Yes you are correct that there were 2 mini-teams. But the players who joined as the biggest team (3,4,7,10 very influential positions) where very new players who left the game and the other mini-group was inexperienced but good on teamwork. So I balanced it from the newness and likelihood of not playing so well and both teams were pretty much equal - your team had a lot more experienced players for example. For the FP there were 6 (that's SIX!) takeovers and by similarly experienced players to you guys which is probably the biggest impact on the game and the reason that they won. (DS there were a few and I guess your team didn't gell so well from the comments I received).
Who was the former GM? I can't see any information about that. Also what was the "overzealous GM" intervention?
I admit that I've not read the game 50 thread in depth. Generally to keep up with all the games would take a lot of time on my part. I check in from time to time though and I'd expect that you'd not want me to do that. I've now read through it to get upto speed. Looks like Skage addressed many of your concerns there.
Seems more like a clash on the DS side if you guys felt that they deliberately bankrupted their nations. (Conrad had too little time so having met him I think he just didn't pay enough attention, SSed a bit and died - he got bored I guess). Grant I can't comment on - maybe he just run out of energy and frustrated as that was his last game? As this game ended some 5 months ago it's a little hard to recall all of the issues but I hope I've address most of them here.
I assume that you are DaneBane37 with the comments; the style and words are very Ed Mills... 
You've made some interesting claims here and there if you'd like to substantiate your claims please do so. From Skage (and the rest of the team's comments) I can't find anything yet.
As often there are many factors in the game that need to be addressed such as for game balance and I think this was one where the FP were at a disadvantage at game start (slightly) due to having 4 new players and the other mini-team is relatively inexperienced and then replaced those 4 players (and others) and then moved onto win the game.
Ed - you are more than welcome to join games with allies. As long as they are announced to me I'll make sure that the games are as balanced as I can make them at game start. Then I leave it upto you guys to gell teams (or not as the case might be) and then go from there. Inevitably it seems how the teams work together that makes of breaks a team and eventually leads to a win or loss.
Hope that clarifies any mis-conceptions that might have arisen and brought some clarity.
Clint
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I'm referencing the recently completed game 50. There was a thread about it
in the Forum and I am suprised you seem not to have read it. Perhaps you
will recall this game: It is the one where an overzealous GM intervened in
such a manner as to aid the FP (which contained the two mini-teams abd
former GM).
Ed Mills
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>Generally I balance teams so that there are min-teams on both
>sides. Virtually all games have such teams so it would be more clear if we
>announced that they didn't have this. Which game are you talking about so
>that I can investigate this please?
>
>Clint
>
> >As long as "The Company" preannounces that prisoners are playing, I think
> >they have met their obligation to the membership.
> >
> >Now, I wish "The Company" would preannounce when mini-teams are in a
>game.
> >Recently, ten random individuals ended up playing against a four man
> >mini-team and a three man mini-team in the same game. Obviously, "The
> >Company" does not preannounce the existence of mini-teams because wgo
>would
> >want to face those odds up front? Only other mini=teams.
> >Ed Mills
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