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DoomGoober t1_isswoqp wrote

Reply to comment by psamathe in Highest scoring Classic Tetris game at the World Championships by RoyalFlushAKQJ10

You are right. He stops after he exceeds the other player's score.

Eric's world record by himself (not head to head) is much higher than the score he posted on the clip, so he could have theoretically kept going.

I read the official rules and the judges can let him keep going if he wants to run up a high score. I think he stopped to save energy because the head to head matches are best of five and he had more matches afterwards?

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psamathe t1_ist5mkj wrote

> I think he stopped to save energy because the head to head matches are best of five and he had more matches afterwards?

That makes sense, yeah.

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Soul353 t1_isy9vx6 wrote

Because players are reaching higher levels than ever before the tournament was concerned about time and specifically asked for people to not continue playing after winning a match, known as Mullening in classic tetris, the tournament ended up going over time by several hours.

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