梯升资讯
热烈祝贺Frank (fr0zen) Zhang在ONOG 2016 Hearthstone Circuit PAX Finals荣获总冠军！
一年一度的ONOG (One Nation of Gamers) 巡回赛年度PAX总决赛2016年9月3日至5日在西雅图的华盛顿州会议中心盛大举行。Frank (fr0zen) Zhang在炉石传说的比赛中力压群雄，勇夺冠军，成就他8个月职业生涯的第一块重大比赛金牌！
赛场外排队进场的人流和挂着胸牌的选手
参加年度总决赛的八名选手均为2016年ONOG系列巡回赛的冠军，其中包括David “Dog” Caero，Keaton “Chakki” Gil等大神级高手。
本次比赛采取一种特殊的赛制，让每位选手不会因为一场比赛的失利而失去进入决赛的机会。第一天的小组赛采用双败淘汰制，两个小组的前两名出线，组成优胜组进入淘汰赛。后两名组成失利组进入淘汰赛。第一轮淘汰赛，优胜组的胜者进入优胜组的决赛；败者和失利组的胜者进入第二轮淘汰赛。第二轮淘汰赛的胜者与优胜组决赛的败者进入失利组的决赛，胜者与优胜组决赛的胜者进入较终的总决赛。总决赛采取9局5胜制，优胜组的冠军有一局的优势，只要获胜4局即可夺冠。
紧张比赛中的fr0zen
分组赛中fr0zen两胜一负的战绩以A组第二名进入优胜组淘汰赛。第一轮淘汰赛，fr0zen以4:1轻松战胜B组第一名shoop，同时他的Luminosity队友chakki也以4:0的战绩击败A组第一名eversiction，与fr0zen会师优胜组决赛。同门师兄弟，旗鼓相当，在优胜组的决赛中fr0zen以4:3险胜。Chakki回到失利组，与失利组的胜者duhcodda决赛，以4:0轻松取胜，又与fr0zen会师总决赛。
fr0zen vs. chakki交战中
惊心动魄的总决赛，跌宕起伏，扣人心弦。Chakki先声夺人以1:0领先，fr0zen立即还以颜色扳平比分1:1。赛前意料之中，这是一场不分上下的高手巅峰对决，二人在世界与北美的排名一前一后，又是新近加盟Luminosity的队友，互相之间风格、牌路都很了解。不料，随后的比赛场面急转直下，chakki连下三城，以4:1遥遥领先，拿下三个赛点。形势对fr0zen及其不利，大部分观众都认为，chakki赢定了。Fr0zen的粉丝们都为他捏了一把汗。关键时候，年轻的fr0zen表现出了超强的定力以及成年人都难以达到的心理素质，处惊不乱，不急不躁，稳扎稳打，居然连扳两局3:4，也夺得了赛点。按照前面解释的比赛规则，fr0zen有一局的优势，只要他再胜一局4:4就可以取得冠军。决胜局，fr0zen继续保持着稳健的节奏，不慌不忙消耗着chakki的牌力。相比之下，chakki却有点急于求成，主动进攻。较后，fr0zen在耗尽了chakki的攻势后，稳稳地取得了较后的胜利。chakki遗憾的取得了第二名，这是他职业生涯中第六个大赛亚军，至今还没有取得过第一。网上戏称他为The King of Runner-ups，翻译成中文应该是千年老二，希望他不久能打破这个怪圈。
这一峰回路转的结局让很多观众大跌眼镜，唏嘘感慨。网上两个粉丝的留言很有意思：
I will need to go rewatch that series because when I watched it, chakki was ahead 4:1. what an amazing comeback by fr0zen .
Me too. Figured he'd win one of the following 3 games with dragon warrior so I went to bed, should've stayed up...
赛后采访，fr0zen流露出胜利者喜悦的笑容
Frank在今年一月再次获得炉石传说美服第一之后毅然从普渡大学的工程学院休学，正式进入职业赛，并于今年八月加入目前世界排名第一的职业队Luminosity。短短的职业生涯，他已经取得了一连串的优异战绩，正在成为一颗冉冉升起的新星 – Dreamhack Austin前16，Dreamhack夏季赛亚军，现在又是令人骄傲的ONOG巡回赛总决赛冠军。Frank只需再取得一场比赛的胜利就可以获得世界锦标赛的资格。
这场胜利之后，fr0zen的职业排名上升到世界第二，北美第一。
Frank (fr0zen) 去年曾在梯升实习，梯升的同事们获悉Frank取得冠军的消息感到非常自豪！衷心祝愿Frank在电子竞技职业生涯中不断创造辉煌！
附：gosugamers的新闻报道
Fr0zen soars over the competition to conquer ONOG PAX finals in a Luminosity team-kill
Posted by Radoslav "Nydra" Kolev 19 hours, 30 minutes ago
One of the fastest rising talents of this year has finally won a major.
For Frank “fr0zen” Zhang, 2016 has been nothing but a string of successes, all leading up to his first major championship this weekend. This year alone, the American came one game away for qualifying for the Americas championship, made top 16 at DreamHack Austin and topped it off with a runner-up finish at DreamHack Summer and is now the proud champion of the 2016 ONOG circuit finals.
The crown event of the tournament series, whose goal was to develop the grassroots scene in the Americas and nurture the talents of tomorrow, was held at PAX this weekend and featured the best performing players throughout the year, selected based on their performances in the open and featured tournaments. The pool of names included not just up-and-comers, but headline names of the scene, David “Dog” Caero and Keaton “Chakki” Gil among them.
The group stage on days one and two served as a seeding procedure and all eight players were allowed to advance to the playoffs on Sunday where the real race for the $25,000 began. Undefeated in the winners bracket, fr0zen secured the first grand finals spot by defeating Chakki in the winners finals. A game later, chakki emerged as the lower bracket victor and was allowed a shot at taking down the youngster.
As with the winners final between the two Luminosity players which ended on a 4-3 scoreboard, the grand final, too, went the full distance of the Bo9 set, despite Fr0zen carrying a one-game advantage due to his winners bracket position. His overpowering of his opponents has brought him the fattest check of his career – a good $10,000 – and the first gold from a LAN event. For chakki, on the other hand, this was the sixth grand final of his career, his lifetime winnings now nearing $40,000.