The leagues, the polish round: the way-up ribbon, upright chevrons, the breathing badges, the card counts up

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

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   FACE with the milestone cards is right; sharing their SIZE made every footnote read as a milestone.
 
+## Session log: THE LEAGUES — the polish round: the ribbon, the glow, the count-up (2026-08-29, same day, STAGING ONLY)
+
+Oliver's retest ("schon viel besser") with five polish items, all built:
+
+- **Every chevron is UPRIGHT now.** Bangers is drawn slanted, so `‹`/`›` read as italic on every
+  screen (his "an vielen Stellen"). All `.chev` buttons and the plaque's arrow use Silkscreen's
+  straight ASCII `<`/`>` instead — the announcement face keeps its job, arrows stop leaning.
+- **The plaque wears rounded corners (8px) and real padding** (12/14 against 8/10).
+- **THE WAY-UP RIBBON**: the tag became a banderole — red field, thick white Silkscreen with a
+  light shadow, rotated -45° over the poster's top-left corner, ends clipped by the poster's own
+  `overflow: hidden` (that clip is what sells the wrap). And it shows on BOTH picker levels: the
+  top-level ZOMBIE TENNIS poster carries it too (`tag` on the MENU row), so the click path to the
+  promotion is marked from the first screen.
+- **Poster captions grew**: titles 12 → 15 bold, sub lines 9 → 10 and a brighter grey — "viel
+  Text in sehr kleiner Schrift" was true of every banner.
+- **The card performs its entrance**: earned badges and the current crest BREATHE a subtle gold
+  halo (`badgeGlow` keyframes, CSS-only — the parked menu loop is irrelevant to CSS animations;
+  the dark slots stay dead, which is their point), both bars sweep from empty (0.7s eased
+  transition, forced-reflow reset), and every number counts up fast — the XP line and all six
+  ledger figures through one `countUp` easer (setTimeout, the bracket's own no-rAF rule; timers
+  cancelled on rebuild so re-entry never races itself).
+
 ## Session log: THE LEAGUES — the plaque round: the meta speaks (2026-08-29, same day, STAGING ONLY)
 
 Oliver's first screenshot review, four items, all built. The theme: the meta layer existed but