Legendary Tetris player Jonas Neubauer is according to A. statement on his Twitter account, after a ‘sudden medical emergency’. He is deceased January 4th, at the age of 39.
Neubauer was one of the greatest of all time Tetris players who have won seven Classic Tetris World championships from 2010 to 2017. As he said Kotaku in a 2017 interview, he started playing the classic NES version of it Tetris when he was eight years old, he bought his first copy of the game after putting it on the cover of Nintendo power like a child. Throughout 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 earned a seat at the first World Championship in 2010, held in Los Angeles. He won a surprising setback against another top Tetris player, Harry Hong, starting with its rise Tetris fame.
Neubauer’s play style can seem chaotic and wild, building high stacks of blocks and making clutter Tetris shelves, before they deftly clean up and score big points. This was all part of his strategy; he told Kotaku which perfectionists “would be terrible at Tetris. “
He told Kotaku, “The main takeaway from Tetris that people don’t realize that it favors people who make very bold, very quick decisions and don’t get exhausted by them. “
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Besides playing Tetris, Neubauer worked as a tap cream manager and at a marijuana startup, telling Vice in a 2018 profile that he saw himself as “some sort of celebrity on the D-list.” Sometimes he continued to stream his gameplay Nerve twitching. But for many players who watched or competed against him, he was one Tetris God.
The organizers of the Classic Tetris World championships expressed their condolences on the competition website, to write:
“Jonas, we miss you, we love you and we thank you for inspiring us to always be our best. All the love for his wife Heather, his mother Sharry, his family and friends. Rest in peace, our mighty hero. “
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