The climb: the arcade runs the whole earned ladder, the tempo follows the territory, the court is yours

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

src/beats.js

@@ -368,10 +368,10 @@ export function startMatch(cup = false, draw = null, train = 0) {
   // Netplay and training stay league-1 worlds: a human opponent and a practice rep both play the
   // shipped game (train still picks any met rung, but at the shipped pace).
   G.league = G.net || train ? 1 : prof.lg;
-  const band = leagueOf(G.league).band;
-  // the arcade ladder opens at the league's own bottom rung and never leaves the band: past its
-  // top the league simply has nobody stronger, so the top body walks on again (see matchGameWon)
-  G.match = { opp: train || (G.net ? 1 : band[0]), ending: false, train: !!train, felled: 0 };
+  // THE CLIMB: the arcade opens at the very BOTTOM of the ladder and runs the whole earned club,
+  // clamping at your league's top (matchGameWon) — the marathon whose length the promotions buy.
+  // The tempo shifts per band border (gameplay.leaguePace reads the rung's own league).
+  G.match = { opp: train || 1, ending: false, train: !!train, felled: 0 };
   // THE TOURNAMENT rides the whole match machinery and differs in exactly three places: who walks
   // on (a rung DRAWN from the round's band — cupDraw sets d.opp, so every ladder dial downstream
   // scales off the drawn rung untouched), how deep the body's pool is (matchOpponent multiplies