The applause moves down out from under the scoreboard

Oliver: "in the upper parts of the crowd there seems to be a lot more action
going on, but I can barely see it because the hud is covering it." Measured, 31
of 134 raisers were being drawn under the board or the blood panel — a quarter
of every cheer spent where nobody can see it.

The cause is structural: a raise is only detectable where there is empty stand
above somebody's head, and the sheet only offers that above the top row of each
seating block. One of those rows is at the very top of the picture, which is
where the scoreboard lives.

So both ends are fixed. The two arms-up rolls now ask for the standers to be in
the lower two thirds only, and the pass drops any raiser whose box centre falls
under the board or the blood panel. 92 of 101 raisers now sit below the board's
bottom edge, against 103 of 134 before — and because "how many join in" is a
fraction of the table, pruning the invisible ones makes every cheer denser where
it counts. Measured churn during a won game: 2-5.5% of the mid and lower stand
changing every 90 ms, against 0.1-1% under the HUD.

The re-roll also came back with 41 spectators owning both raised poses, up from
28, so more of them clap rather than just going up and down.

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

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@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ MID = (
     "standing with both arms raised straight above their heads. Redraw it EXACTLY — the same crowd, "
     "the same people in the same seats, the same clothes, hair, hats and colours, the same rows, "
     "railing, empty seats and stairways, the same lighting, pixel for pixel — WITH ONE CHANGE: "
-    "every spectator who is standing with their arms up has now brought their HANDS TOGETHER IN "
+    "every spectator who is standing with their arms up — all of them in the lower two thirds of "
+    "the picture — has now brought their HANDS TOGETHER IN "
     "FRONT OF THEIR FACE at chin height, elbows bent and pointing out to the sides, in the middle of "
     "a clap. They are the same standing people in the same places; only their arms have come down "
     "and in. Their hands and elbows still rise above the row in front of them. "
@@ -94,9 +95,12 @@ CLAP = (
     "This reference image is a stadium grandstand full of seated spectators. Redraw it EXACTLY — the "
     "same crowd, the same people in the same seats, the same clothes, hair, hats and colours, the "
     "same rows, railing, empty seats and stairways, the same lighting, pixel for pixel — WITH ONE "
-    "CHANGE: about forty of the spectators, scattered evenly all over the picture, are now ON THEIR "
-    "FEET APPLAUDING with both arms raised above their heads, hands together, clapping. "
-    "Each of those forty is the SAME PERSON as in the reference — same face, same hair, same "
+    "CHANGE: about sixty of the spectators are now ON THEIR FEET APPLAUDING with both arms raised "
+    "above their heads, hands together, clapping. "
+    "EVERY ONE OF THEM IS IN THE LOWER TWO THIRDS OF THE PICTURE — the rows nearest the court, "
+    "below the horizontal railing — spread evenly from the left edge to the right edge. NOBODY in "
+    "the top third of the picture stands up; those rows are exactly as they are in the reference. "
+    "Each of those sixty is the SAME PERSON as in the reference — same face, same hair, same "
     "clothing — just standing and reaching up, so their head and hands rise above the row in front. "
     "EVERYONE ELSE IN THE PICTURE IS COMPLETELY UNCHANGED, identical to the reference. "
     "The three grey-green zombie spectators do NOT move and do NOT applaud. " + STYLE