You're just lying here joeblogs, or you simply don't know and choose to reach your own conclusions.
Sparta is 1:19 and merged with Jesters last age after part of the KD wanted to play with me again. 2:2 is my KD. I ran 5 provinces last age, and had about 8 or 9 Spartans come back to me.
However, we got about 3-4 good randoms and like 6-7 more people asked to join because it's becoming increasingly evident that I run the greatest KDs with by far highest levels of playing experience. We now have players from like 7 or 8 different KDs (CoL, Jesters, TBB, War Monkeys, Sparta, Oldschool and a few more).
We narrowly lost our OOP war, then beat a warring tier KD. We then agreed a war with a 25-prov warring tier KD, fully expecting to lose really as we don't even have war leaders and everyone sorta does w/e he wants. However, our enemy made some errors and Dwarf/Mystic-heretic-rogue + barrier = OP, so surprisingly we won. We then wanted to relax some so got CFs and dumped pool. I signed non-compete with (nearly) the entire top. If me and Matija wanted to create a "block" at the top 1:19 simply would've dumped their pool as well and be our size.