Taiwan's Top Red Bull Tetris Player Gears Up for Dubai Final

Taiwan’s Red Bull Tetris champion is gearing up for the Dubai finals this month, putting in long hours of training each day.

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00:00Xie Bohoi, known as Power Tech, clinched the Red Bull Tetris title in Taipei this November,

00:08scoring a record of around 518,000 points, defeating 16 other players.

00:19Tetris is a puzzle video game where players control falling geometric shapes to form a

00:24complete horizontal line, then clear them for points and prevent the rising stack from

00:32reaching the top of the screen.

00:44Xie has trained 3-4 hours each day for the past 6 months, and now he practices even more.

00:50The player is gearing up for the upcoming Red Bull Tetris finals in Dubai for the first

00:55time, where he'll be facing off against top players from 60 countries.

01:14Different from the classic Tetris people grew up with, Red Bull Tetris is more modern,

01:19fostered, and built around combo-driven scoring, which plays to Xie's strengths.

01:24Xie says,

01:49Mastering these item sequences and multipliers is what separates him from other players.

01:59Xie has only played Red Bull Tetris for half a year, but with less than a week to go until

02:05the finals in Dubai, he is more ready than ever to stack up his victories piece by piece.

02:10Devin Sainzani keeps 18 subscribers.

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