Legendary Tetris player Jonas Neubauer has died, according to a statement on his Twitter account, after a “sudden medical emergency”. He died further January 4th, at 39 years old.
Neubauer was one of the best of all time Tetris players, winning seven classics Tetris World Championships from 2010 to 2017. As he said Kotaku in a 2017 interview, started playing the classic NES version of Tetris when he was eight, he bought his first copy of the game after seeing it on the cover Nintendo Power like a child. Throughout his teens and early twenties, Neubauer continued to play Tetris on the NES. Finally, he started uploading his scores on the internet, where he gained some visibility and managed to win a place at the inaugural World Championships in 2010, held in Los Angeles. He won a surprising upset against another top Tetris player, Harry Hong, beginning his ascent to Tetris Fame.
Neubauer’s style of play may seem chaotic and wild, with him building high stacks of blocks and creating clutter. Tetris before skillfully cleaning and scoring big points. All of this was part of his strategy; he said Kotaku that perfectionists “would be horrible at Tetris. “
He said Kotaku, „The main payment from Tetris that people don’t realize that it favors people who make very bold, very quick decisions and don’t run out of them. “
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Besides the game TetrisNeubauer also worked as a drinks room manager at a marijuana startup, he said Vice in a profile from 2018 that he saw himself as having “a kind of D-list celebrity.” Sometimes he broadcast his game twitch. But for many players who watched him or competed against him, he was a Tetris God.
The organizers of the Classic Tetris The World Championship expressed its condolences on the competition website, written:
“Jonas, we miss you, we love you and thank you for inspiring us to always be our best. All the love for his wife Heather, his mother Sharry, family and friends. Rest in peace, our powerful hero.
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