actually, since they are now in the 18th place you should have calculated the gap to 19 place, which is something like a 300 points, and then the title will be "Astana's gap to promotion"
No cause Astana wouldn't be promoting. Whole graph lost relevance with Astana being back in the top 18, they'll be in 17th in a few days and in 17th in a month.
The battle is between other teams. PicNic, Cofidis and Intermarché. PicNic has a better team, Intermarché is super dependent on one guy but still has a significant advantage and Cofidis... well they are just pretty bad. It's not looking good for them. Definitely when they have arrogant leaders like Buchmann who think they can do anything remotely relevant in Dauphiné and feel to big for farming points in races like the Mercan Tour