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E3 09: On the future of Tetris as a virtual sport photo

In an interview I had yesterday with Tetris creator, Alexey Pajitnov, and CEO of The Tetris Company, Henk Rogers, a veritable plethora of interesting information came out. Sure, the typical can be expected, but what was most interesting is the potential future of the game. Rogers and Pajitnov actually have some pretty impressive ideas, most interestingly Tetris’ future as the first virtual sport. That’s right, a virtual sport.

Of course, anybody who has played Tetris at a high enough level will know that Tetris isn’t exactly the most exciting. Every player just plays the same, you know. However, this duo has plans. Can you imagine a team based Tetris mode? How about 6v6 matches? We might just see it, according to Rogers:

There is one player who is “it”, obviously, and the other players, the other team, are all attacking that one guy. If it looks like he’s going to top out, he passes off to another player. Either choose left or choose right, and he can recover, but he can pass it to somebody who has cleared his play field to the point where he is about to pound somebody on the other side. He can send a bunch of Tetrises in a row. Then you get into all of the planning, You can have offensive players, you can send the “ball” so to speak, to the offensive player, or you can send it to the defensive player who is really good at surviving, and he get’s attacked and survives. So we are working out all of the interesting aspects of taking Tetris and giving players different characteristics.
So what do you guys think? Can Tetris be a virtual sport?
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Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:03
Tubatic
King of Kong...

Thane of Tetris?
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:05
atastysammich
Eh, toss 'em into the next one and we'll see how they work out. Some non-Nintendo system is surely due for some Tetris love about now.
D Sane's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:15
D Sane
YES! I've always dreamed of competing in some kind of official Tetris tournament. I don't know if I'd win it, but I'm pretty sure I'd make it through the first few elimination rounds.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:23
Holyetheline
This sounds exciting! I love tetris so much!!
Danzflor's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:32
Danzflor
Chess it's a sport. Why Not? :)
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:56
Justice
Good to see Alexey is still hard at work on his beloved creation. Pure dedication!
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 16:23
Chronic Logic
I don't know, people who are really good at tetris can almost play forever. So the only way someone will win is either by dehydration or misplacing a tetris piece.
Mr Kite's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 19:19
Mr Kite
Sport, lol.
KMCC's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/04/2009 09:36
KMCC
It can be a game.
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