get ready to learn Chinese buddy is an NBA meme that started in November 2022 as a joke threat to sports players who have been performing poorly or failed in other ways the macro implies that due to their performance a player doesn't belong in a top tier competition and instead should be playing in a lower tier League such as China's CBA now this meme also spread its way over towards valerant as well as you can see here what is up with the China meme one day this get ready to learn Chinese appeared and I don't know why was posted on the valerant competitive subreddit and so why did this meme come about well in valerant the game in China was released a little bit later than it was everywhere else and before it actually officially got released in China there was kind of just an underground unofficial Chinese pro circuit going on kind of under the radar but we all kind of knew that it existed but still the pro scene in China was seen as a bit of a wild west China didn't get its VCT League until a year later than the other three regions and in that league and the performances across the board it was just a little bit shaky overall and generally the Chinese teams apart from EDG who did okay a couple times finishing fifth six once generally the performances were okay but they never really made it too far and last year world champion booo from EG said this China will never be better than na for one in valer O well guess what happened yesterday chion [Applause] Ed yeah EDG from China won Champs but just before we get into how EDG won the tournament and flipped the meme on its head we do have an announcement because we are doing a TMV tournament and so here's all you need to know first thing you need to do is join the TMV Discord here you can come and join the TMV Discord in the link in the description and then from there you need to find the announcements Channel come to the server info announcements and then in announcements you can go to the pinned messages in announcements and look at this Magnum has posted this let's go there the throw City Clash so here in the Discord server we are uh doing a little valerant tournament here uh where anyone can enter any ranks can enter whatsoever and you and your band have randomly they carefully chosen teammates picked by the mods will fight out to win both glory and bet yet money the group stage is on September 28th and 29th and the playoffs will be on October 5th and 6th there is a €2 entry fee but this does not apply to Twitch subs or YouTube members of me so if you want to become a twitch sub or a YouTube member this is a good time because you won't have to pay the entry fee and the price will be €120 for 1 80 for second and 40 for third place now unfortunately this is going to be an EU EMA on tournament and you need to have a maximum ping of 100 Ms to Frankfurt otherwise you won't be able to take part in it if you are from APAC or na don't worry because next year we are hoping to run one of these tournaments for each of those regions as well and get three tournaments on the go it's going to be 160 spaces for 32 teams of five players already about half of them are gone and it's going to be first come first serve so if you want to play in this tournament potentially win some money then come and join the TMV Discord and come and sign up today so now let's talk about EDG and how did they win the Grand Final how did they become world champions and actually it started horrendously for EDG the first map with some of the worst valerant you will see I mean you're just going to see I'm going to show you four rounds in a row here of their attack side and it is Dreadful the mistakes they were making were awful as you'll see and it kind of starts with smoggy here but let's start with this round which is kind of one of the key themes where they're actually going to lose the time in a horrendous way here right so it's 42 the game's not you know out of hand yet you know we're in fine spot and EDG I'm just going to play this faster for you because it's going to be pretty slow they're going to come a default a bit they're going to destroy this trip here with the shock doart but they go back and you can just see that they're a bit on sh right like okay we've defaulted a bit towards garage now we're going to come back towards a but Kang's going to push up towards B on his own and K gets a bit fortunate here that he he doesn't die essentially to a silal that's going to come out he's going to be under a lot of pressure as you'll see he's going to get stunned here you know get flashed get stunned so aled he does well to actually survive here and now the rest of the team is going to just kind of panic towards sea and just be running it down towards sea the thing is they only have one smoke so even though K can gets that kill they don't have a smoke here for garage and so when they come out Benji's there to just absolutely mop them up as you can see but we get into this position now it's a 3v2 the smoke comes down 22 seconds left right not looking great if we take a look at the map you know K Kang's still over towards B so sm's kind of completely on his own so what are we going to do well smog is about to make a horrendous mistake you're not coming out unscathed 2v3 EDG are going to have to pull out something incredible here and they've only got 15 seconds time is just against them the AL yeah Al pivot over and away but again the timing is going to be brutal K Kang still collects the one it's a 2v2 but a 4 seconds to go he missed it he's missed the timing what's he doing brutal and nerves frantic on stage on display so consider that they just lost that round in that fashion and then take a look at the very next round as well because this is incredible that to lose that round and again I'm going to play at two times speed because you're never going to guess how they lose this round right we start again with a bit of a default here towards mid and out towards being garage right but it's slow as you see and then they decide okay we don't like that we're going to come back to a instead let's drone on a and you know kind of come and take a and at this point it's all fine right they come down a okay we get to this point we push them back okay we're down to 50 you know 4 seconds left like it's fine you know we're coming down here you know out towards a this is all fine looks like they're gearing up to do an exac with chichu was a Lu this is all fine right we get to this point in the round the wall goes up they try and do an exec oh they don't like the util that comes back out at them so then they just run away and now there's only 37 seconds left but now they're just going to run away back to C but the thing is of course at no point in this round have they touched C so they've got no idea what's going on here they're just guessing that Heretics you know aren't there but then because of this deep trip that's going to reveal them just here now they're just trying to do a c exac with no time and so guess what's going to happen spoted you know he's dropped in a moment's notice 20 seconds here's the old woot he's getting ahead of all of this wants to take the peak wants to take the fight H's Fury trying to bail him out slows down to a crawl After Shock in their face it's full util spam cacophony of all of it into the back of the site we go twists and turns the Tails being we but it's all on Heretics his side again EDG the clock being the biggest enemy boo just stays alive and then in the very next round they then do this another big mistake by smoggy in this one as they come for this a exac again here EDG and again they're going to put up this wall and kind of you know fake and pretend like they're going to do an a exac here hoping to bait out some of that util it's quite a nice idea right but just a drone comes out this time right Heretics aren't fooled they don't see anything else other than the wall and they aren't fooled and they don't do anything right then they trap T can great play there from Heretics and now again without your neon are you going to do this exac they decide no we're not we're instead just going to come back to be here after we just are a bit indecisive again here EDG don't know what we're doing we're going to just run back and pivot towards B but I mean again you're about to see a a horrific mistake here from from smoggy in just a second because as we come up to B you know and it looks free like we can probably get the plant down here but now the smoke comes up and now he's going to do this trip once more they've walked up right close and they will be breaking this one Edo there's no cover and WS right there for to punish chichu vacuuming up space hoping the rotations are abounds might be able to catch this timing yes just trying to catch that sine K just dropped down trying to get his team in 14 seconds again time running away from them glass potentially dry no but he's got to stick this plan and minib Bo cleans up the flank forward aggression showcased by chichu he knows he has to take risks he knows the matters need to be taken into his own hands noro theft reveals or the D is dealt with but Heretics have players they've got bodies they've got util and they've got guns the aim on display now yeah that TP wasn't very good was it an EDG as you saw end up losing the round but it is even worse when I tell you that smoggy has two smokes to use as well and he doesn't use either of them and just TPS onto B and just dies instantly and then finally here on Haven round number 10 remember this is four backto back rounds that I'm showing you here right this is crazy that this happened all back to back and again we're going to see here from EDG it's an early default out towards a and you know they think they're going to create some pressure but you they just were in their own head right after creating this a pressure we then got our Sila you know coming back here to do some Shock dots on B there's just so many different idea ideas going on here chichu again just it's like refusing to move anywhere essentially he's just always sitting back here not doing much but again they aren't properly defaulting really they just kind of chill in here hoping that team Heretics are going to do something and again I'll just play it on two times speed and you see that literally nothing is happening right this drone comes out they don't want to get seen by the drone on a so they hide from it which is fine but now again the clock is ticking down and we're going to start this exec here but I just want you to focus on this exec is just not going to be very good guess what's way ahead of him nobody picked off and that's going to spell defeat he knows that the hit's coming in Sid step fult line not connecting there and heads are being popped rattled off the shoulders chichu it's going to try and make a play makes his way over towards C but again 17 seconds left time for the spike to get there keeps occurring Amar Dash and scramble towards the end of the game at the end of the round chichu at least will push back mini boot caugh by the 6 seconds caught by the tri 4 seconds you got to stick it and he have to suiz it who will pay for it for his life but at the end of the day so just not very good right I mean it starts off with this exec being done in stages right so our breach utility is coming out right but nothing else is okay so our breach utility we've now stunned an Aftershock from our breach and Omen flashed but K Kang hasn't stunned yet and so now he stuns but he's still not out he still hasn't come out at all right so he's we're still just sitting in the Smoke we still on out he still has his wall to use as well but he's just not going to use it because now he's just going to run in just on his own with no util right just just really really bad and then obviously as you saw at the end of the round there they pivot towards sea and they don't have time again this was horrific from EDG in map one and that's what makes what happened in map 2 so surprising because their attack on Haven was woeful but then they came to map two and they won 11 rounds on their attack side in the first half of Sunset and it was like a different team turned up right like let's take a look at this round round number five now in this one team Heretics have been struggling with B main control early they're 4-nil down in this round I'll just show you here so it's already 4-0 to EDG and so team Heretics coming off a timeout decide we're going to take B main control we're going to own this space and you just saw EDG be very very you know incoherent and not knowing what they're doing and panicking and everyone's on different pages but just take a look at this that as soon as they see this pressure coming out the nade The Omen Flash the DT here instantly they're going to come and do an a split like instant straight away they decide okay I don't need to play this on two times speed this time because look straight away there's a lot of pace of we are going and doing this and we're going to come and do this B split and not only they going to come and do a b split but it's a sorry an AIT split it's a really really nice decisive one where they take complete control and play perfectly as a team way up through mid as well this time it might not be anticipated Benji he's gone he's taken out the swipe of a hand and a Glide from K Kang man woot needs to try and make the play attempt to dominate the angle so EDG were decisive they knew what they were doing and this continued throughout the entire half and they had some really really nice executor as well like here in round 11 reserves are going to need to be tapped into Heretics doubled up trying to hold it stun good connection reveal onto all of them and now the side swipe they all topple they all fall an attempt by Benji fishy so we see that all of the util is combined nicely all of it pretty much hits K Kang does the perfect thing really as a jewelist here which is he survives right so in we come we flash we're going to slide out across the dart now lands you know I mean we're running into you know like this is good for team Heretics right like Kang's on his own but he does really well to just you know stun them survive makes them run away they're getting revealed by the dots Simon's done a really good thing here where he's coming down this way we actually om flash this which is probably allowing him to take this so aggressively right here and you know be across uh he's also uh you know just just just coming out here koting them as well speeding them up you know and what do you do here you know what do you actually do here nobody's also so aling them these guy this was already a 5v3 right this was definitely going to be a 5v3 no matter what happened pretty much really good stuff and then on the cherry on top we also get a really nice trade there on Benji at the end it was a different team that turned up for map two um from some of the worst rounds you will see in map one to some of the best rounds that you will see in map two so map one was a stum for Heretics map two was a stomp for EDG but map three was actually much closer and from here on out the maps would be a little more close and a little more tense in general for the final three Maps but on map three I think really what the difference was was the G were just coming up with some big time plays left on the clock that's not enough time to plant The Defenders are already going to be in trying to deny as are trying to deny Rubble currently big reveal big coverage mini boo straight up and over Benji fishy looking to contain plugging up the holes but he is alone isolated smoggy by to the Apple tapped out with a rifle resets it to draw this core the play is being made all across the board G you you didn't have to do it to him not like that embarrasses Heretics Inver tree he is the immovable object of EDG and could we have it any other way one thing I want to point out about this clip though is that even though chichu goes crazy there is help from the rest of the team right that what you're going to see here is Simon when this door gets tapped and in they come he's going to stun from from Miles Away really right and he's going to stun and really help him you know be able to kind of win this first fight and maybe without this stun you know this doesn't happen right because uh here mini Bo is having to run away from the stun woot gets hit by the stun so woot's kind of a free one but mini can't trade that instantly because he's running away from the stun but I mean this is insane by chichu obviously as we can all tell and then the fact that he gets all four is just it's just absurd and this to me was the difference on Lotus here where EDG were just able to steal some rounds like that that they really shouldn't have been able to and here's another great example instant there with a stun and a swing once more from Simon but not dead yet need to find some value I believe smoggy have to hunt down some kills TP from chichu punished and it leavs it down to one the rookie struggling this series at least in this map as well with his confidence and he's got to do it against mini bu Benji swapper the weapons pass the rifle over to the a player and a lock down committed Simon how do you play this forced to press forwards potentially there he's overstaying his welcome swings potentially footsteps down [Applause] Simon you demon in weight and so this third map I think did come down to some of those fine moments like those but also it should be said that edg's attack side here on Lotus is just also very good as this round will show you believe it he's just given them the map EDG up to 11 alter back pocket assignment and mini boo hard committed Amo to try and clear his way through but he's straight up in the aedge clay pigeon shooting and Kang not to be denied he's cracked the sight wide open and then we come to bind which was probably one of the best maps in VCT history extremely extremely close that I think game down to two crucial rounds that again are kind of difficult to describe uh the score was this it was 129 it's round 22 EDG have started that comeback here after team Heretics have got to 12 and team Heretics are just going to go for an AIT exac here they're going to throw a snake bite into shower the thing is they're going to run into nobody here towards short who's going to get smoked off with the one right here from the brim and he has a judge in this position how he lives for how long he does I have no idea got no armor to go along with it though potential tool that they could use slower play by Heretics and still they are in the driving seat nobody TS himself close a bit of stray spam but nobody finding a Mark he's weaving around them dancing around them eventually so nobody there with the judge managing to keep them in that round EDG but now you're going to see one of the to me what is one of the most iconic things I think I've ever seen in a VCT game online but none the wiser and an alternate the hands of K Kang spotting the retreating players at least hearing it a pre-fire towards the corner to no avail n rebounds damage connects it castles rean he's out of it Simon's defusing Simon he's got it all the way there's so many details to this that are just incredible K Kang has his ulti here we get into a 3v2 but at this point you know they're trying to close out the game here team heretic so they think okay I'll just go for my gecko W but because of the nade the nade is going to cancel the gecko which means that again like there's more time pressure here on Heretics because they were probably relying on this being like Oh okay this is going to be the thing that you know can kind of secure us a bit more time and we have the mosh pit and of course and we have the brim mooy as we see so they're playing for time here these two thinking that they they've got it but now Buu has to panic because they were relying on this gecko to buy them the first bit of time but now it's not so now he has to Des send his brim Moy cuz uh you know gecko isn't in position to do the mosh bit either here and that is just one of the most iconic things I think I've ever seen chichu just running into the Molly body blocking it so Simon can stick the diffuse was just amazing and then finally we'd come to round number 24 and again pressures on the line what are you going to call on bind well again it's just going to be an a hit here from Team Heretics keeping it simple and again they do line up to kind of do this kind of you know showers crunch they send the snake bite in there as you see but they decide that they don't like like it early right this fate hunt reveals Buu just here so Buu gets revealed so he decides well I can't really do much with that so now we're just going to all come down short and the thing is when you all come down short you know there isn't much space here they have one Saving Grace here do team Heretics and that is that they've got this Viper pit with Benji which obviously he's got a judge for the last round so he was just planning on using that Viper pit and it got very very messy and very very chaotic but it's all on the line and they're all grouped up this is very much looking like an Allin play and a roach hor is not broken n and spam right through the box an opening kill onto SMY pit in place nobody seeking to answer back this is where Kung Kong should be looking to pick up the rifle he does they have thrashed to try to clear the pit there still many chances for EDG to take it to overtime flank control watch for and like you said the thrash is going to be clearing cleaving the way through path potentially here lying in wait thrashes there alongside sees his players to be defended wo steps up to the challenge but dropped inside Kang overtime in sight and need hungry for it trying to Will It Forward fuse to KN but the shots online they don't have it time time it's not a line man heart break for EDG yeah an incredible last round the saddest Ace of all time in round 24 from K Kang that would take us to map five and map five also had its fair share of just crazy chaotic rounds of people finding win conditions from absolutely nowhere like this one round number eight where EDG are on the attack as you see the time is getting low and you know what that means but they're just going to end up here coming for an a exec as you can see from Team Heretics they're actually against an Eco here so even though the time is low you know team Heretics they don't have any guns and it's actually going to go okay for EDG to start off with but then the way that they lose this round is chaos they are just sat back pretty passively and okay this one's an Eco but it's reminiscent of how they've played the majority of their defense half so far I need to see them getting aggressive on defense here I think ni push back dash is active in through there the slightest the timings but ran the shot just missing defense in ordered here Simon just pushing back the Invaders onto the site it is their ran Al just popped off it's a winable scenario and the kill is collected fight needs to go down 4 seconds nobody would be able to stick it tonight from the brink Heretics found their answer so team Heretics were able to win that round but EDG were able still to put together a really good attacking half and they did it and we're going to show this round here round number 11 because this I think is pretty a good example of how EDG managed to win their attacking side because they're going to do something that's kind of become a bit of a theme on Abyss for really gaining attacker advantage and that is being able to just attack in towards mid here and EDG are playing an interesting comp with an Astra Omen Right double controller and I do think that double controller is how we'll see Abyss you know obviously is the new map kind of be played more and more because I think these double controller comps are working pretty well because it allows you to attack mid more and you know myself and many others initially looked at this map and like there's no point in going mid don't even worry about it but actually as it's played out it seems like at least at this point Defenders don't really have the the right Protocols of how you actually deal with mid right and so we see here a good example where EDG they use the double controller to smoke off both sides of mid just here and K Kang walks into towards the kind of uh you know little area with the doors and it's going to create some pressure right and now they do a bit of an a fake here where we're sending an Oman flash out here for K Kang we know we got multiple players in here we're Oman flashing we're droning down here we're making this look like it's going to be an a split but very quickly we're actually going to Pivot and come back towards the B site and it's going to be very difficult for team har ICS to know what to do and you're going to see it these guys here they they think that this is an a split right so they're going to come charging out here the thing is EDG are going to Pivot back to them and all of a sudden there's going to be four people in mid and they're in a 2v4 bodies are still lining up reinforcements arriving here in the footsteps there a rumble and a scattered fight indeed Skirmish to be taken EDG so in response there what you might have heard was the gecko Walt coming out and it actually does manage to hit onto nobody who was droning out towards a so now it's going to be very interesting where bu is going to try and push this and get this kill but he's just too far away the map is just too big and you see the problem with when people come mid it's like what do you do if you're mini boo here right you're the guy on B you've got people pressure probably coming from you this way but it's very difficult to push out this way right it's just very hard because they can be in so many different positions right like where do you end up going do you end up just trying to chill behind this box but eventually you're going to get seen here like this it just seems like there isn't a great answer here for them to do so mini Buu does what most players probably would which is just kind of chill here hiding on the back site but unfortunately for him that's not a good solution either honestly again the scaling that's required touch to the side and the weapons right out ready to strike boo is dropped in place a mini boo left with it all to do it's just not possible so EDG won 84 on their attacking side but their defensive side did not go so well and in fact they really won this tournament and this game because of two moments in my opinion one came on this pistol run because if they didn't win this pistol round they probably don't win this game considering how most of the rest of the half went but thankfully for them nobody did this mid connector now if Simon wants to rotate he's got to go all the way through spawn and same could be said for Kung Kong and smoggy that puts hold on nobody in shishu on an island but nobody what are you doing giving away your position here I mean firing the dart he gets away with it the play was being made here and they've lost control of made into the process oh my God nobody down oh goodness me so that round got EDG up to nine and then they won the second round as well and they even won their bonus round we got to 114 so yeah that was it GG it was over edg1 apart from that that wasn't really it because team Heretics won five rounds in a row and we actually got back to 119 and it looked like EDG were panicking they didn't have have any answers they were struggling obviously they were playing a no Sentinel compia so there was some gaps for them and because they're trying to fill some of those gaps that meant there was less players to defend the SES which then meant that they couldn't hold on to the SES and so things weren't going to well but whilst the meme of get ready to learn Chinese buddy might be dead there is one saying in valant which is definitely still true and that is when a team is making a good big comeback but they fail they always fail against an Eco round and the same goes it's always an Eco Ed players the pressure shifted onto them and K Kang forc to step up to the moment that's to avoid a fired Kang he's monstrous when he gets going and he does it almost SED