[lokken]

Spore played a high quality round and won comprehensively. As we saw last round, if the whole universe gangs up on you, you can be as good as you want and winning is tough. Things like that don't happen often. Obviously they aren't a peak ascendancy or apprime but they are extremely good operators, who take advantage of the situation they find not just pre-round, but throughout it.

In my view faceless/fang to spore was decisive, as it meant they always had enough to pin down their enemies and hold their lead. From that point on it was all about not losing fleets and keeping a cool head, ie not ****ing up. Pre-round deals, while a factor are just a distraction.