I think this is pretty much the best possible outcome for the BG's.
It's a tough choice they had to make, let Asc off the hook and recover. Or keep bashing them and end up turning the bg's +xvx into the bad guys who are ruining the round instead of originally saving the round.
This way even if Asc does win it will be a meaningless victory and actually, if xVx wins it wont be much better, can you imagine winning a round because another ally who is actually better than you and has more score than you kicks some members to let you be first?
Anyway, so Asc still might reconsider some of their decisions they made and try to make an alliance that fits a bit better in the game next round to avoid the whole universe teaming up against them again plus theres still a lot of life left in the round even at tick 676.
Ofcourse now you get the same situation as at the start of the round, the 3 biggest alliances are all on the same side again, but I think given that was the situation at start of the round too, getting over 600 ticks of fun out of the round has already been impressive
