1) Emeriti gave up, did a mass reset, and took the age off
2) CRoO stopped competing to police Barco for two weeks
3) BB stole acres by GBing CRoO when Sparta(1) DB'd them
4) Sparta(1) had to be manually deleted from the charts at EoA
So the two strongest contenders for the age voluntarily removed themselves from the competition, one suffered a GB in which BB took land, and the #1 KD had to be removed from the charts.
lol @ all the people congratulating them for this.
UPDATE:
BB also dealbroke Spartans(2) for their policing into Barco.
This precipitated the Sparta(1) v. Spartans(2) 'fake war' that got both kingdoms actioned and led to item #4.