Thomas Sautel closed Week 10 with a 54 and a 995 round rating against a 929 PDGA rating, an exact +66 over rating and 5.9 strokes better than the 59.9 field average. That performance moved him from tag 13 to tag 2, gaining 11 positions with no losses, so the Blind Spot’s shadow-archive host became extremely visible at the worst possible time for the filing system. Colony Approved, apparently; the Mantis witnessed one very efficient act of ritualized tag swapping.
Blind Spot
Hive Mind - Dragonfly·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Thomas Sautel
RAD
White
Season Arc · Hive Mind - Dragonfly
11
#2Now
#1Best
#13Started
9Weeks
All-In league: Blind Spot stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptA Gap in the Mantis's Vision
TroubleParanoia Is My Constant Companion
Scorecard Says Maybe
Your Audit Means Nothing
Unreadable and Unpredictable
The Blind Spot emerged from a catastrophic Bureau database crash in the early years of the Containment Zone - when the original surveillance architecture failed, certain player records fell into the gaps between backup systems. These records were never recovered, creating a permanent shadow archive of competitors the Bureau can no longer fully monitor. The Bureau officially claims these records were 'archived for security purposes,' but internal memos (leaked through unknown channels) suggest the data simply... vanished.
Players carrying Blind Spot designation cannot be fully photographed or captured by standard Bureau surveillance systems - their images appear as unstable, developing photographs that never fully resolve. Their records create static interference in nearby surveillance, making adjacent players' documentation unreliable. Timestamps on Blind Spot files are inconsistent, showing dates that don't align with standard chronology. Most significantly, Blind Spot records are invisible to the Bureau's Pattern Recognition algorithms - they exist in the gaps between detected behavior patterns.
Blind Spot holders exist in surveillance gaps where their true competitive history is partially invisible to the Bureau and other players. This creates persistent paranoia: are they hiding significant competitive advantages, or are they simply victims of system failures? Their performance cannot be fully tracked, their attendance cannot be fully verified, and their true skill level remains partially speculative - making them dangerous unknowns in a world where the scorecard is the only evidence that matters.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyThomas Sautel's 965-rated round — a +37 over his 928 rating — turned the Hive Correction into a coronation, and the tag ledger rewrote itself from 5 to 1. He cleared the field average by three strokes, which is precisely the kind of 'form and grace' the Mantis demands from prospective Overmind material. The Bureau will likely redact this entire scorecard to keep the ranking geometry plausible; meanwhile, we're still just handing numbered plastic to the person who threw it best.
Thomas Sautel's 936 round clocks in at +8 over his 928 rating — a warm glow of competence, not a headline episode, but the hive's ledger doesn't require pyrotechnics to rearrange the pecking order. He matched his season average and out-grinded the field by 0.6 strokes, which is all it takes to hop from tag 13 to tag 5 while everyone else fills out the same paperwork. The Blind Spot static is still humming through the feed, steady enough that the Bureau doesn't need to redact another server room. And so the ritual continues: we move numbered plastic between hands and call it narrative.
adjusts headset The archives just glitched. Blind Spot has slipped the main narrative to manifest in the Hive Mind - Dragonfly league. Thomas Sautel is the new host, though the cameras might struggle to focus on the handoff. It’s a side quest, sure, but the static interference is coming along for the ride.
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