I finally found the time to finish The Ecstasy of Order. 7/10
I liked it a lot. I found myself rooting for you and Dana. Her last minute qualifying game was intense. Jonas appeared to be the one who could handle the noise/crowd better than anyone and it paid off in the end.
I tried to look at the current Twin Galaxies standings after the movie but it looks like they are down for a complete rebuild. Any idea when they're going to be back up?
Ah cool
Yeah Dana was cool stuff! Jonas is a boss lol
A side note that didn't get into the film, I didn't want to compete, I was wanting to just be there as an old timer to speak about the new gen of Tetris greats, but at the last minute they insisted that I get up there. I was hoping not to do too well or too terribly, so I think I succeeded in that
Twin Galaxies ran into organizational/funding problems, so they have been sold to a new outfit who is in the midst of organizing everything all new from the ground up before the new site launches. They were supposed to be up before the end of 2012, but a project of that magnitude (not just the database for the scores, but the assignment of judges, financial structure, partnering with other sites/advertisers, and so forth) takes some time. I'm personally thinking possibly late spring for full operational status.
A note on the Tengen Tetris that I lackadaisically faffed about with in the film : Robin could have easily gotten a higher score as well. It's fundamentally a contest against boredom. It never gets fast enough to be a real challenge to even moderately decent players, so the sky is the limit with score, depending on how much time you have. Ben Mullen put up an ~8 million or so score before getting bored last year, and recently Bo Steil put up something like 11 or 12 million (about 4 hours IIRC). I think the more exciting targets in Classic Tetris will be official Gameboy maxout (a couple of people have done this, difficult due to short playing area and near-instant locktime, but doable), and SNES maxout (extrordinarily difficult, but possible in my estimation). I can already do the Gameboy maxout, and am targeting SNES maxout. The WR is somewhere in the high 600k range I think, I've done 862k as my best so far, it really wears on you. The drop speed is as fast as 29+ on NES, but with a larger entry delay that lets you prime the location of the drop better. You have to tap like a maniac for a longer period of time. It really hurts that the scoring stops growing at level 9, unlike NES where it continues to rise, making maxouts feasible there (as 29+ on NES is only briefly survivable in the best circumstances).
Thanks for watching and reviewing! I hope KT has a chance to watch it soon!
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