Unbelievably, Call of Duty become the first eSports to be invited to compete at X Games. Anyway, I haven't created this to get a discussion on why they were invited, it's a post discussion on what actually happened at the event. I haven't seen Kiwi in a bit so he may have appreciated it but someone else might and I'm bored as hell.
The event had 8 teams, 3 qualified by finishing top 3 from Champs and the other 5 was decided by their pro points. The 2 pools were:
A, Evil Geniuses (formerly Complexity), Team Kaliber, OpTic Nation, Strictly Business
B, EnvyUs, OpTic Gaming, FaZe Red, Curse Oranage
2 teams from each pool go through to the semis, Evil Genisuses, Team Kaliber, EnvyUs and OpTic Gaming. tK topped A, beating EG and ON, OpTic finished on top of pool B by beating FaZe Red and then EnvyUs. There was a bit of controvery about the EnvyUs game against OpTic. Before their match, tK beat EG (who are the best team in the game) so the winner of OpTic/EnvyUs would play them. Apparently, EnvyUs threw the match so they would have to play an extra game against another team, which if they would win they would then go play tK instead of EG for a place in the finals. OpTic won 3-1 so a lot of rumours that they did throw it. I personally don't think they did, I think OpTic beat them fairly 3-1.
Anyway semis, and where the irony happened if the throwing of the game was true. EnvyUs lost to tK. I think it was 3-1 but tK were brilliant. This put them in the final and EnvyUs in a consolation match for bronze. OpTic and EG was a brilliant series. EG took the first map on Freight DOM. It was close until the last 90 seconds. Apparently Scumpii's contact was falling out so he had an awful game. Second game, OpTic took the SnD and it's worth posting the video of the final round, OpTic leading 5-4 and ProoFy does this:
OpTic then took Blitz on Warhawk 7-3. They then took the final DOM on Strikezone to go through to the gold final match against tK.
EG beat EnvyUs to the bronze medal, winning the final SnD and the match 3-2.
OpTic beat tK in the final 3-2, for Nadeshot's first MLG win and OpTic's first win since the start of Black Ops 2. All videos can be found on http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialMLGCoD. I would recommend watching this SnD though, the final map between OpTic and tK, brilliant ending...