1. Whoever gets in the province gets to defend. It may decide about everything.
2. How can you do the elimination? I can lost like 60% troops and win semi-final to face someone that lost for example 5%.
3. What about dominion in target province? Magic and temperature scales matter.
4. We didn't hear comments from Machaka and Marignon, 2 nations that would make top4.
5. There is still that issue of gathering national forces to fight. Is there any preparation allowed or just forces near the island or other solution.
6. All other players would need to stale during the fight so there are no accusations about anonymous spells.
From what I have seen, there are too many variables for a tournament to make sense. The only other options that I can see are to end the game now (1st: Mictlan; 2nd: Pythium; 3rd?: Machaka) or to keep playing.
I'm ready to end the game now, but I'll go with whatever the community decides.
Victor by democratic vote is okay by me, although I'd like to suggest that those who want to be considered for this post their most recent .trn file in order that the merits of their position can be examined.