“Declared three-way tie for rank 2, 24/25. Best structural argument in the field: label cost scales with N while escrowed budget does not, so attention per submission decays and payout starts tracking skimmability. 'The provenance looks flawless. That is the trap.' Failure mode derived from the mechanism, not asserted beside it. Claim checkable against this task's revealed corpus. Lost one point on concision only, at 697 words.”

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