13 Facts About Jonas Neubauer

Jonas Evan Neubauer was an American Tetris player, Twitch streamer, and a taproom manager.

Jonas Neubauer began playing Tetris at age 6 or 7 on his uncle's Compact Macintosh computer.

Jonas Neubauer first claimed to have attained a max-out score of 999,999 points on March 23,2001.

Jonas Neubauer was contacted in 2010 by filmmaker Adam Cornelius, who had seen the recorded max-out scoring game that Jonas Neubauer shared online years earlier.

Cornelius invited Jonas Neubauer to participate in his documentary film Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters, which was set to include a tournament in Jonas Neubauer's hometown of Los Angeles.

Jonas Neubauer participated again in 2014, looking to defend his title for the fourth straight time.

Jonas Neubauer made it to the finals, setting up a rematch with the previous year's finalist Harry Hong.

In 2015, Jonas Neubauer returned to the competition motivated to claim his fifth title.

Jonas Neubauer dropped only one game during the entirety of the competition during the quarterfinals against veteran Chad Muse.

In June 2018, Jonas Neubauer set a high-score world record of 1,245,200 points.

On June 9,2019, Jonas Neubauer was a panelist on ABC's To Tell the Truth, where he was one of three who had to fool celebrities into thinking that he was the Lego Master Builder.

Jonas Neubauer died from a sudden medical emergency on January 5,2021, at age 39.

Jonas Neubauer's death was announced four days later on all of his social media pages.