A 15 Year Old Just Broke Every Tetris World Record

I'm about to demolish every single world record normally saying something like this is wishful thinking but for Tetris player Alex T it would actually come true on March 11th 2024 he played a game of NES Tetris that went far beyond where anyone had ever gotten before and was the culmination of generations of techniques dating back to 1989 when the game was first released and for the first time he would give a glimpse of the possibility of getting to the very end of the game so how did he do it in anas Tetris for every 10 lines you clear you move up to the next level thus it becomes a challenge for the player and the game to get to the highest level possible but for most of the game's history the vast majority of the levels were gay capped Behind The Impossible level 29 almost everyone held their controller like this holding down their thumbs to move pieces to the side and well level 29 is so fast that the pieces no longer reach the sides there was one place early on the winner of the 1990 Nintendo World Championships Thor oand who had a special but difficult thumb wiggling technique called hypertapping what none of us practiced doing was vibrate our left thumb and that's what Thor would do and he could get the piece to move left to right faster than all of us but the best Thor was ever able to do on video was just barely beating level 29 in 2011 over two decades after the game's release he did manage to discover that the level counter glitches out after 29 in correctly displaying level 30 as level 00 but this didn't really feel like fully Conquering the barrier rather just reaching an arms length further as a tiny peak of what might lie Beyond but then in 2015 a Japanese Grandmaster coron picked up the game and it first he copied Thor's technique but then he had an Innovative idea to hypertap not with his thumb but with his pointer finger this allowed him to reach PE speeds never before possible and even set up four lines at once AKA a Tetris line clear on level 30 come on stop it was so simple in retrospect but the fact that coron thought outside the box with how to place his hands ended up being the key that inspired a whole new generation of younger players to experiment with their own hypertapping positions and slowly push the game to new heights and it seemed like the best hyper Tapper of all was going to be Alex thatch wow oh my God a 1356 from Alex e we are seeing Alex's capabilities post 29 wow he's destroying the room there's his guest bed there that he's toppling over he's rans sacking his own room this kid is trying to qualify for the World Championship to of Alex entered the tetris scene with a splash in 2020 when at just 11 years old he became the youngest player in history to max out the game score counter with 1 million points his speed and St stacking was unparalleled and if he kept practicing it seems like he was destined to someday become the greatest player in the world 2 years later it looked like that was finally happening Alex set his first level world record by being the first player to ever make it all the way to level 41 and he had just won the monthly Masters event the biggest neses Tetris tournament in the world for 2 months in a row in December 20121 in January 2022 what an incredible Fitness a win in the kill screen for Alex T chasing it down but this would be the last time a hyper Tapper ever won the tournament as another player was turning the tetris world upside down there's a new way to play Tetris and it's literally changing the game moving the rolling to the bottom absolutely genius Cheese's new rolling technique utilized not one but multiple fingers across the back of the controller effectively using it as a giant button to push it into a finger on the top rolling could move pieces as fast as 30 times a second the maximum speed possible within the game cheese immediately broke Alex T's record by making it all the way to level 44 and in February 2022 cheese defeated Alex T in the finals of the Master's event Alex is not going to survive this and cheese is going to take the victory cheese is yours Master's event February 2021 winner just like that Alex T's biggest advantage had been Stripped Away From Him most of the other top players quickly switched to Rolling fulltime but although axt experimented with it he stubbornly resisted making the switch because he could still mostly keep up with his tapping how is your rolling progression Ben is it a play style that you want to Main in the future I've been rolling for 6 months I have 100 lines on 29 I'm not that motivated yet to main it so tapping is my main sty right now eventually though after rollers got a lot better and Alex T kept losing to them it became clear he needed to completely adopt rolling if he wanted a chance at his ultimate goal winning a world title at the classic Tetris World Championships he entered the 20122 world championships as a full-time roller but he lost in the top 16 in a shocking upset when he had several baffling M drops with his rolling that is looking in a very precarious situation has to get pieces over to the left nice flat and hangs the ey piece this might be it for thaty and thaty hangs it tops out s completes an upset a different roller Eric icx would end up taking home the world title in 2023 Alex T seemed to be finally hitting his stride as he won his first Master's event with rolling in April but when it came time for the 2023 World Championships he again faltered in the top eight where bar where is it nowhere drought at the wrong time right there a different roller fractal would take home the world title and in terms of World Records Alex was just being left in the dust rollers were now getting so far into the game that they were discovering new bugs and glitches deep up the level ladder the 2022 World Champion Eric icx managed to get all the way past level 138 where the color palette for the levels breaks its normal 10 color cycle and starts completely glitching out with Eric's game eventually ending at level 146 a particularly tough glitched color scheme ni named dusk another player pixel Andy would be the first to reach level 148 an even tougher glitch color scheme of dark gray and black pieces nicknamed charcoal but it ended up being another young kid like Alex T that would really change everything in December 2023 a player named Lou scooty made it all the way to level 157 where he encountered a new type of glitch that crashed the game well it took nearly 35 years but a 14-year-old Oklahoma boy has become the first human to beat the original Tetris game blue scooty's achievement made worldwide news with him being dubbed the first ever to beat Tetris although he hadn't actually done it at the earliest possible Point as the first opportunity to trigger the crash actually appears on level 155 if you clear a single on the first line but soon enough the 2023 world champion fractal would do just that and get the second ever game Crash and pixel Andy followed suit a few days later with the third ever game Crash and just a few days after that he would do something that blew everyone away he crushed the overall score world record of 6.8 Million by getting an insane 8.9 million and he had managed to do it before ever reaching the crash trigger levels what was his secret well a Tetris line clear is worth by far the most points and continually gets more valuable on the highest levels but is risky to set up past level 29 due to the speed so Andy strategically went for tetrises on the easy slow levels before level 29 played it safe from levels 29 to 68 and then went aggressive from level 69 onwards to take advantage of the more valuable tetrises being able to cash in millions of points before he eventually died on charcoal the official classic Tetris twitch page quickly took notice and immediately started up a bounty for the first player to reach 10 million points that rapidly raised over $2,000 with a weekly live show featuring the top players in the world attempting to to reach the mark many players were attempting a similar strategy to pixel Andy just waiting out for later tetrises and trying to grab a few more than heed but fractal who was considered probably the front runner had an even more ambitious goal my goal for this has not been 10 million my goal is to like improve and to become so good that I set the world record that literally kills the category for a year what score do you think would kill the category for a while 15 million maybe in order to get a score like 15 million fractal was going to need to go for tetrises out of the the gate at level 29 and basically never stop the best kind of practice is if you just go crazy from the start because that's what you're going to need to do regardless like if I can't get more than like 40 or 50 tetrises compressed then there's like it's not feasible for me to do it when like things are spread out and meanwhile Alex T who hadn't been making headlines at all had been losing motivation but he decided to change things up he had always rolled with his bare hands unlike most of the other top players who used gloves to reduce friction but he figured was worth a shot to try and then immediately started playing better trying to keep this open what a spin and a Tetris for Alex TF C6 he so clutch just a 10,000 Point difference and Alex is going to outlast fractal oh my word he decided it was time to try for World Records again the level world record and score world record were more competitive categories than ever before why not try for both on March 11 11 2024 Alex T sent an unexpected message on Discord in the middle of the night a picture of a 9.9 million score this game would be the new score world record and be enough to claim the Bounty if no one got to 10 million by May 16th there was just one problem the game wasn't recorded according to Alex it was just a practice game that had gotten a bit out of hand so was this a believable claim was the game legitimate well ultimately it didn't really matter the bottom line was was there just wasn't enough proof for such a prominent world record in the scene especially one with potentially a large cash reward the requirement was that the game be live streamed publicly essentially it was Schrodinger's world record it existed in Alex te's reality but not everybody else's Alex T followed up by saying that he was creating a live stream setup so that any future runs would have adequate proof the next day he sat down to play some games on stream at the beginning of his second attempt he talked about how he had a different strategy than fractal okay I need to like not go for um freaking uh aggressive kill scre tetes if I get a good score into kill screen I'm just going to line out pretty quickly Alex T showed why it's risky to go for tetrises on the higher levels the pieces are basically completely random meaning you have no idea how long it will be before the next line piece AKA The Long Bar shows up even on the slow and easy level 18 Alex could occasionally run into trouble if he ran into a Long Bar drought yo where's the bar piece where's the bar yo yo yo yo thank you man so Alex T quickly scaled back his aggression and played it safe and the slower level speed allowed him to do things you'd normally never see a prot Tetris player doing such as playing one-handed while stretching his rolling hand oh crap that's not good we're standing up to read chat what is going on in chat I'm going to I'm going to look in chat right now yeah W chat reader okay now I can't the PC is just blocking like my freaking sight from chat eventually Alex T starts ramping up his aggression again to avoid void wasting lines on non- tetrises we go for the vits the vertical I tuck setup or vits is one of the most daring strategies in the game because it requires two long bars to resolve and get the tetris instead of just one wait I should like stream more like I'm like the best person to get 10 m low key hot take right before level 29 Alex T takes one last opportunity to try and read twitch chat okay let's read chat again what oh sh I misra this is not good yo calm down now that the fastest speed in the game has arrived Alex T has to focus up should I go for the tetris yeah I should let's go for the tetris yep see Max out I wanted the max out that's why I went for the tetris there the max out would normally be displayed as just a string of nines but Alex T's game has a mod that displays the first digit in HEX aimal allowing the score to go up to 1.6 million after that the score counter breaks again though so we'll have to do some manual calculations later in this run to see Alex T's true score almost immediately Alex T runs into some pretty big trouble yo are you kidding me calm down calm down with these P sequence yo calm down with these P sequence incredibly he manages to excavate his way out of the rubble with ease W down stack W downstack average L downstack you guys can always rely on me like diing out of like situations I always get out of it like no matter the outcome like of the board pill screen Tetris let's practice Mega Master for a little bit let's go for kill screen tetrises Alex T suddenly ramps up his aggression and plays competition style since recent high-profile tournaments have been capped at level 39 so games don't go too long he manages to score six tetrises from levels 35 to 38 but goes back to playing safe as soon as he hits level 39 okay no more no more Mega Master like type of stuff like this is infinite play again no more playing aggressive we are not fractal and what is fractal up to well the reigning world champ is actually live streaming himself at the exact same time although he's currently still doing warm-up games by the way Alex thatch figured out his uh his stamina issues and he's like kind of insane right now so he's streaming believe exclusively on Twitch check him out twitch.tv/ Tetris alext and for alext there's actually a bit more strategy to playing it safe that it may seem on the surface instead of using his long bars for tetrises he keeps stacking them vertically on the left nice we have uh hide left now nice now we don't have the fal what does alext mean by this well in order move pieces around the board it typically takes between 1 to four movements which easily match up with the four primary fingers but there are a couple piece placements that take five movements when moved all the way to the left which can be tricky because they require rolling with the thumb or an extra button push with the other hand so by throwing long bars on the left Alex T is minimizing the amount of times he has to perform the tricky five rolls because it's four guaranteed lines he won't have to do any more five rolls on nice nice I'm always like so anxious like hitting five rolls so when you have like a good left it just like comforts me slow and steady like wins the race you know as Alex T approaches the first score rollover though he can't resist trying for a Tetris again and immediately regrets it when he misses a double flip what yo oh my God that double flip like scared me that was just like a jump scare okay yeah bro that was so freaking scary bro although Alex T's score is displaying as only a little over 84,000 in reality it's 1 million 680,000 will bring back a real-time score counter throughout the run when it's relevant for now though Alex T is going back to playing it safe a again once I get 2 Milli I'll go for tetrises I need that aggression but when he hits 2 million he changes his mind get 2 mil actually I'm going to go aggressive when I hit 2.1 million I feel like that's better like score to start going for Tetris he changes his mind again when he reaches the new Mark you know what i' take it back I'll go for tetrises once I hit 2.2 million alext continues this pattern for dozens of levels okay once I get 2.8 I'm going to start going for tetrises I'm going to just go for tetrises when I get three mil I'll go for kill tetrises once I hit 3.3 it's not until level 95 that he tries for a Tetris again and has to bail when he doesn't get the pieces for it wait one more line yes level 100 sh the three digits it's worth noting at this point that Alex T is already an extremely rare territory if you look at the level leader board only 10 people have ever gotten to level 100 it even once over on fractal stream he pauses practicing to pull up Alex T's game okay yeah I'm I'm going to be watching Alex right now where's he at right now oh he's at a th oh my God on level 104 Alex T tries to go for another Tetris but gets droughted again game won't let me get the tetris bro oh that's not good that is not good it's over never played too aggressive see I should have not gone for theis Alex T is forced to perform his second Miracle dig of the day uh just a casual dig it's not like that was not even scary bro that was just light work how long have I not gotten a Tetris yet I'm kind of curious bro it's been like I don't know 50 levels it's in fact been even longer than that Alex T's last Tetris was on level 48 meaning it's been 64 levels without a Tetris even pixel Andy had only waited 40 levels between tetrises but that Tetris drought would finally come to an end finally a clean petris I've been waiting for that bro I almost topped out because of like a freaking like bad bar timing but now Alex te must make up for lost time his real- time score is only a little over 4 million not even halfway to the Bounty and he only has about 20 more levels until the glitched colors on level 118 he tries to ramp up the aggression but is immediately battered by RNG again nice Tetris oh my God that was actually a scary Tetris that was actually quite a scary Tetris oh my God the risk of going for tetrises just keeps feeling like too much Alex T goes back to his Tetris ways lining out all the way until he's on the verge of the glitched colors time to evoke the magic word uh lock in I regret nothing Alex T is quoting fractal's line he told himself when he was about to enter the glitch colors on his own first game Crash Ron let lock in I regret nothing okay my nerves will fade away after 10 more lines come on hand wiped now we have no more sweat here we go this is The Showdown [Music] let's go let's get it here we go and just like that Alex T has entered the glitched colors I'm going to prove you guys that I got 9.9 million and this game it's going to be the 10 million but as he gets further he starts to encounter the difficult colors the glitched levels are known for oh that's hard to see that's really hard the green the green is really hard to see and suddenly Alex remembers the first boss color level nice execution bro oh D is approaching a challenger has approached okay next box eyes wide open this is a reference to fractal strategy he's used whenever he approaches the darkest levels okay next box eyes wide open and sure enough frackle is watching live and here's the reference next box Eyes Wide Open Alex T conquers dusk with a low board and moves on to Charcoal continuing to repeat fractal's signature line Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open Alex T is getting closer and closer to the longest game in history ah what the hell now he's starting to channel the energy of Yanni from a famous clip of the European finals where he started screaming oh this is crazy I he's still doing it he's still doing it Alex T has fought all the way to level 152 just three levels away from level 155 where the first crash trigger appears we can actually crash the game we can actually crash the game come on to trigger the crash the player must get a single on the final line of level 154 but instead Alex T takes a double no I missed the game Crash no no no no no no no please crash now he's channeling the words of blue scooty after he missed the first crash trigger oh my God just please crash the second major chance for a game Crash is level 157 where every single has a 70% chance of triggering the crash I need to take a single Next Level yes wait what wait why did my game didn't crash what wait did the game glitch he knows that he can't crash right does he not no what's going on here is something up with Alex te's game so one thing to understand about Tetris players nowadays and there was a bit of a hint to this earlier is that most of the time when they're going for World Records they're not actually playing on an original fully unmodified cartridge and this isn't because they want to change the game itself the entire Community is built around the tradition of playing the exact same game all the tetris grates of old did it's just that there are a few things about playing on an original cartridge that are a little bit shall we say Annoying It's annoying to not know what level you're on past level 29 it's annoying to not be able to see score updates past 1 million points and it's a especially annoying to have to sit through the slow rocket screen after finishing each game before you can start a new one so rather than deal with all these inconveniences forever players began switching over a few years ago to a popular mod in the community that fixes all these issues while leaving everything inside the Playfield completely untouched and even then of course the score counter isn't fully fixed but players could tolerate it as it was at least a lot easier to count the rollovers afterwards however the game Crash mechanic on original carts wasn't fully understood until very recently in fact the trigger here is caused by the original cap score counter causing a bug where the game score takes so long to internally calculate that it can't finish by the time the game needs to display the next frame triggering a catastrophic error that crashes the game so in order to get the game Crash some players briefly switched back to playing on completely original cartridges in late 2023 and getting the game Crash is really difficult although three players famously were able to do it a lot of other top players tried and ultimately fell short due to the sheer length of survival required and the difficulty of the glitched colors so when the race to 10 million started modded carts were allowed both for all the conveniences and because players were trying to get to 10 million before they had to deal with the glitched colors anyways but Alex T having been punished all game every time he tried for a Tetris had pivoted towards just pure survival and as a result he was finally at the point where the crash triggers were supposed to be and was only barely above 7 million points so now you may be thinking well if Alex T gets the world record here does this game even count as the official world record it's a good question that I'll address at the end of the video but for now there's no debate to be had unless Alex T can actually get there and there's a reason no one else has tried to do it this way even without worrying about the bombs Alex T has a treacherous road ahead of him with dozens of difficult glitched color levels on the horizon that no player had ever conquered before at the very end of the road was the mythical level 255 the last level of ANS Tetris after which the game would be reborn was it possible to get there well everyone was about to find [Music] out okay guys I don't know what's my score and I can't read chat so I'm going just line out I'm going just line out to Reaper like oh that's bad level 159 presented the next major Challenge and was nearly as bad as charcoal but Alex made quick work of it like Santa on Christmas well oh okay I like this Christmas colors level 162 too had the same color scheme as dusk but Alex again breeed through it like it was nothing this is redemption Al heck yes this was in reference to Joseph s's signature pop off when he got a world record yes world record heck yeah heck yeah this Redemption for that one miss no recorded on the 9.9 this is going to be the greatest game of in history imagine the headlines 15-year-old kid demolish the game of tetr on level 1770 Alex T encountered another charcoal he coasted through almost as if he was used to it at this point but then he encountered a new color scheme he hadn't seen before wait oh shoot these colors are blurry I actually need to lock in I can't see these colors this level featured nothing but dark green tiles and was appropriately known in the community by the nickname green of course like every tough level before it Alex T fought through and started getting more and more hyped give it bring it on come on rebirth my like vision is so good I can see every dark color I don't know if it's my CRT or I just have super enhanced Vision there's there's no way this is not 10 mil already like come on bro he wasn't quite there yet but he was close with his true life score being 9.5 million a few more levels might be enough this is the game of like Glory we are not topping out because I am not nervous by level 185 Alex T was right on the verge and fractal had been keeping track for one more let's go oh my good oh that's not good there it is he got it he got it he got it he got reset uh eyes wide open it was actually probably helping Alex T stay focused in the moment that he wasn't quite sure when he was going to hit the world record but by level 189 he figured this had to be it there's no way this is not 10 million right there's no way ba ba I won I won $2,000 yeah from Tetris I'm I'm going to PayPal you like PayPal you like like in a week it looked like Alex T was truly Unstoppable now but there was one lingering concern in the back of his mind I I think Eric icx like mentioned about I'm I'm bound to get the Charle 800 lines so like this might be it might be doomed for me alext is referring to a video guide made by Eric IX on how to get all the way past level 255 AKA rebirth in it he talks about two very important glitches that happen late in the game the level desync and the 8810 line level if you clear a single which would transition you to level 164 or higher the game will play the level up sound but it will not Advance the level color or palette by level 177 this will also happen for all three other types of Line clears therefore it's guaranteed that by the transition into 177 the game at some point will have switched to displaying the pallet that should have been used for the previous level one of the levels between 174 and 255 will be a staggering 810 lines long if we start between levels 15 and 19 the 810 line level will occur at level 235 now unfortunately this specific level has this color palette which is the second darkest out of all of the glitched colors now since no human player has ever gotten this far in the game before Alex T isn't 100% sure how this is all going to work especially since he's playing on a modded ROM he just knows at some point to expect an 810 line level on charcoal okay I don't know when freaking charcoal is I think it's level 214 or somewhere around the 210 that would be the greatest challenge uh ever on level 210 Alex T is still going strong and encounters another dusk since charcoal usually comes to levels after dusk Alex T starts bracing for the marathon to come bro these colors got nothing on me bro I I can take charcoal and her Lin's level right now it has to be the next level okay 800 Lions 800 lons we got it I got it dude but after clearing 10 lines the game levels up like normal oh wait it's not that when is freaking 800 lines Alex T keeps climbing and climbing and on level 232 everything is still proceeding normally I guess there's no freaking uh freaking 800 Lin level I guess they took it out thank you kir Java kava is the guy who made the mod Alex T is playing on and it's a pretty reasonable assumption that since the game Crash bug went away maybe this bugged level did too but but on level 234 Alex T is going to encounter another charcoal oh that's bad lck in but alext is basically a pro and charcoal at this point okay that was easy that that was not even okay never mind okay that's that's actually hard to see okay Eyes Wide Open Alex T encounters another green level he does what he needs to do and gets through 10 lines of it but then something strange happens okay oh wait what wait this is the 800 L level oh my God this is hard to see as it turns out Alex T was half right the mod did take out another bug but it wasn't the one he was expecting it was the level desync and what that meant for the 80 line level is instead of it being on charcoal it would be on perhaps the one color scheme that was even harder he reached well in 800 line level I'm I'm a reaction YouTuber now that's crazy oh my God I can't see I I thought it was going to end for the first time all game Alex T is visibly shook okay well we got to just just stay just stick with it for 8 800 lines Alex te's demeanor has changed there was no more joking around dude screw an Lions who added this I should have rebirth why 800 mes it's in this freaking oh my goodness now this is going to be the most challenging part bruh he seems to be playing well in this but this might actually be able to kill him trapped just 20 levels away from the mythical achievement of rebirth alext had no choice but to just keep slogging through endless green I don't know when I'm going to freaking uh get to the next level man I'm just stuck here beyond the color itself the monotony also seems to be getting to him I want to read chat so badly right now dude my eyes are freaking like like it's I it's so freaking sore Alex T have been playing one game of any as Tetris for almost one whole hour I think it's been like 60 lines so we have like 740 more lines to go are you serious right now the visibility is finally starting to become a problem okay I miss dropped because I I couldn't see the piece oh that might be it right as Alex crosses the 1 hour mark he's in serious trouble with the stack on the left he waits for a long but to throw down the center to knock it down uses another Long Bar to fill out the center and goes for a game saving move with the J piece and just misses oh my God after 84 lines of green or just 10% of the Long Level Alex te's run is finally over but now he can celebrate what has this is redemption day one of 10 million look what we got Alex sees the final score for the first time and starts shaking he's scored an unfathomable 16 million almost double the previous score world record and by far the biggest score jump in Tetris [Music] history such a moment is caused for celebration and so Alex T starts chugging parmesan cheese and pouring it on his head he gets some shampoo to clean up and then takes a milk shower I got I got new world record first 10 m 10 [Music] million fractal extended the congratulations on his stream this is wonderful I'm really happy cuz he he's he's talks occasionally about like feeling unmotivated and wanting to quit it's always felt like his mental was the only thing that was holding himself back Alex T had finally conquered the mental barrier to unlocking his full potential and it actually explained it himself during the run on level 188 I'm going to be like actually serious like I've been messing around the whole run and I think like me just like joking around has been like actually like suiting my nerves even without having to worry about Crash dodging Alex te's record had blown every other Tetris game in history out of the water typically just even hitting dusk or charcoal once would kill the majority of the games that got this far but in this run Alex T had survived four question is this game the official world record will this count as world record I count it the most common argument I've seen against Alex T's record is that it feels arbitrary if you take out one glitch why not take out them all but his game does have the support of many top players because kava's mod had become the standard for long games years before any of the glitches were relevant and the glitches that were taken out were done so unintentionally by fixing unrelated areas of the game so there are likely to just be two competing standards going forward kava's mod and the original cart in the past maybe Nintendo Guinness World Records or Twin Galaxies would have made the final call on this but the thing about the Tetra scene as it exists today is that it's been built up organically by the community and the community hasn't had to rely on corporate entities that may or may not be in touch with what the players actually care about to track their world records in years nowadays the leaderboards everyone considers official are run by community members themselves in a massive project in Google Sheets that was started by hydrant dude wait this guy again how does he keep showing up in every video and rather than have a civil war over whether the modded cart or original cart records are at the top by default the editors decided to include both on the score and level World Record leaderboards with a special star next to games that were achieved on the game Crash so all the top games can be viewed together in context whether alext has the official world record or not ultimately is kind of up to you in the end the front page of the leaderboard States this sheet contains all all score claims taken seriously by the community for you the reader to determine your own rankings and the same creator of the mod kurava is even working on a website that will allow anyone to autofilter the leaderboards by a number of different parameters I'll link his prototype website in the description and update it when the full version gets released but just in case you have any lingering doubts Alex T decided to help you out after getting the modded cart world record he decided it was time to try again on the OG [Applause] on April 2nd 2024 Alex T started live streaming to a Discord group call while playing on the original cards and fractal was also in the call wait so are we just here to watch Alex get crash yeah Alex is going for crash wait good luck wait are you going for Crush Dodge or crash I I know how to crash don't worry I know ought to crash just trust me here okay where's the second setup uh minor singles are minor r at level 155 four I think spoken like somebody who knows what they're doing Alex C had multiple Ambitions even Beyond crash Dodge lowy I want to get the first charcoal Tetris I want to get the first charcoal Tetris Loki I want to go for that he coasted through the game all the way to the glitched colors but unfortunately when he actually got to Charcoal things went a I can't see oh sh I can't I'm having trouble seeing eyes wide open eyes wi open holy crap I you're fine you're fine you're fine Alex T had to pull off yet another Houdini dig on the following level he's so good oh my God on level 154 Alex T approached the first crash trigger for real this time wait I can't crash I can't I'll go shoot I'm about to crash he's got to crash set up set up he got set up and successfully avoided taking the first single now the deadly level 10 57 was coming up blue scooty world record game had died on the first line alext needed to avoid singles at all costs for 10f lines he tried setting up a double well but got untimely z&t pieces that resulted in holes in the stack he took one double then another he was surviving but now he was stuck dealing with the holes he went for a single rolling the dice on 70% odds for a crash the game was starting to collapse he could barely see what was going on and took another single why oh my God yo this is actually new lines world record yeah yeah real real real lines record Alex T had done it beating blue scooty by five lines for the latest ever game Crash he'd also become the first human to trigger an obscure visual glitch with an unusual name look like what the hell it happened to my screen we we we called this summoning Satan I like it bro it's it's pretty iconic but Alex T still wasn't satisfi ified he immediately booted up another game and made it all the way to Charcoal again and this time got the tetris no no he then crashed the game on level 157 again with an unprecedented 8 million points setting a new world record for high score at the time of crashing dude back to back crash back crash and he wasn't about to stop there he could survive longer than anyone else for sure but could he do it while getting tetrises at the same rate as fractal and pixel Andy well he went right back to playing on a modded card the following week and scored an unbelievable 15 million by level 178 with over 12 million before where the first crash trigger would be definitively taking the pre- crash world record from Pixel Andy and just last week on April 15th Alex T broke his score world record Again by getting 16.7 million and almost making it back to the 810 line level so to recap in the span of just over a month alext got the modded cart level world record the original cart level world record the game Crash score world record the pregame crash score world record and the modded card score world record twice you can take your pick which one you think is the most important Alex T has them all his twitch page right now is a must-watch as he plans to grind to become the first to beat the 810 line level but fractal wasn't going to sit on the sidelines forever ever now that uh G V6 is going to have a mode that lets you practice on the same level forever I kind of just want to go for 800 lines charcoal and on April 5th he did just that fractal used the mod to start on charcoal while testing out a new controller to prove that the 810 line level was possible on an original cart with level desync and was able to clear 810 lines the tetris Saga isn't over yet thanks for watching for further viewing I'd recommend Alex breakdown of his own world record on the classic Tetris YouTube channel Eric ix's full video about the entire path to rebirth along with an article by Mar from about the total cost of all the things Alex T has dumped on his head throughout his Tetris career all of these will be linked in the description and thanks so much to the patrons who made this significantly larger than normal video possible including a special shout out to channel sponsors Scott Gray kanine watching Tetris and Gilbert Tang see you in the next one [Music]

Channel: aGameScout

Views: 2,301,957

Keywords: agamescout, nes tetris, classic tetris, agamescout tetris, classic tetris world championship, ctwc

Id: jPyf5kIGoKA

Length: 40min 2sec (2402 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 26 2024