Popular card game "Hearthstone" would always have their annual Championship Tour featuring the top professional players around the world. With the latest one just recently ending, a new champion has been crowned. Despite majority putting their favor on the crowd favorite, the challenger has risen to be the latest "Hearthstone" champion.
This new champion is a Taiwanese player named tom60229. He went up against the favorite Fr0Zen in a "best of five" match. Fr0zen was actually up 2-0 against tom60229, but the Taiwanese player came back to perform a 3-2 reverse sweep. This is also considering that Fr0zen's deck was mainly made to counter many of the popular decks.
Tom60229's win definitely shows that it is not all about how the deck is made. Despite one of Fr0zen's trump strategies, the Control Mage, tom60229 was still able to move around it. In fact, Fr0zen is only one of two players with the Control Mage.
Those who have been fans of "Hearthstone" for years would know that this is not tom60229's first time appearing at Worlds. He was in it as well around three to four years ago back in 2014. However, during then, he only reached Round 16.
He is the very first APAC (Asia Pacific) player to win, as the previous winners were mostly from the west. 2016's winner was Pavel while the year before that was Ostkaka, both of whom are Europeans. In 2014, when tom60229 last competed, Firebat, the champion of that year, was an American.
Tom60229 was one of the nearly 50,000 players who competed for the latest World Championship. Having won, he gets to go home with $250,000 prize in his pocket. For many fans, this was one of the most exciting World tournaments given its first APAC winner who came from a reverse sweep.
