A challenger's screen was a bare puppet — no legend lighting, no M30 manual reaction, no debug toggle — because the viewer tick returned before sampling the local pad. It now samples inputPads[0] and handles the View edge itself, so the chair-holder's UI answers their own hands without waiting on the host's echo. The mac shell raises versus capability: its publisher socket finally reads inbound relay words (challenger pads, viewer counts, conflicts) and drains them on the frame thread, so the desktop app opens into the same waiting room as oskiewar.com and can host a fight. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BnZvQtkaFNFPrssrUNCHG9