He played was happy to step out of the spotlight and to allow someone new to step into it. I ended up exactly where I wanted to be, right in the middle.” Thor had a great attitude. He got a big smile on his face and explained, “It’s time to pass the torch to a new generation. I talked with Thor Aackerlund and asked him how he felt about the competition. There was some downtime between the preliminary rounds and the finals, so I decided to do a little meet and greet. Had Thor done better in his first round, he may have had a chance for the final however, he and the other six contestants were eliminated. The round finished with Hong in first place, Neubauer in second, and Thor in third. However, and like the rounds before it, Hong and Neubauer were neck and neck. The third and final round in the preliminaries was identical to the second round. Each of the competitors was lightening fast! Thor made a fantastic comeback in Round 2 showing the crowd that he still had it! Naturally, the crowd went wild with Thor’s 469,454 point victory! Following behind him were Neubauer and Hong. Thus, getting a “Tetris” was important again. Surprisingly, Thor Aackerlund seemed to choke during this first round with a score of just 89 points. Tied behind him were Harry Hong and Ben Mullen who both had scores of 290. Neubauer came out on top of this first round with 294. Heck, getting a “Tetris” (aka 4 lines at once) didn’t even matter. That means that neither time nor score mattered. Each player needed to get the most lines possible. Naturally, even their worst day playing Tetris would put most of us to shame.
Congratulations to Quan Chi from 120-Games for winning the top loader! That made my day!” I smiled to myself thinking, “Cool guy…I hope he’s actually a semifinalist and that I just didn’t get some random dude to sign my box…”Īt 3:00pm, we wrapped up the booth by raffling off an original top loading NES system and some random NES carts. As Neubauer walked away, he commented on signing my game, “Thanks for asking me to sign that. Just hours in the future, the two would have eliminated all other semifinalists to face each other for the title. Little did I know at the time that these were the two best Tetris players in the world. I ask the two of them for their autographs, and Neubauer signed the box asking, “Do you mind if I write a saying?” He wrote out, “To a fellow Blockhead!” At that point, I had no idea who Jonas Neubauer was, but I figured I’d try to get all of the finalists to sign a boxed Tetris for my collection. “Jonas is pretty good too,” explained Hong. He humbly introduced me to the red-headed guy beside him. When I noticed Harry Hong looking over my games, I introduced myself and told him that I recognized him from his Tetris videos. (Part 2: This one features me right at the beginning. (Part 1: You can find me starting at 26 minutes in.) came by and interviewed me as part of their live stream of the event. Although I did make a few sales, the better part seemed to be meeting each person who came by my booth.
Pink tetris screen nes full#
I’m a video game collector, so I brought along a table full of my extras.
I was honored to be a vendor at the Classic Tetris World Championship, to witness the answering of this question, and to meet the people and personalities connected with this fantastic game! The greatest Tetris players converged upon the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles, CA to find the answer to one simple question: Who is the Greatest Tetris player on earth?
Is there any game more famous than Tetris? Could any game have more replay value? More universal appeal?
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