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posted Sep 14 @ 10:57 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link

I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make some of the best video game explainer videos out there — hell, some of the best YT videos period) and here’s their newest one: The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever.

The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever · youtube.com

The subject of this video is the following year, the 2018 Classic Tetris World Championship. This event will later go down as the greatest tournament in Tetris history. Jonas was going for his eighth world title, and the rest of the community was determined that this time there had to be a different ending.

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Jason KottkeMOD 2026-09-15T03:57:10Z

From @jotkali on Threads:

I enjoy summoning salt videos so much, really they are top level documentaries. And they give a wonderful light to what I think are amazing group of people. Some video games are true art, and these folks that play these games thousands and thousands of times learning every corner and nuance are the true modern art 'critics', but in a new best way possible for that means

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Kevin E McDormand 2026-09-18T21:23:06Z

What an incredible watch and what incredible class by Jonas.

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