<story><title>Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (2007)</title><url>https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3np</author><text>One thing that irks me with this era is the conflation of &amp;quot;North-America&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;the World&amp;quot;. Records, tournaments, and championships were only announced, solicited, and held across USA+Canada, in English.&lt;p&gt;The same can be observed in the referenced &amp;quot;King of Kong&amp;quot; documentary, the &amp;quot;Nintendo World Championships&amp;quot; (organized only in NA by Nintendo of America), and the &amp;quot;Classic Tetris World Championship&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;They should just call it for what it was: North-American records.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DizzyDoo</author><text>John Cleese had a joke about the Baseball World Series where he would quip &amp;quot;I notice you didn&amp;#x27;t invite Belgium this year.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (2007)</title><url>https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3np</author><text>One thing that irks me with this era is the conflation of &amp;quot;North-America&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;the World&amp;quot;. Records, tournaments, and championships were only announced, solicited, and held across USA+Canada, in English.&lt;p&gt;The same can be observed in the referenced &amp;quot;King of Kong&amp;quot; documentary, the &amp;quot;Nintendo World Championships&amp;quot; (organized only in NA by Nintendo of America), and the &amp;quot;Classic Tetris World Championship&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;They should just call it for what it was: North-American records.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrameld</author><text>I mean, by that logic we really can&amp;#x27;t call anything a world record until we know the results of everyone who has ever done the thing. That not feasible, so instead we just call the best performance that is known to the public and verifiable the world record.</text></comment>