Congrats first of all to Janek (better known as Pierniczek here) for winning his first Province NW crown. After getting hit like 15 times the first 2 days OOP, he turned his fortunes around and through slack play worked his way up.
Congrats to myself for making this crown of Janek possible. After we got raped OOP, we changed our strategy and focused on growth. My second strategical insight came from monitoring 8:13 and their warring behavior. We decided to match this by also getting farmwars (thank you very much Fury for getting us three of them). The crown however was still very unlikely a mere 16-17 hours before the age ended. Due to us all being so hugely inactive all we had was a prov on 310M gc with little soldiers and way too man peasants. I made the call to take over sitting of that province, release all its wizzards and intra-FB it (Spartans also chipped in with some FBs). I then released all military on my province and aided it to his province, thereby making it possible for him to train up to 115% pop limit on 95% homes, thereby overtaking the larger Avian in ASF's KD. I also made him intra-hit me to get that little extra land to push him a little more. Well played Bart, well done. Great job.
Also congratulations to ASF for claiming seconds spots in both the NW and Land province crowns. Just as I never found shame in losing to CR/Emeriti, you should also not find any in losing to an accomplished talent such as I am. A second spot is GOOD, very admirable even.