What It's Like to Play in the World's Biggest Dr. Mario Tournament

I hope Heather is still doing well and will be returning to the Tetris/Dr Mario community even without Jonas.

JB here. Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments and thank you to Scout for this fantastic video! We're excited about the 2022 VS championship this weekend!

A little Insider baseball, Scout had sent me the script for this video for fact checking and I saw it was well put together and easy to understand for a person new to the scene to understand. When the video was dropped, our crew was in the middle of setup for DrMC 2022 and we all paused and huddled around a phone to watch it. Even though I had read the script beforehand, it still got me in the feels. The biggest gut punch was watching the clip of the combo I dropped early on in the vid. Hearing Jonas call that moment hit me hard, and then seeing all my friends shine throughout the rest of the piece was a Rollercoaster while I was emotionally stun locked. S tier work Mr Scout. You and SGG are true friends and beautiful people.

Man, Bidwell had asked me if I could make it this weekend and I was really bummed to tell him I couldn't. This video just added to that so thanks. That is to say, excellent job covering the event! I got some real early CTWC vibes

Thanks, Scout! As Bidwell said, we all paused setup to watch and were so touched by your capture of the spirit and the love at the event. Yay!

Hey, I was watching this and my 7 year old started asking me what this is. Next I know were playing Dr. Mario in a whole family round robin tournament. SO thanks for bringing Dr. Mario to a new generation.

That pools/seeding/qualifying (tbh idk what it's called lmao) system is actually genius. I love how it's great for both making the tournament balanced and making sure the players play their best and not cheese the system. Plus spectators get the best matches to watch. Also you broke that down so simply, I'm super impressed.

Hearing everybody's stories on how they go into Dr. Mario was very cute, especially how most of them got into it from a family member/partner

Incredible video as always, it's very cool to know that the share of Tetris and Dr. Mario talent have some form of an overlap to them. Both games do feel awfully similar in their combination of having a simple premise yet complex strategy.

I went from not knowing there was a Dr Mario Championships to becoming extremely invested into this one very quickly lol. Great video as always!

Watching this video the night before the 2022 championship. This video captures the atmosphere of the event so perfectly. <3 Thanks

Thank you so much for documenting this tournament. It's very cool!

Your enthusiasm is always contagious. Thanks for sharing.

Great video! and better late than never. I’ve been sending it to all my friends that were curious about my experience today at the 2022 championship. Cant wait to see you all at the next one for a rematch!!

Really great video scout! This looks like a really fun event!

thank you for the dr mario love!! this community is really the best all the love for every player featured

This such a good video! Was at the phoenix qualifier for tetris reasons, but got sucked into this community, everyone is so nice! Doc helped me get set up and into the tourney, thank you Doc!!

Excellent video! Thanks for piecing this together for all of us!

You know its gonna be a banger when the video starts with "This is me..."

This scene seems super interesting and full of genuinely passionate players. I hope it continues to grow and maybe that we’ll get to see more of dr Mario on this channel (who knows, right?) Just one thing though, I feel like when the rounds start they should find something that sounds more exciting to say, because ‘3, 2, 1, pills’ just sounds a bit underwhelming in my opinion, nothing like ‘3, 2, 1, TETRIS!’ I mean idk what it should be, maybe like “CAPSULES UP!”, or “DOCTOR TIME!” 😂 These are just ideas, I’m certain the players can come up with something better. But seriously this game looks like such a fun time I should check it out!