{"id":122833,"date":"2021-01-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/01\/nintendo_kicks_off_the_new_year_with_a_kirby_fighters_2_tetris_99_maximus_cup"},"modified":"2021-01-06T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:30:00","slug":"nintendo-kicks-off-the-new-year-with-a-kirby-fighters-2-tetris-99-maximus-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/06\/nintendo-kicks-off-the-new-year-with-a-kirby-fighters-2-tetris-99-maximus-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Kicks Off The New Year With A Kirby Fighters 2 Tetris 99 Maximus Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/670c1ad95c9d8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/670c1ad95c9d8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Kirby Fighters 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/670c1ad95c9d8\/kirby-fighters-2.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/670c1ad95c9d8\/kirby-fighters-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Kirby Fighters 2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>As we discovered last week (or last year, we should say), Kirby has a big year ahead &#8211; with the pink puff&#8217;s developer HAL Laboratory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/kirby_developer_hal_laboratory_teases_new_projects_for_20211\">teasing new projects, games, merchandise, and much more<\/a> for 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to kick off the new year, Nintendo has announced <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tetris_99\">Tetris 99<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s 19th Maximus Cup and it just so happens to feature&#8230;you guessed it, Kirby! This upcoming event, taking place from tomorrow through to next Monday, is actually in celebration of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/kirby_fighters_2\">Kirby Fighters 2<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s pink. He\u2019s powerful. He\u2019s Kirby! By participating in the Tetrid 99 19th Maximus Cup online event, players can earn an in-game theme inspired by the Kirby Fighters 2 game. During the event, collect 100 event points by playing matches in the Tetris 99 online mode to unlock the in-game theme! The event will be: 1\/7 (Thurs.) 11 p.m. PT to 1\/11 (Mon.) 10:59 p.m. PT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Kirby Tetris 99\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4e0329759e9a2\/kirby-tetris-99.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4e0329759e9a2\/kirby-tetris-99.original.png\" alt=\"Kirby Tetris 99\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Will you be participating in the first Tetris 99 tournament of the year? <em>Let us know in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we discovered last week (or last year, we should say), Kirby has a big year ahead &#8211; with the pink puff&#8217;s developer HAL Laboratory teasing new projects, games, merchandise, and much more for 2021. Now, to kick off the new year, Nintendo has announced Tetris 99&#8216;s 19th Maximus Cup and it just so happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}