Genuinely the stacking that Jonas showed here well over a decade ago would hold up fantastically well today amongst a high tier of DAS players. There’s a semi common belief that current stacking theory mostly has its roots in Jonas’ play, if not outright invented by him. Respect to everyone in the doc but rewatching it really makes me realize how outrageously far ahead Jonas was over any other human. Jonas is insane because he got good without getting to watch Jonas when getting good
yeah a lot of the newer players learned the basics of stacking through Jonas' Tetris 101 videos, and even if many of the strategies he goes through are considered too safe for today high level's standards, those videos shaped the way good and top players stack
The last couple of minutes felt like one big farewell from Thor...The perfect closure for everyone who didn't get to truly see what he had at the tournament. And one last goodbye...to the game that's changed so many lives for the better...from its first champion. Bravo, Thor Aackerlund. Respect.
It's crazy to think how far this game has come since the documentary came out. This literally birthed the whole competitive scene and now people are playing well into the killscreen and are breaking the game.
@@bltvd I don't know what your relationship with him was, but as someone who was a friend, and also had a long time of being very sad about his passing and being sensitive to seeing video of him. If you want to watch him again, something that helped me over time was just thinking about how there is absolutely nothing that would have brought him more joy than to know his friends were doing well and that what he did was part of that. Obviously every path and every grief is different, and it takes however long it takes, but I hope you find your way to the place where seeing him is more a reminder of joy than anything else. That's the impact he would have wanted his life and everything he did to have.
Honestly, I just love that Thor showed up and actually played at a super high level. He wasn't just a fraud that got lucky as a kid and lived on teenager lies and hype unlike a certain other gamer that shall remained unnamed for fear of him suing. I think we all know who that would be.
Sure he wasn't lucky. Back at that times, there were milions of people playing Tetris. And he was far ahead all of them. Rember, he said he reached lvl30 back then. So best player in the World for 21 years.
Watching this in 2024 makes me realize how far the competitive game has gotten over the years. 400k-500k matches won games, whereas today they implemented line-caps so a round doesn't last for 40 minutes.
It's so fun hearing them talk about hypertapping as this mystical technique almost, and then talking about how level 30 was an almost unattainable goal. Oh how things have changed
See, in a movie adaption of this documentary, Thor sends the video to the participants of the competition and they all just have to watch in horror in the darkness as he just wipes any of the competitors chances away. In the post script it will say, Thor has never been heard from since, though there have been rumours of spotting in the forests of Humboldt County and Nepal. Harry Hong and Jeff Kim will be ex lovers, and the fact that Harry Hong didn't stop after reaching the max score will be the point of contention in their break up and why Jeff Kim is an "ex-roommate." The film practically writes itself. The little tetris effect that is displayed during the opening credits with Robin, in the adaption, this will be played up as the early signs of paranoid schizophrenia. For some reason the post script it'll say that after a long struggle with Paranoid schizophrenia, they lost their job and ended up killing themselves in the middle of a men's public bathroom at a sports stadium during a game.
Nice to see this gem of a documentary has made it's way to RUclips. I have the DVD (from Robin himself, thanks a lot once more) for about six years now, and I still go back sometimes to rewatch it entirely. :) Greetings from Switzerland!
I was on the edge of my seat watching the competition unfold and then got goosebumps seeing the end scene of the film. Wow! P.S. I've purposefully not given away any detail about the ending as not to not ruin it for others.
Hey, I paid money for this! And now, it's just available on RUclips?!?? No, it was money well-spent. I'm happy. I'll tell you my story: I was a junkie for speed running (CLassic Mario, AGDQ and SDGQ) for years, and had no idea about the CTWC until shortly after Joseph's great upset of Jonas in 2018. I was introduced, like so many others, by the classic Jeff video, which led me to Jonas/Joseph in the 2018 final, which led me to the CTWC official website, which led me to this documentary, which I am proud to say that I own, and also now I have a more convenient place to watch it. I was at the CTWC in 2019, which was an interesting year because it would end up being 1) the only year that it was held in a side room, and I would find out later that I was lucky to be close to the front during the finals while other people were stuck outside the room, and 2) the only in-person year that was hyper-tapping dominated. Before it was DAS dominated, and then it was online, and now it's rolling. 2019 was the transition between the Jonas era and the rolling era, like if you watched the last World Series of the deadball era of baseball and the first of the modern era. I had the honor of meeting everyone important in the community, and was star struck when, for the first time in my life, I met a bunch of people that I had just seen in a movie! THIS movie! (Also Koryan and GreenTea actually stood up to be in my selfie, when I was going to crouch down to where they were sitting. I couldn't believe it) I met you briefly, Robin. I was that guy who was there during qualifiers, just to watch. I might have been the only person there who came that early just to watch, not trying to qualify. It didn't even occur to me to try to qualify. The last time I played this game, I sort of assumed that the highest level was level ten. I had heard that it was theoretically possible to clear four lines at the same time, but never ever thought I would see anyone do it! Anyway, great documentary, man. Sorry. Thanks. (Okay, maybe not *everyone* important; I don't want to snub anyone. But a lot!)
watching this video, you realize how high the new generation has risen. even some 6-7 years ago, the 30th level was something unattainable, and now there are serious discussions about which of the players will reach rebirth. The oldies gave their games an incentive to challenge their dominance, and as a result, Tetris entered the era of chaos, where a new champion can appear out of nowhere and go into nowhere.
Tetris has never been one of my favourite game but I still played dozens, maybe hundreds of hours and I only now learned how to play this game, 25-35 years later. To answer this girl question "am I stupid ?" because she played 20 years without knowing she could turn the pieces on the other direction, nop lol, you are not. I guess they didn't add a tutorial in their game or maybe that's because I wasn't able to understand English when I was young, but nobody ever has teach me how to play correctly. I never knew a 4 lines was giving more pts and was called a tetris and I never knew the goal was to keep a line open to do it.
14:32 I literally went here all the time as a kid. It was so cool because they were a really good restaurant that had 2 NES consoles that you could play. They'd even let you rent the games from them. Great memories.
Just gotten into the scene recently and had been wanting to see this; glad to find it got put up on YT. I didn't know all that about Thor, holy crap, what a story. He *still* goes to the championships, just as a spectator now, but I didn't know a lot about his past besides being an OG max outter and the NWC champ. Seeing all the legends of the community in these halcyon days was fantastic. RIP Jonas, you are truly a legend. Tho now I wonder, did Pat Contri ask Thor if he still had his NWC cart? I can't imagine he didn't. :)
I just got in as well. When Blue Scuti crashed the game for the first time, I started getting Tetris in my algorithms. Hey I can’t get enough of watching the competitions for some reason. I really really do enjoy watching them all the way through. I’m 39 but I still want to get a CRT and a old Nintendo and a Tetris game and start goofing around with the old stuff myself. This is so fun. If you don’t already know, start checking out a Tetris player named “Fractal”. He’s interesting too
And very soon you will learn of the new playstyle. I'm going to name twin rolling. Instead of using one hand and five digits to roll on to your thumb I found a way to use nine digits making my new playstyle potentially %80 faster than standard rolling. Watch this space, right here.
@@EvidentlyFire As pieces start in the center of the field, the I piece takes 4 taps (and a rotation) to reach the far right. I guess it actually takes 5 taps to reach the far left, though. Point is, though that sounds like a potentially handy strat for some games, pieces in Tetris can't shift more than 5 tiles over from the center.
Genuinely the stacking that Jonas showed here well over a decade ago would hold up fantastically well today amongst a high tier of DAS players. There’s a semi common belief that current stacking theory mostly has its roots in Jonas’ play, if not outright invented by him. Respect to everyone in the doc but rewatching it really makes me realize how outrageously far ahead Jonas was over any other human. Jonas is insane because he got good without getting to watch Jonas when getting good
yeah a lot of the newer players learned the basics of stacking through Jonas' Tetris 101 videos, and even if many of the strategies he goes through are considered too safe for today high level's standards, those videos shaped the way good and top players stack
The last couple of minutes felt like one big farewell from Thor...The perfect closure for everyone who didn't get to truly see what he had at the tournament.
And one last goodbye...to the game that's changed so many lives for the better...from its first champion.
Bravo, Thor Aackerlund. Respect.
"Games like pac-man have billy mitchel"
That statement aged well
lol
Yes, like fine milk
It's crazy to think how far this game has come since the documentary came out. This literally birthed the whole competitive scene and now people are playing well into the killscreen and are breaking the game.
Man this makes me really miss Jonas 😞 Rest in peace legend
I have watched this so many times since it came out but now can’t because seeing Jonas will make me sad.
@@bltvd I don't know what your relationship with him was, but as someone who was a friend, and also had a long time of being very sad about his passing and being sensitive to seeing video of him. If you want to watch him again, something that helped me over time was just thinking about how there is absolutely nothing that would have brought him more joy than to know his friends were doing well and that what he did was part of that. Obviously every path and every grief is different, and it takes however long it takes, but I hope you find your way to the place where seeing him is more a reminder of joy than anything else. That's the impact he would have wanted his life and everything he did to have.
Rip to the goat
9:36 "the tetris master relentlessly pursues tetrises", he says as he misses a tetris
Honestly, I just love that Thor showed up and actually played at a super high level. He wasn't just a fraud that got lucky as a kid and lived on teenager lies and hype unlike a certain other gamer that shall remained unnamed for fear of him suing. I think we all know who that would be.
Sure he wasn't lucky. Back at that times, there were milions of people playing Tetris. And he was far ahead all of them. Rember, he said he reached lvl30 back then. So best player in the World for 21 years.
Pac-Man has Billy Mitchell. 😄
You mean Silly Bitchell
this is one of the most interesting docs I've seen uploaded. Needs to be a part of the algorithm
It doesn't matter who wins or loses. Play as hard as you can knowing it will end. I love this documentary. Such good vibes from a spirited era.
Watching this in 2024 makes me realize how far the competitive game has gotten over the years. 400k-500k matches won games, whereas today they implemented line-caps so a round doesn't last for 40 minutes.
It's so fun hearing them talk about hypertapping as this mystical technique almost, and then talking about how level 30 was an almost unattainable goal. Oh how things have changed
I love this movie and every person in it.
we love you too dude!
How's that coffee addiction going? 😅
Damn dude. Thor doing that performance in the context of everything is awesome. Dispelling the notion that it's all words.
See, in a movie adaption of this documentary, Thor sends the video to the participants of the competition and they all just have to watch in horror in the darkness as he just wipes any of the competitors chances away. In the post script it will say, Thor has never been heard from since, though there have been rumours of spotting in the forests of Humboldt County and Nepal.
Harry Hong and Jeff Kim will be ex lovers, and the fact that Harry Hong didn't stop after reaching the max score will be the point of contention in their break up and why Jeff Kim is an "ex-roommate."
The film practically writes itself.
The little tetris effect that is displayed during the opening credits with Robin, in the adaption, this will be played up as the early signs of paranoid schizophrenia. For some reason the post script it'll say that after a long struggle with Paranoid schizophrenia, they lost their job and ended up killing themselves in the middle of a men's public bathroom at a sports stadium during a game.
Nice to see this gem of a documentary has made it's way to RUclips. I have the DVD (from Robin himself, thanks a lot once more) for about six years now, and I still go back sometimes to rewatch it entirely. :) Greetings from Switzerland!
At 1:13:55, the legend of screaming buco was born
I was on the edge of my seat watching the competition unfold and then got goosebumps seeing the end scene of the film. Wow!
P.S. I've purposefully not given away any detail about the ending as not to not ruin it for others.
I love docos like this. Gaming or sports related are my favorite docos, and this one's a gem.
Been wanting to see this for five years. Did not disappoint!
Hey, I paid money for this! And now, it's just available on RUclips?!?? No, it was money well-spent. I'm happy. I'll tell you my story: I was a junkie for speed running (CLassic Mario, AGDQ and SDGQ) for years, and had no idea about the CTWC until shortly after Joseph's great upset of Jonas in 2018. I was introduced, like so many others, by the classic Jeff video, which led me to Jonas/Joseph in the 2018 final, which led me to the CTWC official website, which led me to this documentary, which I am proud to say that I own, and also now I have a more convenient place to watch it.
I was at the CTWC in 2019, which was an interesting year because it would end up being 1) the only year that it was held in a side room, and I would find out later that I was lucky to be close to the front during the finals while other people were stuck outside the room, and 2) the only in-person year that was hyper-tapping dominated. Before it was DAS dominated, and then it was online, and now it's rolling. 2019 was the transition between the Jonas era and the rolling era, like if you watched the last World Series of the deadball era of baseball and the first of the modern era.
I had the honor of meeting everyone important in the community, and was star struck when, for the first time in my life, I met a bunch of people that I had just seen in a movie! THIS movie! (Also Koryan and GreenTea actually stood up to be in my selfie, when I was going to crouch down to where they were sitting. I couldn't believe it) I met you briefly, Robin. I was that guy who was there during qualifiers, just to watch. I might have been the only person there who came that early just to watch, not trying to qualify. It didn't even occur to me to try to qualify. The last time I played this game, I sort of assumed that the highest level was level ten. I had heard that it was theoretically possible to clear four lines at the same time, but never ever thought I would see anyone do it! Anyway, great documentary, man. Sorry. Thanks.
(Okay, maybe not *everyone* important; I don't want to snub anyone. But a lot!)
wow thor is cool
watching this video, you realize how high the new generation has risen. even some 6-7 years ago, the 30th level was something unattainable, and now there are serious discussions about which of the players will reach rebirth. The oldies gave their games an incentive to challenge their dominance, and as a result, Tetris entered the era of chaos, where a new champion can appear out of nowhere and go into nowhere.
Tetris has never been one of my favourite game but I still played dozens, maybe hundreds of hours and I only now learned how to play this game, 25-35 years later. To answer this girl question "am I stupid ?" because she played 20 years without knowing she could turn the pieces on the other direction, nop lol, you are not. I guess they didn't add a tutorial in their game or maybe that's because I wasn't able to understand English when I was young, but nobody ever has teach me how to play correctly. I never knew a 4 lines was giving more pts and was called a tetris and I never knew the goal was to keep a line open to do it.
Tetris is more than a game.
It's also a philosophy.
And what is most important: People
That was fantastic, thank you. I'm very very late to the game but I'm been watching tetris world championship reruns and have become addicted.
14:32 I literally went here all the time as a kid. It was so cool because they were a really good restaurant that had 2 NES consoles that you could play. They'd even let you rent the games from them. Great memories.
I remember this making it's debut at NintendoAge Campout. Man, I miss NintendoAge.
Great documentary
38:54 damn I guess “boom Tetris for Jeff” and “fof” have a non-trivial amount of shared DNA
RIP JONAS 😞
Just gotten into the scene recently and had been wanting to see this; glad to find it got put up on YT. I didn't know all that about Thor, holy crap, what a story. He *still* goes to the championships, just as a spectator now, but I didn't know a lot about his past besides being an OG max outter and the NWC champ. Seeing all the legends of the community in these halcyon days was fantastic. RIP Jonas, you are truly a legend.
Tho now I wonder, did Pat Contri ask Thor if he still had his NWC cart? I can't imagine he didn't. :)
I just got in as well. When Blue Scuti crashed the game for the first time, I started getting Tetris in my algorithms. Hey I can’t get enough of watching the competitions for some reason. I really really do enjoy watching them all the way through.
I’m 39 but I still want to get a CRT and a old Nintendo and a Tetris game and start goofing around with the old stuff myself. This is so fun.
If you don’t already know, start checking out a Tetris player named “Fractal”. He’s interesting too
Thor showed who the true master was. Both in skill and class
This is summoning salt level quality, excited to see this channel pick up traction!
This film came out in 2011 and this is just a reposting of it. This channel didn't make it.
Book I: Genesis
Way to go Thor!tetris master
the lady gaga looking lady is very fashionable
This seems like so long ago but it really wasn't
Crazy to think the levels this game has reached they talk about level 30 and its just been kill screened.
And very soon you will learn of the new playstyle. I'm going to name twin rolling. Instead of using one hand and five digits to roll on to your thumb I found a way to use nine digits making my new playstyle potentially %80 faster than standard rolling. Watch this space, right here.
@@EvidentlyFire Best of luck! Though only up to 4 of those count for each piece....
@@JaggerG only up to four of what count for what? I don't understand your message at all. Probably my fault. Can you explain it again.
@@EvidentlyFire As pieces start in the center of the field, the I piece takes 4 taps (and a rotation) to reach the far right. I guess it actually takes 5 taps to reach the far left, though. Point is, though that sounds like a potentially handy strat for some games, pieces in Tetris can't shift more than 5 tiles over from the center.
6:50 is that youtuber Zach Star?
6:52 well that aged poorly
Doppelganger of Sam Harris. Right? 🤔
172,600+ possible in 18-5.
Buuuuucoooo
jonas has since “died suddenly” at 39, but we’ll be banned if we speculate about why
Literally mentioned on his wiki page, why would you speculate beyond that? Lol
@@roozki808 guy tried to say that 2nd (modded add-on) kill screen is at level 39
Ppl die. Its sad. But speculating on just one is silly.