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I don't think Ace intends to compare CT's first round to the strenght of 1up in it's prime, eXi in it's prime, or for that matter the LCH team that 1up battled. I certainly wouldn't make that comparison. We kept things simple in CT, as it was our first round in, we didn't want to complicate things. We were not the War machine those alliance were, but we did attack consistantly, and when we needed a good push offensively, we got it. We were not bored, our Defence Officers had plenty to do. We are a different alliance, and in the environment we played our first round in with stats the way they were, it took a grind it out team affort to get it done. If the round had gone longer, who knows what would have happened, but it's pointless to speculate, as VGN, Destiny, and CT all hung in the fight the entire round, so as the last week could have seen any of those three emerge victorious, a longer round could have seen that same scenario, there's just no way of telling. There WERE some political moves made that payed off by CT, and allthough we didn't call CNN when they were made, they were made nonetheless. We fielded a good team, players worked well together and no one put themselves in front of the alliance, with one exception, and that player left the tag with 3 days in the round. Another player left the day after. Those 2 planets totaled about 5.5 mil - 6 mil score.