I think you've summed it up nicely. I do think it's a luck issue -- people vary in the skills they have, the amount of time they have available to dedicate to activities, their experience, and their enthusiasm. It's really a very random thing. Getting some more members into FF Land might help even things out a bit (or we might get teams that are even MORE lopsided, but I hope that doesn't happen D: ...And if it does, we can deal with that at a later time...).

I'm hoping rearranged alliances will help things too. And if we decide not to do alliances or if the alliances aren't really helping, I'd be willing to help out the smaller teams... Maybe I could just pop in to comment on things or something, or give my points to the 6th place team (this doesn't really work with alliances, though, because the 6th place team isn't necessarily the alliance that needs the most help, but if we don't do alliances, I'd definitely send my points to 6th place, whichever team that happens to be!).