The card lies flat, and a popup owns its screen

- icon LEFT of the text: every card is 62px at a fixed top, fully over
  the crowd — the stacked layout hung its lower third over live court,
  and the art draws bigger this way, not smaller
- nothing draws or ticks under a modal: a card raised in the same beat
  used to burn out dimmed beneath it — it holds and plays after

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HANDOFF.md

@@ -442,6 +442,15 @@ the countdown panel ('CHANGEOVER · RESUMING IN n'). He kept the burst-arm weapo
 praise words. **A bottom/above-rack message slot was proposed and REJECTED**: that is thumb
 territory — covered by the hand mid-pull and outside where the eyes are.
 
+**Fourth batch, same day — the card went HORIZONTAL, and nothing draws under a modal.** The
+stacked icon card ran 102 px tall and its lower third hung over live court; the icon sits LEFT of
+the text now (boxed to 58×52 so a wide tin cannot reach the type — and it draws BIGGER than the
+stacked layout gave it), so every card is a flat `CARD_H` 62 px at fixed `CARD_TOP` 96, fully over
+the crowd. `bandTop()` is gone with it. And a modal owns the whole screen now: the flash and the
+card are neither DRAWN under its dim nor TICKED behind the freeze (the card tick moved below the
+modal early-return, next to the flash's) — a card raised in the same beat as a popup used to burn
+its whole life dimmed-out underneath it, and now it holds and plays after the dismissal.
+
 **Second batch, same day — THE MESSAGE BAND.** Oliver: transient messages need "a definite space
 … over the crowd". `AD_TOP()`/`bandTop(h)` in render.js pin the whole family there — below the
 scoreboard block, above the ad strip, never on the court: