It's another post where I hype up a competitive video game that I have no involvement in, just because it's so amazing to watch! The top 8 of Monthly Tetris Mega Masters is happening right now on https://www.twitch.tv/monthlytetris.
This channel has various monthly tournaments of NES Tetris, but this is a bigger one with an impressive prize pool, and a bracket of 64 players who qualified by being able to consistently max out the score, now narrowed down to 8 of the best NES Tetris players in the world. I do mean the world, this is not a very US-centric competition. NES Tetris is everywhere. A player on stream right now is streaming from Kazakhstan.
PixelAndy, who recently was the first human to reach the "kill screen", is also in the top 8.
This competition puts a bound on the length of matches by modding the game so the pieces drop two squares per frame at level 39, which is believed to be unplayably fast. (Level 29 used to be considered unplayably fast until a few years ago, when new controller techniques were invented.)