I agree with your assessment and you did say you would guarantee Blue first place, so I think resigning is the right thing to do.
We should stress that promises are not binding 
(so the reason to resign is that the position is lost, not that some promise was made)
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The Green Nation humbly kneels to the dominion of the Blue Empire.
We resign in hope that we may spare our people from annihilation.
Congratulations @martin3141 for winning the game!
That is a promise that I would break, if I had a way to win.
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Any color always has the option of throwing an advantage to another. That is definitely part of the game.
Understood and well within the rules of the game
Thank you for playing everybody! It was a very exciting and fun game 
@yebellz @antonTobi @NeilAgg @sokoslav @ArsenLapin1 @mafidufa
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Congratulations!!!
I want to note that @martin3141 has won both games of Battle Royale so far, which is a pretty good achievement!
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On the other hand, if I had to choose between @martin3141 winning or someone else winning, and it did not impact my finishing position, then I would have favored @martin3141.
I think I generally kept all of my promises, which is good for reputation building purposes within the game.
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Good game everybody! The final standings are:
I might make some way to quickly replay the game, unfortunately I’m a bit busy at the moment so it will have to wait a few days.
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And @yebellz got third and second place!
This must be the peak of my Go Battle Royale Career. Maybe I should retire 
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No confidence for a potential three-peat? 
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Not to belittle your results, but for the better balance: please note that ones born in the center or separated died first, and born in the corners survivide till the end. I do not think Orange could be really pretending for the win at any moment, and do not think taking lower left corner was kind of mistake. Killing Yellow and trying to connect the weakest group would just bring a lot of another problems - and would make blues leadership even bigger.
I think initial position should be rebalanced, e.g. we can place 5 stones randomly and let players choose which 3 to keep.
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Btw, I think due to the rules of this particular game the final standings are:
1 @martin3141
7 @yebellz
7 @antonTobi
7 @NeilAgg
7 @sokoslav
7 @ArsenLapin1
7 @mafidufa
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I don’t think the initial position needs to be rebalanced… Presuming all players are trying to win. If one or two players take an early win, the other five players should be able to counterbalance that. In this game we didn’t, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
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I did everything I could to win. There were small, non-game-desicive mistakes, but in general I had a lot of assumptions about what others are going to do. Some of them were true, some of them were wrong. I took a lot of risks, succeeded in general, and even taking those risks was not enough to reduce the gap. And I had to take the risks just from the very beginning.
“Imbalance” does not mean “guaranteed win”. It is just about the efforts. This game is supposed to be diplomatic - so we cannot take the social aspects away and just talk about abstract winning strategies. From this point of view some starting positions are way harder than another starting positions, because we are human beings and we cannot even estimate risks and profits in unfamiliar settings like this game.
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And without cold estimation social skills like being reliable or being clear or being lawful come to the first place.
That might be interesting
I disagree since I don’t take a Winner Takes All approach.
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Should we do this simultaneously by sending our decision to a referee by private message?
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That is how I was thinking it would go