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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.
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.
The record playthrough lasted 38 minutes and was uploaded to Gibson's YouTube channel on January 2, 2024, under the title "The First Time Somebody Has Ever 'Beat' Tetris". [11] [12] The playthrough was also the highest overall scoring game of Tetris at the time of recording. [8] The achievement attracted mass media attention.
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.
Mitchell set high-score records on several games in the 1980s and 1990s. Since his initial high score in Donkey Kong in 1982, and record-breaking attempts between 2004 and 2010, others have matched or surpassed Mitchell's scores. In 1982, Mitchell set a record on Donkey Kong with 874,300 points. [5]
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.
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]
Andrew Artiaga, known online as P1xelAndy, is an American Tetris player from Texas. Competitively, Artiaga has placed second in the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC) and third in the 2022 CTWC. On January 4, 2024, Artiaga also became the third person to ever "beat" the game, only days after his competitors did so for the first time.