I'm from St. Louis and started playing chess at age 16 after moving to California. I graduated from UCLA with a degree in cellular biology in 2018. I am the former president of the chess club at UCLA and founded the Collegiate Chess League. I worked in a cancer research lab at Cedars-Sinai after graduating, and now I work for Chess.com. In my spare time I enjoy watching the St. Louis Blues.
Feel free to donate to me at https://streamlabs.com/joebruin but I highly recommend you donate to Chess for Cancer instead! Any and all donations are very much appreciated and go a long way towards helping those with cancer as well as their loved ones.
I mostly play chess and analyze viewers' games specifically on Wednesdays for Game of the Week (!gotw). I also play Valorant and Fortnite mostly on Fridays. Other games I've played on stream include Rocket League, Super Smash Bros Melee, Among Us, Poker, Dead by Daylight, Runescape, Marbles, and even minesweeper.