Continuing from the first spoiler thread...
After a quite peaceful period, the Chinese chose unwisely to attack me in 880AD, capturing an undefended city very far away from my core island. They were completely eliminated in 1250AD.
In 1270AD we declared on the Khmer, and they were out of the game in 1470AD.
At that point we had quite a strong economy, and we were well suited for a space race victory.
But as I thought RL would be busy in the following days before game submission deadline, I decided to cut some corners and settle for a quicker UN victory instead.
In 1520AD (t214) we learned Mass Media, and finished the UN in 1 turn with a GE (t215). We were elected SG and then would run against SB for diplo win t224, so to enhance my chances I thought I should sign DP's with Asoka and Saladin, IN THAT ORDER, but I messed up and signed with Sal first, causing Asoka to drop to pleased and vote for SB instead.
Gifted away lots of techs to Asoka in the next few turns and got him friendly again.
But on t228 - a turn before next election - SB created a colony (Washington), and according to BUFFY mod advisor he would not be my opponent anymore (his own pop dropped below Saladin's and Asoka's). In the beginning of t229 I just cast my vote and did not play the whole turn, as I was so pissed off, and I saved the game and put it to sleep for a week or so.
Today I loaded it up again, considering my options (even discarding the frustrating diplo and gearing up for space again), made a few moves and adjustments and hit end of turn.
To my astonishment, I got the message "Isabella wins a diplomatic victory" right away (got Saladin's and Asoka's votes) and learned my opponent had been Sitting Bull, not Saladin as indicated by the advisor!
Maybe as in RL, in this game election polls are not as reliable as one would think...
Thanks for the game, anyways!