The latch is stale-proof by construction, the cup divisor honest, the trail visible

Oliver's tournament freeze was the stale latch by a THIRD route:
matchFallWillPlay kept the deathmatch /4 while cup matchPoint divides by
4*need, so it promised a fall on a no-crossing point — whose synchronous
matchReady left the after-set latch scoping a dead rally. No more ordering
arguments: the latch is set BEFORE the resolve, the swallow exempts the
in-progress resolution via G.matchEarly, and every path that arms a rally
clears it in matchReady. willFall now mirrors the cup divisor exactly and
knows a mid-round game keeps its body. Regression test drives the full QF
sequence (no-crossing points, the fall, the mid-round game, game two).

And the two 'not really' reports: the trail's 0.26 alpha was tuned on the
gore palette and vanished on the bright lawn — 0.38 now, gate at 13 m/s;
oppBright 1.18 -> 1.3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/beats.js

@@ -736,8 +736,9 @@ export function resolveInterlude(side) {
   // spawn director quiet). Regicide arrives here too, as a 'P' with the body already gone.
   if (G.match) {
     // a rally resolved at its DECIDED moment (the early fall) is spent: the ball that kept rolling
-    // for the picture still reaches its ordinary bounce-2 / rolled-out calls, and they land here
-    if (G.match.decided) { ball.active = false; return; }
+    // for the picture still reaches its ordinary bounce-2 / rolled-out calls, and they land here.
+    // G.matchEarly exempts the deciding resolution ITSELF — the latch goes up before it runs.
+    if (G.match.decided && !G.matchEarly) { ball.active = false; return; }
     if (!zombies.some(z => z.variant === 'r') && !G.match.ending) return matchGameWon(null);
     return matchPoint(side);
   }