Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach An Unwinnable Game

Re:Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach ... by Xcelerate on Friday February 08, 2013 @04:11PM (#5190163)

Enjoyable article! I don't play NES Tetris so much but I do play Nullpomino. I only do the 40-line clear race. 38 seconds is my best so far but I'm a long way from the WR.

Holy cow, I just looked up the current record, and it was actually set today! MicroBlizz says in this video description (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUUKKuye24) that he finished a game in 20.28 seconds. It will be neat to see who is the first sub 20! (MicroBlizz or Lapsilap).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach ... by hfantods on Friday February 08, 2013 @06:42PM (#5190821)

38 seconds! I play nullpomino 40 line too and have been stuck at the 1minute mark forever.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach ... by Xcelerate on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:53PM (#5191389)

My top 10 times are all between 38 and 39 so I've been stuck here forever too!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach ... by edanm on Friday February 08, 2013 @06:06PM (#5190675)

Hi Xcelerate,

I understand you're in the "Tetris world". I'm also interested in starting to play Tetris more seriously, but am not sure where on the internet all the Tetris people hang out. Got any pointers for me?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach ... by chrishiggins on Friday February 08, 2013 @06:07PM (#5190678)

Check out TetrisConcept and Hard Drop.

[ Parent | on HN ]