Additional fact: Fractal was only favored to win one of his five matches: His set against Huff, with 50.8% odds. Is elo tougher to quantify for killscreen capable players, or was Fractal truly just so far ahead of the competition?

@ryanamburgy2791

2 жыл бұрын

Fractal was underrated in elo because he’d been focusing on pal lol

@MicroTurtl

2 жыл бұрын

Subscribe to coldbald

@ussgordoncaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Rolling has more variance than Hypertapping, and Fractal is just a good player so the odds of him winning the event were still above 10% Maybe ELO rates him accurately and he had the run of his life?

@DanielSong39

2 жыл бұрын

@@ussgordoncaptain Fractal has won CTM before and was known as one of the elite players, he was a top 5 contender for certain before the tournament even started His true odds were probably closer to 10% than 1%

@crudojoshuaricofort8795

2 жыл бұрын

He just had the best day of playing... Also seen that happen to sharky in his groups stage in i think 2021 where he almost made it to top 8 as a das player. This is especially more significant with rollers. Having a good rolling day where you are stacking so efficiently while also hitting high rolling speeds can get you an additional 100k or more points than you usually do.

“Well, fractal might have found an answer to that question. Himself.” The deadpan delivery of that line made me crack up

@gdstuff7666

Жыл бұрын

Hi

@ivanplays_games

6 күн бұрын

Hi

Cobalt, this is a wonderful high quality recap of just the insane run Fractal had. Thank you for creating! MEGA MASTERS worked really well and we can't wait to do another one in the future.

0:49 "rolled around" I see what you did there. Nice pun.

Love how you keep these accessible to new viewers. You never know who might come from the algorithm gods. Also "speaking of broken records" was one of the best setup payoffs I've heard in awhile. Fantastic coverage!

@metropolis10

2 жыл бұрын

and also the awesome "gloves are well... off", "what does it take to beat alex T", and "decided to just roll with it". great writing, just the right amount of cheese!

This is The Greatest Tournament Run Recap Video in Tetris History

That second to last game was so crazy... Lol Fractal got so lucky he survived and even he was stunned when he won that round lol. It was a ton of fun watching this competition.

Another amazing video. Fractal is quickly becoming my favorite Tetris player to watch. That dig against Dog on game 4 is still one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.

Fractal shredding his tournament demons in a big way with this Mega Masters win

@DanielSong39

2 жыл бұрын

He is now a 2 time champion

amazing content as always, really sound analysis with such hype moments!

Amazing video and great honor for me to be in it

You are so good at making these recaps! Even though I had already watched all the matches, I still felt the thrills of watching these games as if it were the first time. Fantastic job as usual :D

Thank you for your videos, OkCobalt! I used to be able to rely only on aGameScouts videos for updates on the Classic Tetris scene, but I’m sure he’s just been very busy. I’m glad I can follow both of y’all’s awesome channels for crazy updates:)

Great work Cobalt, really enjoyed watching this video :) keep it up! What a run by fractal. I saw a clip of the dig before, but not a lot else, wow

He has gotten a spot in the finals, so did his opponent. Oh really? I would not have expected that 😂

@unruh_8470

Жыл бұрын

Ita very surprising

I'm happy I found this gem of a channel. Subbed and loving it bro

I enjoyed the overview of Fractal's journey. It's always impressive to see players manage a high dig situation.

Excellent narration and explanation! Great Work!

*Awesome video, thanks for it!*

Great video man!

Ahhhhhhh this video!! The run was amazing, fractal is cracked beyond belief and I also was going nuts watching it live. But Cobalt your editing is SUPERB. This was so good!! Keep up the good work!

Awesome video dude!

great VID : ) I thought i had FTL open in the background at the end haha.

heeeey, i recognize that intro structure hmmmmmm... All joking aside, great video, Cobalt!

Cobalt, I need you to recap every month of CTM, please, your storytelling skills are great. Wish you would do sports style commentary, a highlight reels.

By far the most exciting gaming scene of the last decade.

Great vid thank you!

I like the video, but I saw fractal as the favorite. I was just waiting until fractal finally popped off during competition.

fractal is insane was on the edge of my seat every time he played

Once 2022 ROLLED around. I see what you did there haha

11:54 "You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Samoa Joe and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try! So Samoa Joe, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Joe, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice." -Alex Thach

@alexthach276

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf is this wwe reference

@Alvin_Vivian

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexthach276 I don't even think it's a WWE reference, I think it's a TNA reference.

@EebstertheGreat

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexthach276 He said it three times, it's Sacrifice! (2008)

@danielhicks4826

2 жыл бұрын

Is that a real quote? cause if so thats brilliant what kid would use a Samoa joe and Kurt Angle reference, a true legend is who.

@EebstertheGreat

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielhicks4826 kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6d417CTqbynebQ.html

Great vid

great video as always :approvalbear:

Well, I feel like the word “human” needs to be interjected in there because Tetris is a game that for sure exists(Ed) somewhere and at some point in the Universe aside from here and now.

Alex T casually does a OH solve while in competition

1:55 Cheez casually getting a 1.6 million average

The greatest tournament run was when boog ran away from tetrisluver32 at the 2018 ctwc

0:48 once 2022 ROLLED around

What’s the best iPhone Tetris app? The official one won’t load cause I have slow data I guess

2:40 small typo. The yellow Post-Transition should say 19-28. Probably most people won't even notice, though.

@okCobalt

2 жыл бұрын

Apologies! That was an error on my part.

@DanVWeller

2 жыл бұрын

@@okCobalt completely ruins the video, disliked, unsubscribed, blocked

Its kind of a shame Alex T is likely gonna just roll full time soon his tapping is quite literally the best in the known world today and he is the only tapper in the world whop can equal and even sometimes surpass elite rollers on killscreen and get to level 36-40 on a somewhat frequent basis its extremely abnormal and impressive, the only other tapper who comes even close to that is Moja they are pretty much the only two tappers who can do that with Alex T being way ahead of him even.

@DanielSong39

2 жыл бұрын

Tapping put him in a handicap, looking forward to seeing how far he can go with rolling We can make the same argument with NGCMan and DAS

Fractal is cracked

Imagine being swept with a 1.3m, a 1.2m and a 1m score... Pain...

I like Fractal

Amazon link to Fractal's rolling oil?

GG

You would think they would ban robots like fractal from Tetris competitions

"Oh my word" Whose favorite phrase is that? 🤣

can someone please explain to me what "elo" is?

@okCobalt

2 жыл бұрын

Elo is a way to calculate a player's skill rating based on their match history, and given enough sample size, it can accurately determine a player's strength and represents it with a number value. This video goes in depth if you want to know more: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6eNyMSmoJO6n5M.html

Yo i made a cameo pog

tapping fast, whatever the context, isnt genetics. it's practice, experience and talent you have to put in the time and do it in a way that's effective for you, including what youve learnt and things that naturally felt right

So dbz/yu yu hakusho bsa training actually works. TMYK.

I dont even play tetris but watch the whole vid

Did Cheez invent rolling?

@okCobalt

2 жыл бұрын

He was the first to do it on a Nintendo controller. Other people such as Hector Fly had done it for the buttons on arcade cabinets, but that was rolling the fingers on a singular large button rather than on the bottom of a controller like Cheez does. He cites the inspiration for rolling to a similar technique to hit keys in quick succession on the piano, so while he didn't entirely "invent" it, he was the first to apply its use to a controller for a video game.

@ChiefSupreme6803

2 жыл бұрын

@@okCobalt I found it odd that the video does not give credit to Cheez for the technique at all

5:49 the score didn’t go above 999999 that may be a unfair win

👍

I wonder: do rollers ever have a problem with double-flips caused by rolling a finger at the exact time they start to press or depress A or B? Like, imagine you are pressing A, but while your finger is just halfway into pressing it, you get a really fast tap from a finger on the back of the controller, which causes a quick A press and release. Then you tap A for real, so it's a double flip.

@DanVWeller

2 жыл бұрын

Double flipping is a huge issue for rollers but it happens less over time as technique improves

the youtube algorithm is not beind kind, you should not have only 6k subcribers

Fractal rigged

2:53 that’s actually not true in nes Tetris there are only 256 levels in the game so if I remember with stack rabbit they got like 100 million points playing to 256

Such a one-sided, subjective view... I would personally say that it wasn't a deserved, nor was it a spectacular win by any means. Dog was just out of form in that match.

@fractal161

2 жыл бұрын

yea i think fractal just got lucky

@brightonpopsoff4970

2 жыл бұрын

Fractal is shit. I agree

@HoshinoMirai

2 жыл бұрын

@@fractal161 lol

@DanielSong39

2 жыл бұрын

That has to be a joke right