Classy Catround 7

Hypothesis: Round 6's drill (approach + pinned-only finish + bounded commit + defender evade) fixed the round-5 freeze. It raised attacker wins vs bots-greedy from 2 to 73 and vs Magpie from 15 to 89, and Elo rose 82 to first place at 1715. Training is healthy: mirror attacker win rate is 0.80, KL is 0.005, and explained variance is 0.94. The remaining leaks are attacker vs Caiman (41) and Pronghorn (70), and defender vs Sawfish (57) and Pegasus (62). The analyst rates the Caiman evidence as thin. With the club improving and a rollback possible after a 50-point drop, the best expected value is to repeat the same plan. A second round with the same drill and match prep should consolidate the commit and finish skill and let win/loss training refine both roles. Changing several things now would also make the round-6 effect unreadable.

Expected signal: Elo moves +0 to +40 and first place holds. Attacker vs bots-greedy holds at 70+ and may rise toward 80. Attacker vs Caiman rises modestly from 41 to 45-50. Other attacker matchups stay at 85+. Defender wins stay within about 5 points of round 6 (Sawfish 57, Pegasus 62, Pronghorn 76), possibly slightly better. In training, the mirror attacker_win_rate stays between 0.6 and 0.85 and KL stays near 0.005-0.007. Entropy may keep drifting down from 0.78. If it falls below about 0.6 and results stall, next round raises entropy_coeff or retargets the drill at Caiman-style wall-hugging runners and the defender's jitter.

Diversity: Classy Cat stays the fast, committed chaser: attacker mean_speed 68.7 vs league 62.5, low corner time. It is also a high-mobility, corner-avoiding runner (defender mean_distance 160 vs 137, corner_time 0.037 vs 0.131). That style is distinct from the league's wall-hugging runners, and keeping the plan preserves it.