Who is your Heroe of TETRIS.

[Amnesia]

Let's go :

[muf]

What, no option for Corrosive? :AWE:

[awake]

Trance

add a new option!

[colour_thief]

No jin8 option? Jin is a different player.

[Ai]

Outside Japan:

Blink
colour_thief
K

From Japan:

777
Jin8
Kan

(Ordered alphabetically ^^)

I highly respect a lot more players for their skills: rednefed, KevinDDR, mfm005, Amnesia, Rosti LFC, DeHackEd, Edo, FSY, DIGITAL, SAL, SQR@^^^, ZAB, MOM etc.


Most amazing things:


777's sub 9 minutes TGM performances. It boggles the mind that after I almost went 2 minutes under the GM level 999 time requirement, he's still almost 3 minutes faster. 17 seconds per section on average.
SAL's 11 lines checkered stack in TAP without Hold.
Invisible tetris play by those who are GM in TAP and Ti Master modes.
The masterful timing, speed, t-spinning and garbage drilling by the top rated multiplayer experts.
One-handed play.


Very difficult to choose one player. Jin8, Kan or 777. I will decide later.

[Burbruee]

Spectre, I would not have played Tetris today if I had never followed his progress on Gamefaqs and when he finally maxed out Mode A on gameboy or cleared 9(heart) high 5.
I would have never bought a DS and TDS, I would have never found this place and I would have never discovered TGM or it's clones.

[kotetsu213]

SQR
Blink
Trance
jin8
kan

voted SQR

edit: oh, and the guy in the tetris_japan_finals.mpeg video

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

c_t because of his death GM commentary ^^

[KevinDDR]

Colour_thief.

Matt_Hatter83.

[Amnesia]

Trance

add a new option!

Trance doesn't deserve a place on this list imo..
I put blink because of his suprematy on 0G versus..
Honnestly DIGITAL is far above blink regarding the global skill on TETRIS, but the number of lines is limited to 10..
Trance is just the second best player after blink only on SRS 0G versus, even me, I fuck him up in every other domain of TETRIS.

If some people still have not noticed, I put the best world player in a recognize style of TGM or other. Spectre deserve a place for being the best GB player for example. I put c_t and jago for the western symbol..jago is begining to surclass a lot of japan player in m roll or TGM/TAP tecnic and c_t is just incredible by his consistence in both TGM and TI style.

AND A LAST THING GUYS :
even if I disapeared from the scene, I consider my experience well above you all for being able to etablish a list of the best world players.

[Rosti LFC]

KAN. Other players have skill which I find extremely impressive and respectable. KAN has that which I wouldn't believe if I didn't know it was real.

Plenty of other great players like jin8 and ZAB, as have already been mentioned, but KAN stands out for me.

For European players I'd say FSY for his massively neat stacking style (though mostly because Jago sort of doesn't count), for in North America I'd say c_t.

[kotetsu213]

Blink is the best on Blockbox but on TOJ he loses to hebo-MAI.

So who really belongs on the list?

[muf]

KAN. Other players have skill which I find extremely impressive and respectable. KAN has that which I wouldn't believe if I didn't know it was real.

This.

[Zircean]

KAN. Other players have skill which I find extremely impressive and respectable. KAN has that which I wouldn't believe if I didn't know it was real.

QFT.

KAN's original Phantom Mania M was performed in spite of a bug that hindered his speed incredibly. For that, he is winrar. jin8 and 777 are heroes because of their general skill and TAS-like efficiency respectively, but KAN is the messiah of tetris.

Outside Japan, it'd be Jago. In North America, c_t and Digi are my heroes. :P

[awake]

Trance doesn't deserve a place on this list imo..
I put blink because of his suprematy on 0G versus..
Honnestly DIGITAL is far above blink regarding the global skill on TETRIS, but the number of lines is limited to 10..
Trance is just the second best player after blink only on SRS 0G versus, even me, I fuck him up in every other domain of TETRIS.

If some people still have not noticed, I put the best world player in a recognize style of TGM or other. Spectre deserve a place for being the best GB player for example. I put c_t and jago for the western symbol..jago is begining to surclass a lot of japan player in m roll or TGM/TAP tecnic and c_t is just incredible by his consistence in both TGM and TI style.

AND A LAST THING GUYS :
even if I disapeared from the scene, I consider my experience well above you all for being able to etablish a list of the best world players.

Second best player after Blink because he isn't fast. But, he has the perfect style that no one else has come close to achieving. If he's my hero, then why doesn't he deserve a place on the list? Maybe you should limit this to a list of TGM heroes.

[muf]

Maybe you should limit this to a list of TGM heroes.
Lame cop-out. Admit it, the only reason so many TGM players are in this list is because it's the single Tetris game that encourages masterful play to such an extent. With other games, you have to be masterful despite the game, and Trance just doesn't quite make the cut. There's a finite amount of poll options here.

[awake]

I don't get what I'm copping out of?

I think most people here don't understand or appreciate VS play, but that doesn't make it any less masterful.

[Caithness]

My Tetris hero is Hitokage, because of his absolute mastery of TDS Push mode.

[paul]

I don't get what I'm copping out of?

I think most people here don't understand or appreciate VS play, but that doesn't make it any less masterful.

yeah vs. play is so much funner.

tgm snobs. so that's why i am not on this list.

[colour_thief]

tgm snobs.

I invite anyone who claims I'm a TGM snob to lose to me in Tetris Splash.

[Amnesia]

I may be wrong..But it seems to me that blink can perform some excellent grades on TI master, SRS, the same as me(:awe:), but not trance..

And to be honnest, a list of 15 choices would have included him and hebo MAI, I had wrote his name on a paper during my work before creating the poll here and realising that the list is 10 max. ah and for hebo MAI, I am still above him in a few solo modes in SRS, it should not be like that, mode where I did not push that hard.

Ah one thing which should not be forget, do you want to talk about versus ??
NoTGhost massacred blink on versus in using ARS, and I have been nice with him, he is on the list..

[kotetsu213]

Ah one thing which should not be forget, do you want to talk about versus ??
NoTGhost massacred blink on versus in using ARS, and I have been nice with him, he is on the list..

Uh huh. Since when do TOJ, TDS, TF, Party, Splash, Evolution, and Hangame have ARS?

[Amnesia]

Blockbox crétin.:v

[Ray Ayanami]

I invite anyone who claims I'm a TGM snob to lose to me in Tetris Splash.
Or better yet,

NO KICKS.
NO LOCK DELAY.
GAME BOY ONLY.
FINAL DESTINATION.

[Edo]

My "Heroe of TETRIS" has to be Amnesia, for his unparalleled mastery of controversial-topic-creation.

On a more serious note, I don't think this should be a poll; we're not trying to determine who is the "best" player, rather the players who we personally admire and aspire to emulate. This is a very subjective matter; there should be no absolutes. If meow wants to site trance as his tetris hero, there should be nothing to stop him from doing so.

I'm quite glad that Caithness deliberately chose someone who wasn't an option in the poll, and I strongly encourage other people to do the same.

I'm going to site Koryan as my tetris hero: he's a strong ARS player (a lot stronger than most people give him credit for), a phenomenal SRS player, and he's also no slouch at vs play. He's polite and honourable, and has provided a vast amount of helpful data for the benefit of other players.

[Red_Star]

My hero is David(Khami boy, Maserati, whatever you want to call him). He was crazy good back in Cultris, which was my first time playing tetris a lot. He is still fast as hell, so I choose him.

I would choose colour_thief in regards to ARS. He is not as crazy good as some japanese players, but I like what I have seen in his videos. I still have his Death GM video on my mp3 player and I still watch it from time to time.

[kotetsu213]

Well then, Amnesia, let me know when I can fly to Hawaii to play Blockbox or watch a Burger King-sponsored tournament with live TV coverage, or be able to log in at any one time and not see the same group of people each time (0% of which, by the way, actually play ARS VS)

Also, I decided to check out hebo-MAI's solo-game SRS records on Blockbox... I see she is above you in Expert TA, Expert Ti, Marathon 1 (I didn't even see you on the list), Marathon 3, and Marathon 3.5... so what's left, Marathon 2 and Marathon 2.5 (both of which have fewer players than the other marathons...) and those are just the TGM modes. I don't even have to check the other modes to know who's above who, there.

By the way, if you really love TGM that much, all of hebo-MAI's Marathon records are above Blink's, both in SRS AND ARS. I ask again, who really belongs on the list?

[Amnesia]

I just want to say that it is not acceptable for a player like blink to have a so weak side and lose against my girlfriend who has played 30min per week for 1 year..And kotetsu if you don't believe me, you were witness at this day, I remember that I rejected your request to join the match 5 - 6 times because we did not want you to come and destroy blink and NoTghost.

and sorry maserati, actually you are one of those I forgot and who deserves to be on the list for being the fastest of the world.

I would choose colour_thief in regards to ARS. He is not as crazy good as some japanese players, but I like what I have seen in his videos. I still have his Death GM video on my mp3 player and I still watch it from time to time.



humm, have you seen the last GM 5:10 of 309 recently ?

[kotetsu213]

What is unacceptable about someone being weak in a mode that nobody plays?

Look out, because I'm about to become the best BRS player in the world!

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

Or better yet,

NO KICKS.
NO LOCK DELAY.
GAME BOY ONLY.
FINAL DESTINATION.

i lol'ed.

What is unacceptable about someone being weak in a mode that nobody plays?

Look out, because I'm about to become the best BRS player in the world!
i'll still out-TPM you once i master typomino. >_<

[clincher]

I ask again, who really belongs on the list?

No one, I agree with Edo
My hero would have to be Trance, his style is the most efficient out there he beats players that are a lot faster than him and that's just pure skill.

[Amnesia]

You guys you don't have a complete culture of Tetris to judge it..I traveled and explored every domain of Tetris, but you, you are just completly obseded by SRS versus style and his top player (blink, trance, maserati..)
You don't know anything about TGM, but me, as you saw, I spent a few month in your WORLD to understand things and become able to judge..

Being beaten by a common player in a tetris game randomely taken could not happen to me, but can happen to blink and trance..

(sorry for my bad humor and agressivity, I've just seen the last record of kevin.)

[Rosti LFC]

Yes, but Amnesia, what exactly has your quest to be good at all forms of Tetris given you? You can blame lack of joystick all you want, but all you've ended up doing is distracting yourself across so many modes that more focused players have caught up with you and in some ways surpassed you.

How much time you put in for Tetris practice is very important, and if you play for 20 hours a week in ten modes, you have two hours per mode, meaning when players put in 20 hours a week in five modes, they're going to slaughter you in the modes that they play. Sure, you'll be better at the other five, but if they're modes nobody really gives a shit about then being better in them isn't as valuable.

Players like Blink, Trance, and Samaf are absolutely awesome at modes they play. You can't dismiss their ability as players just because they're maybe not so good at modes they don't play. I'm sure Usain Bolt is absolutely shit at sports like, say, tennis or golf, but it doesn't change the fact that he's top of the world at sprinting. Your point is a completely retarded one, because what you're basically saying is "Blink and Trance should waste time playing modes they're not interested in just so they can be good at modes they're not interested in".

I suck as SRS VS with a keyboard. Someone could point it out as some gaping hole in my repertoire, except it isn't really. For one, I'm possibly the best player out there for ARS VS, and for two I'd probably be extremely good with SRS if I just took the time to switch over. I don't see why not having bothered to learn SRS on a keyboard is something that makes me a worse Tetris player. It doesn't make me a well-rounded player, but I'm still just as good at the modes that I apply myself to.

Amnesia, you hold too much importance in being good at all Tetris modes. You can try and end up being good at every mode, but that's all you'll manage: "good". You won't ever be one of the best at any of them. Most of the rest of us don't care if a player is a master of every rotation system or gravity setting. If they're amazing at one mode then they're still an amazing player. I'm sure I could beat colour_thief in Blockbox, but that doesn't lower my respect for him one inch because I know that's not what he plays and it's a dumb comparison. He kicks my ass in the TGM series, which we both care about and play, and that's what is important.
Yet Amnesia, I can beat you in both Blockbox and TA Death, Sudden and Special Ti. TGM1 I despise playing, so really TAP Master is the only thing you truly hold over me (and I'm hunting your ass down in that as well :twisted:).

And why did you put 777 in the poll if being good at everything is more important than dominating a single mode? Dominating a single mode is OK as long as it's TGM?

Sorry if I'm being a bit scathing, but I just saw KevinDDR's most recent record.

[Ai]

Hahahah... Your Tetris hero doesn't have to be someone who is the best at something. It can be the I-piece, your 80-year-old grandma t-spinning or even Henk Rogers if you want. It was so predictable that this thread would turn out this way. Great job Amnesia. If I didn't know better, I would have had no other choice but to believe that you were trolling. ^^

Nice post Rosti_LFC. What Amnesia likes to forget is that if Blink, caffeine, Big C, Trance etc. were interested and really tried seriously, they would be very good ARS players in a short time. I myself am the kind of player that would rather be decent at a wide range of games and modes. I like to try different things and slowly become a better overall player that way. If I was world class at something I would do everything to keep it that way too.

Btw in the end I chose for Kan like many of you. It helps that he motivated me to try harder when I was stuck with S6 for ages in TGM1.

[Amnesia]

If you are like me, finish me now. I'm tired of all this .. Also I am an islamic extremist and am making bombs out of fertiliser.

[Ray Ayanami]

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna whore out TAP Master and TA Death like nobody's business.

[LOst]

777 is just so god like in everything he does. Even outside the Tetris field.

[Monte]

I'd have to say caffeine. back when I was just a tetris noob he really helped me out and he gets my sense of humor and that is a rarity among tetris players. He also would play with me and he'd scrape me bad but he never rubbed it in or made me feel like a dumb scrub even though I really was. digi comes in close second but he gets minus points for telling me to start off with ti-world when I was trying to get into TGM.

[cyberguile]

my heroe is... alexei pajitnov ;)