Lets not forget that.
1) CT and Omen where actively sending ships on eachother while Asc grew - untill the point where CT and Omen decided to stop hitting each other and smack asc instead.
- Guess what the unchallenged growth is over for this round girls, you got to fight for it.
2) Asc after the 2 last round wins, where the other top alliances didnt do any effort what so ever to stop them - mouthed off during EORCS how easy and absolutely effortless it was to win a round of pa.
- This time you cant walk to the win you will have to put in some real effort, noone is letting you walk off with it again it has to be earned.
3) Your Ascendancy!
Everyone is having great fun in smacking you - and as you wrote JBG its all about the FUN and guess what this sure is FUN
