The math is alot more complex then that with 10 tribes sir. Especially when you have many of the 4-10 ranked tribes takeing lots of barbs. As I was trying to imply its others saying we munch barbs to win. I boot people mid to late game if they take barbs! The 200 is the cap that inno set for the max number of members. I would have been happier with a lower cap such as 50 members and have told the devs but they say its "too hard to change." So in the end why wouldnt you want to be close to the member cap? Honestly it just seems like people get angry and call people names out of fear.
it is actually not very complicated, in most worlds you played, see us22 and us25, the villages held by third tribe and so on was never more than 100, so i say that has worked for your tribe, and you were never in the tribe leadership but i was close to some of your leaders who told me directly about elite's ways to win worlds, TBH your bash alone if we say bash as a measure of fighting, is less than mine on us22 when i quit 2 whole months before you did.
Probably you were not in the elite leadership back then, but there was a stalemate stage between elite and d-w on us22, for 2 months when most of your players did nothing other than barb munch for 2 whole months. cokky(who was arguably the brains and brawn of your original elite tribe ) himself admitted about the hugging of your players, we held a tribe-wide poll to disband and give you instant win for your cowardice. and don't talk about booting players, you only do that when you got a new player who wants to join you, and you kick an inactive player to internal him.
And regarding your win on 25, you merged with #3 tribe(VAG) which broke up from #2 tribe taking from it their best players, all you do is try to get a win asap.
http://www.tw2-tools.com/us25/home. look at these guys bash points, you claim the members are happy to go to elite and sth, but most of them joining you just want a win. you are like a plague to tw2.
Us19 where most of elite's core team started, King of huggies(Blade runner) jumped from the tribe he started to #2 tribe in hopes of ending a stalemate and backstabbing 100 members who joined him.