human fight non multiple choice fix

frontend/src/composables/useHumanChallenge.ts

@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ export function useHumanChallenge(
         }
         if (!humanChallenge.value || humanChallenge.value.roundNumber !== data.roundNumber) {
           applyChallenge(data)
+        } else if (data.choices?.length && humanChoices.value.length === 0) {
+          // SSE fallback had no choices, polling found them — update
+          humanChoices.value = data.choices
         }
       } else if (data.fightStatus === 'finished') {
         humanChallenge.value = null

frontend/src/pages/FightPage.vue

@@ -553,7 +553,6 @@ async function fightAgain(botId: string) {
       window.history.replaceState({}, '', `/arena/${data.fightId}`)
       startPolling({ onFinished: () => stopHumanPolling(), onTimeout: () => stopHumanPolling() })
       if (isHumanFight.value) {
-        startHumanPolling()
         wireSSE()
         for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
           await loadFight()
@@ -563,6 +562,7 @@ async function fightAgain(botId: string) {
         await nextTick()
         await nextTick()
         if (liveFightData.value) await initLiveScene()
+        startHumanPolling()
       }
     } else {
       fightError.value = `Failed to start fight (${res.status})`

server/src/engine/orchestrator.ts

@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ async function getBotResponse(
 ): Promise<WebhookResponse> {
   if (isHumanPlayer(bot.webhookUrl)) {
     logger.info('fight', `${bot.name} is human player, waiting for browser response`)
+    // Start waitForHumanResponse FIRST so the pending challenge is stored
+    // before the SSE event tells the frontend to fetch it (fixes race condition
+    // where frontend fetched before pending was set → no choices shown)
+    const start = Date.now()
+    const resultPromise = waitForHumanResponse(fightId, bot.id, challenge, roundNumber)
     emit(fightId, 'human_challenge', {
       botId: bot.id,
       round: roundNumber,
@@ -274,8 +279,7 @@ async function getBotResponse(
       timeoutMs: challenge.timeout_ms,
       scoring: challenge.scoring,
     })
-    const start = Date.now()
-    const result = await waitForHumanResponse(fightId, bot.id, challenge, roundNumber)
+    const result = await resultPromise
     const elapsed = Date.now() - start
     return { answer: result.answer, trashTalk: result.trashTalk, timeMs: elapsed, timedOut: result.timedOut, error: false }
   }
@@ -389,7 +393,7 @@ async function executeFightRounds(fightId: string, botA: BotRecord, botB: BotRec
 
   for (let round = 1; round <= MAX_ROUNDS; round++) {
     lastRound = round
-    const challenge = round === retroRound
+    const challenge = (round === retroRound && !hasHuman)
       ? generateRetroChallenge()
       : pickChallenge(usedTypes, arena.modifier, undefined, round, hasHuman)
     usedTypes.add(challenge.type)