Or add one extra round on those bottom provinces (5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2) to make it an even 1800 points and get an extra 20 KP for your troubles while still keeping the max difficulty to between the old method 3 and 4-star ratio.
And for players with time to only do 4 rounds... First 9...