The match plays fair: deeper pool, no regicide, serves from the line

"the player is too weak in this mode. also the killing by smashing occurs too
often. i cant really control it. maybe obsolete? also the serving after the
first serve does not happen from behind the groundline".

matchPlayerHp 8 — the match brings its own pool. The gore mode's 4 was an
inheritance, not a decision, and a real game has rallies you deserve to lose
without the run ending.

Regicide is out of the match (kept in the duel, where any-weapon-counts is
the point of sudden death). In a full game every hard serve that happened to
meet the body was a free kill nobody aimed. A match ball never damages the
opponent — it passes through like a soft ball and racketAI plays it — so the
wound stages are exactly the scoreboard. That also made hp-per-opponent
meaningless, so the ladder escalates in racketAI instead: +12% speed per body
felled, whiff chance x0.82 per rung.

And serving resets to behind the baseline with real deuce/ad mirroring:
setupPoint's "serve from wherever you're standing" branch now excludes the
match, which falls through to the tennis positioning. Verified live: second
serve from z 24.3, x mirrored to the ad side, opponent unwounded by anything
but the score.

38 tests, 15 seeds clean.

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

src/zombies.js

@@ -1139,7 +1139,13 @@ export function updateZombies(dt) {
           continue;
         }
         if (isBoss(zb)) { // boss: splat-quality wounds it; soft balls the racket one rallies (racketAI)
-          if ((ball.pow || 0) >= TUNE.zSplatQ) {
+          // NOT IN THE MATCH. Regicide made sense in the duel (one sudden-death point, any weapon
+          // counts) but in a full game every hard serve that happened to meet the body was a free
+          // kill nobody aimed — Oliver: "the killing by smashing occurs too often. i cant really
+          // control it". A match ball NEVER damages the opponent; it passes through like any soft
+          // ball and racketAI plays it. The score is the only way through — which also makes the
+          // wound stages exactly the scoreboard, with no side-channel smearing them.
+          if ((ball.pow || 0) >= TUNE.zSplatQ && !G.match) {
             zb.hitT = TUNE.bossHitCool; // belt-and-braces: this ball is spent below, but the cooldown
             const dead = wound(zb, TUNE.dmgBall); // is what stops ANY lingering contact multi-wounding
             pock(0.6, 300);