Based on just one result,are you perhaps jumping to conclusions too soon?

Of course you could be right, and you may get confirmation from other players.

Well, the difference is simply too big, as you can see. The only difference I noticed was the level of the towers. I can imagine higher lvl towers get tougher jotun troops, but I really can't imagine the difference would be so huge. Mind that our accounts got stronger since previous holmgang events, so we were hitting harder for sure.