Yes bad communication on our part(nick!) about how the tournament was run.

I don't think Relic and KP's was a bad combo. For example, if your opponent has 8 kill points and you killed half, he killed half of your 8 kill points, but you got a the relic, you win by 3. So it can be even more skewed, you only managed to kill 2 of his units but focused on the relic, you win by 1! I think that makes for a much better game than just kill the other guy.

I will concede the Relic mission itself might be skewed though.