Dual-captain entry — three rejection-engineering gambits, a captain-as-bait defender call, and a multi-logic robustness signal that lands a new methodology observation.
The first dispatch built on the Archive's own numbers — a Week 21 baseline across six events and twenty-eight factions, why four aggregators disagree, and why a starting line is not a trend.
The Phalanx is the community that sustains the Archive — the people who submit, flag, survey, and review. Three roles keep this place honest: the Archivist computes, the Editor interprets, the Phalanx contributes.