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Originally Posted by SantaCruz
Finally no one give Zhil sh!t about his politics. The guy was a great ally this round. There was plenty of time for spore to drop and hit faceless true. However if you drop and bash your allies every chance you get. You will end up having no support in future rounds. Faceless had many chances to drop with spore and bash earlier also. We choose not to way before, we were close to them in size because of friendship.
Luck had so much to do with the outcome of this round. Spore had good politics and it was great working with zhil this round. if all hc's did politics like him, this game would be a hell of alot harder! 
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If Spore had good politics then they would have won the round from the position they were in. Zhil may have played some good politics throughout the round but he did not play good politics when it mattered. That is the difference. It seems that Spore never looked at the Universe page or at the KIA or their own webby and saw that Faceless had 6 planets to add to score fully. Frankly Faceless should have been dealt with straight after or straight before Vikings were dealt with, every tick you left it was an extra tick of belief their members got that they might win it. Anyone looking at Faceless should have automatically added on 25 mill (4 mill ish being the average for a decent untagged planet at round). It also seems that Spore managed to alienate themselves from the rest of the alliances and couldnt gather friends when it really matters. Was this good politics? Dosnt seem so when they couldnt call on anyone to help when they needed it. Faceless from what i have heard bandwagoned onto everyone at some point in the round as each got blocked yet could still call on quite a lot of alliances to help them when shit mattered. Spore couldnt...