[Eliot5566]

New fighter

• Name: Counterpunch
• Style in one line: Lets the enemy commit first, steps out of the heavy shot, then punishes.
• One file, fighters/eliot5566.yaml
• author is my GitHub handle
• npx jev-arena validate fighters/eliot5566.yaml passes
• I tested it in the Fighter Lab or with jev-arena fight

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This PR is a worked example

It stays open on purpose so Season 1 entrants can see the whole flow, so Counterpunch is not on the ladder. The fighter file has a comment on every field; feel free to copy it as a starting point.

How to enter

1. Fork this repo.
2. Design your fighter: npx jev-arena → Fighter Lab, press TEST FIGHT until you like it, then Copy YAML.
3. Save it as fighters/<your-github-handle>.yaml in your fork and commit.
4. Open a pull request against main and tick the checklist above.

What CI does on your PR (the Validate check below, no API key needed)

• runs the test suite
• validates every fighter file (length limits, legal moves, reflex thresholds)
• smoke-fights your fighter against every fighter already on the ladder with the offline mock brain, so a broken file fails here instead of on the ladder

After a maintainer merges it, the ladder workflow re-runs the round robin with Jev, commits the new leaderboard and publishes every replay to https://eliot5566.github.io/jev-arena/.

Season 1 rules and deadline: #1