Though he knew that high scores required lots of Tetrises-building four rows high and then clearing them at once with a long bar-no one understood the most efficient way to achieve them. He dug around the Internet to see if anyone had maxed out, but didn’t find anything conclusive. Since Tetris wasn’t beatable, he just kept playing until he got close to a max-out score-a six-digit total of 999,999, when the game stopped counting. He started playing again during breaks from college. Born in 1981, he began playing the game in elementary school, established dominance over his family members, and then, like most others, stopped. Jonas Neubauer was one of those competitors. The first Classic Tetris World Championship took place in 2010, when it was staged for the documentary “ Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters.” The goal was to settle the debate, long constrained to obscure Internet message boards, about who was the world’s best classic-Tetris player. “Boom, Tetris for Jeff!” was a sensation. Another user posted a quick-cut video of the tournament’s especially meme-able moments. Someone compiled every “Boom, Tetris!” from the match into a video that stretched more than two minutes. The views just kept climbing and climbing and climbing.” Soon there were spin-offs. Months later, he noticed something strange. Trey Harrison, the tournament’s chief technical officer, helped to upload the match footage to YouTube, mainly for archival purposes. Jonas beat him handily, sending him home with a silver T-piece trophy and a five-hundred-dollar prize.
Jeff, who was staring placidly at an outdated television set, was soaring to the pinnacle of piece-piling.Īlas, Jeff could not shake the Tetris hierarchy. After a few seconds, the longed-for rectangle arrived. Could he defeat the Michael Jordan of falling blocks? “He’s ready for a Tetris-where is the long bar? Are we going to see it?” the announcers cried, talking over one another, voices stacking in intensity. Jeff’s opponent, a taproom manager in his mid-thirties named Jonas Neubauer, had won the world title five times. “Tetris for Jeff!” Their enthusiasm couldn’t be contained. “Boom!” the announcers yelled with each four-line clearance. It was the final match of the 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship, and Jeff Moore, a thirty-six-year-old from Las Vegas, was playing out of his mind.
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