I don't know why all of this drama couldn't have been avoided. FCC (And I'm sure Hospitaller did too) knew about the unreachable flag before the battle. Was there no attempt by either party to set forth reasonable terms to the end of the battle with the admins or each other? That could have made it all much simpler. Instead of putting it all on Canary, or any of the other admins in these battles, why don't the factions involved just parley and talk about shitty bugs and issues together, instead of getting all worked up every time?
In my opinion though, this one should have been called the moment we were all trapped inside the spawn. And those who were doing nothing but sitting inside of the area should have been kicked. However, most of us were still trying to escape and continue the fight, so the idea that we were all sitting back there abusing it is wrong. Still, even without the unreachable flag, we would have likely lost, because from about the 5 minute mark on we were down to peasant gear.
also, our strategy at the start of the battle was to leave all flags up so we could kill all the tickets; I started pushing for another strategy of taking all the flags and forcing an admin decision because there were about 6 admins on and the result of the battle was so very obvious as we were doing nothing but spawn camping the defenders 10-15min into the fight. We ended up not really making up our mind whether to capture flags or try to kill them all and so Canary used that as an excuse to ignore the problem as long as possible.
I think the decision would have been reached much quicker for Canary, if you had tried from the beginning to set all the flags down. The fact that we were able to run around setting flags up for so long makes it harder for it to be called earlier without being considered unfair.
Now just sell the fief to Partyboy so we never have to do that over again.