The dead club doubles its staff, and the draw is made where you can see it

Six new opponent families (head coach, stringer, strawberry seller, chair
umpire, spectator, roller man) through the famroll/zsheet route, placed by
hierarchy into an 18-rung ladder; the champion steps up behind them.

THE DRAW: picking the tournament now rolls its own bracket in front of you —
only the final was ever settled — and what lands is what walks on.

Netplay, off Oliver's cellular report: the mid-flight early-decide was missing
its !G.net gate, so the striker judged its own outbound flight and the two
scoreboards drifted a point apart into a court nobody could serve on. The
host's court now rides the room, its scoreboard rides the pretoss stream, and
a called ball rolls to its own halt instead of freezing where the call caught it.

Plus the night court, and somebody in the stand is taking pictures.

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

assets/_famroll.py

@@ -54,6 +54,41 @@ FAMS = {
                      'grey-green head pokes out of a hole in the ball, thin ragged green arms and '
                      'legs stick out of it, one white glove, worn sneakers. The huge yellow ball IS '
                      'his torso in every pose'),
+ # the 2026-08-15 six (Oliver: expand the ladder). Four anchor on their own settled BOSS frame and
+ # two on their gore-mode body, same rule as above — the rung and the thing that hunts you are one
+ # person. EVERY ONE OF THEM CARRIES A PROP IN ITS ANCHOR FRAME (a ball basket, a coil of string, a
+ # tray, an umpire's chair, a spectator's chair, a court roller) and a prop is exactly what a
+ # 31-figure sheet cannot hold: it merges frames in the cut and it has no business in a tennis pose.
+ # So each description names the prop and says it is GONE — the model needs telling, because the
+ # reference picture is holding one and a picture beats a paragraph.
+ 'hc': ('z_coach1', 'a ZOMBIE HEAD COACH in a NAVY BLUE TRACKSUIT: a zip-up navy jacket with a pale '
+                    'blue-and-white panel across the chest and white stripes down the sleeves, a '
+                    'club crest, a whistle on a cord round his neck, matching navy tracksuit '
+                    'trousers with white side stripes, dark trainers, and a bald grey-green head. '
+                    'He carries NO basket and NO balls: both hands are empty of props in every pose'),
+ 'sg': ('z_string1', 'a ZOMBIE RACKET STRINGER: a grubby off-white shirt with the sleeves rolled to '
+                     'the elbow under a heavy TAN LEATHER APRON, a row of awls and pliers across '
+                     'the apron chest, a tool belt, faded blue-grey jeans and scuffed brown boots. '
+                     'He carries NO loose coils of string and nothing floats above his head — the '
+                     'apron and the tools on it are the whole costume'),
+ 'sb': ('z_berry1', 'a ZOMBIE STRAWBERRY SELLER: a folded WHITE PAPER SERVING CAP, a cream shirt, a '
+                    'WHITE APRON blotched and dripping with crushed red strawberry stain, dark '
+                    'brown trousers and heavy boots. The tray of strawberries and the ladle image 2 '
+                    'shows are NOT part of him: leave the tray and the ladle out of the picture '
+                    'entirely, and never draw them in place of a racket'),
+ 'cu': ('z_chair1', 'a ZOMBIE CHAIR UMPIRE: a pale CREAM LINEN BLAZER over a white shirt with a '
+                    'dark navy tie, a pale straw sun hat with a band, olive-brown trousers and dark '
+                    'shoes. The umpire\'s high chair, the ladder and the microphone image 2 shows '
+                    'are NOT part of him: leave all three out of the picture entirely'),
+ 'sp': ('z_s1', 'a gaunt scrawny ZOMBIE SPECTATOR in a drab pale OLIVE-KHAKI summer jacket over a '
+                'grubby shirt, dark olive trousers and worn shoes, thin and round-shouldered. The '
+                'wooden folding chair image 2 shows over his shoulder is NOT part of him: leave the '
+                'chair out of the picture entirely, and never draw it in place of a racket'),
+ 'rm': ('z_k1', 'a big heavy ZOMBIE ROLLER MAN: a sleeveless OLIVE-GREEN WORK VEST over bare '
+                'grey-green arms, a brown leather tool belt with a pouch on it, olive work trousers '
+                'and heavy dark boots, bald. The court roller image 2 shows him hauling is NOT part '
+                'of him: leave the roller and its handle out of the picture entirely, and never '
+                'draw them in place of a racket'),
 }
 
 
@@ -110,6 +145,14 @@ def prompt(who):
      'THE CHARACTER\'S OWN BUILD OVERRIDES IMAGE 1\'S: if image 2 shows a wider, heavier or fatter '
      'body than the figures of image 1, every redrawn figure keeps that wider, heavier body in '
      'every pose. Only the POSE comes from image 1 — never the physique.\n\n'
+     # THE RACKET IS THE POSE, NOT A PROP, and it has to be said out loud (2026-08-15). Four of the
+     # six rolls that day were of characters who carry something in their anchor frame — a tray, a
+     # court roller, a folding chair — so their descriptions had to say the thing is gone, and the
+     # model read "he carries nothing" as covering the racket too: two families came back playing
+     # tennis bare-handed and one returned every shot with a strawberry tray.
+     'EVERY FIGURE STILL HOLDS THE TENNIS RACKET image 1 gives it, in the same hand, in the same '
+     'frames. The racket belongs to the POSE and is never removed, never replaced by anything the '
+     'character is carrying in image 2, and no figure that has one in image 1 has an empty hand.\n\n'
      # EVERY UNDAMAGED FIGURE HAS A HEAD, said out loud. The clause above ("a figure with no head
      # keeps no head") is there for the wound rows and the old normalisation pass took it as licence
      # to remove one from the play row — which is how six families came back with a decapitated