This weekend in Los Angeles, Jonas Neubauer, a 29 year-old from Redondo Beach, California, took on all comers to become the Tetris champion of the world. Neubauer scored over half a million points in the NES version of the game, and that was enough to best his competition Harry Wong and take home the prize.
"I got a big-ass trophy," Neubauer said. "It's a three-foot tall trophy, bigger than any of my T-ball trophies."
"I attribute my success to trying a speed-level that was beyond my capabilities. And I kept hammering at it. You have to take yourself out of your comfort zone if you want to be good." Neubauer said.
Neubauer, who holds the world record for NES Tetris at 999,999 points(See video below), hopes that a new challenger rises to test his ultimate Tetris superiority. He's completed two games, back to back, with a max 999,999 scores, but a skilled newcomer could perhaps go for three.
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iamwill1973
ahhh... tetris...
ggCr1xLee
GirlGamer did the exclusive livestream coverage, here's video of the final round. http://www.girlgamer.com/zine/ article/943/
mrnyo
on my tetris ds I have a record of almost 2 million, and I can prove it with a video on my ds, it took me about 3 straight hours to get that record... what started just as a time killing game ended with a record that even I can't believe yet
Happy_Nintendo_Nerd
LOL, Harry Wong...
CamperHunter1
Block goes down, block goes left, block goes right.
Story of my life.
Flying_Potato_Man
I have seen beter that the video which was being provided at the time. Not of the original tetris of course, but it was about ten times speed. Oh wait, scratch that, make that 15 time speed. Check it out on youtube sometime, its called tetris god. NOT the funny video by collage humor(watch that also, funny stuff)
Aldowyn
... There are issues when you have to go by back-to-back highest scores possible. Can we just say he is THE Tetris champ and leave it at that?
plasticgiantcatbear
Bigger than his T-ball trophies?! Holy mother, that's serious business!
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