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Alex Thach (born November 7, 2008), known online as Alex T, is an American classic Tetris player. He is best known for his victory in the 2024 Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC), becoming the first person to get a score of over 10 million points, and a number of other smaller records achieved on both original and modified game cartridges which prevent crashes late game.
The Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) is a video game competition series, hosted by the Socal Gaming Expo. The competition launched in 2010, during the filming of Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters, to determine the world's greatest Tetris player. [1]
Willis Gibson (born January 27, 2010), also known online as Blue Scuti, is an American classic Tetris player from Stillwater, Oklahoma.He is best known for becoming the first person to "beat" the game on December 21, 2023, after he triggered a killscreen on the previously unreached level 157, crashing the game.
After Neubauer's death, the Classic Tetris World Championship trophy was renamed the Jonas Neubauer Memorial Trophy, and it was redesigned as a golden J-tetromino (representing "J" for "Jonas"). [29] A quote from a 2018 interview of Jonas is engraved on the trophy: “If you’re a high visibility player, it’s on you to move the community in ...
The final matchup in the Classic Tetris World Championship in 2022 resulted in competitors Eric Tolt and Justin Yu both reaching two million points in a game and levels 73 and 69, respectively. To prevent extremely prolonged games, beginning in 2023 the CTWC uses a modified version that includes a "super killscreen" at level 39, where pieces ...
Michael Khanh Artiaga (born November 20, 2007), known online as dogplayingtetris or simply Dog, is an American Tetris player from Texas. He is best known for back-to-back victories in the 2020 and 2021 Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC), the former of which led him to set the Guinness World Record for the "Youngest Tetris World Champion" at 13 years old.
Justin Yu, known online as Fractal161, is an American classic Tetris player from Dallas, Texas.He is best known for his victory in the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC), for becoming the second person to "beat" the game, and first to achieve its earliest possible game crash on January 3, 2024.
At the time, he was known as the only player to claim to have reached level 30 in Tetris [6] Aackerlund soon disappeared from the scene but remained known as perhaps the most well-known name in Tetris prior to the domination of 7-time World Champion Jonas Neubauer. [7]