Henry Chao

- Truly finishing this tournament undefeated is quite an accomplishment.

So, my name is Henry.

I'm from Massachusetts originally, and right now I'm living in New York.

Ooh, my favorite starter. I'll go with Piplop. Yeah, Piplop is pretty sick.

Got to give most the credit to my brother here.

He's the one that sort of got me into it.

I was only, like, seven years old.

He was, like, collecting Pokémon cards and he was like, "Let's actually try to learn like what this text does."

And then he started going to like a local league, which he found online.

He he was very good back in the day too.

He unfortunately lives abroad now, so we can't play really much.

We hit our first nationals, I think like a year, year and a half after we started, 2009.

And then going to Worlds, I mean, sort of.

Yeah, once you get down that road, you know, you just kind of keep going.

I grew up in New England playing against a lot of really good players.

People who are still competing now. Azul, Ian Rob.