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Chris Higgins Films
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Documentaries from Chris Higgins, a writer/director based in Portland, Oregon, USA. The latest is Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions, a five-episode docu-series about people who play Tetris on the original Nintendo console. Profile pic by Gilbert Tang Jr.
Best of Five Ep 5 "Showdown" - The Classic Tetris Champions Documentary
SUMMARY: Writing a full description of this episode would spoil the show, so we're going to be vague here. Two players ended up on top in Episode 4. We review their competitive history and what's at stake for each of them. Then we see the episode best-of-five final match. After that, the winner is interviewed extensively. At the end, we learn what happened to our key players since the 2014 tournament, and reflect on what it means to be part of a competitive community.
Directed by Chris Higgins, Best of Five is a love letter to Classic Tetris. It is presented here on CZcams for free in order to reach the widest possible audience-but it cost a fortune to make. If you'd like to send Chris a tip, go to: ko-fi.com/chrishiggins
If you'd like to BUY Best of Five along with UPCOMING BONUS FEATURES, DRM-free MP4 downloads (including 4K), and streaming, go here (use coupon code HIGGINS for 20% off): bestoffive.vhx.tv/products/best-of-five-the-classic-tetris-champions
You can also buy merch (stickers, mugs, books) at our merch store: www.bestoffivemovie.com/store
Soundtrack album available here: carlking.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-five-the-classic-tetris-champions-score
Legal disclaimer: This film was not sponsored or endorsed by The Tetris Company.
CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 Opening Titles
00:00:47 The Five-Year Rivalry
00:05:55 Match 9 (Finals)
00:52:23 The Next Ten Years
01:02:55 Closing Titles (Our Community)
Gear used to make this video:
MacBook Pro M3 Max - amzn.to/3xBed0m
Shure SM7B Mic - amzn.to/3VPravC
Adobe Creative Cloud - amzn.to/4bu8Xt9
OWC ThunderBay 8 - amzn.to/4eJDkyJ
Sennheiser HD 600 headphones - amzn.to/3Li51kp
Amazon links use affiliate codes and generate a small commission to support this channel.
Directed by Chris Higgins, Best of Five is a love letter to Classic Tetris. It is presented here on CZcams for free in order to reach the widest possible audience-but it cost a fortune to make. If you'd like to send Chris a tip, go to: ko-fi.com/chrishiggins
If you'd like to BUY Best of Five along with UPCOMING BONUS FEATURES, DRM-free MP4 downloads (including 4K), and streaming, go here (use coupon code HIGGINS for 20% off): bestoffive.vhx.tv/products/best-of-five-the-classic-tetris-champions
You can also buy merch (stickers, mugs, books) at our merch store: www.bestoffivemovie.com/store
Soundtrack album available here: carlking.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-five-the-classic-tetris-champions-score
Legal disclaimer: This film was not sponsored or endorsed by The Tetris Company.
CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 Opening Titles
00:00:47 The Five-Year Rivalry
00:05:55 Match 9 (Finals)
00:52:23 The Next Ten Years
01:02:55 Closing Titles (Our Community)
Gear used to make this video:
MacBook Pro M3 Max - amzn.to/3xBed0m
Shure SM7B Mic - amzn.to/3VPravC
Adobe Creative Cloud - amzn.to/4bu8Xt9
OWC ThunderBay 8 - amzn.to/4eJDkyJ
Sennheiser HD 600 headphones - amzn.to/3Li51kp
Amazon links use affiliate codes and generate a small commission to support this channel.
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Best of Five Ep 4 "Some Kind of Zen" - The Classic Tetris Champions Documentary
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SUMMARY: We learn how the environment of the tournament-its noise, lights, cameras, and chaos-affects players. Jonas Neubauer explains how he embraces that aspect of the competition, while competitor Terry Purcell works to block it out and concentrate on the game. We learn why the CTWC uses old CRT TVs for the competition. And finally, we learn how a player's nerves factor into competition. Thi...
Best of Five Ep 3 "The Buzzer Beater" - The Classic Tetris Champions Documentary
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SUMMARY: We start by exploring how Tetris experts think about the game. Then we learn about how, in the small Classic Tetris scene, close friends often compete and feel bad about it-each person wants to win, but nobody wants their friend to lose. Finally, two friends do battle, in an intense match dubbed "the buzzer beater" by commentator James Chen. Directed by Chris Higgins, Best of Five is a...
Best of Five Ep 2 "Careful What You Wish For" - The Classic Tetris Champions Documentary
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SUMMARY: We learn how players have trained for the CTWC tournament. Some have extreme training regimens...and some haven't played in a year. We meet Trey Harrison, who has programmed a Tetris simulator to help him train for the tournament. We also learn about his history with Tetris legends Thor Aackerlund and Jonas Neubauer. Finally, we learn the unusual way Trey earned his spot in the bracket...
Best of Five Ep 1 "A Chance to Win" - The Classic Tetris Champions Documentary
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"Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions" is a five-episode documentary series about people who play Tetris on the original Nintendo console. It covers the fifth year of the tournament, 2014, when a single player-Jonas Neubauer-had won the first four in a row. Going into that fifth year, every player went in with a single goal: Beat Jonas. This documentary tells the story of Jonas, along wit...
The Great Maxout Debate of 2014 #classictetris #tetris
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How hard is it for a random person to get a maxout in Classic Tetris for the first time? Is there an intrinsic level of talent a person needs to achieve the maxout, or is it just a matter of time spent? And how might we entice people to spend all that time? These (and more) are the topics of this debate which happened at the after-party for CTWC 2014 in my kitchen. This is a bonus feature for B...
Jonas Neubauer's Best of Five Interview (15-Min Preview) #classictetris #tetris
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Here's the first 15-ish minutes of Jonas Neubauer's interview for "Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions." If you buy the five-hour series, you'll get the rest of this interview when Chris is done with the edit (a month or two tops); the whole interview is a little under two hours in total. This interview took place on July 8, 2015. At the time Jonas was the four-time Classic Tetris World ...
TRAILER - Best of Five: The Classic Tetris Champions #tetris #classictetris
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BUY NOW: bestoffive.vhx.tv/products/best-of-five-the-classic-tetris-champions Movie website: www.bestoffivemovie.com After six weeks of being paid-only (with bonus features), the main Best of Five series comes to CZcams, on this channel, FOR FREE. That happens the week of July 8th, 2024. Please SUBSCRIBE to be notified about the free launch! DETAILS: In 2014, the Classic Tetris World Championsh...
Chapman Swifts - 5,000 Birds Roost in Portland, Oregon [4K]
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Filmed September 19, 2018. The music is "Timelapse" by Marshall Usinger, licensed via Storyblocks. (It has been slowed down a little over 400%.) Camera is a Nikon D500 using a Sigma 18-35/1.8 lens. Links: Parkrose Permaculture Guide to Chapman Swifts - czcams.com/video/SCcGzY-DeuQ/video.html Swift Watch from Portland Audubon - audubonportland.org/go-outside/swift-watch/ Swift FAQs - audubonport...
Access - A Short Film About Accessibility #a11y #accessibility #screenreader #braille
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Access - A Short Film About Accessibility #a11y #accessibility #screenreader #braille
2015 Trailer - Best of Five - The Classic Tetris Champions (Old Teaser Trailer)
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2015 Trailer - Best of Five - The Classic Tetris Champions (Old Teaser Trailer)
This was incredibly well done, and a great watch. Thank you for chronicling this tournament, it's been phenomenal to go back in time and see these games for the first time, since I didn't start following the scene until 2018-2019.
wonderful documentary !!! really enjoyed :D
Why is Terry Purcell featured so heavily in this?
@@ytchannel44421 without spoiling anything, look at how the field finishes.
great documentary!
This is an amazing conversation. It makes me emotional. I almost wish I could go back to this point, 10 years ago, and forget everything I know about NES Tetris, just so I can relearn the game again with these guys. Back then, getting a maxout was the ultimate test of character, creativity, perseverance, intellect, and insanity. It wasn't just a score or milestone - it was a spiritual achievement, an intensely personal journey. Of course, even today, getting the maxout is still a rare and amazing achievement. But we would do well to remember precious moments like these, to respect the stories of the past and how they paved the way for the booming growth of today. We may have better scores now, but we must not neglect our history, our heart, grit, and character on the way to said scores.
is it easier for people to get them now?
i definitely agree with the idea that motivation definitely is the primary driving factor. before picking up rolling, i was a keyboard tapper and had an 800k, but i ended up dropping nes tetris before maxing out because of consistency issues and just general frustration with grinding. i wasn't until genesis x was announced and i saw they had tetris that really drove me to begin grinding nes tetris again, let alone with a new playstyle, that gave me the motivation to actually grind the game for a maxout that i got 4 months after starting rolling (but really in like a month total of active play)
It's absolutely wild that Jonas' reign might have been prematurely cut in half if not for this documentary forcing him to review the actual footage and remember the loss correctly
I heard Chris Higgins say this in an interview with Vandweller. That he showed Jonas his loss and then Jonas said he could see what he was doing wrong and it motivated him to come back. But in the documentary Jonas didn't say this. He said Harry played great and he doesn't know if he can beat him now. It was actually Harry who when showed a video of his own gameplay said that he could see what he was doing wrong from the previous years. So I'm not sure if he mixed up the stories?
@@mojigae did you keep watching? Jonas explains in the 2018 interview with Arda Ocal that this incident was what motivated him to actually try and come back seriously in 2015. This is shown in this episode immediately after the clip Chris Higgins recorded with Jonas in 2015.
@@justinbchen Yeah. I was just confused because I didn't get the part from an interview with Vandweller where Chris Higgins had said "He saw some stuff he was doing wrong. And he was like, looking at what I was doing wrong was what made me want to come back." Saying Jonas saw what he did wrong and that motivated him to come back. it seemed like the stories between Harry and Jonas had gotten confabulated. Which is understandable with so much going on in the show and the time gaps. But Jonas specifically said "I didn't lose it, he won it". And "I don't like my chances for next year." It seemed like Jonas felt Harry had basically caught up to him but that he then felt like he'd push himself and give it his all in 2015 and see if he could actually improve, get better than Harry and if he still really had what it takes to be a champion with the caliber of players.
@@mojigae in the 2018 interview though, Jonas explicitly confirms what Chris Higgins said. Jonas says in that interview that he now found it important to re-review times when he lost in order to understand important takeaways. He says that in the past he was not in not in the headspace to receive this, but the documentary filming forced him to do so. This doesn't conflict with what he says in the 2015 interview. If anything, believing that the competition would be close would be more motivation for him to practice hard and get into better game shape.
@justinbchen I'm not saying it didn't help motivate him to keep playing. I think what you're saying is also what Im saying. I'm talking about what that motivation was, not that it didn't motivate him. And the place that motivation came from. Saying I saw what I did wrong kind of hints at the other person didn't win, I lost. And I'm going to come back and win. Where I felt Jonas was not sure if he still could but wanted to take on the challenge. I think looking at past games and seeing where you can improve is great. This is based off again, an interview Chris Higgins did outside of the documentary that came out, before the documentary was released.
thank you 🥰
Seeing terry playing Jonas, I feel terry is way from being the best player at that time. But I applaud the effort and confidence
Epic choke by Eli
Jonas always had such inspiring quotes 😢 RIP Jonas Neubauer
Yoooooo I been waiting on this for SO LONG!
Me too :) :)
I'm glad they implemented similar seed games. Jonas had some painful droughts
This is such a professionally made look into the past! 10 years ago and the footage looks so crisp, it's like stepping into a time capsule. I really love the pacing of this, and I'm glad you ended up deciding not to cut and condense most of it. I look forward to seeing what you make next!
HONG HONG HONG HOORAH HOORAH DING DONG TETRIS THATS A WRAP
Seeing Jonas' mom... R.I.P Jonas ❤❤❤
What an excellent and well-paced first part!! SO glad this has FINALLY been fully fleshed-out and released, and I hope you keep this format and continue the CTWC scene's narrative throughout the hypertapping and rolling eras, if it seems interesting enough to you personally. I really find your work to be excellent, and I love that you aren't in a rush or have a need to condense it down and that you give it the time it needs. Thank you for making this, Chris.
No one ever mentioning that Bo vs Harry match is this exciting? Holy moly. I know who win the whole thing in 2014 but I'm starting to question reality and had to open wikipedia to check in between lol
Awesome series, I'm super appreciative of the footage. I liked that the commentary was given as if it was real-time because they're great commentators and it added to the hype and experience. And showcasing players that didnt win isnt a bad thing, as they're also a part of it.
Interesting how TreyVison™ is giving insight into the match, for instance in the Alex vs Eli game three Alex had significantly less i-pieces throughout the game but wasn't that far behind in score even though he had to deal with more droughts. It's a great thing they can play the same piece sequences nowadays.
don't want to take anything away from HArry ...but that was a time when there was no SPS!!. the "SPS"tournament rules usually favor the more consistent, conservative players (survival result in more wins that pure aggression), in this case Harry was aided by good RNG. he got alot of bars at the right time on lv18 and even lv19 most games, this allowed him to play extremely aggressive and not top out, wich put alot of pressure on Jonas to play risky. Jonas tried to play his usual very conservative 18 and normally this worked in those days of the CTWC, but because Harry got very good RNG and played so aggro, Jonas fell behind to much and with DAS its very difficult to catch up to 100K or more after LV19 transition if the opponent doesn't top out or gets hurt by bad rng. last game : Jonas was close but then got " RNG'd" with a huge drought of nearly 40 pieces wich forced him to burn alot and miss like potentially 7-8 tetrises wich is weell over 200K points, all that burning allowed Harry wich did not get same RNG and huge draught in that game, to build a huge lead into L19 this forced Jonas to play risky and unusually aggressive on LV19, wich is outside his comfort zone at the time, this contributed to him stacking to high and topping out and losing the match. With SPS and less generous RNG, Jonas would likly won all but 1 game probably, we will never know. We do know that this loss forced him to train to play more efficient and agrressive on LV18 so not to be in the LV19 nightmare again , where he's behind by 100K or more and need to rely on opponent top out or force play aggro 19 which was not hes strength and very risky also. this match and Harry made Jonas a much better player from 2015-2018. while Jonas went on to win 3 more CTWC (7 total) and reach 4 more finals and have decent result all the way to 2020 which is 10 years, Harry never came close to the success 2014, ever again. its safe to say Jonas had the last laugh and is clearly the overall better player in terms of results, but the rivalry was great and was part of the history of the game and need to be celebrated cause we will probably never see same players play each other so many times in the final, now most are lucky to ever reach 1 final ever, fractal has 2, dog has 3final apperances most of any active player, that's still SIX finals less than Jonas!! and Dog played many years now, so the games changed a lot. there are now alot more strong players and new tech has changed the game beyond recognition. during the DAS "era" (2010-2017) up to 2017 Jonas was the king. 2104 was the peak of a great rivalry but not a revolution, 2018 was the revolution that changed the game forever.
Don't want to take anything away from Harry, but...(then takes away everything from Harry). Jonas lost, Harry played better in 2014, deal with it. Jonas won freaking 7 out of 8 and his fanboys still aren't satisfied. I'm sure Jonas never got helpful RNG during any of his SEVEN wins. Give me a break.
Great video, awesome documentary. Very cool to hear more from Terry who has been a very undershadowed figure in the community.
The Mayor of Maxout City!
This series was enjoyable but definitely felt bloated in terms of time and narratively confusing. Early on it is mentioned that the audio is being recorded in the present day, but they still pretend as if it is live and they don't know the results, but its not brought up again afterwards. It makes for a strange viewing experience. Seeing all the games in full was also unnecessary imo. A lot of narrative focus was spent on Terry who then isn't relevant to the climax in part 5 of the finals, while relatively little time is spent in comparison on Harry and Jonas. I think this could have been more tightly edited, making cuts down to a 1.5-2.5 ish hour total runtime. of 2-3 episodes total.
i agree, the commentary seemed awkward at times, mostly because of the faux-live aspect, but also just lack of ability from james to carry his weight in the booth. could've done without that, as well as the full games. overall though, it was still a great series documenting a great tournament, and it kept me engaged to the end.
I would love to see someone make an edited down version yeah. I love this "extended version", but I skipped a lot of the gameplay to get to the good bits.
Imagine being so nitpicky over a solo passion project that took 10 years about a niche topic. Takes guts.
@@DrPepperone I'm trying to give him feedback so he can turn his passionate hobby into a more professional and sustainable career by giving constructive criticism and feedback as a viewer of how it could be improved. I dont think thats being nitpicky, it affected my viewing experience. I'm happy he made it, I'm happy to see him make more like it in the future, but you can always improve and get better in the process too.
It does seem as though it was a narrative choice to include all of that gameplay and recreating all of it in a quality that could be used is a large reason why this took so long to come out. It really could have been done without and just focus in on the key moments along with building the narrative. Like game 3 of bo vs harry is really the only game that carried its own weight for the duration.
This is something very precious. Thank you Chris^^🙏
RIP, Jonas
Hearing Chris saying “Go!” instead of “Tetris!” is such a mindf*ck haha
Chris is getting cooked in this one haha
Alex got painfully unlucky
I feel sorry for Terry; I know a lot of us would have nerves like that. He seems like a great guy though.
Although unexpected, I love that we got to hear more from Terry, who has been a very overshadowed person in the community even though he has had very good placings throughout CTWC history.
I just gave this video the 69th 👍 Nice.
Thank you so much for putting it up on CZcams for all of us to watch 👍
This is 10 years ago. It's insane how much different 2024 is from 2014 skillwise
new techniques made it possible, when it was all DAS Jonas was close to unbeatable
High quality. It's great to see all this great archival footage... especially of Jonas, whom we cannot hear from anymore. I am learning so much about the scene from when the trophy was a 'T'.
Like many others, the recent hype has brought me in. I was absolutely shocked the first time I heard about his passing. I think he would be ecstatic to see the recent boom in popularity of the game he loved. To Jonas!
Jonas said in an interview that Trey sniping him in the first round was one of a few factors that made 2014 a much less enjoyable CTWC than the other years he competed.
Well that, and coming in 2nd place.
@@thelatenightattempts He said that it was more so that he had to take an early flight for work the next morning so he had to miss the after-party post-tournament which means he wasn't able to process the loss with the community which would have helped a lot.
@@Moon-uq6ob I was there to witness it. One of the coolest things I've ever seen. I love Jonas and I hope he felt honored that everyone was trying to take him down. He was a titan in this sport, and I loved watching him and Harry play. I was very lucky to attend a couple of these earlier tournaments before it blew up. Such a great community.
What do you mean by sniping him? I don't know what that means sorry
Love the video!!!!! You are so good at this
Bo vs. Harry was really intense! I had no idea it would go to the wire!
Amazing!
I knew who won Bo v Harry but it was so tense I was questioning reality itself. Great series!
Im absolutely loving the match commentary. James is such a wonderful community member
RIP Jonas ❤
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It's unreal seeing all this footage in such high-resolution, considering it feels like ages ago.
Back then on the gameboy, Tetris for me was that "not-SuperMarioLand" game. So fascinating what Tetris still triggers in gamers after the development gaming has undergone... 😯 Thank so much for that documentary about this gaming phenomenon 🙏
Terry was a true gentleman and nothing but encouraging when we iinteracting in line in 2013/2014. I was always rooting for him.
Harry dissing Jonas' stacking is a diabolical take.
Loved this. Great job!
Lol Harry saying Jonas is going to fall to 4 or 5. What a hater. 😆😆😆
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