Top 4 - 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship

From the 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship, Top 4 matches:

Jeff Moore vs Harry Hong
Koji Nishio (aka Koryan) vs Jonas Neubauer

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?

[imaEnVideo]

I've played classic tetris on game boy when I was younger. I particpated and commented competitives tournament for other games, and let me tell you, i never expected Tetris to be so entertaining.
And for people criticizing the commentors: it's MUCH MORE difficult to do than you think, i can understand the "BOOM Tetris for XXX" being annoying, but it's part of what helps keep up the rythm.

[totalradnes]

The last Harry and Jeff match was such a nail biter!  Both of them owned it.  So Awesome.

[Robin-sclf]

Jonas literally does not blink once during the entire game.

[damsesse]

00:05 *"I'LL BANG FOR YOU JEFF"*

[danielhicks]

Crazy to see how much Koryan has leveled up just since 2016, heck even between the 2018 event and 2019 his jump was massive really in his overall skill/consistency/ confidence/speed etc, but back here in 2016 while obviously still one of the best in the world he was literally like 1/3rd as good as he is now.

[maxi]

That "Boom"... I would like a job like that... Just talk what I fell like and just "Boom"
And sometimes, he don't do is job... to just say "Boom"

[user]

aaaand and...





BOOM! TETRIS FOR JEFF!

[shapieq]

crazyrussianhacker might be the perfect guy to be the announcer

[DriftingStarrLight]

i dont even play tetris much but i am so captivated by watching this, i cant even explain why XD

[Phistra]

0:34 One of the most memorable phrases of the competition.

[bufftucker]

Harry doesn't look that hairy to me...

[danielkarlsson]

I've watched a lot of Tetris vids lately. Those 4 are absolutely the top of the pack. Amazing. Just ordered Tetris for both NES and GameBoy.

[SimsMoyal]

No matter the result - Jeff will always be in our heart !

[calvinyork]

I know nothing about Tetris strategies, but I do know how satisfying it is to watch these guys play

[crispylemon]

Jonas is so chill it's so fun to watch him

[DarkNaifu]

These comments... All his life, all he wanted to do was 'Boom! Tetris'. Let the man Boom! Just let him Boom!

[aidandunworth]

I would buy a boom Tetris for Jeff shirt

[johannviveros]

I like when he says "Boom, trtsh fo Yonas".

[KulaGGin]

BOOM TETRIS FOR JEFF!!!

It will never leave me after that Jeff vs Jonas finals xd

[ethanapplefeld]

How can you be aggressive in this game?