AMA is doing remarkably bad considering they were fully prepared and had much better province spread. I suppose terrible race selection does have a large impact in jerks favour as jerks probably have the 2nd best build in top next to BB.

Why didn't all non sage provinces restart into either human/dwarf sage at start of age like I suggested?

If AMA loses this they should probably reset those undead mystics and try for honor crown. They had massive advantage going in (assuming you ignore race/personality choice)