{
 "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"
}