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The Ft. Worth Piano Tuners operate on a computational substrate known to Golly theorists as an "atonal lattice." In a standard cellular automata game, cells update in a perfect rhythmic cascade, where generation N becomes generation N+1 all across the grid. However, the Piano Tuners, true to their nature, have a catastrophic inability to keep this rhythm. Their cells update asynchronously, firing in random bursts like weird experimental jazz with no time signature. The typical outcome is a hilarious tangle of formations, all Piano Tuners, which spiral into chaos. This is what makde them Party Animals (more Partytime speed runs than any other team). But in some rare cases, instead of being one beat behind in each generation, their patterns are one step ahead, and they can engulf their opponents, anticipating each move, while the random shifting time signatures make the attacks impossible to defend against. When the chaos works, they are unstoppable; when it doesn't, they are Party Animals.