Fix double elimination with byes never finishing; hand-built brackets

Byes now cascade through the whole bracket (a slot nobody can fill is a bye or a void), re-run on server start so stuck tournaments recover. New manual bracket builder on the desk: pick round-1 pairings per match. Tests at 5-23 teams for both bracket types. Release 0.5.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MB7nCCAscYsb3zzkT6LHZi
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 1. **Close registration.** The public page switches to the roster and "schedule coming."
 2. **Generate pools** (pick the pool size) or, for bracket-only, generate the bracket. You can clear and regenerate freely until the first score is entered. A late team? Clear generated play, add the team, regenerate.
+   To decide the first-round matchups yourself, open **Build the bracket by hand**: one row per round-1 match with a team picker on each side, pre-filled with standard seeding. Leave a side as "bye" to give the other team a walkover. Every team must appear exactly once; winners of matches 1 and 2 meet next, 3 and 4 meet, and so on down the sheet.
 3. **Go live.** The engine immediately assigns the first matches to the courts. Teams whose match is next see "on deck for Court 2, ~15 min" on their team page and the public board.

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