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World Gaming Records that will NEVER be broken

When a player crosses the score of 10,000, a message appears declaring them a Tetris Master. It wasn’t until a few years ago, however, that someone became the ultimate Master by reaching the highest score possible: 999,999 points.

In April 2009, Harry Hong became the first person in the world to reach 999,999 points on Tetris, and he did so by playing until Level 29. His record astonished the Tetris community, which is what drove Adam Cornelius to direct a short documentary on Hong’s achievement. Unfortunately, Hong’s record would be short-lived. Just a few years later, in January 2012, New York gamer Matthew Buco beat Hong’s record by reaching 999,999 points by Level 26, not Level 29. It took him awhile, but he finally did it—and his record remains standing to this day.[/nk_text]

“I had three games within one Tetris (four line score) of the max-out. I had a 983,000 game this past June,”

“A month later I got a 976,000 and a week before my max-out I had a 990,000 game. It was getting rough getting close so many times, but I knew I could get a max score. It was just a matter of getting the right pieces at the right time and playing well at the max speed.”

Buco

Youngest professional video game player

Guinness World Records
As previously mentioned, competitive video gaming is getting bigger and bigger, and unlike most competitive fields, there is no minimum age requirement to be a professional gamer. In 2005, Victor De Leon III, aka LiL Poison, became the youngest professional video gamer at the age of 7, shortly after signing an exclusive deal with the Major League Gaming organization. But that’s not the beginning of his story.

According to the biography on his website, LiL Poison began competing professionally at age four, when he participated in a local Halo tournament in New York. Two years later, MLG signed the aforementioned contract with him—but he only cemented his status as a professional gamer when he placed second in MLG’s free-for-all Halo tournament in 2005.

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