Evenly-matched bots tie often, and a tied round runs the full 30s clock and ends on "tie!" — a weak last beat and a long clip. The trailer now renders more candidates than it uses and keeps the knockouts, shortest first, plus one survival climb; a crashed clip is noted and the run carries on. Survival at a high cap also held one CDP call past puppeteer's 180s default while the forecast pass ran thousands of ticks inside a single evaluate, so the oven's launch now sets protocolTimeout. That is slow, not stuck.