The Dubai Frame in the United Arab Emirates is a giant 150-meter-tall frame structure in the city of Dubai that is one of the country’s top tourist attractions. Over the weekend, Red Bull transformed the structure into a frame for the famous video game classic, Tetris.
A total of 4,000 drones were deployed, 2,800 of which were used to display the world’s largest Tetris game during the Red Bull Tetris World Final competition that took place over the weekend.
The competition was the largest global Tetris competition to date, with more than 7 million Tetris games played in qualifying rounds, national-scale competitions in over 60 countries and multiple knockout rounds to qualify for the finals at the Dubai Frame.
The winner of the inaugural Red Bull Tetris World Final was Fehmi Atalar from Turkiye who said he would be proud to make it to the finals to play the game on the Dubai Frame’s “big screen” with the drones.
Meanwhile, for this competition, Red Bull is also seen introducing some twists to this classic video game with interesting power-ups such as speeding up and slowing down blocks and other advantages.
Before the actual final round began, Fehmi Atalar and Leo Solórzano from Peru competed in a three-minute pre-final match – where the winner would earn the right to determine the order of play in the single-player format of the final round.
After winning that round, Atalar chose to play second in the deciding round. Each opponent would have five minutes to play to get the highest score, where their Tetrimino (the name of the Tetris blocks) was created in real time by a fleet of 2,800 drones; 1,400 for each player.
Solórzano managed to get a score of 57,164 in five minutes, while Atalar won the final round with a score of 168,566 in the same time.