The alternative to what happened is Bart and the devs secretly agreed to this outcome.

What outcome?

The predictable. That the forum bark is louder than the bite. If players who thought Sparta shouldn't crown actually bounce waved Sparta then they wouldn't have been in the drivers seat very long.

But they didn't.

Because of this common frailty in resolve, the devs stepped in like a good ref to stop the fight. Sparta proved a disappointing fact: they gave the base every reason to try and stop them and none even tried.

It's not your fight. I know. It wasn't mine either. But if you were complaining and asking for a gb you have to throw the first punch. Otherwise your another sheep lamenting the loss. What they say about lions: they don't care about the opinions of sheep. - Well porcupines don't care about the opinion of lions. Yes, there's a third way.