What an insane final, Sardoche takes it out against Dwight Schrute. Can't say I knew who Sardoche was before the tournament, but that was some really great chess.
Pretty much agree with every single thing you said too. Everyone was surprisingly competent and took the tournament/preparation extremely seriously. No truly bad chess was played, almost all matches seemed above 1000 ELO. Pokimane, Neeko and MrBeast (just because of how terrible he was a month or two ago) especially stunned me