create a Total Darkness Level for the entire Carnival.

Past Carnivals of Darkness

Year	Classic	Terror	Super	Total
2019	806	577	1,433	2,816