‘Ecstasy of Order’ Cast: Where Are They Now?
On the 21st of October 2011, “Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters” premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Eventually, it received the Audience Award in that event. The film has also been highly praised on G4’s Attack of the Show. This documentary film tracks down the journey of a group of Tetris Masters as they […]
10 Years Ago Today, The 2nd Annual Tetris World Championship Was Held At USC
On the 16th of October 2011, the 2nd Annual Tetris World Championship began in the Bovard Auditorium at the University of Southern California (USC). This event was hosted by Chris Tang and Chris Dreyer. For this event, there were four separate tournaments. NES Tournament PlayStation 3 Tournament PlayStation 3 Team Tournament Tetris Link Tournament NES […]
Packie Wins The 2021 Dr. Mario Championship
Packie travels to the TORG Gaming Expo to seek his third win at the 2021 Dr. Mario Championship. He has appeared in every tournament, having won the first 2 tournaments. Packie Seeks His Third Win at the Dr. Mario Championship The first step of the tournament is qualifying, where players wait in line to join […]
Dr. Mario Championship Moves To Ohio For 2021
The 2021 Dr. Mario Championship will take place at the TORG Gaming Expo in Ohio. This will be the first in-person tournament since the Covid-19 Pandemic. From 2017-2019, Replay FX hosted the tournament in Pennsylvania. While the 2020 tournament was an online event. Eventually, Replay FX was shut down, causing the Dr. Mario Championship (DrMC) […]
2021 Classic Tetris World Championship Will Be Online
The 2021 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) will be an online tournament with the same format as 2020. The only difference is that the tournament will start about a month sooner compared to the previous year. Despite not having an in-person audience, the CTWC continues to be an exciting event that thousands will look forward […]
Jonas Neubauer Dies At The Age Of 39
Jonas Neubauer passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. He was 39 years old. On that day, it was his second day of living in Hawaii. (He and his wife, Heather Ito, had moved there from Los Angeles) Both of them were reading on the couch. Jonas got up to get something and then collapsed. […]
Piece Dependency Podcast: A Classic Tetris Podcast
The Piece Dependency Podcast (PDP) is a podcast about Classic Tetris. Every month, the host, SirMaser, interviews prominent people of the Classic Tetris community. The first episode premiered in June 2020 where SirMaser interviews Chris Foryst. Format Of The Piece Dependency Podcast In each episode, SirMaser interviews a guest(s) on various topic. Each guest talks […]
Dog Wins The 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship
Dog discovered the CTWC after watching the 2018 Finals. In the summer of 2019, he started playing NES Tetris himself. He later founded Classic Tetris Brawl (CTB) in November 2019. The CTB is an online server that hosts monthly divisional tournaments and events. To learn more about it, join their Discord. On December 2019, he got […]
2020 Classic Tetris World Championship: Top 8 Players
Over 100 people had registered for the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC). Players had 2 hours to qualify and post their highest scores. The Top 64 were distributed into 8 separate double elimination brackets. The winners of each bracket advanced to the Top 8. They were placed in a single-elimination bracket and were reseeded […]
2020 Dr. Mario Championship: I Signed Up For It
Since 2017, the Dr. Mario Championship (DrMC) took place at Replay FX in Pittsburgh. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, there was no feasible way to hold an in-person tournament this year. So the organizers decided to hold an online tournament for the 2020 DrMC. To make the tournament possible, players played NES Dr. Mario using […]