Top 8 - 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship

From the 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship, Top 8 matches:

Sean Ritchie (aka Quaid) vs Harry Hong
Jani Herlevi vs Jeff Moore
Jonas Neubauer vs Alex Kerr
Trey Harrison vs Koji Nishio (aka Koryan)

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?

[cortonimor]

16:15 "Very fortunate place piecement"

[Lukimator]

Everybody mentions the BOOM, but nobody mentions the "they are neck and neck", lol

[mateomaric]

Drinking challenge: take a shot every time you hear the word "BOOM".

[TheKingKenney]

3:43 - Jesus, that is some INTENSE commentating...

[thomastuerff]

"They're both getting the same place piecements" lmao

[alexzhao]

Dude at the end there, Koryan is like "Did I win?" and keeps playing LOL

[BigBossIncarnate]

harry looks like he hates everyone all the time

[pc]

23:04 probably the best burn tactics on Alex's part

[Justinarm]

Man, when Alex misdropped that Z and then stuck the following I-piece at 28:12... I felt that pain through the video. He was legitimately disappointed in himself and lost his very professional composure for just a few seconds. Completely understandable.

[crispylemon]

I've been watching the championships so that I can learn so skills and become a pro at Tetris :))

[FLomasterZ]

I never knew that watching tetris play can be so exciting.

[gametime]

I love playing almost all versions of Tetris but my favorite to watch is the NES version.

[ianmazzola]

Can we acknowledge how ON FIRE Jeff was during the first round??

[nichname]

15:22




Don’t you just love the same place piecements

[serenityculp]

15:22 I think he went to say "piece placements" but he said "place piecements" 😂😂

[hmrhuang]

How the fuck did Jani make the Top 8?!

[maybewise]

28:11 Koryan and Alex ran into the same problem at about the same time. I even though they were saying "Oh, no!", about Koryan, at first.

[bleachgarage]

more Tetris than you can handle ... BOOM! Tetris for Jeff

[thedarkness]

Jani looks like the typical nerd with his shirt buttoned up to his chin lol

[MultiJejje]

They always start to hype that player who is down like 100k points and saying how nicely he bounces back. Lol.