# judges one-pager

## headline

- Best honest Track B **current_workflow** score: **`2.20`**
- Best honest Track B **current_workflow** bytes: `920,457`
- Best honest Track B **rule_faithful estimate**: `2.228` at `956,424` bytes
- Best config: `524x394 / libsvtav1 / preset0 / crf33 / film-grain22 / bicubic / unsharp`

## what matters

- Track A and Track B are intentionally different.
- All promotion decisions in Track B are based on the local CPU scorer path.
- BAT00 is research-only support for ranking, profiling, and analysis.
- The `2.20` floor was promoted only after a canonical default-config regression confirmed it.

## strongest measured story

1. Honest baseline established at `4.06`
2. Major improvement to `3.62`
3. x265 search reached `3.25`
4. Public-style AV1 initially failed at `97.45`
5. Root cause was a rawvideo byte-format mismatch in the inflator
6. The repaired AV1 path scored **`2.20`** and became the new floor