This is the hardest I have ever worked for sugar-free gatorade, which is how i choose to interpret elemental vitae from now on.

I am surprised that this is the machine i'm submitting, but i struggle to see how to improve on it. I don't want to be too verbose here, but am happy with this machine and want to talk about it, so i'll try to be brief

4 arms: this allows the machine to pull from the output every 2 cycles, making it very fast. i fiddled with 2 and 3 arm solutions, but wasn't able to make them fast enough for less arms to be worthwhile.

the funny: the output surrounded by comment glyphs is funny! because 13 is symetric, i needed a way to deal with the last output. the easiest way to do that involved submitting to that output twice per tape-loop. as of around cycle 200, all submissions to that output are not counted. I think this is highly amusing

I feel really confident in this machine, but also this is my first tournament, and after last week i'm not going to make any assumptions. but either way, i think this is a slick machine! this my third layout, and i thought the second one was unbeatable but this one is 40 cycles faster which saves 120 score! and i'm very proud of myself for looking for new solutions and for finding this one 