For me it was obvious even before that thought went through your mind. 2HARD will ultimately fall, TEA needs you at BIP frontline while you need TEA to keep going. I said that a month ago and it looks like I might be right. We will know for sure within few weeks seeing how fast 2HARD is losing villages at the moment.
2hard has lost villas from small players/ex FAL, and the antz recruitment done by BIP for the southern cluster
BIP's last op saw over 300 odd nukes die, a couple of the villas taken cost over 1 mil pop worth of nukes, so not a bad pay out for them to grab a villa or two, the frontlines are still being re-established with this new gangbang in place, i guess time will tell however its made the core fun again for us
TEA is too far for me to even consider joining, unfortunately being top ranked account majority of dukes are happy to talk and will talk to me, doesnt mean i will join them all. i have not disclosed my reasons behind joining 2hard yet nor why i rejected BIP offer in the end, im not one to come to externals and publicly air our dirty laundry, think other dukes need to learn this also.