So this was promised half a year ago, and procrastinated for half a year. Originally I was going to sink more time into this and do a full data analysis thing – but life got in the way. As such – this will be a quick and dirty analysis of R2 results

• Panagea[Dormant Grey Ones Slowing/Unholy rainbow]
• TNN[Imprisoned Rainbow Bless]
• Musphelheim[Awake Regeneration, Fortitude Idol of Beasts]

• Pythium[Imprisoned Rainbow Mage bless]
• Pythium[Dormant Bronze Colossus]
• Pythium[Imprisoned Rainbow Mage Bless]
• Jotunheim[Awake Dracolich Scales]
• Rlyeh[Awake Expander Void Lord]

• Marignon[Awake Scales Virtue]
• Gath[Awake Regeneration Titan]

• EA was dominated by heavy blesses. All 3 winning builds had considerably powerful blesses and low scales.
• MA was dominated by scales lines. Noticeably, both pythium and Jotunheim have good infantry and good lategame scaling. Pythium achieved exceptional results without an expander. None of the winners had an earlygame bless.
• LA was dominated by awakes – gath with an exciting titan line, and Marignon with a typical expander

1. 6/10 winners engaged in the surveys. This in and of itself doesn’t mean surveys = winners, but it does mean that engaged members of the community tended to do better than those who kept their cards close to the chest. It seems some of the results aren’t properly lined up sadly so at least one winner has the ‘wrong’ outcomes.
2. Surveys had approximately 40% player participation for part 1 (t20) and 22% for part 2 (game end).
3. Two very successful players in the finals also gave the most in depth answers of all the surveys. Having a clear plan, actively taking steps in diplo, and being an engaged part of the community has some correlation with success.
4. Wars broke out around the T11-13 range in most games (if war broke out at all). By T12 – most of the winners had at least between 2/4 and 3/4 naps with a clear war target in mind.
5. Expansion was mixed – pythium tended to be a little small but nobody spoke of ‘failing expansion’
6. Quite a few of the biggest early ‘edges’ were in diplomacy – or capitalizing on other players failures in diplomacy (sometimes by being too talkative).
7. MA and LA none of the winners tanked scales on a hellbless. We have a split of expanders and lategame rainbows (the rainbows on pythium), with Gath as a sort of outlier. There were no double-incarnates in the winners bracket in the later ages.
8. The most common complaint on the surveys came from a technical mistake on my end. You can't submit a google form anonymously if there's an image section - and I had players submit a screenshot of their pretender. This was a mistake and several players didn't participate for privacy reasons.

Many thanks to everyone for participating and playing, especially those who filled in the surveys. The data is all stored in the previous articles. This was a community effort.