2014 Classic Tetris World Championship Final Match: Harry vs. Jonas

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With full commentary by Video Game Hall-of-Famer Chris Tang, this match is a real gem for all you Tetris fans out there.
From the CTWC website:

In the 1990 Nintendo World Championship competition, Tetris was the game to beat. The winner, Thor Aackerlund, is still seen by many as the best to have ever played.

Today’s Classic Tetris tournaments are played on that same version of Nintendo Tetris, using original NES game systems, controllers, and Tetris cartridges.

In 2009, a player named Harry Hong became the first to achieve the highest possible score of 999,999 points. Inspired by this achievement, filmmaker Adam Cornelius produced a short film about Harry called “Max-Out”, and launched a Kickstarter campaign to document the world of competitive Tetris.

As word of Adam’s Kickstarter campaign spread, rumors of max-out scores from other Tetris Masters began to surface, threatening the supremacy of Harry’s achievement. With the help of Nintendo World Championship veteran Robin Mihara, Adam searched for all of the Tetris Masters he could find. Jonas Neubauer emerged as an early max-out artist, along with the elusive original champ Thor Aackerlund. The idea of bringing these and other NES Tetris Masters together to compete in a live tournament became an obvious and irresistible proposition which was artfully captured in the 2010 feature length documentary Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters.

Under the leadership of producer Vince Clemente, The Classic Tetris World Championship is currently held at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, an annual event which has hosted the tournament since 2012. Chuck Van Pelt and his organizing committee have built the PRGE into the largest classic gaming expo in the country, drawing around 6,000 attendees.

Every year the scores get higher. Rivalries are revisited once again, and new players emerge to challenge the old guard. Over 20 players have maxed out the score now. Will you be the next?

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This dude looks exactly like what i think a professional tetris broadcaster would look like

henrikgostomski

please more respect to a gaming commentator who actually makes a game of tetris interesting

timmiaushamburg

Jonas Neubauer
April 19, 1981 – January 5, 2021
Passing the torch to the new generations.

Thanks for everything Jonas!

Will remember you the most in October during CTWC....

davidtran

Interesting how everyone has stepped up their game since 2014, both the commentators and the players – and it's mostly the same people, which makes it even more admirable! As if they're pulling each other to greater heights.

Notice, for example, how their custom-written software now shows more clearly the scoring differences (and other player stats), which frees up the commentator to offer his perspective on more interesting things :)

jasondoe

Is it just me or is it extremely relaxing to watch Jonas play Tetris?

SirArghPirate

What am I doing with my life? So much to do and I'm watching two guys playing Tetris.

dexiPL

YT recommend this to me in 2024 and I thought why not. I still miss Jonas and it's quite interesting to see how far tetris has come with hyper tapping but then especially rolling!

timmeah

11:34, when your BOOM! TETRIS FOR JONAS goes out of hand

aegis

Very tactical from Harry. Deliberately getting leads in time to try and put Jonas under pressure then just keeping his decks clear with doubles and triples leaving no room for error.

RobBrown

I think it sufficient to say that Jonas could be 8-0 in TWC finals if he didn't have a 54 peice drought going into the transition. I'm so glad they made it so each person gets the same peices it should have always been that way.

gregedwards

Counted a 54-piece longbar drought for Jonas in that last game. With true RNG, the odds on that happening are (6/7)^54, or 0.024%. In other words, a drought that long statistically will happen about once every 4000 games.

untexan

Jonas was defeated... the end of the world is near, guys

alanponce

Crazy seeing Jonas going for singles and doubles after the transition, knowing what he's capable of now in 2019

Aericane

I am not good at Tetris but I LOVE watching these videos. So exciting. Interesting to see how the skill level has increased from this video to the most recent.

pinfarmer