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Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]
- nejcpuska 8y agoGame of my childhood, besides PackMan. The saddest story - when the battery died on my portable tetris device. :) Good old days! Congrats to the kid!
- mproud 8y agoI 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!
- mabbo 8y agoThe BBC website won't display the video of this to me unless I install their app. There's something deeply wrong with that.
- rahimnathwani 8y agoIt plays for me in Chrome for Android (on a UK mobile network connection).
- satysin 8y agoNo issues here with Firefox (with uBlock Origin) on macOS 10.14
- paulcole 8y ago> There's something deeply wrong with that Genuinely curious what you think is specifically wrong with it? If the BBC feels the app provides a better experience isn't that up to them?
- hughes 8y agoCan't tell if you're trolling, but the video player user experience has nothing to do with what app you're in. It's entirely reasonable to expect a good in-browser video experience. Additionally, requiring a domain-specific app to be installed is an extremely negative UX.
- paulcole 8y agoI’m not trolling, I simply disagree that a company making a decision about their own product is “deeply troubling.” A little annoying, perhaps.
- yesenadam 8y agoSo - watch Inventing by Principle, work out exactly what your principle is, and change the world. Good luck! https://vimeo.com/36579366 https://vimeo.com/36579366
- pishpash 8y agoTitle makes no sense to me ("Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]").
- dkyc 8y agoI parse it as: This post includes a video of a teenager beating a tetris game which was released before the boy was born.
- TomMarius 8y agoWell... football was also invented way before I was born... what a dumb title
- PurpleRamen 8y agoThe twist seems to be that he is not just play the original game, but also on the original hardware with the original software. It's like if people would play football with a 100+ year old ball and the original rules. Though, this is more an example for a well maintained videoconsole and some writer desperate for a quirky headline.
- pennaMan 8y agoThey are trying to say that Tetris came out before he was born. Very poor attempt at a sensationalist title.
- notthemessiah 8y agoIt would be like "24 year-old Garry Kasparov wins world championship of 1500 year-old game."
- jkingsbery 8y ago"Golfer born centuries after game's invention wins tournament" would be another great headline.
- sreyaNotfilc 8y agoThey 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 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 thought he had the kid, Joseph, for a moment with a +100k lead. But, as he topped out Joseph was able to keep his composure. I was beautiful to watch and I gave him a standing ovation (from my living room). The cool thing is, the kid worked hard at the game for about a year before joining the competition. He studied videos on YouTube and just became obsessed with the game. He's the next wave (which the Tetris community had been discussing for the past few years), and its cool to see that this game is not dead yet. Its virtual chess. The Tetris community is a good one. Its seems as if everyone backs everyone. There are no egos, just humble-pie Tetris. Jonas was a class act at the end congratulating the kid. If you have a chance, please watch the video. You'll be amazed with the skill/tactics involved in this game. edit Here's the winning match! Just watched it again. It give me goosebumps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9rXBQLfjjE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9rXBQLfjjE
- will_brown 8y agoFor 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).
- ArtWomb 8y agoTetris never dies. I know a lot of people are pretty excited for the Tetsuya Mizuguchi reboot Tetris Effect which launches Nov 9 for PS4. Particularly VR play, which seems to reliably induce out of body experiences ;) The Tetris Effect And Our Boundaryless Digital Future https://www.wired.com/story/tetris-effect-tetsuya-mizguchi-virtual-reality/ https://www.wired.com/story/tetris-effect-tetsuya-mizguchi-v...
- cabaalis 8y agoI watch Ecstasy of Order (which features among others Jonas Neubauer, who lost in this case) at least once every 6 months. I'm glad to see they're keeping up the pace with these championships.
- failrate 8y agoI really liked the previous champion's sportsmanlike response to his defeat.
- ariwilson 8y agoI'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 https://m.twitch.tv/nubbinsgoody If you want to see an exciting documentary about how this all got started: https://youtu.be/TiO1nCFeWvk https://youtu.be/TiO1nCFeWvk
- mproud 8y agoThis just in: Apparently every Chess and Go champion in the last millennia is younger than the game.
- cableshaft 8y agoYeah right? I don't see why they felt the need to include 'older than he is' in the headline.
- dfxm12 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
- CM30 8y agoSame goes for any LPer, speedrunner, eSports player or gamer involved in playing basically any video game before the last generation or so. Bet most Smash Bros Melee/GoldenEye/Ocarina of Time players aren't older than the games they're playing!
- smus 8y agoYou'd be surprised, the Melee scene is fairly old on average. I compete regularly and I'd be shocked if even 5% of the scene is younger than Melee.
- cjCamel 8y agoOP here. That isn't the title I submitted. Mine was pretty boring, but factual. Bit miffed that it has been changed to that (though I did forget the [video] tag). The original BBC headline was "Teenager beats Tetris champion at game old than he is", which I didn't like. I note they have now changed it to "Teenager beats man at Tetris to become world champion". tl;dr headlines about retro computer game championships are hard.
- Jpoechill 8y agoWow, I love this. Brings back all the memories
- dzdt 8y agoMy 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.
- rzzzt 8y agoQuadrapassel, a Linux/GNOME variant of the game suffered from this problem as well at one point. These games should look at raw key presses instead of relying on high-level keyboard repeat functionality.
- httpsterio 8y agoAt least in classic tetris and a few other games this has to do with controller polling. If I remember correctly it polls the controller at 30 or 60hz so you'd get the commands in at just before the frame redraws if you're tapping at that speed. I dunno about key repearters though.
- klez 8y agoAny info on the hardware/software they use, rules and stuff like that? Also, does anyone know of any good free software implementation of tetris? (no, don't suggest emacs :P)
- jjuhl 8y agoemacs ;)
- Rebelgecko 8y agoI believe they play on actual NES consoles, hooked up to CRT monitors. You can use an original NES controller or a functionally identical replica. I think they have modified ROMs with a hardcoded seed for the RNG, so that each player gets the same pieces. It can be pretty cool to how oftentimes players start out making identical moves, then slowly diverge.
- bliblah 8y agoThe first thing I show people that don't believe me when I say high level Tetris is hype as heck is the Grand master Exhibitions during Summer Games Done Quick in 2015 [1] and 2016 [2]. My jaw fell to the floor when I saw them beat the game at near instant speed with invisible blocks. I just can't process how fast these guys play. Really glad this community is getting more exposure and more young blood is joining the scene! [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQFeMRXwmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQFeMRXwmg
- veli_joza 8y agoI remember some 15 years ago when I played few hours of tetris on fastest mode to see if I would be able to learn it. At first the game would last 3 seconds, but I managed to bump it up to some 10 seconds before becoming overwhelmed. It was fun exercise of learning process where rules and winning metrics are well defined. That night while falling asleep, my mind was still playing tetris. I visualized the game vividly and could actually play it in my mind. Only later I learned this is actually called The Tetris Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect).
- jancsika 8y agoThe real puzzle is why there are so fewer young people playing Tetris-- a fairly recent game-- than, say, Chess-- which has been around for many decades. (An impressive 100% of known Chess masters are younger than the game.) I'd venture to guess the graphics of Tetris already look outdated by today's standards whereas the realism of Chess is much more visually impressive.
- EchoAce 8y agoThat seems like a valid reason; for me, it seems that the competitive nature of chess and its pre-existing establishment in society as a measure of intellect determines its popularity.
- newen 8y agoParents pay people to teach their kids chess. There are chess classes and there are large organizations devoted to chess. Chess is at a completely different league than tetris; it's ridiculous to compare the two scenes.
- apetresc 8y agoI can't tell if you're serious. Chess is a two-player game with centuries of theory behind it, tens of thousands of books, an incredibly competitive tournament scene with an international rating system. Moreover, it's a great spectator sport; watching chess helps you get better at chess. Tetris, by comparison, is a single-player game (it has multiplayer analogues but they're very artificial) with extremely shallow theory. It is more akin to a puzzle than it is to a competitive game. Watching high-level tetris does nothing to improve your own tetris skill.
- yesenadam 8y agoWatching high-level tetris does nothing to improve your own tetris skill. Is that actually true? It's hard to believe. Surely you'd learn a lot about good strategy and other aspects of the game. Chess is...a great spectator sport Hmm yeah well...Watching someone think for 30 minutes about a move isn't that thrilling. Not uncommonly, both players will be away from the board at the same time. Most big tournaments seem to have hardly anyone actually going to them now - the experience of watching online with expert commentators is so much better. Even if you watch live in the room, you're looking at big screens on the wall, not the actual board. Having said that, chess is the only game/sport I follow these days, I love watching tournaments and matches with commentary online, and analysis videos, banter blitz (grandmaster plays the public online while speaking their thoughts), chess lectures etc. I used to play a lot (it's extremely addictive) but gave up recently - playing (and peoples' behaviour online) can be quite disturbing, but watching is 100% enjoyable. I try to watch in Spanish when possible to improve my Spanish at the same time!
- jordache 8y agowhy is the age of the player vs the game any significance?
- ryen 8y agoHere's the trophy the short article alludes to but doesn't show: https://www.dailyesports.gg/classic-tetris-finals-joseph-saelee-16-wins/ https://www.dailyesports.gg/classic-tetris-finals-joseph-sae...
- hmart 8y agoChess is older than any chess world champion, older than the world as we know maybe. This part of the title is an absurd argument.
- cjCamel 8y agoI agree that it's daft! Not the title I submitted.