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Forget about GRN vs BAF for a second. Look at it as a group of players vs a group of players. The point of events (and playing this game in general) is to make as many people as possible have fun. Only then comes storyline progress and everything else. Fun comes from different sources and varies from person to person, it can be a plethora of reasons why someone enjoys something such as just PvP, watching dozens of torpedoes explode, being happy to see the server full, feeling you're contributing in a way, etc. etc.
The best way you make people have fun at the end of an event is to reward them somehow. It just so coincidentally turns out that a draw allows you to reward both parties and consequentially both playerbases. A draw that only rewards one party is the worst outcome one can make because it not only doesn't reward one side for being equal, but it rewards the other side at the same time which multiplies it. It's gonna be a huge kick in the balls for the Gallic side and all the players that had to go through an already relatively unrewarding task of shooting NPCs for 3+ hours with the main damage source (Novas) not launching or tracking half the time.
I sincerely hope the final decision regarding the matter will consider that fact to not only make this event enjoyable for as many as possible but also encourage them to partake in any future events scheduled.