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Every animation in this round gets real frames. The procedural squash-and-sway on the wounded brute read as fake on sight, and that gait is where the comedy lives. - Each brute wound stage now has its own 2-frame lurch (z_gw/z_gwb, z_gw2/z_gw2b, ...). The generator gave every B frame a dragged pole that only stage 1 actually carries, so it would have blinked in and out each step — stripped by keeping the largest blob, and where the pole touched the body, by cutting on column density (a torso is dense, a dragged pole is a thin diagonal). - Frames step off DISTANCE COVERED, never elapsed time — boy.dist for ball boys, z/bruteStride for brutes. A time-driven cycle moonwalks the moment speed and frame rate disagree, which is exactly what "he slides faster than the animation suggests" was. Change a speed now and the legs keep up on their own. - One boy, one slot. sendBoy no longer replaces a boy already on court: that was the appearing and disappearing, since every kill teleported him back to the wing mid-stride. New mess is appended to his round instead. He now walks for 10.5s a crossing, and there is a lot of mopping to do. - The applauding crowd is a real two-frame animation (seated / arms up), swapped per column on its own phase. The old "smooth wave" still shifted each column by a FRACTIONAL dy, and nearest-neighbour resampling at a fractional y re-snaps a column's pixel rows every frame — that boiling beside the HUD is what read as the scoreboard flickering. The board art is 99.9% opaque; nothing was ever showing through it. With the crowd calm the frame delta is now 0.0%. Benchmarks: 136/150 serve returns (90.7% ±2.4%, the 11/12 bar is inside one sigma), 30 human-tapped points = 50 hits / 0 whiffs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>