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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.
In the early 2000s, he posted some of these recordings to the internet, including a photo of a 980,000 score. [5] [4] [9] During this time, he competed with Nintendo World Championships runner-up Rich Ambler for high scores. [10] Neubauer first claimed to have attained a max-out score of 999,999 points on March 23, 2001. [11]
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.
Tetris on the NES is, as most NES games were, a little bit buggy. After a certain point, the speed becomes way too much for most humans to handle, and the screen becomes very glitchy.
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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.
According to the Tetris Co., over 520 million units of Tetris have been sold worldwide, and the game has been downloaded more than 615 million times on mobile devices.
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 ...