Classic Tetris World Championship

Classic Tetris World Championship
Tournament information
Sport Tetris
Location Portland, Oregon
Established 2010
Number of
tournaments
 One annually
Current champion
Jonas Neubauer

The Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) is a video game competition series, hosted by the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The competition launched in 2010, during the filming of Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters to determine the world's greatest Tetris player.[1] The first two years the competition was held in Los Angeles, California[2] but has since moved to Portland, Oregon and has been held there annually since 2012.

The contestants play on actual Nintendo Entertainment Systems and CRT-Televisions. The final rounds are streamed online with live-edited screens and Head-up display to improve viewer experience. The tournament has been dominated by Jonas Neubauer, who has won seven titles and lost only once, in 2014 to Harry Hong.

Competition

The competition takes place over two days, with the Qualifying Round on the first day and the Main Event on the second. Contestants are allowed to bring their own controller, but it must be an original, unmodified NES Controller.

Qualifying Round

Qualifying takes place on a fixed number of NES stations. Entrants play "Type A" Tetris, starting on level 9 or higher, and are ranked based on their final score. Once an entrant's game ends for any reason, his/her total must be recorded by a tournament scorekeeper in order to be valid. Entrants may make as many qualifying attempts as they wish, but must return to the back of the waiting line for each one. Additionally there is the option to pay small amount of money and rent a station for an hour.

The top 32 scorers are seeded into a tournament bracket for the Main Event.[3]

Main Event

The Main Event is a single-elimination tournament consisting of five rounds of head-to-head matches, with seeds from opposite ends of the rankings pitted against each other in the first round (#1 vs. #32, #2 vs. #31, etc.). All matches are best of three, the final is a best of five match.

Both players begin to play at the same time on separate systems, and the game continues until one of the following occurs:[3]

  • Trailing player tops-out (leader wins)
  • Leader tops-out; trailing player fails to match that score before topping-out (leader wins)
  • Leader tops out; trailing player passes that score (trailing player wins)

Results

A special cartridge given to supporters of the event in 2013.
YearChampion2nd place3rd place
2010Jonas NeubauerHarry HongMatt Buco
2011Jonas NeubauerAlex KerrRobin Mihara
2012Jonas NeubauerMike WinzinekEli Markstrom
2013[4]Jonas NeubauerHarry HongChad Muse
2014Harry HongJonas NeubauerTerry Purcell
2015Jonas NeubauerSean RitchieAlex Kerr
2016Jonas NeubauerJeff MooreHarry Hong
2017Jonas NeubauerAlex KerrSean Ritchie

Similar events and side events

Since 2015 a European Championship is played in Copenhagen, Denmark. The tournament follows the same structure but is played on the PAL version, which runs a bit faster.

During the expo there have been several tournaments on other systems over the years, for example: Tetris & Dr. Mario on SNES, Tetris Ultimate on the PlayStation 4 or Tetris: The Grand Master 2 on Arcade.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Classic Tetris World Championship Coming to Los Angeles". Wired. August 3, 2010. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ Christopher MacManus (October 17, 2011). "Meet the new Tetris world champs". CNET News. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Official Classic Tetris World Championship Site".
  4. ↑ Ritchie, Ryan (October 16, 2014). "King of the Block: Meet the World's Greatest 'Tetris' Player". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
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