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Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by jgtrosh »

will_brown wrote: post #10
sreyaNotfilc wrote: post #7

They keep taking the entire event down (~7 hours of competition) on the CTCW YouTube page, but luckily someone thought ahead and recorded the Semi-Finals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMLwgE4ZG8 I've been following competitive Tetris for the past 2 years now. It slid into my YT feed and I've been hooked. I got to watch the stream live! Jonas is the man! He's won it multiple times and plays a beautiful game. I tho…

For years I’ve been clamoring for competitive heads up Tetris...and I knew there would be an audience for it. The crazy thing...what you link isn’t even the exciting 2 player mode. I’m not sure if it’s the nes or snes version but 2 player is more of a battle mode where your 2 lines, 3 lines and Tetris’ get included on your opponents side. The winner is last man standing (not score).

My favorite competitive Tetris mode is the Co-op mode in the Tengen NES version. It's fun to cooperate, but it's extremely fun and challenging to aim for maximum personal score while impeding the other player. There's no immediate way of avoiding players ahead from killing the game so when I play it with friends I rely on good faith that our first goal is to survive together, before counting points of “who contributed most to that survival”. If there was a way of integrating that in the scoring/gameplay it might help make that game mode more mainstream. Afaik it is barely known, let alone played, and I highly suggest trying it out with your friends.

edit:

https://youtu.be/JPPEKVUlY9w this is an example video.

Maybe if the game was a RTF (“first to 1M points”) it might avoid players from aiming to kill the game early.

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by andrepd »

sreyaNotfilc wrote: post #7

They keep taking the entire event down (~7 hours of competition) on the CTCW YouTube page, but luckily someone thought ahead and recorded the Semi-Finals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMLwgE4ZG8 I've been following competitive Tetris for the past 2 years now. It slid into my YT feed and I've been hooked. I got to watch the stream live! Jonas is the man! He's won it multiple times and plays a beautiful game. I tho…

Boom, tetris for Jeff.

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by ariwilson »

I've been watching these events since the first one as Jonas is a good friend. He's a fantastic person and now ambassador of Tetris. If you're interested, he regularly streams his play and analysis at:

https://m.twitch.tv/nubbinsgoody

If you want to see an exciting documentary about how this all got started:

https://youtu.be/TiO1nCFeWvk

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by mproud »

pennaMan wrote: post #6
pishpash wrote: post #4

Title makes no sense to me ("Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]").

They are trying to say that Tetris came out before he was born. Very poor attempt at a sensationalist title.

Yeah, it is kind of silly, but I think the message they might be trying to get across is that the game should be recognized as a little more venerable now, that people still compete at it, and that future generations are playing it.

(Certainly people know about Chess, Go, Golf and Football — but depending on your definition, this could be considered a digital sport.)

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by psalminen »

will_brown wrote: post #10
sreyaNotfilc wrote: post #7

They keep taking the entire event down (~7 hours of competition) on the CTCW YouTube page, but luckily someone thought ahead and recorded the Semi-Finals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMLwgE4ZG8 I've been following competitive Tetris for the past 2 years now. It slid into my YT feed and I've been hooked. I got to watch the stream live! Jonas is the man! He's won it multiple times and plays a beautiful game. I tho…

For years I’ve been clamoring for competitive heads up Tetris...and I knew there would be an audience for it. The crazy thing...what you link isn’t even the exciting 2 player mode. I’m not sure if it’s the nes or snes version but 2 player is more of a battle mode where your 2 lines, 3 lines and Tetris’ get included on your opponents side. The winner is last man standing (not score).

Tetris battle has long been one of my favorite games. Truly is a beautiful mind/strategy game.

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by mproud »

nejcpuska wrote: post #2

Game of my childhood, besides PackMan. The saddest story - when the battery died on my portable tetris device. :) Good old days! Congrats to the kid!

I knew a kid who had one of the original GameBoys. I also had a friend with a GameGear. Those first and second-gen, fully-fledged portable console systems churned through batteries so quickly!

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by dzdt »

My childhood claim to fame with tetris was to get a negative score on the windows 3.1 version. It turned out the points were stored in a 16 bit integer and wrapped to negative values above 32767.

For sure in that version the "hypertap" approach was superior to holding down the arrow keys. Even with the highest repeat key settings in windows you could get more moves per second by tapping.

Re: Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

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Post by da_chicken »

jawilson2 wrote: post #16
sreyaNotfilc wrote: post #7

They keep taking the entire event down (~7 hours of competition) on the CTCW YouTube page, but luckily someone thought ahead and recorded the Semi-Finals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMLwgE4ZG8 I've been following competitive Tetris for the past 2 years now. It slid into my YT feed and I've been hooked. I got to watch the stream live! Jonas is the man! He's won it multiple times and plays a beautiful game. I tho…

> Its virtual chess I was with you until here. I'm curious what you mean by this?

I would assume that it's because you have to plan ahead and think several moves into the future. Yes, you're subject to the pieces that the game randomly produces, but you do see one piece ahead.

A newer version of the game, Tetris The Grand Master 3, has a completely insane top end of skill. It also has a "Hold" feature where you can keep a piece and drop it later when you want it. Try watching this [0] YouTube video of someone who is very good at the game. If you think it starts out crazy, skip ahead to the 5:00 mark. During the end credit sequence of the game, you have to play without any of the dropped pieces being visible.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YOR-nAnj4I

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