Just out of curiosity, what is the matter with being a "flag chaser?" Isn't this "Tournament" edition. Isn't the goal of a tournament to WIN it? Of course, that need not be [i]everyone's[/i] goal, but it is a reasonable goal and a reasonable reason to go to war or make other decisions.
TE was a lot more fun before a good deal of people started trying to impose on everyone else their ideas of what TE is or isn't.