A new world-breaking feat that many experts thought to be impossible has been completed by a thirteen-year-old “Tetris” gamer who managed to beat the game more than thirty years after its release. BlueScuti, who many are considering a great up-and-coming gamer, manages to reach the “kill screen” in one of gaming’s most iconic works.
BlueScuti, the legend that now holds the record for the greatest “Tetris” game ever played, was able to become the first person ever to complete the game without reaching a point where the blocks overflowed the allotted rectangle and caused the player to lose. Effectively, he is the first person ever, in the history of the world, to not lose in the game of “Tetris.”
BlueScuti, whose real name is Willis Gibson, is not new to the competitive “Tetris” scene. He has amassed numerous wins during his short career, as shown in his profile on Liquipedia Tetris Wiki, which tracks events and the players who compete. He had earnings of over $2,500 in 2023 with five wins on his record, showing impressive prowess as a young teenager plying his craft against grown men.
According to Arstechinca, this feat was thought to have been impossible just a few years ago. Many in the competitive community, they say, believed that the game moved too fast on later levels for players to have any chance to move pieces into the correct place.
For those who do not know, the goal of “Tetris” is to fit different shaped blocks into a board as the game continually gets faster, making it tougher for the player to find the proper place to insert each piece. As a row of blocks becomes whole, the player is given another space to place new blocks, and so the game continues onward. The game only ends when The player runs out of room to place new blocks.
The problem, for years, was that on the final levels of the game, the speed became greater than a person could click left and right. Making it effectively impossible to properly position blocks on the outside of the board and, thus, impossible to beat the game.
Players like BlueScuti, however, have devised a new strategy that allows them to click up to ten times per second, making it possible to move the blocks into a place that will allow the game to be beaten. So that’s how it went for our 13-year-old legend.
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BlueScuti used this technique and hours upon hours of diligent practice to master the move and now is reaping the rewards by becoming the first person ever, in the entire history of the game, to beat the final level.
Now, Willis Gibson’s name will forever be remembered in the long and storied history of the world’s third best selling video game of all-time. The game that many give credit to for helping to boost gaming to the heights upon which it now sits, will forever be the place were BlueScuti’s name is enshrined as the first to win.