The menu text reduction: the design handoff, built

Sixty words on the wall became a dozen. The handoff's own summary of the rule:
Jersey 15 NAMES (screen titles, rooms, cards), Bangers CALLS exactly once per
screen (the fixture, the primary button, a modal headline), Silkscreen INFORMS
(numbers, labels, chips) — and a sentence survives only where it carries a
decision. Everything else moved into a bar, a pip or the modal that opens with
the mode.

  · Jersey 15 bundled subset (9 KB) and Bungee retired after one afternoon
  · SPLASH: the plaque is one row, the goal line is gone (the fixture button
    below said it already), the two doors carry a number each
  · PICK A GAME: rooms are one word, posters are their names, the fixture is a
    hero with the only second line — the whole wall fits one screen now
  · MATCH SETUP: unnumbered blocks, the meters' legend once instead of a
    description per court, no summary footer
  · DIFFICULTY: three pips instead of three sentences
  · TRAINING: the revanche is a full-width row, rungs are numbers, the list
    ends on the league that opens the rest of the ladder
  · VS: three paragraphs became YOU / HOST / JOIN
  · MODALS: one rule per row (the sub was the lead again in other words), the
    blood pool as pips on that same line, and the walk-on's two levels in ONE
    face at ONE size — a comparison drawn at two sizes is a headline with a
    footnote (Oliver)

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

src/config.js

@@ -856,13 +856,17 @@ export const MODES = [
 // canonical path does not live behind a fan-out. Its two former siblings (the climb, the training
 // court) stand on their own in the training group, which also cost the second step its only other
 // job: CLASSIC's difficulty chips are all that still fan out.
+// THE TEXT REDUCTION (2026-08-31, design handoff): a room is ONE WORD and the posters carry only
+// their names. The straps went with the sentences — a shelf that has to explain itself is a shelf
+// nobody reads. `layout` is how the room deals its posters: the fixture is a HERO with the one
+// call on the screen, the training pair stands side by side, the casual three stack shorter.
 export const MENU = [
-  { group: 'THE SEASON', sub: 'THE ONLY WAY UP THE CLUB' },
+  { group: 'SEASON', layout: 'hero' },
   { mode: 'cup' },
-  { group: 'THE TRAINING', sub: 'SHARPEN UP · NOTHING HERE MOVES YOUR LEAGUE' },
+  { group: 'TRAINING', layout: 'pair' },
   { mode: 'zombie' },
   { mode: 'train' },
-  { group: 'OUT OF COMPETITION', sub: 'NO LEAGUE, NO RECORD, NO STAKES' },
+  { group: 'CASUAL', layout: 'stack' },
   { mode: 'gore' },
   { mode: 'classic', diffs: true },
   // NETPLAY (prototype): a poster with no run mode of its own — its second step is HOST / JOIN,
@@ -963,7 +967,10 @@ export const cupFixture = (lg, champion = 0) => {
   const held = champion && lg >= LEAGUES.length;      // the champion has nothing above him left
   return { lg, league: leagueOf(lg), rounds, rung: first.band[0], foe,
            title: held ? 'DEFEND THE TITLE' : 'LEAGUE ' + lg + ' · THE CUP',
-           line: rounds.length + ' ROUNDS · ' + first.name + ': ' + foe.name };
+           // the ROUND COUNT moved to `sub` (the text reduction): it belongs in the modal that
+           // explains the tournament, not on the button you press to enter it
+           line: first.name + ': ' + foe.name,
+           sub: 'LEAGUE ' + lg + ' · ' + rounds.length + ' ROUNDS' };
 };
 
 // How far a cup record reads, in the rounds' own words: 3 of 4 rounds reached is THE SEMI-FINAL.