# PREDICTED RATINGS · BOUNCER (B, 28 Oct, autonomous mode, per USER_TASTE.md §7)

## How it was judged
- **Renders:** every live bouncer kill on 58k_bouncer.html (22: 12 films, 10 mids), from the live files.
  - Each kill: a 12-frame strip at gore 5 over the whole film, plus the six final frames XT VH H M L VL.
  - Strips: `/Volumes/Workspace/Scratch/b/pred/bouncer/strips/bouncer_<id>.jpg`.
- **Maps:** K58.mapCheck on the 17 dry maps (`/Volumes/Workspace/Scratch/b/pred/bouncer/list.json`).
  - Almost everything plays on 16-17 maps.
  - THE PISTON (6/17) and FIREFLY (8/17) are already on 58k_replace58.js.
  - GULP is the underwater map's own kill, so it stays.
- Judged on what the page shows NOW: central faces-off, the zoom floor, wide finals.

**Counts (22 live): GOOD 9 · OK BUT 10 · REPLACE 3.**
- Bouncer skews to GOOD: an action weapon, and most mids end on the old game's burst.
- The OK BUTs are mostly "head explosion needed" (the ending stays intact), plus:
  - the party hat / cat ears;
  - hit circles in two films (THE WELL's sound rings, SQUASH COURT's red rings);
  - a giant face in THE BALL PIT.
- Least sure:
  - OFF BEAT and HAIR TRIGGER (GOOD vs OK BUT);
  - LUMPS (OK BUT vs REPLACE: the lumps are the joke).

| key | name | rating | note (exact chip phrases) | why (what I saw) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bouncer.rally | RALLY | GOOD | (keep; small: costume (party hat)) | A tennis rally between his riot shield and the wall ("HA! BOUNCES OFF!", "STOP IT!"), escalating, then KRRANG: the old-game explosion, the shield lying in the pieces |
| bouncer.four-passes | FOUR PASSES | GOOD | (keep) | ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR: the round passes through him four times (counted, readable), then he bursts; VL "hey... my HAIR" is the comedy rung |
| bouncer.the-break | THE BREAK | GOOD | (keep; small: the caps) | Three of them bunched like a rack of pool balls; one round breaks them (KTOK) and they burst apart; three souls rise |
| bouncer.pachinko | PACHINKO | GOOD | (keep; small: the red fan shapes behind him at the CLAMP) | A pachinko-machine realm: he rattles down the pins, the clamp, then the burst, and he lands in the pieces back on the map |
| bouncer.mid-listen | LISTEN | GOOD | (keep; small: costume (beanie)) | Quick and clean: "HA! MISSED", the round boings round the room and comes back; one burst |
| bouncer.mid-hot-potato | HOT POTATO | GOOD | (keep) | Quick and clean: "GOTCHA!", he catches the round, it's hot (OW, TSSSK), he juggles it, it bursts him |
| bouncer.mid-knee-jerk | KNEE JERK | GOOD | (keep; small: costume (beanie)) | TAP on the knee, the reflex kick, POK, then KRNCH KRAK: he comes apart |
| bouncer.mid-hair-trigger | HAIR TRIGGER | GOOD | (keep; doubt: could be OK BUT) | The bouncing round sets off his own pistol (bang, bang) into him; then the burst, his cap flying |
| bouncer.mid-off-beat | OFF BEAT | OK BUT | hit circle (the pink ring at the start) · costume (cat ears) [coord 28 Oct: OK BUT, not GOOD] | "one... two..." counting the bounces, off the beat: KRAK, the burst |
| bouncer.the-trapped-round | THE TRAPPED ROUND | OK BUT | bones (after the inside bounces his body reads as stacked beads, vertebra-like) · head explosion needed | The round trapped bouncing inside him (boing), a strong idea; he ends sitting as a beaded column |
| bouncer.the-well | THE WELL | OK BUT | head explosion needed · costume (party hat) · hit circles (the sound rings round the well) | Caught in a gold tube, the round rings round inside (CLANG, BOING); she ends kneeling intact, the hat on the floor |
| bouncer.squash-court | SQUASH COURT | OK BUT | hit circles (red rings all over the glass and on him) · costume (cat ears) · camera bug (the VH final pushes Faris into the corner) | A glass box as a squash court, the round ricocheting round inside; the red ring marks are hit circles |
| bouncer.chin-music | CHIN MUSIC | OK BUT | head explosion needed (the head comes off whole and rolls) | Juggled by the chin (BOING), then the head comes off; a burst would fit |
| bouncer.higher | HIGHER | OK BUT | head explosion needed · costume (beanie) | Each bounce goes higher ("HA HAHA"), then KRUNCH; he ends a crumpled spurting pile, the head intact |
| bouncer.gulp | GULP | OK BUT | head explosion needed · confusing (the death reads as hanging from a line) | Underwater-only (stays). The round bounces round him under water and the breath bar drains; he ends hanging from a red line |
| bouncer.the-ball-pit | THE BALL PIT | OK BUT | no facial expression needed (the giant round face over the pit) · head explosion needed | A ball-pit realm ("NO NO", "AAAA"), a big face looming; he ends lying intact among the balls |
| bouncer.mid-under-the-hat | UNDER THE HAT | OK BUT | head explosion needed | "GOT YOU!": he traps the round under his hat; it comes up through his head; he ends sitting, bleeding, the head intact |
| bouncer.mid-lumps | LUMPS | REPLACE | gag: the cartoon lump stack IS the concept, and it reads as painted circles/beads; without it nothing is left [coord 28 Oct] | BONK, BONK: each bounce stacks a pink lump on his head, then KRUNCH, the burst. The payoff is good; the lumps are painted circles (doubt: could be REPLACE, since the lumps are the joke) |
| bouncer.mid-spring | SPRING | OK BUT | head explosion needed · costume (party hat) | Bounced off the floor into her ("pfft, dead", KRNK); she ends kneeling intact |
| bouncer.the-piston | THE PISTON | REPLACE | map-tied (6/17: CEILING) | Already on 58k_replace58.js |
| bouncer.mid-firefly | FIREFLY | REPLACE | few maps (8/17: LIGHT) · no facial expression needed (the eyes in the dark) | Already on 58k_replace58.js |
| bouncer.mid-the-tumbler | THE TUMBLER | REPLACE | gag with no action payoff | "cheers!": the round plops into his glass, tinks round, the glass bursts in his face; he ends kneeling intact |