{
 "round": "two-frontiers-cove-r1",
 "at": "2026-09-06T15:25:25Z",
 "seats_asked": 7,
 "carried": [
  "deepseek-v4-pro",
  "gemma4-31b",
  "kimi-k3",
  "mistral-large-3-675b",
  "nemotron-3-ultra",
  "qwen3.5-397b"
 ],
 "not_carried": [
  "glm-5.3"
 ],
 "letters_per_audition": 21,
 "reminder_law": "exactly ONE format reminder; both attempts publish",
 "ladder": {
  "floor_families": 4,
  "floor_action": "an arm below the floor publishes UNRANKED with the reason, while the arms above it carry on",
  "rungs_below_the_floor": [
   3
  ],
  "state_word": "UNRANKED",
  "state_word_basis": "UNRANKED is what score_arm() emits (`ranked: false` plus `unranked_reasons`) and what the vocabulary registers. `NOT-COLLECTED — PANEL-FLOOR` is NOT a registered state: sample_record.assert_collection_state rejects it, and it is the wrong KIND of word — NOT-COLLECTED is a property of a sample, and here the reply exists and simply cannot be scored by enough families.",
  "loss_order_basis": "a seat whose family is a contestant's is already recused on that arm, so losing it costs that arm nothing it had. The expensive losses come first.",
  "rungs": [
   {
    "seats": 7,
    "seats_alive": [
     "gemma4-31b",
     "mistral-large-3-675b",
     "nemotron-3-ultra",
     "kimi-k3",
     "deepseek-v4-pro",
     "glm-5.3",
     "qwen3.5-397b"
    ],
    "seats_lost": [],
    "families_alive": [
     "alibaba",
     "deepseek",
     "google",
     "mistral",
     "moonshot",
     "nvidia",
     "zhipu"
    ],
    "arms": {
     "cli-claude-fable-5-1": {
      "families_scoring": 7,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 56
     },
     "openai-gpt-6-astra": {
      "families_scoring": 7,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 56
     },
     "cloud-glm-5-3": {
      "families_scoring": 6,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 48
     },
     "local-gemma4-26b": {
      "families_scoring": 6,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 48
     }
    },
    "floored": []
   },
   {
    "seats": 6,
    "seats_alive": [
     "gemma4-31b",
     "nemotron-3-ultra",
     "kimi-k3",
     "deepseek-v4-pro",
     "glm-5.3",
     "qwen3.5-397b"
    ],
    "seats_lost": [
     "mistral-large-3-675b"
    ],
    "families_alive": [
     "alibaba",
     "deepseek",
     "google",
     "moonshot",
     "nvidia",
     "zhipu"
    ],
    "arms": {
     "cli-claude-fable-5-1": {
      "families_scoring": 6,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 48
     },
     "openai-gpt-6-astra": {
      "families_scoring": 6,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 48
     },
     "cloud-glm-5-3": {
      "families_scoring": 5,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 40
     },
     "local-gemma4-26b": {
      "families_scoring": 5,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 40
     }
    },
    "floored": []
   },
   {
    "seats": 5,
    "seats_alive": [
     "gemma4-31b",
     "kimi-k3",
     "deepseek-v4-pro",
     "glm-5.3",
     "qwen3.5-397b"
    ],
    "seats_lost": [
     "mistral-large-3-675b",
     "nemotron-3-ultra"
    ],
    "families_alive": [
     "alibaba",
     "deepseek",
     "google",
     "moonshot",
     "zhipu"
    ],
    "arms": {
     "cli-claude-fable-5-1": {
      "families_scoring": 5,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 40
     },
     "openai-gpt-6-astra": {
      "families_scoring": 5,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 40
     },
     "cloud-glm-5-3": {
      "families_scoring": 4,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 32
     },
     "local-gemma4-26b": {
      "families_scoring": 4,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 32
     }
    },
    "floored": []
   },
   {
    "seats": 4,
    "seats_alive": [
     "gemma4-31b",
     "deepseek-v4-pro",
     "glm-5.3",
     "qwen3.5-397b"
    ],
    "seats_lost": [
     "mistral-large-3-675b",
     "nemotron-3-ultra",
     "kimi-k3"
    ],
    "families_alive": [
     "alibaba",
     "deepseek",
     "google",
     "zhipu"
    ],
    "arms": {
     "cli-claude-fable-5-1": {
      "families_scoring": 4,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 32
     },
     "openai-gpt-6-astra": {
      "families_scoring": 4,
      "above_floor": true,
      "cells_scoring": 32
     },
     "cloud-glm-5-3": {
      "families_scoring": 3,
      "above_floor": false,
      "cells_scoring": 24
     },
     "local-gemma4-26b": {
      "families_scoring": 3,
      "above_floor": false,
      "cells_scoring": 24
     }
    },
    "floored": [
     "cloud-glm-5-3",
     "local-gemma4-26b"
    ]
   },
   {
    "seats": 3,
    "seats_alive": [
     "gemma4-31b",
     "glm-5.3",
     "qwen3.5-397b"
    ],
    "seats_lost": [
     "mistral-large-3-675b",
     "nemotron-3-ultra",
     "kimi-k3",
     "deepseek-v4-pro"
    ],
    "families_alive": [
     "alibaba",
     "google",
     "zhipu"
    ],
    "arms": {
     "cli-claude-fable-5-1": {
      "families_scoring": 3,
      "above_floor": false,
      "cells_scoring": 24
     },
     "openai-gpt-6-astra": {
      "families_scoring": 3,
      "above_floor": false,
      "cells_scoring": 24
     },
     "cloud-glm-5-3": {
      "families_scoring": 2,
      "above_floor": false,
      "cells_scoring": 16
     },
     "local-gemma4-26b": {
      "families_scoring": 2,
      "above_floor": false,
      "cells_scoring": 16
     }
    },
    "floored": [
     "cli-claude-fable-5-1",
     "cloud-glm-5-3",
     "local-gemma4-26b",
     "openai-gpt-6-astra"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "first_rung_that_floors_an_arm": {
   "seats": 4,
   "seats_alive": [
    "gemma4-31b",
    "deepseek-v4-pro",
    "glm-5.3",
    "qwen3.5-397b"
   ],
   "seats_lost": [
    "mistral-large-3-675b",
    "nemotron-3-ultra",
    "kimi-k3"
   ],
   "families_alive": [
    "alibaba",
    "deepseek",
    "google",
    "zhipu"
   ],
   "arms": {
    "cli-claude-fable-5-1": {
     "families_scoring": 4,
     "above_floor": true,
     "cells_scoring": 32
    },
    "openai-gpt-6-astra": {
     "families_scoring": 4,
     "above_floor": true,
     "cells_scoring": 32
    },
    "cloud-glm-5-3": {
     "families_scoring": 3,
     "above_floor": false,
     "cells_scoring": 24
    },
    "local-gemma4-26b": {
     "families_scoring": 3,
     "above_floor": false,
     "cells_scoring": 24
    }
   },
   "floored": [
    "cloud-glm-5-3",
    "local-gemma4-26b"
   ]
  },
  "carried": [
   "deepseek-v4-pro",
   "gemma4-31b",
   "kimi-k3",
   "mistral-large-3-675b",
   "nemotron-3-ultra",
   "qwen3.5-397b"
  ],
  "not_carried_publishes": "a seat that fails its audition publishes NOT-CARRIED and the panel prints as the size it actually is -- every denominator re-prints, and nothing is back-filled"
 },
 "seats": {
  "gemma4-31b": {
   "verdict": "CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": true,
   "problems_final": [],
   "reused": null
  },
  "mistral-large-3-675b": {
   "verdict": "CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": true,
   "problems_final": [],
   "reused": null
  },
  "nemotron-3-ultra": {
   "verdict": "CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": false,
   "problems_final": [],
   "reused": null
  },
  "kimi-k3": {
   "verdict": "CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": true,
   "problems_final": [],
   "reused": null
  },
  "deepseek-v4-pro": {
   "verdict": "CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": true,
   "problems_final": [],
   "reused": null
  },
  "glm-5.3": {
   "verdict": "NOT-CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": true,
   "problems_final": [
    "the reply is not a JSON array this round can collect: JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)"
   ],
   "reused": null
  },
  "qwen3.5-397b": {
   "verdict": "CARRIED",
   "needed_the_reminder": false,
   "problems_final": [],
   "reused": null
  }
 }
}