Est. 2023 · Head-to-Head Points
The Royal Wave: The Royal Wave · Blind Proposals · Digital Asset Vault · The Royal Mint · Bust & Bargain · King's Bounty · Hall of Tapestries · Ring Room · Kingdom Ledger · Press Conference · Franchise Timeline · Mid-Season Magazine · Gear Concepts · Owner Dashboard · Free-Agent Alarm · Kingdom Hall of Fame · Blessing from the King · Ring Design Lab · Royal Gallery · Kingdom Census · Scarcity Heat Map · Roster Physics Lab · Silent Auction · Jersey Customizer · Tug-of-War Board · Roster Plots · Playoff Tree · Broadcast Desk · Merch Mock-Up Lab · Relocation Toolkit
The second issue of the Kingdom's magazine is a MID-SEASON review, and it is being built the honest way: its pipeline (magazine/build_issue2.py) counts settled weeks and refuses to compile until the mid-season story exists — 1 of 9 settled weeks are on file today. Nothing about a mid-season can be written from one settled week, so no issue is fabricated here; what exists is the framework, the section plan, and the cover desk.
| Section | Source |
|---|---|
| The Mid-Season Crown Race | standings + power-reports archive editions |
| Mid-Season Awards | Awards Desk inputs: settled week finals files |
| The Power Board at the Turn | data/power-reports.json (all editions) |
| Royal Mint: Wealth at the Turn | data/rankings-archive.json editions |
| Bounty Board: Quests So Far | features3/data/bounty-archive.json |
| Tapestries of the First Half | features3/assets29/tapestries/ |
| The Kingdom Ledger Polls | /api/polls results at compile time |
| Championship Timeline, Updated | snapshots/league-history-2023-2026.json |
| Draft Hindsight at the Turn | snapshots/draft-2026-27-full.json + bref lines |
| The Back Half: What the Desk Watches | Playoff Desk model (labelled model output) |
Issue 1 is on the shelf now: Basketball Kingdom Illustrated, Issue 1 (exactly 50 pages). Issue 2 will follow the same exactly-50-page rule through the same page builder when its gate opens.