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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 inaugural Classic Tetris World Championship was held on August 8, 2010 [1] at the Downtown Independent theater in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles was chosen because several high-ranking players lived there. [9] Modeled after the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, eight players completed three Tetris challenges to decide the two finalists.
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.
Artiaga was introduced to Tetris alongside his brother in elementary school, after playing it on the original Game Boy at their house. [3] Andrew and Michael, at 13 and 10 years old respectively, began to play the game more intently after watching 16-year-old Joseph Saelee's victory against the 37-year-old and previous champion Jonas Neubauer on YouTube in the 2018 Classic Tetris World ...
[183] [23] [87] Tetris has over 200 official variants across 70 platforms to date, a record acknowledged by the Guinness World Records. [184] Tetris has also earned other Guinness records, such as the record for "largest architectural video game display", granted to a version hosted on the side of the 29-story Cira Center in April 2014. [185] "
Tetris players practicing before the competition in the film The Tetris competition. An Oregon-based Tetris enthusiast by the name of Robin Mihara, longing to track down the best Tetris players in the nation for the purpose of organizing a competition, happens upon a website called Twin Galaxies, which has been tracking video game world records since the 1980s.
Score world record holder (2000, 2018) Jonas Evan Neubauer (April 19, 1981 – January 5, 2021 [ 1 ] ) was an American Tetris player, Twitch streamer , and a taproom manager . Winning seven championships at the Classic Tetris World Championships , Neubauer is widely considered to be one of the greatest Tetris players of all time.
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.