HAHA! what i "predicted" just above, happened in the Millionaire edition. I don't find it really fair that, since it was just cowardly running away forever, you considered it as a draw/tie. In cases like that, i think the winer should be decided, after a good fixed lenght of time, say, 10 minutes, that if at that point in time there was no clear winner, the winner should be the one with the highest ship-value still functional (can at the very least shoot). I think that's the reason why, basically, the same design of a kiter won both tournaments.
Again, i don't want to discredit whoever made the ship, exploiting such "holes" in the rules are, technically, fair game. Noticing them and making use of them effectively is, in my opinion, clever, at the very least. But i think that, for future tournaments, if there ever is going to be any, new rules should be implemented to encourage new strategies.
Let's me see the mothership tournament now ๐