Most cook groups blame proxies or task counts when SNKRS L3 draws don't hit. The real leak is almost always checkout speed variance — bots that fire in a tight cluster window instead of spreading submissions across the load balancer get flagged as bot-pattern traffic and quietly deprioritized.

Quick fix you can test today: stagger your task submission timing by 150-400ms random jitter instead of firing all tasks simultaneously. It won't fix a bad proxy pool, but it measurably improves draw-to-entry ratio on high-heat drops.

We go deep on this (plus the full pricing/trial/churn framework for anyone running a bot access group) inside SNKRS Bot Blueprint — 1-day free trial, then $330.59/week. Link in the pinned post.