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Same goes for any LPer, speedrunner, eSports player or gamer involved in playing basically any video game before the last generation or so.

Bet most Smash Bros Melee/GoldenEye/Ocarina of Time players aren't older than the games they're playing!

You'd be surprised, the Melee scene is fairly old on average. I compete regularly and I'd be shocked if even 5% of the scene is younger than Melee.

Yeah right? I don't see why they felt the need to include 'older than he is' in the headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

OP here. That isn't the title I submitted. Mine was pretty boring, but factual. Bit miffed that it has been changed to that (though I did forget the [video] tag).

The original BBC headline was "Teenager beats Tetris champion at game old than he is", which I didn't like.

I note they have now changed it to "Teenager beats man at Tetris to become world champion".

tl;dr headlines about retro computer game championships are hard.