I don't know much about LOL except that either they don't want to recruit a lot of players or not a lot of stronger players want to join them, not sure which and they're not in my area so I don't deal with them, but I don't see them taking out TIB unless TIB has a tribe meltdown and a lot of members quit.
CrC already controls the south, what you see there are tiny villages we don't want to take simply because there are villages twice that size in those same provinces, We are cleaning up the south however but as long as AWE refuses to kick their dead/inactive players out, they will have small village markers all over, because nobody wants to bother cleaning them up yet.
TIB I like them, and I hope they don't go over 100 members and join that trend but they are no closer to securing the core than CrC is right now, after TLI bit the dust thanks to TIB and CrC members working in tandem, there is now just the need to noble those TLI villages and the core will look a lot cleaner.
AWE....With their current leadership they are doomed to plague the map for a while, They refuse to kick inactives and they recruit everything that has grown in points since the day before, and they crowd their own members provinces by recruiting all the players in them so their players have no way of growing, they ally and NAP with every tribe who touches them out of fear they might get attacked and so yet again their own players are surrounded by things they can't noble so are just sitting there waiting to be nobled by better tribes/players, their biggest hoo rah was a war with a two member tribe so if that tells you anything.
SoA, I know literally nothing about these blokes other than OLY merged with TTN or something like that and they formed SoA, I believe they are NAP'd with just about every tribe on the map or at least all of the top 10, and I don't like their spread but they do have a large presence in the North/NorthEast so they pretty much control that, I will say that staying neutral can be a dangerous move in the long run.