The longer racket

Third recorded session. The previous fixes did their job and exposed the last
gap: he ran onto every ball (2.9-3.9m per point, was 0.2-0.5), the ball
reached him (died at z 22.5-24, was 18-20), he swung every single time — and
the closest approach clustered at a sampled 1.3-1.6m, centimetres outside the
1.3m post-bounce reach, point after point. The assist delivers you NEAR the
ball but not inside a phone-tuned contact radius, and that also explains "not
really better or I played worse": every point suddenly looked makeable and
still died.

matchReach 1.35 widens the contact test in the match only — the gore modes'
"tight contact radius: the tap must be honest" rule stands untouched. A rally
mode lives on contact feeling fair.

Recorded for future sessions: a 20Hz sampler overstates closest approach by
up to ~0.5m on a 20 m/s ball. The recorder samples at 60Hz now.

49 tests, 12 seeds clean.

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

src/config.js

@@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ export const TUNE = {
   matchFlub: 0.08,     // the match's own whiff base — the duel's 0.2 gives away a fifth of all
                        // returns, which across a game is an opponent that beats itself
   matchFlubKeep: 0.82, // ...and it keeps only this much per rung — the ladder now that hp is flat
+  matchReach: 1.35, // contact reach multiplier in the MATCH. The recorder showed swings missing by
+                    // centimetres point after point — the assist parks you near the ball, not inside
+                    // a 1.3 m reach. A rally mode lives on contact feeling fair. Match-only
   matchAssist: 1.15, // auto-run floor DURING A MATCH, any device. autoAssist keys off pointer:coarse,
                      // so desktop had no legs at all — the match is a tap-timing game and footwork
                      // is the game's job. Held keys still override

src/gameplay.js

@@ -953,7 +953,12 @@ function trySwing(ch, isAI, qCap = TUNE.aiQualityMax) {
   // Contact happens if the ball is inside reach while the swing window is open.
   // Player volleys (pre-bounce) get wider reach + window: full-speed ball, no bounce cue.
   const volley = !isAI && ball.bounces === 0;
-  const reach = isAI ? TUNE.aiReach : TUNE.reach * (volley ? VOLLEY.reach : 1);
+  // The MATCH plays with a longer racket. The flight recorder's third session: he ran onto every
+  // ball (2.9-3.9 m per point) and swung every time, and the closest approach clustered at a
+  // sampled 1.3-1.6 m — centimetres outside the 1.3 m post-bounce reach, point after point. The
+  // assist can deliver you NEAR the ball but not INSIDE a phone-tuned reach; a rally mode lives or
+  // dies on contact feeling fair, and the gore modes are untouched.
+  const reach = isAI ? TUNE.aiReach : TUNE.reach * (volley ? VOLLEY.reach : 1) * (G.match ? TUNE.matchReach : 1);
   const win = TUNE.swingWindow * (volley ? VOLLEY.window : 1);
   const t = ch.swingT;
   if (t < TUNE.swingWindup || t > TUNE.swingWindup + win) return;