Battle #19390 seals the live betting canary

A real watcher-detected 3v3 exposed its winner market, rendered Bet live, and opened the exact market while the separate DESYNC rail remained available.

At 23:21:35 UTC, AoE2WAR detected Battle #19390 as an active watcher session. The live API attached winner market #424716 with status live for Scavanger_Ab, Jim, and Artefact against JPKBARTENDER, ajb, and MTer. The battle card rendered Bet live and routed directly to that exact 3v3 winner book. The independent DESYNC market remained available on the betting rail and accepted its own live wager without replacing the primary winner action. This proves the complete path from watcher session to market creation, session joining, live-card projection, routing, and wagering. Human review, result truth, payout, and settlement authority were not changed.

Live winner markets return to the battle card

Open or live winner markets now drive Bet live without allowing DESYNC markets to hijack the primary action.

The betting markets were already being created during watcher-detected battles. The live card was withholding them behind replay-team resolution and a generic market selector that could also encounter the independent DESYNC market. AoE2WAR now selects only an open or live winner market for the primary battle action. The DESYNC market remains available on the betting rail but can never replace the winner market. No parser result, Review Desk feature, wager, payout, or settlement rule was changed.

Human review remains the command tower

Automation will complement the reviewer until its evidence becomes exceptional; it will not destroy the Review Desk on the way there.

AoE2WAR's Review Desk remains a first-class production system. Human adjudication, DESYNC truth, corrections, supersession, financial disposition, and the ability to reject machine conclusions stay intact. Better automation should prefill teams, winners, evidence, confidence, and recommendations so the reviewer works at a higher level. It must not erase operator judgment or rewrite append-only history. Even when machine performance eventually makes routine review rare, the human authority rail remains available for exceptional and disputed battles.

Deterministic Evidence Pass 7 reaches production

Exact uneven two-team structure enters the private Engine Room without weakening ordinary uploads, degraded fragments, public truth, or settlement.

Pass 7 is live after 101 replay regressions passed and 13 private-fixture conditions were correctly skipped. The installed mgz implementation remains honestly version 1.8.51; AoE2WAR's evidence identity advances to schema 2026-07-24.1 and pass 7. The ordinary upload parser remains fail-closed. Only the private candidate parser may preserve an exact uneven two-team shape such as 2v3. Metadata-fragment fallbacks remain on their prior authority because recovered platform metadata is useful evidence but not sufficient to expand the accepted team envelope. Strict result proof was not weakened.

Campaign IV opens the Parser Front

Campaign III closed the 2,025-artifact recovery frontier. Campaign IV turns from sorting files toward proving what each battle record can honestly support.

Campaign III finished the recovery frontier with zero current candidate failures. Campaign IV moves from sorting artifacts to asking a harder question: what can each surviving battle record actually prove? Saved checkpoints stay non-final. Better parser evidence can improve what AoE2WAR knows without silently rewriting scoreboards, markets, claims, financial history, or chain state.

The 329 frontier falls

All 2,025 archived artifacts reached a completed candidate disposition with zero current candidate failures — without pretending every recovered artifact was a final game.

Campaign III cleared the 329-file recovery frontier while keeping one rule intact: recovered evidence is not automatically final truth. Recorded games and non-final saved checkpoints remain distinct, historical parser runs remain preserved, and nothing is promoted merely because a richer candidate exists. The hard problem has shifted from parsing bytes to proving battle truth.

The Workshop doors open

AoE2WAR now has a public, curated build culture.

The Workshop is a deliberate window into the making of the kingdom. It publishes selected milestones, decisions, screenshots, and AI excerpts without exposing private conversations or operator systems.

Winner truth gets a harder gate

Structured team data can no longer declare a winner by itself when the underlying battle evidence is not trustworthy.

Traffic gets a real pulse

Traffic and Statistics stop treating visits as noise and start showing real people, returners, and growth.

The Distribution Reserve gets a constitution

Staker rewards and Community Treasury distributions receive an explicit reserve policy separate from betting custody.

Bad proof gets a clean way out

Watcher proof grace, void refunds, and team-market integrity rails turn uncertain battle evidence into explicit terminal outcomes.

No final replay, no watcher-bet settlement

Watcher-linked markets are forced to wait for trusted final replay evidence before settlement.

Team Zero is valid

The replay pipeline formally accepts zero-based team IDs instead of discarding legitimate team evidence.

Every warrior gains an AI chamber

Player profiles gain a private AI analysis surface and telemetry.