So then. We're coming down to the final section of these 2007 elections, and it is fair to say, it's been a pretty miserable showing by the BAMF and BPRP parties. There were five sections up for grabs, and the Party have dominated four of them with ease. The hours of hard work put in by both parties have been ripped to tatters in just a few PM's. Surely both parties would be ready to skulk away from these elections, forget it ever happened and move on without much fuss.

Or would they?

Now as I said, I am going to share with you a little history about a noble sport, that sport being Cricket.

For all of you who know nothing about cricket, there are two main types of cricket played internationally. One day cricket, which is fairly obvious, and Test match cricket, which is a game of cricket that lasts for 5 days. International games are played during series between two nations.

The oldest, the most storied and the fiercest rivalry in all of cricket lies between the countries of England and Australia. It is generally accepted that the biggest series in cricket is that of the Ashes, which is (generally) a 5 match test series played between the two nations, for this trophy:



Just to show you how big that trophy is on a scale with a person:



Looks daft, doesn't it? How can something so small and insignificant mean so much to so many people?! This trophy is a symbol of a great rivalry that started in 1882!

You are probably beginning to wonder where I'm going with this, but bear with me. I'm getting there.

You see, the thing is, Australia have been the best cricket team in the world for the last 15 or so years. Some would go as far to say that the team has been the best team to ever play the game of cricket. And in the last 15 or so years, bar an epic performance in 2005 which many consider to be one of, if not THE greatest Test series of all time, Australia have utterly crapped on England in the Ashes series.

It's always the same old story. The Ashes get hyped for monthes and months, words and banter fly back and forth between camps, it builds UP and UP and UP and the hype rises and the promise rises, and then it gets to crunch time and...England fall apart. First test, destroyed. Second, third, no fight, no heart, no nothing. Australia win the series without even being challenged, and the English fans mourn. But you see, one strange phenomenon seems to occur with startling regularity.

The 5th game of the series. Australia are already comfortable winners of the Ashes. The media are already putting the boot into just about everything with the England cricket set up, and the players must be broken down and just wanting to go home. But they're not.

See, whenever England get to this "dead rubber" match, the last match of a series which is a lost cause, they suddenly decide that their pride is still intact, and they still have fight left, and they're not going to be rolled over 5-0. And they come out and perform like champions and win the last game in a spectacular fashion. Either that, or they just don't know how to peak at the right time and do it consistently too late in the series. But enough of that.

By now, if you have bothered to come this far (and I applaud you if you have, I truly do), you'll already know what I'm getting at.

We've come to The World is Square...and Enix. And just like England, BAMF and BPRP have discovered their pride, they have discovered their fight, and they ain't willing to let the Party whitewash them easily. Is it going to be enough to overthrow them, however? Well that remains to be seen. But it's going to be a lot closer than previous rounds suggest. Stay tuned!