Blue Scuti takes on Rhubarb! Kansas City Tetris Regional Championship FINALS 

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what NES Tetris has above most other competitive titles is that you mostly care about your own decisions, only comparing your pace to the opponent's, while most other competitive games involve some interaction with the opponent, which would generally make the loser salty cuz they generally would feel like they didn't play to the most of their abilities, cuz the opponent didn't let them, so in NES Tetris's case, in any given game, both players did get to play properly, so I think that justifies the good sportsmanship

Spoiler alert 😤😤😤😤 why is this top comment

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@@thescatterpiratesquarepant7935 who reads comments before watching the video? XD

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Who died?

@@samgeurdi6351Don’t know how to explain it to you, that’s not how RIP works in this situation

Better than darts

Agree, this is awesome! 😁

it is just amazing, we can tune to the internet and watch COMPETITIVE tetris and other videos games, played by the best of the best of the best. An homage to humanity's ingenuity and intelligence. These folks are legends.

RU-vid knows us gamers are bored lol

I just now discovered this was a thing! Tetris was like, 30 years ago for me.

Exactly! He doesn't stack as perfectly but his fingers are just too fast! Born roller.

Why he makes less points than his opposent (sorry I dont know really the rules)

@@xeggom7243 I don't play Tetris, but I guess that breaking more lines at once gets you more points. so the goal for more points is to always break 4 lines at once.

thanks so these 2 players have different strategies I guess?@@goodial

​@xeggom7243 scuti is more aggressive and stacks higher than rhubarb, rhubarb is keeping his stack low. It means that scuti is more likely of getting a double tetris because of a higher stack which means he gets ahead much faster. Scuti is weaker to droughts but he is a really fast roller

Yes excellent sportsmanship

I love good sportsmanship moments

So he had to get a certain number of levels ahead?

"Cut my pay in half" lol

​@HeyHeyChey his actual score was lower than Rhubarb's, so he just had to catch up points-wise before stopping

nah i want some beef and drama👿

​@@HitTheStixBRODIEpus

It is a special time. That kid holds the world record for tetris, and it is a 1 of 1 record. It is like playing golf 1v1 against Tiger Woods in his prime while being a top 200 player.

It was so funny! I was too tickled

Imagine still paying attention to the commentators WHILE playing the toughest game ever AND listening to an upbeat song 😂 my easily overstimulated brain could neverr

no such thing as stresx oretc, doesnt amtter

It's impressive how he can get back to the game when I was already lamenting for an irrecoverable stack. Amazing!

He would definitely win a U18 world championship

@@SubmachineOPI’m pretty sure like half of the top 10 players are under 18

He’s the now of Tetris.

real

Future?? WTF, what's this sh!tty game?? Why wasting time??

Did he make it to the semis? And killscreened the game? He's good enough to be world champ right now with s but of luck

@@igormorais4192you forget, the championships aren’t about survival due to the level 39 super kill screen. Efficiency is needed to score high enough before lv39. Scuti broke the game by surviving, not by scoring highly, he wasn’t focusing on getting tetrises at all during that run

Fractal, Dog and Joseph... entirely dif level!

Very unlikely. There are way too many crashes to avoid to get to that level. The game is very unstable at the highest levels.

@@EnglishMikeit'll happen eventually

@@KatieDawson3636it’s possible but VERY VERY DIFFICULT. If they were no crashes until the end it would be much easier

It seems to be a common problem among top level players. Level 18 seems to mess with them.

@@TweetyBirdDawg agreed, but thats what makes it a fun challenge! Playing 200 levels that barely change wouldn't be *that* much of a challenge. Having the game start breaking around you for the last 100 levels, and you need to literally memorize what things you can and cannot do on every individual level. Thats fucking fun as hell. I cannot wait to see people be absolute beasts and learn to do it!

Yeah his stacks are way better all he needs is speed. Once he's mastered level 29, that'd be rlly good cuz it's the same speed from then on. It's just that great barrier to overcome.

He showed the piece like 🎧😅

Adjusted earbud haha

In competition play that won’t happen, as the game is played on a modded version with an additional speed increase on level 39. Players call it the double kill screen

He'll beat it

@@DuckDoolittle and I think even if they didn't have it, just the mod to get the score above 1 million changes how the game crash works

wrrr

He is, already as being first to break the game... cheers to him and to his mom as they fight to get him streaming again.

@@anischab Why was his streaming rights revoked?

​@@Soooooooooooonicable They banned him because they thought he was under thirteen

@@Soooooooooooonicable look for this video entitled "REACTION 13-year-old BEATS TETRIS, gets BANNED ON TWITCH" ... they thought his was junger

13*

Legend says he had a striped tank top underneath that he would only reveal at a game five

Looks a bit like the game over screen lmao

I laughed so hard 😂😂😂

I think the only person who can rightfully critique Scuti on the game is someone else who is good enough to reach the game crash. So far, that is only Fractal.

@@Jaysen6740 I think a little critiquing from a "old guy" that's been playing it for more than 30 years is healthy. A lot of these young guys coming in with speed and new ways to play the game probably don't have any people in their lives that are experienced. Stacking correctly should be achieved first, but with these young kids that play these classic games completely different come in with just that but no discipline. He put himself in too many predicaments that shouldn't have been there in the first place by the lack of basic piece placement adequate. He will see in competition that simple mistakes will eventually cause a top out premature. He's proven that he can burn his mistakes down but that also wastes lines and points and time. Notice how he was on level 36 when the other guy was on 29? that was constantly because of the mistakes. He will be okay, he already defeated the game so all he has to do is go back and learn the basics. :)

He knows how to stack. I suspect it's lack of focus at the "easy" levels that causes the mistakes. He'll get better as he matures.

He has prioritized speed and it’s paying off. As he matures, he will be able to hone his playing style. But a brain can only move so fast without stalling. The way he plays allows his mind to work faster in the 29+ levels. So there is a tradeoff in being methodical.

Need at least 1x fast pace commentator always for final imo for optimal entertainment, if we have that then AGS would be a nice addition on top. Or use different casting combinations at different stages of the tourney e.g. chill commentator combinations covering some of the earlier games would be fine, too

He is just a baby for now...

I think he got to the 2ND kill screen. It's nuts. He missed the first one from what I saw. (You needed like a triple or tetris on a level, and he missed it, but the next level every single had like a 73% chance to crash and he got it.

there are 3 or so people who've done it after scuti

@@Tocinos well, he still is the first

Style, melody, and speed all rolled into one. I dont think Ive ever gotten past level 9, lol.