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It will be also live streamed worldwide on our Twitch Channel. The CTWC is the marquee event of the Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE), which attracts more than 16,000 attendees over the event weekend. Celebrating its 10th year, the CTWC has established itself as a world-class e-sports spectacular, attracting more than 2,000 in-person fans and 200,000 live online viewers during the event. The annual championship draws elite Tetris players from around the world who compete to determine the ultimate champion. Inspired by the historic 1990 Nintendo World Championships, the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) brings the love of classic Tetris into the 21st century. In the closeup you can see that the game is Combat.The 2019 CTWC will take place on October 18-20th at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. This also happened, in a little time-warp area in the back of the hall. (To the side of the mega-cade was a large area with various classic computers and game systems set up for free play.) Atari 2600 - Combat Have a look, and click on any photo to enlarge: Oregon Trail, 2012 I brought my camera and captured some scenes from the event - some before the action began, some in the midst of it. I just want to emphasize that this event had a "Mega-cade" and it was, indeed, mega. At the auction we raised nearly $900 for Portland's Cat Adoption Team Our live auction was packed with over 400 attendees.

Our after-hours event was a blast with over 200 people dining and drinking until midnight right in the Mega-cade.

There were over 70 vendors in attendance.

Over 70 retro video game consoles were set up to play.

Over 160 arcade and pinball machines were on display for freeplay.

Over 3,000 attendees came through the doors over the weekend.

The expo organizers summarized the weekend like so: And, this being a Portland event, there were game-themed crafts everywhere. The whole day was a joy - a convention hall filled with classic games, from Atari to Zelda, with pinball in between.

For much of the day I was one of several referees for the Classic Tetris World Championship. I arrived early and got a look at many booths before they opened (later, they would be swarmed by thousands of attendees). On September 30, I spent a geektastic day at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo.