{"id":112345,"date":"2018-10-31T22:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=112345"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:48:42","slug":"watch-a-16-year-old-win-the-tetris-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-a-16-year-old-win-the-tetris-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a 16-year-old win the Tetris World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-112349\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Watch a 16 year old win the Tetris World Championships\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-664x374.jpg 664w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-238x134.jpg 238w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-436x246.jpg 436w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-304x170.jpg 304w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/tetris.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At around 170 million copies sold, Tetris is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/what-are-the-best-selling-video-games-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the best-selling game of all time. <\/a>Of all the millions of people who&#8217;ve played Tetris, only one can be the best. At the recent Classic Tetris World Championship, Joseph Saelee established himself as the best Tetris player in the world. It&#8217;s worth noting, however, that Saelee is only 16 years old, only <em>a third<\/em> of the age of the iconic puzzle game. Watch Saelee&#8217;s victory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment 16-year-old wunderkind Joseph Saelee dethroned 7-time winner Jonas Neubauer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neubsauce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@neubsauce<\/a>) to take the World Championship! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CTWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CTWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCTWC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheCTWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArdaOcalTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArdaOcalTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zsSwtGfHlB\">pic.twitter.com\/zsSwtGfHlB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tetris (@Tetris_Official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tetris_Official\/status\/1054174989639995392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/09\/super-mario-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">Watch: Fastest Super Mario Bros. speedrun in history<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/watch-fastest-super-mario-bros-speedrun-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Go, go, mario! \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/watch-fastest-super-mario-bros-speedrun-in-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Saelee plays the game on the NES, and has only been playing since watching the 2016 championships. He plays exclusively using CRT TV&#8217;s, which are those ginormous clunky box TVs everyone had before flatscreens existed. The reason for this is that retro consoles like the NES often have latency (lag between pushing a button and something happening onscreen) when used with HDTVs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/nintendo-nes-game-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">These 10 NES cartridges are worth a fortune<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/these-10-nes-cartridges-are-worth-a-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Read Now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/these-10-nes-cartridges-are-worth-a-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Saelee has said that he believes he can improve even further and that he&#8217;s going to compete in next year&#8217;s championship!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-related-articles-white\">\r\n<p class=\"sc-related-articles-white__title\">More from Softonic<\/p>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"This crazy version of Super Mario will trip you out \u25ba\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/this-crazy-version-of-super-mario-will-trip-you-out\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/Jelly-mario.jpg)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__text\">\r\n        <p>This crazy version of Super Mario will trip you out \u25ba<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    <a title=\"Watch: Mario Kart VR looks INTENSE \u25ba\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/watch-mario-kart-vr-looks-intense\/\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/06\/mariokart.jpg)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__text\">\r\n        <p>Watch: Mario Kart VR looks INTENSE \u25ba<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-white__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"Everyone is here with Super Smash Bros. 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Of all the millions of people who&#8217;ve played Tetris, only one can be the best. At the recent Classic Tetris World Championship, Joseph Saelee established himself as the best Tetris player in the world. It&#8217;s worth noting, however, that Saelee is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/watch-a-16-year-old-win-the-tetris-world-championships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watch a 16-year-old win the Tetris World Championships&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":112349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[3150],"tags":[2605,1479,1480],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-112345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontetris","tag-tetris","tag-tetris-world-championship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327117,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112345\/revisions\/327117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112345"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=112345"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=112345"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=112345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}