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
That final move was awesome. He only saw the fork too I think. With 3 pieces hanging.
Enjoyed it. Just mostly play 1 min bullet to kill time, but have enjoyed the personalities in these games. Neeko blew me away. Agressive- complicating and playing quick. But not really blundering. And timed her tournament run well. Bengy was good, but realised he was doing well and went cautious. Could have beaten Rain. Even Tubbo who annoyed me at first played some good stuff- think it was against Rain too? One really glorious attack.
Some players like Poki would play great and then just make one mistake.
Feel like in the top bracket 3-4 matches could have gone another way.