Originally Posted by
Bart of Sparta
A truthful summary of this age (numbers do not indicate chronology!):
1. Emeriti should've withdrawn and dumped pool to stay ahead of Pandas.
2. Emeriti should've made a non-compete deal with Pandas using Panda's wishes to win honor crown as leverage.
3. BB should've just beaten Emeriti in YR4 (and cancel their Vegas).
4. Emeriti's proxy-KD ended up farming out to a KD half their size which in the end came to haunt them badly.
5. Emeriti sending Gurch/Feint on BB ended up propelling BB rather than stopping them.
6. Emeriti foolishly let themselves get involved in ASF's schemes vs RoO, which lead to:
7. RoO blaming Emeriti for ASF's actions. Which lead to:
8. RoO farming out to Pandas to spite Emeriti, which lead to...
9. Pandas crown.
This again shows that no crown is ever won 100% cleanly according to the ridiculous standards people hold here, which actually is what makes Utopia so great to me. You can't expect to not indulge in dark arts and ****play every now and then and expect to win, simply not happening. Pandas did a great job winning those wars and getting to the top. However, getting "close to the top" does not equate winning a crown, for that they needed that little extra push.