All the top and bottom teams were eliminated before the corners, which I think is no coincidence. Asymmetric starting circumstances gave half the field a significant disadvantage.
i created a whole anime in my head about purple being the bad guy who was born with great evil power, red the rookie who had a lot of determination but had lack of training, green the guy that trained like crazy who's only goal was to defeat purple and orange who had hidden powers but didn't want to show them because of the fear of hurting innocent people help im bored
This isn't actually all that fair, the positions put yellow, blue, cyan and pink at a massive disadvantage compared to orange, purple, red and green. Pretty much guarantees lose unless they get extremely lucky.
The score is the number of times a color has converted a tile into its own color, not the amount of tiles held. Purple hits a tile belonging to yellow, purple gets a point. Yellow then hits one of purple's tiles, but purple will not lose a point. The reason purple has this lead was because it had both of its closest neighbors alive, meaning it lost tiles faster. It's actually an advantage to have a small area as it means your marbles will hit different colored tiles more frequently.
after alll that a tie ..... realise seemed like was gona be no end. but for future perhaps make it like plus one marble or negtive pops up board every soo often , none of this evmuit ways erone get marble every 30 secs marlacky or option 1 color each team does somr sort chance of getinbg nothing , plus 1 mmarble , steal marbke . honestly muit ways you can do this ...... but hopefully these ideas will help you
