I've made a follow-up video on what's developed in the community with rolling in the few weeks afterwards: ruclips.net/video/f2xCQT0BUcw/видео.html If you are interested in learning rolling or joining the conversation about the playstyle, the main hub for community discussion at the moment is the #rolling-realm channel in the Classic Tetris Monthly discord server! This is a direct link: discord.gg/2DBQhmuwbP
I keep trying to comment on the regular board. Legit am not being allowed. I've played guitar many years, as well as bass. I used rolling on RE4 for the boulder moments.
It's always fascinating to see when someone like Martin shows up in the comments of content you watch. I can't only imagine he'll have some new musical application of this technique.
The fact that we are still out here revolutionizing the mere concept of _pressing a button_ on a controller that is almost 40 years old. I love this community.
Yeah, in 2018 after Joseph won the CTWC I saw a RUclips comment saying "in a few years a kid is gonna invent futuretapping or something and destroy everyone". They were joking, but it's basically happening...
I for one jokingly posted "The year is 20XX. Everyone hypertaps and qualifies with a 1.2M score." not even a year ago and boy do I feel uncomfortable right now.
@@camwoodstock I could imagine Jonas trying this rolling technique and climbing his way back to the top of the top of the Tetris world! Sad that he did not get the chance. :(
Jesus Is Passionate about us. Isaiah 53:5-6 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (KJV)
I did in the 90's, but I only used it on track and field games. I didn't even to try and use it on tetris, a game I've also played since the 90s. Dumb me.
@@antman7673 The thing is that this is a trick. You can understand it in a couple seconds (doesn't mean it's easy to come up with, but it's conceivable). Now try understanding how a smartphone works. They're incredibly complex and build on a long progression of innovation. It's very different.
There is an undeniable connection between playing Tetris, the passion for Music and Music Theory, Rubiks Cubes and Statistics. And I have yet to figure out why that is... :-D
I wish Jonas was here... He could have learned this techique and became even more stronger... I miss you man, you were and always will be the GOAT, the legend himself, the truly ambassador of this otherwise forgotten and dusty game
Your enthusiasm and clear communication is really making this community all too easy to dive into! I'm learning as much as i can since the True Kill Screen just happened!
@@luigigrabspam4596 not really, dog has like above a year of experience in tetris, he literally went from 0 to hero that fast, similar case was with joseph, he learned about tetris from "boom tetris from jeff" video around 2016 and in 2018 he was world champion
Funny, this is really similar to a technique called Wank DI (lol) for Smash 64, where instead of moving the stick in quarter circle motions to get more smash DI inputs, you instead move the entire controller with an up and down motion really fast to get better results (hence the stupid name lol)
Hey looking back I used to use that technique with god of war QTE, not competitively ofc because it’s fucking god of war But nice to know young me caught on to something that revolutionized competitive play without knowing about it’s existence
I think the most impressive thing about Tetris as a competitive game is that it no longer becomes about learning every aspect inside the game, but rather every aspect outside of it, including the controller.
I had no idea that Jonas died until after I watched the video and read the comments. I only knew him as that Tetris guy, but he seemed like such a good person that it's shocking that he's dead. Basically how could such a nice guy die so young. That's kind of the feeling.
@@blackpepper2610 A great person as well as a great Tetris player. Won 7 of the first 8 Classic Tetris World Championships. Also a very entertaining streamer along with his wife Heather. He posts clips of his stream on youtube.
I love how this 30+ year old game is still so exciting (at least) on a monthly basis. The competitive ceiling keeps going up and the community keeps evolving.
The finger movement looks very similar to how beginner classical guitar players do tremelo, playing one string very quickly over and over. It will be interesting to see if this tetris technique will evolve further to look more like guitar playing or even flamenco tremelo which has the pattern, index-> ring-> middle-> index-> thumb. Maybe even flip the controller over and strike it with your nails so it becomes like a rasgueado.
It is beyond amazing, beyond even comprehension that we have had 2 new styles that have demolished how Tetris is played in the last 10 years. Go humanity.
It happened in The poker as well, after hole cards were invented and on the next 4 years, random amateurs won the main event against a field of pros, attracting a new generation of players, many young ones. Nowadays there's more young people than older ones
My dad actually did this for a while, then continued to hypertapping when we played Contra back then, while continues searching the comfortable hand position. He doesn't know he can walk or shoot while holding the button. He argued that it need constant input like a keyboard of piano or typewriter and it was too small for his hand to hold, so he tap every button from stage 1 till the boss. After stage 2 it becomes harder for us. Never pass stage 2 with him. He sucks. Git gud dad.
I miss Jonas, his consistency was just unmatched, seing him getting unlucky pieces but surviving because of insane piece placement was just so satisfying.
Dude had an IQ for Tetris that was unmatched, and it's why he was able to stay competitive despite being a DAS player. If he was still alive and had mastered rolling, I guarantee he would've been rematching Joseph in the finals.
Watching Jonas build his extremely efficient stacks was beautiful, and he was only held back by his inability to even try hypertap. The world is forever robbed of the possibility of seeing Jonas unleashed with rolling controls.
I've never watched competitive NES Tetris, but a very interesting and well executed video even for someone who knows little on the history and subject!
@@cane870 copy pasted from Wikipedia: On April 2, the cause of death was diagnosed as "sudden cardiac death due to cardiac arrhythmia of undetermined [cause]"
I wish Jonas had still been here for the development of rolling. He never had the physical ability to do hypertapping, so he was doomed to fall behind to the next generation (so gracious he was, in passing on the torch.) I wish he could have been able to try this, and been able to see what he was able to do with it. Maybe he could have even used it to reclaim his throne in the modern Tetris era. We'll never know. I haven't been keeping up with Tetris in a while, and I just found out yesterday that Jonas passed. I'm still shaken, even though I never met the man. I can't believe he's gone. I took for granted that he was still out there, being the awesome and beloved spokesperson for competitive NES tetris. I'm crying a little as I write this, lol. What a one of a kind example of graciousness and inclusivity. He touched and inspired so many. Miss you, Jonas.
If I had to speculate, Jonas' unmatched intelligence in Tetris play combined with him knowing a technique that would allow him to keep up with hypertappers like Joseph, who could beat him despite his superior understanding of the game, would have put him back on-top for at least a time.
@@musiquetoutterrain First number is the level, aka the speed. Second number is a characteristic of the B-type of tetris where it starts you off at higher heights with randomly generated garbage. The goal of B-type is to clear 25 lines while surviving the higher heights, and the second number can vary from 0 through 5. In this case I think it's 8 grid-cells high, but what's impressive is that he did it in level 29, the fastest speed(the dropped piece moves 1 gridcell down every frame).
@@want-diversecontent3887 I don't see it happening anytime soon, but with how fast things in NES Tetris have been improving, I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen in the coming months
I'm sure he knew that new techniques would be developed. He saw the level of competition in his final years, and that's what made him excited. That new players were playing such an old game, and raising the bar to heights that were never achieved before, and never even thought to be possible.
Something that is kind of interesting to me about this, is how similar these techniques, and how they have progressed are with the techniques used in Competitive Minecraft. In Minecraft (before the combat update), the way you fight other players is to click your mouse a bunch of times to kill them. The slowest way is generally called "normal clicking", not exactly like just holding the button down in Tetris, but they both are the starting point to all the different techniques, but a competitive player in both of these games is still probably able to get by just using these. Then the next 'Level' in clicking/pressing techniques for both of these games would probably be "Jitter Clicking" in minecraft or "Hypertapping" in Tetris which is, quite literally, the exact same thing. The way both of these techniques are done by tensing your arm, and using the vibrtions to click/press the button. Both of these options are pretty widely used. Not quite the best, but harder to do than the previous techniques and again, a competitive player could still get by pretty well just by using this. Then we get to the next level, and the current final one for Tetris, which is "Rolling" or "Butterfly clicking" in Minecraft. These techniques are quite similar by how multiple fingers are used to gain more presses/clicks, the only difference, is because a Minecraft players mouse has to be on the table at all times and be used with one hand, players have to "Double click" which is essentially being able to click twice in seemingly one press to gain faster speeds. But other than that, they both have the same fundamentals, being dividing the work into multiple fingers. These are both pretty much well known as the skill ceilings for both competitive players (kind of) and can be pretty hard to get right, but increase click/press speeds exponentially. Now, "Rolling" is currently the best technique for getting high speeds in Tetris, but with Minecraft, you can still get faster, by using a technique called "Drag clicking" players have been able to click faster than ever by using friction to produce many, many, many clicks at a time. So what is so interesting to me about this, is that Minecraft players started prgressing these techniques years ago, and its cool how similarly the tetris community has been progressing getting faster speeds in their own game. Does this mean that the next level for tetris speeds is going to be some sort of "Drag Pressing" or something? I have no idea. (Of course I know that there a bunch of other niche techniques for both Minecraft and Tetris, but these are the main ones.) TLDR: The Tetris communities evolution of techniques to gain faster pressing is similar to how the Minecraft community, years ago progressed their own techniques to click faster.
Congrats on reaching a million views. It's one thing to be able to attract audience from the Classic Tetris community, it's another to be able to attract people who had not even discovered the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) in the first place.
Crab scratching changed the game with DJs in the late 90s. It moved people from single and double flares to performing quads and quintuple cuts. It pretty much looks like this rolling technique.
Yeah... :/ I was impressed though with Jonas's humbleness that even though he was the "expert" guest in Rob's video, he still thought about Rob's abilities as a musician and prodded him with questions about techniques that he might be able to learn that could also be helpful for Tetris. They were SO close to figuring out the rolling playstyle in that interview, months before the rest of the community picked up on it.
@@aGameScout Shows what a humble guy he was and also, why he was the best. He was always looking to improve and was not afraid to go out of his way to search for new things and opinions. The game might be evolving every week, but Jonas was and will forever be the best Classic Tetris Player ever. Anyway, great video, hope to see you in CTWC 2022 (maybe 2021) rolling your way to victory (;
Man, I just googled him to see how he was doing and found out he passed away this year... as a casual who wasn't been paying attention to the community in months, I'm shocked. "The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained" video got me hooked on Tetris competitive scene for a few months and when I saw the 2018 finals between Jonas and Joseph, my respect for Jonas got even bigger. He managed to compete as a "normal person" (no hypertapping) and passed the torch like a true champ. Such a shame he's not here anymore.
Definitely, because he couldn’t hypertap due to arthritis issues so he used DAS combined with immaculate builds to keep himself competitive. Rolling would have given him the speed needed to keep up with or surpass hypertappers like Joseph while also using his incredible strategic mind of the game to give him the edge he needed to retake the Golden T.
I play tetris with a keyboard, on an emulator and using 2 alternating fingers instead of one was my first instinct, got me to a consistent 13 hz (I'm not a great gh player, I can only dream of the crazy FC's they do nowadays, my best achievement is to choke on the outro of Satch Boogie). It's not that much, but It makes a hell of a difference compared to DAS (13 and 14 high left's when grinding 15-5, that type of stuff). I wondered for a long time whether this can be done on NES controller (don't have one). If I ever get one, I'm definitelly going to try rolling.
I love how creative Rob is. It's clear through his music but also just seeing whenever he tries something new, his curiosity always seem to push hard for is innovativeness to punch through.
This is SO cool! In piano, one method of hiting the same note/key quickly and repeatedly is to use three fingers and move them in a circular motion like they do when rolling! So cool how musical techniques blend with the gaming world!
this video made me > 50% excited: is this going to bring back at least some of the old school tetris masters!? would be amazing to see the OGs getting back to the top level and competing again without being constrained by their physical limits. > and 50% sad: not being able to see jonas using this technique...
No kidding. Jonas was the best builder and strategist in CT, bar none. Not that other top guys like Joseph aren’t also good at it, Jonas was just incredible with his ability to build immaculate stacks, which is why he was so dominant in the early CTWC tourneys and why he was able to beat skilled Hypertappers like Koryan when the technique was developed. What held him back against Joseph is that Joseph was young enough to keep up the hypertaps and was a good strategist in his own right, which made Jonas’ DAS fall behind; and Jonas couldn’t hypertap due to his arthritis issues. Had Jonas been able to perfect a rolling technique with practice, he would have returned to the top spot because he’d be able to keep up with Joseph while having the edge in terms of build strats.
This is super cool. Watching the story of NES Tetris unfold in revolutionary ways here in the 2020s is pretty wild. I remember playing this on my NES when I was 10!
aGameScout your content for Classic Tetris is unparalleled and I find myself absolutely consumed by many of your videos! I wish you could post your content to the CTWC or they could somehow refer people to you regularly. Your vast knowledge about the game and commitment to the community are truly incredible, you remind me of Jonas in that way. Thank you so much for everything you do!
born too late to witness NES Tetris’ release. born to early to witness NES Tetris’ extinction. born just in time to witness the creation of NES Tetris’ third major play style. what a time to be alive
@@andrewzhang8512 It's interesting really. Such an ancient console, such a crude, unergonomic controller, and yet... It just works for Tetris. The game doesn't need fancy graphics or high framerates, and the small rectangular controller becomes surprisingly versatile as people discover new methods of using it
Wow. Incredible new innovation from an insanely dedicated community. No worries about carpal tunnel now. Cheese is a real one. Also, kinda crazy that Jonas is still helping revolutionize the game even after he passed. He basically predicted it, especially with how close that interview was to the end.
Oh god does this bring me back... we used to use rolling on Konami's Arcade Track and Field in '83-'84. Then as people got faster they started using a cheap comb between the two buttons with your off hand's middle finger on top and your ring and pointy finger on the bottom, then put that to the side of the first button so the comb would hold the first button down. You then rolled the second button through the comb lifting it off the first button as you hit the second, then springing back down to push the first button until you hit the second button again. You then ended up with expert rollers verses expert comb rollers. It is almost 40 years later and some things just don't change.
I knew a third technique would eventually be found. Also hearing that HectorFly was involved, is legendary. Love both of you're legend and content Hector & Scout.
This is incredible, it's such an ingenious discovery and I'm happy that even if I don't play nes tetris a lot of people who felt gated out of the game for hypertapping now have a better chance at competing
Let's be honest, tetris before Hyppertapping (and now rolling) was kinda boring when only DASers were in the CTWC. Apart from Jonas and Harry (and some honorable mentions from time to time: Jeff, Svavar, Quaid...), everyone used to have a lot of early top outs. Now, it is almost impossible to see early top out and every single match tends to decide after Maxing Out. Tetris got a lot better in the last 3 years.
NES Tetris got good the last two years. Sure you'll see some early tops, when people make fatal mistakes, but on average you'll see maxouts nearly every game in the master's events
I don't even play Tetris, but gaming videos like these are fascinating to me. It's mind boggling what human ingenuity can do if they're persistent and passionate enough.
99.99999999% percent of tournaments don't require you to have an official NES. You can get a Retron(Don't get a Retron HD, they're not good) for 25$ and a tetris cart for 6$ depending on where you live. Emulators are also allowed in all tournaments but the CTWC(I reccomend Mesen or Nestopia).
A legit clean killscreen is one of those things that if you really get why it's so tough, it's hard to look at and not be impressed to the point of awe. Like, it just resets expectations.
To everyone just finding out, he died from a sudden medical emergency due to a heart arrhythmia of unknown origin. One of those freak occurrences of nature I guess. Take care of your hearts everybody! You likely only get one and it works really hard your entire life so be nice to it!
Had you already seen the flyhec vid when I linked it in the discord last year? It's great to see even more overlap between the cag community and nestris.
It's crazy how level 29 was the hardest level to beat a few years ago, and now you see many who can reach 100+ and even that one person last week that got to reach level 256 and managed to have the first Rebirth ever, where the game reset to level 1.
Amazing how the old (NES) version of Tetris is still played so much. As someone who plays the modern version of Tetris, the NES version feels like a totally different puzzle game.
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Few channels make me more happy when they upload :D
I've made a follow-up video on what's developed in the community with rolling in the few weeks afterwards: ruclips.net/video/f2xCQT0BUcw/видео.html
If you are interested in learning rolling or joining the conversation about the playstyle, the main hub for community discussion at the moment is the #rolling-realm channel in the Classic Tetris Monthly discord server! This is a direct link: discord.gg/2DBQhmuwbP
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This method was discovered back in the 80's please stop doing drugs.
I keep trying to comment on the regular board. Legit am not being allowed. I've played guitar many years, as well as bass. I used rolling on RE4 for the boulder moments.
its a beautiful world
yooooooooooooooooooooooo
Indeed
Hello mister Wintergatan
Yooooooo
It's always fascinating to see when someone like Martin shows up in the comments of content you watch. I can't only imagine he'll have some new musical application of this technique.
The fact that we are still out here revolutionizing the mere concept of _pressing a button_ on a controller that is almost 40 years old.
I love this community.
Yeah, in 2018 after Joseph won the CTWC I saw a RUclips comment saying "in a few years a kid is gonna invent futuretapping or something and destroy everyone". They were joking, but it's basically happening...
I for one jokingly posted "The year is 20XX. Everyone hypertaps and qualifies with a 1.2M score." not even a year ago and boy do I feel uncomfortable right now.
The best consoles are the classics.
Tetris can never get old
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE??
its crazy to think that 2 years later a 13 year old would reach the kill screen using this technique
4 months later, 6 people have already done it and probably a few more to go.
@@tiporossoDogPlayingTetris just got the crash, and according to the leaderboards, apparently Meme did too
It wasn't 10 years ago that I first rolled on buttons. It was in 1983.
The legend is here!
The year I was born. A special year, indeed 😁
Nice
pogu the legend himself
Shout out Hector Fly!
RIP Jonas, you'll always be remembered, revered, missed and loved, brother.
Jonas hypertapped so the NES Tetris community could roll.
Trust Jonas to be still the one to usher Tetris to a new level. RIP to the greatest.
@@camwoodstock I could imagine Jonas trying this rolling technique and climbing his way back to the top of the top of the Tetris world! Sad that he did not get the chance. :(
Jonas didn’t deserve to die so young. :(
LYMYMI, Jonas
Shoutout to cheez for making Blue Scutis achievement possible.
Indeed.
I WISH I could be so passionate about literally anything in my life as these people are about frickin Tetris
Literally!
for real. when you think of it in those terms, skys the limit.
off topic: i wonder how many ppl asked themselves, "why am i still watchin this video?"
I swear
They're in the zone man I'm telling you.
This is literally the embodiment of "do one thing, do it good"
Jesus Is Passionate about us.
Isaiah 53:5-6
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (KJV)
You made a ten minute video on the concept of "press button fast in Tetris", and it was extremely interesting and entertaining. Mind-blowing stuff!
Who is here after the killscreen?
I didn't check the date at first and was hella confused
us all
Imagine knowing this trick in the 80s, you’d look like a Greek myth
We did...
@@deadwingdomain ya right this some future shit
I did in the 90's, but I only used it on track and field games. I didn't even to try and use it on tetris, a game I've also played since the 90s. Dumb me.
We knew about computers, why didn’t we build smartphones in the 1980s.
-The technology was not there yet.
@@antman7673 The thing is that this is a trick. You can understand it in a couple seconds (doesn't mean it's easy to come up with, but it's conceivable). Now try understanding how a smartphone works. They're incredibly complex and build on a long progression of innovation. It's very different.
Tetris is finally entering its own 20XX scenario.
"The year is 20TT Everyone has done rolling at TAS Levels of perfection"
Underrated comment
DAS = ASDI, Hypertype = SDI, Rolling= Wizzrobe SDI. SSBM and Tetris parallels are actually crazy
The Melee and Tetris fandom crossover is surprising
The one true optimal strat
RIP Jonas. A true Tetris Legend. We wouldn't be watching this video if it weren't for him!
Cheez is my piano student! So proud of this!!
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There is an undeniable connection between playing Tetris, the passion for Music and Music Theory, Rubiks Cubes and Statistics. And I have yet to figure out why that is... :-D
@@tolstoj9348 I agree, maybe it's connected with the longing of trying to understand how the universe works and discovering it's secrets.
damn that is cool
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I wish Jonas was here... He could have learned this techique and became even more stronger... I miss you man, you were and always will be the GOAT, the legend himself, the truly ambassador of this otherwise forgotten and dusty game
Wrong. Amd who is jonas
@@analogalbacore7166 asshole, Jonas Neubauer was one of the best Tetris players ever.
@@analogalbacore7166 Only the world champion for like 7 championships in a row.
@@randomminecraftplayer6857 Not in a row
Honesty man I was so devastated I didn’t watch any Tetris for like 2 months
Your enthusiasm and clear communication is really making this community all too easy to dive into! I'm learning as much as i can since the True Kill Screen just happened!
This youtube channel is legit one of the greatest living documentaries of all time.
I just love seeing SE people out of their natural habitat!
Future gameScout: "And the oldschool hypertappers have now been fully taken over by rollers"
I can see that in a year or two lol
So the hypertapper will now be the “veteran” and the new generation of younger player will take over
Maybe the new champion will be 8 years old
@@typhoontyph Nah, its going to be more, old das players and hypertappers jumping on rolling. Not just "new players"
@@luigigrabspam4596 not really, dog has like above a year of experience in tetris, he literally went from 0 to hero that fast, similar case was with joseph, he learned about tetris from "boom tetris from jeff" video around 2016 and in 2018 he was world champion
@@bluehacker122 According to Cheez, Dog isn't a fan a rolling. Also there's no reason everyone isn't going to at least attempt to learn this,
Funny, this is really similar to a technique called Wank DI (lol) for Smash 64, where instead of moving the stick in quarter circle motions to get more smash DI inputs, you instead move the entire controller with an up and down motion really fast to get better results (hence the stupid name lol)
lmao what a name
Just gonna comment hi before this gets buried by your popularity, ur music is great tho I remember a few years ago when I first heard u
Nerd
@@firemonkey1015 ash scars or Nazi police symbols?
Hey looking back I used to use that technique with god of war QTE, not competitively ofc because it’s fucking god of war
But nice to know young me caught on to something that revolutionized competitive play without knowing about it’s existence
I just realized that he's the guy who made the pi song 10 years ago
yea i realised it about a month ago too
Oh wow, yeah he is. I didn't know that.
@Вероника Заглотова π is an actual greek letter so that basically says "pano" lol
@@marinaaaa2735 I like how you're telling the person with a cyrillic name about Pi ;)
@@marinaaaa2735 dude that symbol is the symbol for pi.
Big brain: holding a button
Bigger brain: tapping a button
Biggest brain: tapping the controller
Biggest-er brain: holding the controller?
Biggest-est brain: become the controller
Biggest-est-est-eat brain: telekinesis-ing the controller
Smol brain: cheating in game
@@Cloud29065 smoller brain: crafting an obvious fake speedrun
I think the most impressive thing about Tetris as a competitive game is that it no longer becomes about learning every aspect inside the game, but rather every aspect outside of it, including the controller.
Didn't expect to randomly see Rob Scallon in a video about Tetris "rolling" being faster, and more efficient than "hyper-tapping". That was awesome.
As a guitarist myself who doesn't even play Tetris, it's weird that I'm watching a Tetris vid and the only person I know in it is Rob, lol
@@SuckMyKiss420 right? was just browsing at 2am, for some reason ended up on this video and wtf. Rob is randomly in it.
I know right! I was surprised when I saw him try to tap the D-pad just like he would on a guitar lol
What a legend he is... Comes in, sits with Jonas and learns about Tetris for one day, and paves the way to revolutionize the whole Tetris play style
lol this happened to not for the first time as he appeared in a video about rollerblading as well xD
Tickling the controller into moving the pieces left and right is the most beautiful method anyone could've come up with.
2021: someone actually playing normally on level 29
2023: level 157 lets goo we reaching rebirth screen with this one
I had no idea that Jonas died until after I watched the video and read the comments. I only knew him as that Tetris guy, but he seemed like such a good person that it's shocking that he's dead. Basically how could such a nice guy die so young. That's kind of the feeling.
Who's jonas?
@@blackpepper2610 A great person as well as a great Tetris player. Won 7 of the first 8 Classic Tetris World Championships. Also a very entertaining streamer along with his wife Heather. He posts clips of his stream on youtube.
No way, I didn't know this
Rest in peace brother
I really miss him.
How did he die?
I love how this 30+ year old game is still so exciting (at least) on a monthly basis. The competitive ceiling keeps going up and the community keeps evolving.
The finger movement looks very similar to how beginner classical guitar players do tremelo, playing one string very quickly over and over. It will be interesting to see if this tetris technique will evolve further to look more like guitar playing or even flamenco tremelo which has the pattern, index-> ring-> middle-> index-> thumb. Maybe even flip the controller over and strike it with your nails so it becomes like a rasgueado.
They'd have to develop novel controller types with different stick and buttons arrangement and position.
"i wonder how they'll be pushing buttons for tetris 37 years from now." -Everybody in 1984
Literally 1984
@@conallmolloy4238 enormous sibling is viewing you
@@flviir Even the totalitarian regimes are gender inclusive in the 2020's lol
Literally 1984
It is beyond amazing, beyond even comprehension that we have had 2 new styles that have demolished how Tetris is played in the last 10 years. Go humanity.
can someone please give this guy an award for outstanding community work?! Like...now! Thanks for your effort!
Here after Blue Scuti crashed the game. Great video!
Note: Cheez has so far broken his own record 4 times in a row.
Tetris competitions before, a bunch of 45 year olds
Tetris competitions now, a bunch of 15 year olds
LMAOOOOO
The people get old but the game endures.
40 yrs ago it was a bunch of 18+ yrs old lol
It happened in The poker as well, after hole cards were invented and on the next 4 years, random amateurs won the main event against a field of pros, attracting a new generation of players, many young ones. Nowadays there's more young people than older ones
I mean u could just drag click on the controller to get 40+ cps
@@mika34653 I think mid 20s is the limit because frame times and nes hardware not being built for hyper fast movements. but I'm not an expert on this.
My dad actually did this for a while, then continued to hypertapping when we played Contra back then, while continues searching the comfortable hand position. He doesn't know he can walk or shoot while holding the button. He argued that it need constant input like a keyboard of piano or typewriter and it was too small for his hand to hold, so he tap every button from stage 1 till the boss. After stage 2 it becomes harder for us. Never pass stage 2 with him. He sucks.
Git gud dad.
I don't know why I was recommended this, but I enjoyed the video.
RIP Jonas.
I miss Jonas, his consistency was just unmatched, seing him getting unlucky pieces but surviving because of insane piece placement was just so satisfying.
the goat
Dude had an IQ for Tetris that was unmatched, and it's why he was able to stay competitive despite being a DAS player.
If he was still alive and had mastered rolling, I guarantee he would've been rematching Joseph in the finals.
@@jackdaone6469 It's still surreal for me Jonas passed away...
@@YogSoth what a stupid comment
Watching Jonas build his extremely efficient stacks was beautiful, and he was only held back by his inability to even try hypertap. The world is forever robbed of the possibility of seeing Jonas unleashed with rolling controls.
I've never watched competitive NES Tetris, but a very interesting and well executed video even for someone who knows little on the history and subject!
Wow, that Cheez vid is insane. Thank you for keeping us connected to this community Scout!
RIP Jonas. He was such a nice guy
The GOAT of Tetris!
jonas just went up there to teach god how to play tetris
@@Engin09TR how’d he die
@@cane870 He was crushed by a tetris cube
@@cane870 copy pasted from Wikipedia: On April 2, the cause of death was diagnosed as "sudden cardiac death due to cardiac arrhythmia of undetermined [cause]"
I wish Jonas had still been here for the development of rolling. He never had the physical ability to do hypertapping, so he was doomed to fall behind to the next generation (so gracious he was, in passing on the torch.) I wish he could have been able to try this, and been able to see what he was able to do with it. Maybe he could have even used it to reclaim his throne in the modern Tetris era. We'll never know.
I haven't been keeping up with Tetris in a while, and I just found out yesterday that Jonas passed. I'm still shaken, even though I never met the man. I can't believe he's gone. I took for granted that he was still out there, being the awesome and beloved spokesperson for competitive NES tetris.
I'm crying a little as I write this, lol. What a one of a kind example of graciousness and inclusivity. He touched and inspired so many. Miss you, Jonas.
If I had to speculate, Jonas' unmatched intelligence in Tetris play combined with him knowing a technique that would allow him to keep up with hypertappers like Joseph, who could beat him despite his superior understanding of the game, would have put him back on-top for at least a time.
Cheez has just cleared 29-3 with the rolling technique !!! Unreal
Do you think 29-5 will be possible?
What's 29-3?
@@musiquetoutterrain First number is the level, aka the speed. Second number is a characteristic of the B-type of tetris where it starts you off at higher heights with randomly generated garbage. The goal of B-type is to clear 25 lines while surviving the higher heights, and the second number can vary from 0 through 5. In this case I think it's 8 grid-cells high, but what's impressive is that he did it in level 29, the fastest speed(the dropped piece moves 1 gridcell down every frame).
@@want-diversecontent3887 I don't see it happening anytime soon, but with how fast things in NES Tetris have been improving, I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen in the coming months
Thats like a whole community
I wish Jonas was still with us today to see it
I'm sure he knew that new techniques would be developed. He saw the level of competition in his final years, and that's what made him excited. That new players were playing such an old game, and raising the bar to heights that were never achieved before, and never even thought to be possible.
Something that is kind of interesting to me about this, is how similar these techniques, and how they have progressed are with the techniques used in Competitive Minecraft. In Minecraft (before the combat update), the way you fight other players is to click your mouse a bunch of times to kill them. The slowest way is generally called "normal clicking", not exactly like just holding the button down in Tetris, but they both are the starting point to all the different techniques, but a competitive player in both of these games is still probably able to get by just using these.
Then the next 'Level' in clicking/pressing techniques for both of these games would probably be "Jitter Clicking" in minecraft or "Hypertapping" in Tetris which is, quite literally, the exact same thing. The way both of these techniques are done by tensing your arm, and using the vibrtions to click/press the button. Both of these options are pretty widely used. Not quite the best, but harder to do than the previous techniques and again, a competitive player could still get by pretty well just by using this.
Then we get to the next level, and the current final one for Tetris, which is "Rolling" or "Butterfly clicking" in Minecraft. These techniques are quite similar by how multiple fingers are used to gain more presses/clicks, the only difference, is because a Minecraft players mouse has to be on the table at all times and be used with one hand, players have to "Double click" which is essentially being able to click twice in seemingly one press to gain faster speeds. But other than that, they both have the same fundamentals, being dividing the work into multiple fingers. These are both pretty much well known as the skill ceilings for both competitive players (kind of) and can be pretty hard to get right, but increase click/press speeds exponentially.
Now, "Rolling" is currently the best technique for getting high speeds in Tetris, but with Minecraft, you can still get faster, by using a technique called "Drag clicking" players have been able to click faster than ever by using friction to produce many, many, many clicks at a time.
So what is so interesting to me about this, is that Minecraft players started prgressing these techniques years ago, and its cool how similarly the tetris community has been progressing getting faster speeds in their own game. Does this mean that the next level for tetris speeds is going to be some sort of "Drag Pressing" or something? I have no idea.
(Of course I know that there a bunch of other niche techniques for both Minecraft and Tetris, but these are the main ones.)
TLDR: The Tetris communities evolution of techniques to gain faster pressing is similar to how the Minecraft community, years ago progressed their own techniques to click faster.
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. The process is strikingly resemblant.
Congrats on reaching a million views. It's one thing to be able to attract audience from the Classic Tetris community, it's another to be able to attract people who had not even discovered the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) in the first place.
That moment when Rob Scallon discovered this technique before any other speedrunner. The absolute legend!
Crab scratching changed the game with DJs in the late 90s. It moved people from single and double flares to performing quads and quintuple cuts. It pretty much looks like this rolling technique.
Yup! First thing I thought of
GREAT ANALOGY
Seeing Jonas in this Video made me So sad...
Imagine Jonas with the rolling style
It would of been cool to see Jonas attempt this method on his stream.
Yeah... :/ I was impressed though with Jonas's humbleness that even though he was the "expert" guest in Rob's video, he still thought about Rob's abilities as a musician and prodded him with questions about techniques that he might be able to learn that could also be helpful for Tetris. They were SO close to figuring out the rolling playstyle in that interview, months before the rest of the community picked up on it.
@@aGameScout Shows what a humble guy he was and also, why he was the best.
He was always looking to improve and was not afraid to go out of his way to search for new things and opinions.
The game might be evolving every week, but Jonas was and will forever be the best Classic Tetris Player ever.
Anyway, great video, hope to see you in CTWC 2022 (maybe 2021) rolling your way to victory (;
Man, I just googled him to see how he was doing and found out he passed away this year... as a casual who wasn't been paying attention to the community in months, I'm shocked. "The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained" video got me hooked on Tetris competitive scene for a few months and when I saw the 2018 finals between Jonas and Joseph, my respect for Jonas got even bigger. He managed to compete as a "normal person" (no hypertapping) and passed the torch like a true champ. Such a shame he's not here anymore.
That collab video is what got me into Tetris in the first place!
I could see Jonas adopting this if he were still with us.
Definitely, because he couldn’t hypertap due to arthritis issues so he used DAS combined with immaculate builds to keep himself competitive. Rolling would have given him the speed needed to keep up with or surpass hypertappers like Joseph while also using his incredible strategic mind of the game to give him the edge he needed to retake the Golden T.
he wouldve won 10 more championships , true artist of the game, give him speed nobody can keep up. rest in peace Jonas
I was four months late to this. RIP Jonas.
Guitar hero players be like: R A K E T A P
I play tetris with a keyboard, on an emulator and using 2 alternating fingers instead of one was my first instinct, got me to a consistent 13 hz (I'm not a great gh player, I can only dream of the crazy FC's they do nowadays, my best achievement is to choke on the outro of Satch Boogie). It's not that much, but It makes a hell of a difference compared to DAS (13 and 14 high left's when grinding 15-5, that type of stuff). I wondered for a long time whether this can be done on NES controller (don't have one). If I ever get one, I'm definitelly going to try rolling.
bouta fc soulless 4 on a nes controller
I did think u could do this but I don't play NES tetris, us guitar hero players just kept our raking technique to ourself
yeah when i first told Jd about it he also explained that it was a technique in guitar/clone hero lol
Don't forget rake strumming, too.
I love how creative Rob is. It's clear through his music but also just seeing whenever he tries something new, his curiosity always seem to push hard for is innovativeness to punch through.
This is SO cool! In piano, one method of hiting the same note/key quickly and repeatedly is to use three fingers and move them in a circular motion like they do when rolling! So cool how musical techniques blend with the gaming world!
Circular motion you say? How?
this video made me
> 50% excited: is this going to bring back at least some of the old school tetris masters!? would be amazing to see the OGs getting back to the top level and competing again without being constrained by their physical limits.
> and 50% sad: not being able to see jonas using this technique...
No kidding. Jonas was the best builder and strategist in CT, bar none. Not that other top guys like Joseph aren’t also good at it, Jonas was just incredible with his ability to build immaculate stacks, which is why he was so dominant in the early CTWC tourneys and why he was able to beat skilled Hypertappers like Koryan when the technique was developed.
What held him back against Joseph is that Joseph was young enough to keep up the hypertaps and was a good strategist in his own right, which made Jonas’ DAS fall behind; and Jonas couldn’t hypertap due to his arthritis issues. Had Jonas been able to perfect a rolling technique with practice, he would have returned to the top spot because he’d be able to keep up with Joseph while having the edge in terms of build strats.
This is super cool. Watching the story of NES Tetris unfold in revolutionary ways here in the 2020s is pretty wild. I remember playing this on my NES when I was 10!
I'm so happy to see people competing on the NES.
I don’t even play Tetris but think these kind of optimizations are some of the most brilliant things ever. Shout out Cheese and the whole community
Man, seeing this video reminds me how much I wish Jonas was still around. Just imagining what could have been if Jonas had mastered rolling :'(
wrgg
Wow, you speaking about how a piano works using all your fingers actually made me understand rolling ALOT better now! Thank you :D
aGameScout your content for Classic Tetris is unparalleled and I find myself absolutely consumed by many of your videos! I wish you could post your content to the CTWC or they could somehow refer people to you regularly. Your vast knowledge about the game and commitment to the community are truly incredible, you remind me of Jonas in that way. Thank you so much for everything you do!
born too late to witness NES Tetris’ release.
born to early to witness NES Tetris’ extinction.
born just in time to witness the creation of NES Tetris’ third major play style.
what a time to be alive
nestris will not go extinct for a long time lol
@@andrewzhang8512 It's interesting really. Such an ancient console, such a crude, unergonomic controller, and yet... It just works for Tetris. The game doesn't need fancy graphics or high framerates, and the small rectangular controller becomes surprisingly versatile as people discover new methods of using it
@@lred1383 that was a beautiful paragraph lol
@@lred1383 Tetris is like the Smash Bros of gaming.
@@lred1383 nes controller is better than joycons by a lot, and people still play switch games
Years later, someone has beat Tetris.
Wow. Incredible new innovation from an insanely dedicated community. No worries about carpal tunnel now. Cheese is a real one.
Also, kinda crazy that Jonas is still helping revolutionize the game even after he passed. He basically predicted it, especially with how close that interview was to the end.
I like to think this is one last gift Jonas sent down to the world of tetris. I imagine him smiling from out there wherever he is.
Oh god does this bring me back... we used to use rolling on Konami's Arcade Track and Field in '83-'84. Then as people got faster they started using a cheap comb between the two buttons with your off hand's middle finger on top and your ring and pointy finger on the bottom, then put that to the side of the first button so the comb would hold the first button down. You then rolled the second button through the comb lifting it off the first button as you hit the second, then springing back down to push the first button until you hit the second button again. You then ended up with expert rollers verses expert comb rollers.
It is almost 40 years later and some things just don't change.
We did a similar thing on Playstation track and field but used a popsicle stick and rubber band.
I knew a third technique would eventually be found. Also hearing that HectorFly was involved, is legendary. Love both of you're legend and content Hector & Scout.
next technique is gonna be tapping the earth to create earthquakes to tap the button faster
Shit man, you can't just give away my secrets like that! 🤣
Videos 5 years from now like:
New tetris technique?!?!?!?
Earthtapping!??!?!
groundbreaking
Your icon made me think there could be an NES Button pressing breathing technique
Saitama NES Tetris necrotapper
This is incredible, it's such an ingenious discovery and I'm happy that even if I don't play nes tetris a lot of people who felt gated out of the game for hypertapping now have a better chance at competing
If you get beaten by a Rick in a tournament who uses this technique... Does that mean that you got Rickrolled?
It means you're a Jerry
There’s the door 🚪... good bye now 😂
Stfu and take my like, goddamit
Yes
That's a shower thought right there
Imagine hitting a button so fast that you generate a pure tone.
Man I wish Jonas was around to see this. This years ctwc was amazing and he would have been so proud of this community
Man... THIS IS HYPE!!! I'm excited for the future of this technique~
First video I ever watched from you, never even seen an nes irl, fell inlove with your channel already
Let's be honest, tetris before Hyppertapping (and now rolling) was kinda boring when only DASers were in the CTWC. Apart from Jonas and Harry (and some honorable mentions from time to time: Jeff, Svavar, Quaid...), everyone used to have a lot of early top outs. Now, it is almost impossible to see early top out and every single match tends to decide after Maxing Out. Tetris got a lot better in the last 3 years.
true its hard to predict the winner unlike previously with jonas dominating and then joseph doing so as well the past 2 years have been legendary
NES Tetris got good the last two years. Sure you'll see some early tops, when people make fatal mistakes, but on average you'll see maxouts nearly every game in the master's events
I don't even play Tetris, but gaming videos like these are fascinating to me. It's mind boggling what human ingenuity can do if they're persistent and passionate enough.
"I will not get into competitive Tetris I will not get into competitive Tetris" *checks the price for an NES*
99.99999999% percent of tournaments don't require you to have an official NES. You can get a Retron(Don't get a Retron HD, they're not good) for 25$ and a tetris cart for 6$ depending on where you live. Emulators are also allowed in all tournaments but the CTWC(I reccomend Mesen or Nestopia).
@@tgm_trainer5042 Bless your soul for providing this info. Thinking of buying one now. If this was Reddit I’d give you gold
@@tgm_trainer5042 is fceux allowed?
@@kkmac7247 It's allowed but no one uses it because of how laggy it is.
@@tgm_trainer5042 ok, I thought it may not because of tasing. By lag do you mean input lag or something?
There might be some rolling highlights to look out for? Well, you weren't lying. This year was crazy.
The clean killscreen build blew my mind. That is pure, undeniable evolution. The next few years and beyond will be really interesting!
A legit clean killscreen is one of those things that if you really get why it's so tough, it's hard to look at and not be impressed to the point of awe. Like, it just resets expectations.
also, you gotta love that goldfish colors bag in the back
gotta rep cheez fish
I missed the reference LOL. I thought Scout was just trying to get another sponsorship.
Whos here cause Blue Scuti hit the True kill Screen
Genuinely, I'm losing my mind. People are so creative.
Dang, I wasn't even aware that Jonas has passed. RIP, Legend
Wait what
RIP. JUST looked it up
WHAT
To everyone just finding out, he died from a sudden medical emergency due to a heart arrhythmia of unknown origin. One of those freak occurrences of nature I guess.
Take care of your hearts everybody! You likely only get one and it works really hard your entire life so be nice to it!
@@joshuakuehn So sad for him, he seems to be so nice. Rest In Peace legend ❤️
aGameScout, your channel is a must watch for me now
Happy i could inspire some people to try it out!
Had you already seen the flyhec vid when I linked it in the discord last year? It's great to see even more overlap between the cag community and nestris.
Rest in peace Jonas, you were a legend and will forever be missed in the Tetris community.
And now someone beat the game with it!
when you're measuring button presses in hertz you know you're going something right
I dont play tetris, but man do i love how far you guys take this. Absolute masters
It's crazy how level 29 was the hardest level to beat a few years ago, and now you see many who can reach 100+ and even that one person last week that got to reach level 256 and managed to have the first Rebirth ever, where the game reset to level 1.
Level 0 actually, and iirc it was dogplayingtetris
i love it when old communities still find ways to change and evolve so much
I only wish Jonas could have seen this
Maybe he's the one who inspired Cheese.
@@elizabethmac1475 I hope that's the case - just a tragic thing all around
God damnit I just started getting back into Tetris and I found out Jonas died from this comment. Goddamn that fucking sucks.
@@growlithekid Sorry you had to hear about like this
Whait what???! Jonas died??? How? When?? Why?
Amazing how the old (NES) version of Tetris is still played so much. As someone who plays the modern version of Tetris, the NES version feels like a totally different puzzle game.
Few channels make me more happy when they upload :D
Whoa it’s the rolling video pog
It’s amazing how Tetris can be so simple yet so challenging.
This simply proves that the gaming community will never run out of creativity
Knowing that there is a totally legal way to master a 36 year old game puts a smile on my face.
Yeah bro
Fascinating. Thank you!
as a guitar player and gamer, this has been the crossover I've been waiting for LOL. Pretty awesome stuff.
So fun to see something that will level the playing field for DAS players! :)
Great video! I thought this looked weird at first, but now it makes sense
Video: Mentions Jonas
Me: Tears up a little inside