Yes, it's a huge amount but I think they ended up getting a huge amount of viewers. They doubled last year's viewers.
I missed the OpTic/Complexity game but apparently it could have gone either way. And considering how poor OpTic have played against them in the past year, they did well. They lost the first DOM on Octane, not by much. They started poorly on both sides and ended well. The SnD was superb. A bit of controversy where the game disconnected with Complexity in a 3v1 vs Scump but the game finished 6-5. OpTic were leading 5-3 but lost the next two and in the final round they rushed Complexity, their best play all week. They then went on to beat Complexity 8-7 in Blitz (Complexity are the best Blitz team in the game) and took an 18 point lead in Sovereign DOM. I don't know if they bottled the second half but Complexity hammered them, and then hammered them more in the final SnD, 6-0.
OpTic then took on EnvyUs in the loser's final. They won the first DOM and Envy took the SnD. The Blitz games were incredible. I'm not sure if it was a choke but Optic should have won both Blitz's. They were up in both but ended up losing a couple of key gun fights. The first one ended 6-6, the second ended 6-5 in Envy's favour. I missed it but theykeep talking about Scump's failed knife. Apparently he knifed someone on the defence Blitz cap but the knife didn't do anything. If he got the knife, Optic would have won (I think it was in the first game). Nameless was incredible, MVP for the tournament. He pretty much won it for them. Every game he turned up.
The final was just boring. Rambo was 0-10 at one point in the first DOM, not good enough. Complexity took it pretty convincingly, 3-0. It was a really good Championships. The streams were pretty hit and miss, I had to keep refreshing which meant I had to keep watching the same ads over and over again. At one point, I got the same ad 4 times in a row.
Ghosts is an OK game but, for Competitive, it's miles behind Black Ops 2. Blitz and Dom can be good but they're not the same as Hardpoint/CTF. Shame Treyarch aren't making the next COD because 2015 for COD eSports would have been incredible.