Legendaries Tetris player Jonas Neubauer has died, according to a statement on his Twitter account, after a “sudden medical emergency.” He died January 4, at age 39.
Neubauer was one of the greatest players of all time Tetris players, who won seven Classic Tetris World Championships from 2010 to 2017. As he told Kotaku in a 2017 interview, he has the classic NES version of Tetris when he was eight years old, he bought his first copy of the game after putting it on the cover of Nintendo Power as a child. During his teens and early twenties, Neubauer continued to play Tetris on the NES. Eventually, he started uploading his scores to the internet, where he gained some visibility and was able to earn a place at the first World Championships in 2010, held in Los Angeles. He won a surprising upset against another top Tetris player, Harry Hong, begins its rise to Tetris fame.
Neubauer’s style of play can seem chaotic and wild, and he builds high stacks of blocks and makes messy Tetris boards, before deftly cleaning and scoring big points. It was all part of his strategy; he told Kotaku that perfectionists “would be horrible Tetris. ”
He told Kotaku, “The most important takeaway from Tetris that people do not realize that it benefits people who make very brave, very quick decisions and do not get exhausted by it. ”
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In addition to playing Tetris, Neubauer worked as a taproom manager and started with a marijuana, says Vise in a 2018 profile that he regarded himself as a kind of D-list celebrity. He sometimes streamed 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 World Championships expressed their condolences on the competition website, writing:
‘Jonas, we miss you, we love you, and we thank you for inspiring us to always be our best. All the love to his wife Heather, his mother Sharry, his family and friends. Rest in peace, our mighty hero. ”
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