Bleeding Hearts

Bleeding hearts is the reversed mod for Duos! It's only available on Valentines day.

• Ruleset:

  • Lines you send are also sent to each other.
  • The catch is that lines are entirely uncancellable, both from your teammate and from enemies!
  • Garbage is expert mode (Garbage delay is short, and pops up immediately instead of slowly increasing row by row)

• (WIP) General guideline:

  • Avoid excessive back to backs, they cause the garbage to increase in height a lot more quickly than intended. (Your I piece will no longer clear up a wall cleanly..)
  • Opener:
    • Both person should build a 9-0, up to a quad.
    • This quad is then sent to each other. Any more lines above are skimmed off.
  • Ideal board state:
    • Both players will volleyball this quad back to each other.
    • Any other pieces are used to single skim anything from above, breaking back to back.
    • Any higher rows are skimmed off, breaking back to back.
      • We don't want back to back because this will cause the garbage stack to grow over time. There's plenty of external garbage coming in already.
  • Recovery:
    • Avoid back to back because this causes quad to send 5 instead of 4, making the garbage height increase overall.
    • If one player is high, the other is low, it's fine for the high to send a quad to the low.
      • This allows the downstacking work to be distributed to both players.
      • Avoid sending more quads to the high player, it will cause a garbage cascade as the high player might be forced to send back to back quads.
    • If both players are high, you can still send quads to each other, but try and avoid back to back and over-doing it.
      • In the ideal case, both quads are sent to each other at the same time so there will be no net change while still increasing climb speed.
      • Too coordinate this without communication, let your I piece drop down the well slowly.