Tetris Masters vs. Quaid at the 2015 Portland Retro Gaming Expo

A Tetris competitor known only as "Quaid" plays the villain and sets out to spoil the dreams of the top Classic Tetris players in America.
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Quaid, while not one of the subjects in "Ecstasy of Order" (http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com) has emerged as one of the top competitors in the country, placing 7th in 2012, 9th in 2013, and 15th in 2014, where he shocked everyone by gaining the number one seed with a max-out during qualifiers.

From the CTWC Website:

Congratulations to our 2015 Winner and 5 time Champion Jonas Neubauer, and also to our Tetris Ultimate Champion John Tran!

After 6 years of Classic Tetris World Championships, the competition is stronger than ever! Inspired by the historic 1990 Nintendo World Championships, the tournament has brought the love of classic Tetris into the 21st century.

Looking to the future, we anticipate another exciting contest at the 2016 Portland Retro Gaming Expo. We hope to see returning champions Jonas Neubauer and Harry Hong along with many other players featured in the award-winning Tetris movie Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters. http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com



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?

You can also check out the current Tetris Championships here:

http://www.tetrischampionship.com
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