I believe Abyssia has given up as well (he never checks this board, he's a dumb-***). So let me be the first to congradulate Yellow Cactus on his victory!
I'm going to be hosting another one on the same IP very soon. It will be sort of the same idea (early war), but I'm going to go about it differently. I think everyone should start with like 10 provinces, and I'm going to set the indies to 9, but there won't be very many of them.
With a lot of people sharing a border with another human power from turn 1, I think we'll see a lot of both early alliance forming and early war. I like keeping games exciting and actually using national troops.