I definitely believe so. Not to take away from Pyro, but we were in an advantageous position before CR moved in. CR really hurt our pmd and killed a lot of elites on all of our attackers and dropped our halflings into range all while reducing our peasantry. And pyro explored up the right provinces in the mean time which eventually lead them to have UBs that could attack with impunity. And while we kept trying to NW drop their attackers out of range, because our lowered defensive numbers on our attackers, they could easily just raze us down into range to do a nice top-down chain 2-3 at a time. That created a nice 100k NW gap between our attacking core which made our deep chaining a lot less effective. And they peasant controlled some others. It really slowed down our dragon production.
Essentially, Pyro did the right things to ensure victory and we did the best we could with the situation.