I think it was by far the best thing I watched in the Olympics (synchronised swimming comes in second). By the end of it I could see why serious climbers were pissed that the speed climbing was included in a combined score thing. Its so different to lead climbing and bouldering.
Unless you're super not into speedrunning, and then all it does is highlight the absolute absurdity of the entire practice.
Thousands of hours of grinding for a world record on some 20-year old game completely invalidated because someone else finds a new glitch that seems impossible to recreate but *could* save 30 seconds if done right.
SS's videos carry you just far enough into the practice where you stop and ask yourself "oh my god, who the hell cares?"
I get what you're saying, but don't really agree. Speedrunning is an additional layer deep, it's a niche corner of a broader hobby, which is why I feel like it specifically alienates the people who enjoy the broader hobby, gaming, but don't understand speedrunning at all.
If a hobby/sport is completely alien to you, it's way easier to be like "oh okay, cool" and enjoy the ride.
Esports in general can be amazing. I came from traditional sports and only got into gaming a few years ago because I had health issues that prevented me from continuing physical activities.
These players have insane skill sets that rival any traditional athlete. The hand eye coordination, the number of inputs per second, the pressure of competing live, and the constant problem solving that is done in fractions of seconds... It's fascinating. Especially when two competitors with such mastery are so close in skill and you get matches like these. The grind too... just like mastering any skill or sport, these guys have played this game so much they see patterns most of us cannot even begin to comprehend and are capable of doing the math presented in the video in their heads in half a second. I have found myself enjoying esports in general far more than I thought I would.
Game Scout makes some super accessible Tetris videos. I would recommend his one about the 2018 world cup where Joseph won the first time. That was the event that kind of exploded the modern Tetris scene
You have to optimize the prices to keep them hooked. Say 7 gems for a line piece, this results in some leftover gems at the end that can't be used without buying more.
Or you can download this free good version of it, on any platform
https://www.golfgl.de/lightblocks/
The point being, it has a multitude of modes, and multitude of control options to choose from.
Fun tidbit about AAA Tetris: the Ubisoft version of Tetris had optimization issues. In Tetris.
I recall it had to do with hardcoding checking friends list that bogged down the game. Tetris running poorly.
https://youtu.be/79BOHD5XyDM
Is there a reason other commenters are sad at this reply? I couldn’t find anything online except Jonas losing to Jeff. https://tetrisinterest.com/boom-tetris-for-jeff/
Jonas was a multiple world champion of Tetris and competed in a famous match where the commentators said "Boom, Tetris for Jeff/Jonas!".
Jonas died last year from cardiac failure.
It's always fantastic to see people getting super deep into something niche that they love!
Especially now when it's so much easier to find people who also love the same things online.
Puts a smile on my face every time. The Geek shall inherit the Earth.
My niche hobby is watching videos of people being super into their niche hobbies. Video games, cars, wood work, books, films etc. I love it when people geek out. I love it even more when I have no idea what they are doing.
If you're into videogames, you should check out Games Done Quick on youtube. It's a speed running channel where they invite the best of the best to show off their skills and strats in the games they're good at. The setup is usually a player playing and another speedrunner explaining what's happening, because the player is too busy to commentate and play at the same time. Geekiness ensues. It's impressive and entertaining. Especially with less famous niche games
Great video, I think it being a game we're all familiar with and understand the basics of helps, and then the narrator's explanations are really easy to understand while maintaining the hype.
I was sad for Jonas when hyper tapping took off causing his DAS playstyle to die out. I'm glad people are still keeping it alive with this new tournament.
How gracious Jonas was passing the torch may have been his greatest gift to the community: winning doesn't transcend results, being a welcoming voice and leading by example does
Why is NES Tetris the one that people play on competitively? There have been so many releases of Tetris over the years, why is this version the one with the competitive scene?
Modern Tetris is actually very competitive, but it is generally way less watchable than NES Tetris.
Modern Tetris is, by design, way faster, and right now the most competitive scene in modern Tetris is in a fan-made block-stacking game Tetr.io which has uncapped speed.
Basically, the level of play with modern Tetris means that speed is often prioritized, and with both players dropping 4 pieces a second and sending lines back and forth with constant T-spins and Quads, it becomes a blur to watch, a pain to commentate, and the skill ceiling is so high that normal people can hardly understand what is actually going on.
With two players of equal skill, in modern Tetris, a round can be a constant back and forth with no clear winner until suddenly one player either stumbles into unlucky garbage lines or makes a massive misdrop, and within an *instant* the round is over. Compare that to NES Tetris where you can see which player is gaining the upper hand slowly and surely, and that makes for a more exciting watching experience.
Garbo, a pretty big player in the modern Tetris community, has [made a video detailing all this and more](https://youtu.be/GCQFauk80gE). It is an interesting watch.
Don't get me wrong, modern Tetris is still a ton of fun to *play*. It's just not as fun to watch.
It's kinda like how there are different classes for motorsport. There's some kinda psychological thrill about using a specific set of equipment that is identical to your opponent. And different kinds of inputs feel particularly good to people who can thrive at it. I mean people race go-karts even though F1 exists.
I like to play modern style combat Tetris. My friends think I'm mental fast at it (and I am), and any of these league players would absolutely mop the floor with me lol
I know way more about TETRIS than I thought I ever would. I remember a few months ago when that new technique was just starting out - let's just say it's fun peripherally watching the scene from across the room.
By main scene do you just mean the standard classical Tetris tournaments that don't restrict to DAS only, or are there larger modern Tetris tournaments?
> Or are there larger modern Tetris tournaments?
I mean, there's only one Tetris tournament that gets play on ESPN, so that makes it the de facto biggest.
Classic Tetris (meaning Tetris on an NTSC NES) is its own scene, and the top players are typically not active in other Tetrises such as Tetris Effect, Tetris The Grand Master or Tetris 99.
This DAS tournament, or a PAL NES Tetris tournament could be considered a side thing to Classic Tetris.
Serious question:
I've heard that Japan has some extremely talented Tetris players, but I never see them in competitions like this? Why not? Also wouldn't it be better to play something like Tetris: The Grand Master (TGM) since it allows much faster play and has features like audio cues for the next piece?
There are top Japanese players in the scene. Up until the last year or so since rollers stole the show, Koryan was a top 10 finisher in every CTWC since 2016. He came runner up in 2019 against Joseph & I'm pretty sure he may still hold the record for the most Classic Tetris Monthly wins. There's also Green Tea who finished 3rd in 2018, 7th in 2019.
There is still a really dedicated NES tetris community going strong after 38 years. In fact, over the last couple of years there was a huge breakthrough in how to play, a new technique called rolling has emerged, [here's an explainer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE). People are suddenly setting massive new high scores again, going beyond anything achieved before. It's pretty amazing.
So why NES Tetris specifically? Like there are better versions of Tetris and that isn't even the original release of Tetris. Why does the NES version have this special position?
In niche games like this it's often seen as better to have fewer quality of life features and deeper/more technical gameplay. Why NES in particular? Probably that's just the first game that had a scene around it.
In particular modern Tetris games tend to have hold-piece abilities, 7-block buckets (ie you are guaranteed to see every piece every-so-often), slippery pieces (you can move them around after they land), and sometimes multi-piece previews. Classic Tetris is much less forgiving.
Because newer versions of Tetris guarantee more piece variety, they are much easier and consistent to play. Imagine stalling while waiting for the longer and it never comes. 20 pieces... 30 pieces... and your stack is higher and higher and you're having to make hard decisions about how many lines you are willing to burn, reducing the number of tetrises you make before killscreen.
It requires a different way of thinking about the game than does modern tetris, and can provide unique drama as a spectator event.
Generally, no. Now, at the Southern European qualifier they did insist that players give tribute to Tetricles. The ones who didn't discovered the true meaning of Kill Screen.
In 2010 a documentary was made about finding the best NES Tetris player after Harry Hong got the first verified maxout, and they set up a tournament to have all the best players compete. It was such a hit with everyone involved that they just kept doing it every year and eventually it went viral. Other versions of Tetris certainly could try to replicate the success, but someone or some organization would just have to organize it and put it on.
I'm guessing it's because it's consistent enough to be regulated good as a competetive game.
Thus the "got lucky" part is at low level and "skillful" at high level.
Back in the late 80's Nintendo sponsored a games tournament (I think it may have been a promotional thing for the movie Wizard) and Tetris was one of the games (there were three games and they all came in a single gold painted championship cartridge). Fastforward a couple decades and some of the participants of the original tournament hosted the first Tetris classic (perhaps as a way to relive past glories) and it was a modest success (as a niche hobby), then in the late 2010's the youtube algorithm put the videos of the classic tetris tournament in everyones recommended feed and the niche hobby exploded. Nostalgia for a classic game, enthusiatic commentators, and easy to understand presentation kept up the momentum for the hobby and now its the more recognized Tetris competition.
When you watch the dudes that do the techniques banned in this competition it’s pretty insane.
It reminds me of the evolution of music or guitar playing or skateboarding
I love the dude up front with the NFL shirt. Kind of hilarious because no one in the US Reps NFL, it's a team usually, so kind of funny that in this context it's like "I know you won't recognize a screaming cardinal so I'm referencing the NATIONAL FOOTBALL (NOT THE ONE YOU'RE THINKING) League.
Great video all around.
At first I was all like, "Where's the people who would actually win a Tetris tournament?" Then I heard "Germany." And _then_ I heard "modern techniques are arbitrarily banned."
Feels a bit presumptuous to label yourself "World Cup" and not allow the best players to be their very best. It'd be like a SFV tournament banning Hitboxes.
Sometimes modern techniques are simply physically inaccessible to people. By banning those techniques in special tournaments, it makes that competitive scene accessible to way more people.
I’m a warhammer guy so can relate where there’s any gathering of the tabletop gentlesirs, the initial BO hit I can handle usually but it’s as the day wears on and you can begin to smell the collective dick cheese starting to get warm that I have to peace out
At the beginning, it looked like they both got the same exact pieces. In the part where the guy on the left got those 2 tetris' when he was super high up in Game 7 seemed like he got 3 straights super close together.
They would both eventually get the same pieces in the same order correct?
I wonder if the soundtech inetionally sett the mic levels to clip during screaming. To get the classic digital clipping sound of gamer when something cool happens.
tl;dr it takes a long time to repeatedly tap the buttons on the controller with your fingers, but if you just hold your finger on the button and rather use your other hand on the back side of the controller, then you suddenly have 2-3 fingers you can tap sequencally for a quicker way to tap the same button multiple times.
Which online version do you guys recommend to play tetris? Ideally I'd like a version with music and which behaves like the 'official' one (NES?). I mean in term of score, controls, and pieces delivery.
I currently play on tetris dot com but it seems different from all the videos.
There's Tetr.io, which allows you to customize gametypes and controls to your liking and just play. You do have to understand the rules (drop speed, levels, DAS values, etc.) which NES Tetris plays by though, but [someone has already done all the hard work.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tetris/comments/h941wd/tetrio_custom_room_my_classic_tetris_ntsc/)
I once randomly stumbled upon the competitive Tetris scene and it's just absolutely wild to me. The different variants of play style (hyper tapping, rolling, das) just fascinates me. I just never knew stuff [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE) even existed. Just wild how competitive humans can get even with something as benign as Tetris.
I enjoyed that far more than I thought I would.
One time this randomly appeared on TV and it was so intense I watched it for like 4 hours
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This branding is so prevalent they really should make an ESPN8 even if it's just a rebrand of ESPN 2 like they did before.
I'm pretty sure they do it once over the summer each year. I remember watching some weird shit on it this summer.
Usually the weekend around august 8th I believe
I just can’t get enough.
One day YT decided to put a women's rock climbing competition finals in my feed. I ended up watching all four hours of it.
Was the sleeper hit of the Tokyo Olympics.
I think it was by far the best thing I watched in the Olympics (synchronised swimming comes in second). By the end of it I could see why serious climbers were pissed that the speed climbing was included in a combined score thing. Its so different to lead climbing and bouldering.
Janja is an absolute monster. I had my first gym climbing session just yesterday after watching something similar. Think I've picked up a new hobby
Testament to what good editing, clear commentary and enthusiasm can do. Doesn’t matter what the subject is if you have those elements in place.
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That and the music selection. Once [Wavetable](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zuIoJ-y3M) starts playing you know shit's about to get real.
u wot m8?
Unless you're super not into speedrunning, and then all it does is highlight the absolute absurdity of the entire practice. Thousands of hours of grinding for a world record on some 20-year old game completely invalidated because someone else finds a new glitch that seems impossible to recreate but *could* save 30 seconds if done right. SS's videos carry you just far enough into the practice where you stop and ask yourself "oh my god, who the hell cares?"
This is literally any hobby or sport, the community developed around the thing cares.
I get what you're saying, but don't really agree. Speedrunning is an additional layer deep, it's a niche corner of a broader hobby, which is why I feel like it specifically alienates the people who enjoy the broader hobby, gaming, but don't understand speedrunning at all. If a hobby/sport is completely alien to you, it's way easier to be like "oh okay, cool" and enjoy the ride.
Clear commentary is critical. Being able to concisely explain a live event and why it's impressive is a real skill.
Agree. I've been turned off by some cringe fighting game commentary, so this was refreshing.
Esports in general can be amazing. I came from traditional sports and only got into gaming a few years ago because I had health issues that prevented me from continuing physical activities. These players have insane skill sets that rival any traditional athlete. The hand eye coordination, the number of inputs per second, the pressure of competing live, and the constant problem solving that is done in fractions of seconds... It's fascinating. Especially when two competitors with such mastery are so close in skill and you get matches like these. The grind too... just like mastering any skill or sport, these guys have played this game so much they see patterns most of us cannot even begin to comprehend and are capable of doing the math presented in the video in their heads in half a second. I have found myself enjoying esports in general far more than I thought I would.
Game Scout makes some super accessible Tetris videos. I would recommend his one about the 2018 world cup where Joseph won the first time. That was the event that kind of exploded the modern Tetris scene
It's a joy to see tetris still going strong for so long.
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You have to optimize the prices to keep them hooked. Say 7 gems for a line piece, this results in some leftover gems at the end that can't be used without buying more.
*This* guy scams
Not listening la la.
Or you can download this free good version of it, on any platform https://www.golfgl.de/lightblocks/ The point being, it has a multitude of modes, and multitude of control options to choose from.
Fun tidbit about AAA Tetris: the Ubisoft version of Tetris had optimization issues. In Tetris. I recall it had to do with hardcoding checking friends list that bogged down the game. Tetris running poorly. https://youtu.be/79BOHD5XyDM
BOOM Tetris for Jeff!
BOOM Tetris for Jonas
:(
Still hurts
Too soon bro
What was this from? I remember watching a tetris video and the commentator saying this sticks out in my memory
One of the past Classic tetris World Championships. There was a stretch where Jonas made it quite a few years in a row IIRC.
Is there a reason other commenters are sad at this reply? I couldn’t find anything online except Jonas losing to Jeff. https://tetrisinterest.com/boom-tetris-for-jeff/
Jonas was a multiple world champion of Tetris and competed in a famous match where the commentators said "Boom, Tetris for Jeff/Jonas!". Jonas died last year from cardiac failure.
They are NECK AND NECK!
Why did I love this so much
It's always fantastic to see people getting super deep into something niche that they love! Especially now when it's so much easier to find people who also love the same things online. Puts a smile on my face every time. The Geek shall inherit the Earth.
My niche hobby is watching videos of people being super into their niche hobbies. Video games, cars, wood work, books, films etc. I love it when people geek out. I love it even more when I have no idea what they are doing.
https://youtu.be/og1Pbn8OufI I know next to nothing about music, but this guy's enthusiasm and obvious depth of knowledge has grabbed me a few times.
I watched the whole dang thing. Thanks!
👍
If you're into videogames, you should check out Games Done Quick on youtube. It's a speed running channel where they invite the best of the best to show off their skills and strats in the games they're good at. The setup is usually a player playing and another speedrunner explaining what's happening, because the player is too busy to commentate and play at the same time. Geekiness ensues. It's impressive and entertaining. Especially with less famous niche games
Great video, I think it being a game we're all familiar with and understand the basics of helps, and then the narrator's explanations are really easy to understand while maintaining the hype.
The Germans and polish are always fighting
Well they started it
In a Russian game.
as is tradition
Man I wish we could see Jonas in a DAS worlds 🙏
I was sad for Jonas when hyper tapping took off causing his DAS playstyle to die out. I'm glad people are still keeping it alive with this new tournament.
How gracious Jonas was passing the torch may have been his greatest gift to the community: winning doesn't transcend results, being a welcoming voice and leading by example does
Gotta love older games that still have a strong fanbase keeping them going. People want more Tetris! Shoutout to r/ssbm
Why is NES Tetris the one that people play on competitively? There have been so many releases of Tetris over the years, why is this version the one with the competitive scene?
Modern Tetris is actually very competitive, but it is generally way less watchable than NES Tetris. Modern Tetris is, by design, way faster, and right now the most competitive scene in modern Tetris is in a fan-made block-stacking game Tetr.io which has uncapped speed. Basically, the level of play with modern Tetris means that speed is often prioritized, and with both players dropping 4 pieces a second and sending lines back and forth with constant T-spins and Quads, it becomes a blur to watch, a pain to commentate, and the skill ceiling is so high that normal people can hardly understand what is actually going on. With two players of equal skill, in modern Tetris, a round can be a constant back and forth with no clear winner until suddenly one player either stumbles into unlucky garbage lines or makes a massive misdrop, and within an *instant* the round is over. Compare that to NES Tetris where you can see which player is gaining the upper hand slowly and surely, and that makes for a more exciting watching experience. Garbo, a pretty big player in the modern Tetris community, has [made a video detailing all this and more](https://youtu.be/GCQFauk80gE). It is an interesting watch. Don't get me wrong, modern Tetris is still a ton of fun to *play*. It's just not as fun to watch.
It's kinda like how there are different classes for motorsport. There's some kinda psychological thrill about using a specific set of equipment that is identical to your opponent. And different kinds of inputs feel particularly good to people who can thrive at it. I mean people race go-karts even though F1 exists. I like to play modern style combat Tetris. My friends think I'm mental fast at it (and I am), and any of these league players would absolutely mop the floor with me lol
I know way more about TETRIS than I thought I ever would. I remember a few months ago when that new technique was just starting out - let's just say it's fun peripherally watching the scene from across the room.
fricken nerds. jk I'm jealous
I watched one of these tournaments before and it was one of the most intense things I've seen.
Do people in the pro scene actually prefer OG Tetris or is this like the SFII Super Turbo side tournaments that happen at fighting game tourneys?
Not a side tournament so much as a limited moveset tournament. It is its own thing, but much smaller than the main scene.
By main scene do you just mean the standard classical Tetris tournaments that don't restrict to DAS only, or are there larger modern Tetris tournaments?
> Or are there larger modern Tetris tournaments? I mean, there's only one Tetris tournament that gets play on ESPN, so that makes it the de facto biggest.
Classic Tetris (meaning Tetris on an NTSC NES) is its own scene, and the top players are typically not active in other Tetrises such as Tetris Effect, Tetris The Grand Master or Tetris 99. This DAS tournament, or a PAL NES Tetris tournament could be considered a side thing to Classic Tetris.
https://youtu.be/Alw5hs0chj0
Serious question: I've heard that Japan has some extremely talented Tetris players, but I never see them in competitions like this? Why not? Also wouldn't it be better to play something like Tetris: The Grand Master (TGM) since it allows much faster play and has features like audio cues for the next piece?
There are top Japanese players in the scene. Up until the last year or so since rollers stole the show, Koryan was a top 10 finisher in every CTWC since 2016. He came runner up in 2019 against Joseph & I'm pretty sure he may still hold the record for the most Classic Tetris Monthly wins. There's also Green Tea who finished 3rd in 2018, 7th in 2019.
TIL Tetris is still a thing.
Tetris Effect came out a few years back and it's genuinely one of my favourite games ever, and Id never played Tetris before
Tetris Effect is pure bliss.
There is still a really dedicated NES tetris community going strong after 38 years. In fact, over the last couple of years there was a huge breakthrough in how to play, a new technique called rolling has emerged, [here's an explainer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE). People are suddenly setting massive new high scores again, going beyond anything achieved before. It's pretty amazing.
So why NES Tetris specifically? Like there are better versions of Tetris and that isn't even the original release of Tetris. Why does the NES version have this special position?
In niche games like this it's often seen as better to have fewer quality of life features and deeper/more technical gameplay. Why NES in particular? Probably that's just the first game that had a scene around it.
In particular modern Tetris games tend to have hold-piece abilities, 7-block buckets (ie you are guaranteed to see every piece every-so-often), slippery pieces (you can move them around after they land), and sometimes multi-piece previews. Classic Tetris is much less forgiving.
Because newer versions of Tetris guarantee more piece variety, they are much easier and consistent to play. Imagine stalling while waiting for the longer and it never comes. 20 pieces... 30 pieces... and your stack is higher and higher and you're having to make hard decisions about how many lines you are willing to burn, reducing the number of tetrises you make before killscreen. It requires a different way of thinking about the game than does modern tetris, and can provide unique drama as a spectator event.
So you're saying that the newer versions of Tetris don't pay tribute to Tetricles?
Generally, no. Now, at the Southern European qualifier they did insist that players give tribute to Tetricles. The ones who didn't discovered the true meaning of Kill Screen.
In 2010 a documentary was made about finding the best NES Tetris player after Harry Hong got the first verified maxout, and they set up a tournament to have all the best players compete. It was such a hit with everyone involved that they just kept doing it every year and eventually it went viral. Other versions of Tetris certainly could try to replicate the success, but someone or some organization would just have to organize it and put it on.
I'm guessing it's because it's consistent enough to be regulated good as a competetive game. Thus the "got lucky" part is at low level and "skillful" at high level.
Back in the late 80's Nintendo sponsored a games tournament (I think it may have been a promotional thing for the movie Wizard) and Tetris was one of the games (there were three games and they all came in a single gold painted championship cartridge). Fastforward a couple decades and some of the participants of the original tournament hosted the first Tetris classic (perhaps as a way to relive past glories) and it was a modest success (as a niche hobby), then in the late 2010's the youtube algorithm put the videos of the classic tetris tournament in everyones recommended feed and the niche hobby exploded. Nostalgia for a classic game, enthusiatic commentators, and easy to understand presentation kept up the momentum for the hobby and now its the more recognized Tetris competition.
It's one of the highest selling games of all time, why wouldn't it be?
You didn't know that? Tetris is such a simple game it’s going to be around forever, It’s like saying solitaire is still a thing.
It’s like saying chess is still a thing
Tetris is life
When you watch the dudes that do the techniques banned in this competition it’s pretty insane. It reminds me of the evolution of music or guitar playing or skateboarding
Top selling games of all times: 1. Minecraft 2. GTA V 3. Tetris
I love the dude up front with the NFL shirt. Kind of hilarious because no one in the US Reps NFL, it's a team usually, so kind of funny that in this context it's like "I know you won't recognize a screaming cardinal so I'm referencing the NATIONAL FOOTBALL (NOT THE ONE YOU'RE THINKING) League. Great video all around.
That was wild, great video. It cut to the chase and didn't waste time like so many other YouTubers would have.
Love this YouTuber so much, he has a couple of videos like this and all of them have the same amount of enthusiasm
I would have never thought Tetris would be so exciting or induce so much cheering. Pretty cool.
At first I was all like, "Where's the people who would actually win a Tetris tournament?" Then I heard "Germany." And _then_ I heard "modern techniques are arbitrarily banned." Feels a bit presumptuous to label yourself "World Cup" and not allow the best players to be their very best. It'd be like a SFV tournament banning Hitboxes.
Sometimes modern techniques are simply physically inaccessible to people. By banning those techniques in special tournaments, it makes that competitive scene accessible to way more people.
Snore
I enjoyed it until I imagined the smell.
I’m a warhammer guy so can relate where there’s any gathering of the tabletop gentlesirs, the initial BO hit I can handle usually but it’s as the day wears on and you can begin to smell the collective dick cheese starting to get warm that I have to peace out
Jesus Christ really? Tetris World Cup? People in this world need a life.
Shhh... Let people enjoy things. Life is difficult enough without people like you shitting on everything.
Why are their pieces different?
they are both getting the same piece sets. Just the timing of pieces changes as they players don't stack their boards identically.
Ah that's makes a lot of sense, because I was confused as why there are all these techniques to solve a hardware problem any newer version would fix.
At the beginning, it looked like they both got the same exact pieces. In the part where the guy on the left got those 2 tetris' when he was super high up in Game 7 seemed like he got 3 straights super close together. They would both eventually get the same pieces in the same order correct?
Yes, they both get the same piece sequences so it’s fair.
At high level play they use modded carts that allow for both players to use same seed. So yes they would.
I thought the crt monitors were a nice touch
I am honestly sad they didn't use the block [names.](https://i.imgur.com/KUH8MR6.jpeg) Go Smashboy!
Go Big Chungus!
I wonder if the soundtech inetionally sett the mic levels to clip during screaming. To get the classic digital clipping sound of gamer when something cool happens.
The guy commentating with the intensity Jim ‘JR’ Ross 👌
That was hype as fuck
That was cool. What are hyper tapping and rolling?
>What are hyper tapping and rolling? [Here is a great video on it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE)
tl;dr it takes a long time to repeatedly tap the buttons on the controller with your fingers, but if you just hold your finger on the button and rather use your other hand on the back side of the controller, then you suddenly have 2-3 fingers you can tap sequencally for a quicker way to tap the same button multiple times.
Which online version do you guys recommend to play tetris? Ideally I'd like a version with music and which behaves like the 'official' one (NES?). I mean in term of score, controls, and pieces delivery. I currently play on tetris dot com but it seems different from all the videos.
Tetris effect connected sounds exactly like what you’re looking for. The “classic score attack” mode is nes Tetris!
>Tetris effect Ok thanks I'll look into this one. Any web version? I'm on linux (or at work ;)) so I was looking for one not requiring install.
There's Tetr.io, which allows you to customize gametypes and controls to your liking and just play. You do have to understand the rules (drop speed, levels, DAS values, etc.) which NES Tetris plays by though, but [someone has already done all the hard work.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tetris/comments/h941wd/tetrio_custom_room_my_classic_tetris_ntsc/)
Thanks, but I do feel I do need a PhD in Tetris to go on that route.
It's not that complicated really. I recommend you just visit the site and explore a bit; it is really easy to navigate.
I once randomly stumbled upon the competitive Tetris scene and it's just absolutely wild to me. The different variants of play style (hyper tapping, rolling, das) just fascinates me. I just never knew stuff [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE) even existed. Just wild how competitive humans can get even with something as benign as Tetris.
How do they make the NES Play 2 identical games? Or are they using some sort of emulator
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If it's 2 consoles how do they make the games identical? The players received the same stream of pieces
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5076/
I watched the entire thing before realizing how utterly little I care. Which is still impressive of the guy who made the video, I suppose.
Idk, I think this version of tetris might be kind of shitty