Two days later a reporter (Brian Malnes) and a photog (Karl Gehring) were among the few dozen at the monthly tetris match, and today there’s an article about Tetris League in the Denver Post.

I felt a little nervous about it, what with me working for the Post and all. My co-workers on the online team knew I play competitive tetris, and some of them knew I was pretty good at it (according to the Tetris League site I’m the best player to never have won it all). But if there’s any video game out there that’s a contender for an Olympic sport, it’s tetris. And if any ship is going to sail into Olympic-land, it’s going to be flying the Tetris League flag. Tetris League. Last Wednesday of every month. Check it out.

1. This is an adorable interview (three questions) with Alexey Pajitnov, who invented Tetris … I’ve been putting together a “Philosophy of Tetris” article, and Alexey talks some Tetris philosophy here. Order out of chaos. Yeah.

2. Last night I won second place in the Tetris tournament … again. Third time I’ve finished second. This time I came in from the winner’s bracket, which means Vinnie had to beat me twice to take the championship. Twice. I put up a fight — this is the championship game:

3. This is the fifth in my Faces of Tetris series of interviews with people who play Tetris. I interview Vinnie, April’s champ, who talks Tetris, Colorado Springs, Steve Nash, and puts together a darn good metaphor about Tetris at the end: