app/models/__tests__/scoring-calculator-qp-notify.test.ts

@@ -104,4 +104,40 @@ describe("processQualifyingEvent — QP change notification", () => {
 
     expect(notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
+
+  it("announces newly-eliminated players even when no QP changed (mirror non-scoring-round exit)", async () => {
+    // A mirror window re-scored on fan-out: nobody's QP changed, but the primary
+    // bracket reports p2 knocked out in a non-scoring round. The notification must
+    // still fire, passing the eliminated id through as the 5th arg so the "Knocked
+    // Out" section isn't dropped on the mirror.
+    const rows: ResultRow[] = [
+      { id: "r1", seasonParticipantId: "p1", placement: 1, qualifyingPointsAwarded: "100.00", scoringEvent },
+      { id: "r2", seasonParticipantId: "p2", placement: null, qualifyingPointsAwarded: "0.00", scoringEvent },
+    ];
+    const db = makeDb(rows, rows.map((r) => ({ ...r })));
+
+    await processQualifyingEvent(EVENT_ID, db, {
+      newlyEliminatedParticipantIds: new Set(["p2"]),
+    });
+
+    expect(notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const [, , , changed, eliminated] = vi.mocked(notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate).mock.calls[0];
+    // No QP change this sync.
+    expect([...(changed as Set<string>)]).toEqual([]);
+    // The knocked-out player is forwarded to the notifier.
+    expect([...(eliminated as Set<string>)]).toEqual(["p2"]);
+  });
+
+  it("does not notify on a re-sync with no QP change and no eliminations", async () => {
+    const rows: ResultRow[] = [
+      { id: "r1", seasonParticipantId: "p1", placement: 1, qualifyingPointsAwarded: "100.00", scoringEvent },
+    ];
+    const db = makeDb(rows, rows.map((r) => ({ ...r })));
+
+    await processQualifyingEvent(EVENT_ID, db, {
+      newlyEliminatedParticipantIds: new Set(),
+    });
+
+    expect(notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
 });

app/models/scoring-calculator.ts

@@ -880,6 +880,15 @@ export async function processQualifyingEvent(
      * which fall back to querying it here.
      */
     canonicalTieCountByPlacement?: Map<number, number>;
+    /**
+     * This window's season_participant ids that were knocked out this sync in a
+     * non-scoring round. They earn no QP (so they never surface via changed QP),
+     * but a manager who drafted them should still be told. Threaded down from the
+     * primary bracket by the fan-out (syncTournamentResults), already translated
+     * to THIS window's season_participant ids. See the primary path in
+     * app/services/match-sync/index.ts (newlyEliminatedIds).
+     */
+    newlyEliminatedParticipantIds?: Set<string>;
   } = {}
 ): Promise<void> {
   const db = providedDb || database();
@@ -1035,9 +1044,22 @@ export async function processQualifyingEvent(
     afterRows.map((r) => ({ id: r.seasonParticipantId, qp: r.qualifyingPointsAwarded }))
   );
 
-  if (changedParticipantIds.size > 0 && !options.skipNotifications) {
+  // Players knocked out this sync in a non-scoring round earn no QP, so they never
+  // appear in changedParticipantIds. Announce them too (mirroring the primary path
+  // in syncTennisDraw), so a mirror window's "Knocked Out" section isn't dropped.
+  const eliminatedIds = options.newlyEliminatedParticipantIds ?? new Set<string>();
+  if (
+    (changedParticipantIds.size > 0 || eliminatedIds.size > 0) &&
+    !options.skipNotifications
+  ) {
     try {
-      await notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate(event.sportsSeasonId, eventId, db, changedParticipantIds);
+      await notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate(
+        event.sportsSeasonId,
+        eventId,
+        db,
+        changedParticipantIds,
+        eliminatedIds,
+      );
     } catch (error) {
       logger.error(`[ScoringCalculator] QP Discord notification failed for event ${eventId}:`, error);
     }

app/routes/__tests__/admin.sports-seasons.bracket.helpers.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { newlyDecidedLosers } from "../admin.sports-seasons.$id.events.$eventId.bracket.helpers";
+
+describe("newlyDecidedLosers", () => {
+  it("returns losers of matches that were not already complete", () => {
+    expect(
+      newlyDecidedLosers([
+        { wasComplete: false, loserId: "sp-1" },
+        { wasComplete: false, loserId: "sp-2" },
+      ])
+    ).toEqual(["sp-1", "sp-2"]);
+  });
+
+  it("drops re-scores of already-complete matches (no re-announce)", () => {
+    // sp-1's match just finished; sp-2's match was already complete before this
+    // action — only sp-1 is a NEW knockout.
+    expect(
+      newlyDecidedLosers([
+        { wasComplete: false, loserId: "sp-1" },
+        { wasComplete: true, loserId: "sp-2" },
+      ])
+    ).toEqual(["sp-1"]);
+  });
+
+  it("skips entries with an unknown loser", () => {
+    expect(
+      newlyDecidedLosers([
+        { wasComplete: false, loserId: null },
+        { wasComplete: false, loserId: "sp-3" },
+      ])
+    ).toEqual(["sp-3"]);
+  });
+
+  it("returns an empty array when nothing was newly decided", () => {
+    expect(
+      newlyDecidedLosers([
+        { wasComplete: true, loserId: "sp-1" },
+        { wasComplete: true, loserId: "sp-2" },
+      ])
+    ).toEqual([]);
+    expect(newlyDecidedLosers([])).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});

app/routes/admin.sports-seasons.$id.events.$eventId.bracket.helpers.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/**
+ * Pure helpers for the bracket-scoring route action, extracted so the
+ * knockout-detection logic can be unit-tested without the full action harness.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * From a set of matches being scored this action, return the season_participant
+ * ids knocked out for the FIRST time. A loser counts only when its match was NOT
+ * already complete — a re-score/correction of a finished match must not
+ * re-announce the exit (mirrors populateBracketFromDraw's first-completion rule in
+ * the live-sync path). Entries with an unknown loser (`null`) are skipped.
+ *
+ * The ids are season_participant ids of the primary window (playoff_matches are
+ * keyed by season_participant); the fan-out translates them to each mirror
+ * window's own season_participant id before announcing the "Knocked Out" section.
+ */
+export function newlyDecidedLosers(
+  entries: Array<{ wasComplete: boolean; loserId: string | null }>
+): string[] {
+  return entries
+    .filter((e): e is { wasComplete: boolean; loserId: string } =>
+      !e.wasComplete && e.loserId !== null
+    )
+    .map((e) => e.loserId);
+}

app/routes/admin.sports-seasons.$id.events.$eventId.bracket.server.ts

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ import { maybeResolveCompletedBracktForSportsSeason } from "~/services/brackt.se
 import { fanOutMajorIfPrimary, syncMajorFromPrimaryEvent } from "~/services/sync-tournament-results";
 import { syncTennisDraw, previewTennisDraw } from "~/services/match-sync";
 import { articleTitleFromInput } from "~/services/match-sync/wikipedia-tennis";
+import { newlyDecidedLosers } from "./admin.sports-seasons.$id.events.$eventId.bracket.helpers";
 
 export async function loader({ params }: Route.LoaderArgs) {
   const sportsSeason = await findSportsSeasonById(params.id);
@@ -135,7 +136,15 @@ async function scoreQualifyingBracket(
     tournamentId: string | null;
   },
   db: ReturnType<typeof database>,
-  recalcOptions?: Parameters<typeof recalculateAffectedLeagues>[2]
+  recalcOptions?: Parameters<typeof recalculateAffectedLeagues>[2],
+  /**
+   * Season_participant ids of players knocked out for the first time by this
+   * operation (losers of matches that just reached completion). Forwarded to the
+   * fan-out so every mirror window announces the "Knocked Out" section — a
+   * non-scoring-round exit earns no QP and is otherwise invisible to the mirror.
+   * Empty for re-scores/reprocesses, which decide no new losers.
+   */
+  newlyEliminatedParticipantIds?: Set<string>
 ): Promise<void> {
   await processQualifyingBracketEvent(event.id, db);
   await recalculateAffectedLeagues(
@@ -145,7 +154,10 @@ async function scoreQualifyingBracket(
   );
   // If this is the shared major's primary window, propagate to siblings.
   // Mid-tournament (a single round): don't mark complete yet.
-  await fanOutMajorIfPrimary(event, { markComplete: false });
+  await fanOutMajorIfPrimary(event, {
+    markComplete: false,
+    newlyEliminatedParticipantIds,
+  });
 }
 
 /**
@@ -398,6 +410,13 @@ export async function action({ request, params }: Route.ActionArgs) {
         return { error: "Could not determine loser" };
       }
 
+      // A knockout is "newly decided" only when the match wasn't already complete
+      // (mirrors populateBracketFromDraw's first-completion rule) — a re-score/
+      // correction of an already-finished match must not re-announce the exit.
+      const setWinnerNewlyEliminated = new Set(
+        newlyDecidedLosers([{ wasComplete: match.isComplete, loserId }])
+      );
+
       // Set the winner
       await setMatchWinner(matchId, winnerId, loserId);
 
@@ -424,11 +443,16 @@ export async function action({ request, params }: Route.ActionArgs) {
       if (event.isQualifyingEvent) {
         // Qualifying major (e.g. CS2): bracket results award QUALIFYING POINTS, not
         // fantasy points. matchIds scopes the Discord notification to just this match.
-        await scoreQualifyingBracket(event, db, {
+        await scoreQualifyingBracket(
-          eventId: event.id,
+          event,
-          eventName: event.name ?? undefined,
+          db,
-          matchIds: [matchId],
+          {
-        });
+            eventId: event.id,
+            eventName: event.name ?? undefined,
+            matchIds: [matchId],
+          },
+          setWinnerNewlyEliminated
+        );
       } else {
         // Immediately score this match: loser gets their final placement,
         // winner gets provisional floor points (isPartialScore=true).
@@ -500,6 +524,10 @@ export async function action({ request, params }: Route.ActionArgs) {
       let successCount = 0;
       const errors: string[] = [];
       const processedMatchIds: string[] = [];
+      // Per-match completion + loser, collected so newlyDecidedLosers() can pick out
+      // the batch's first-time knockouts to fan out to mirror windows (a non-scoring-
+      // round exit earns no QP and is otherwise invisible to the mirror).
+      const decidedEntries: Array<{ wasComplete: boolean; loserId: string | null }> = [];
 
       for (const { matchId, winnerId } of winnerAssignments) {
         try {
@@ -568,6 +596,10 @@ export async function action({ request, params }: Route.ActionArgs) {
 
           successCount++;
           processedMatchIds.push(matchId);
+          // Only after the match fully succeeded: record its prior completion so
+          // newlyDecidedLosers() announces this loser only if it's a first-time exit
+          // (and never for a match whose write failed above).
+          decidedEntries.push({ wasComplete: match.isComplete, loserId });
         } catch (error) {
           logger.error(`Error setting winner for match ${matchId}:`, error);
           errors.push(
@@ -598,8 +630,12 @@ export async function action({ request, params }: Route.ActionArgs) {
         if (!event.isQualifyingEvent) {
           await autoCompleteRoundIfDone(event.id, round, event.sportsSeasonId, db);
         } else {
-          // Shared major primary window: propagate this round to siblings.
+          // Shared major primary window: propagate this round to siblings, carrying
-          await fanOutMajorIfPrimary(event, { markComplete: false });
+          // the batch's newly-decided knockouts so mirrors announce them too.
+          await fanOutMajorIfPrimary(event, {
+            markComplete: false,
+            newlyEliminatedParticipantIds: new Set(newlyDecidedLosers(decidedEntries)),
+          });
         }
       }
 

app/services/__tests__/sync-tournament-results.test.ts

@@ -274,6 +274,12 @@ vi.mock("drizzle-orm", async () => {
     },
     // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
     and: (...preds: any[]) => (row: any) => preds.every((p) => p(row)),
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    inArray: (col: any, vals: any[]) => {
+      const key = colKey(col);
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+      return (row: any) => vals.includes(row[key]);
+    },
   };
 });
 
@@ -987,6 +993,80 @@ describe("syncMajorFromPrimaryEvent", () => {
     expect(tieMap.get(5)).toBe(4); // QF tier spans 4
   });
 
+  it("fans a non-scoring-round elimination out to each mirror window (translated to its own season_participant id)", async () => {
+    // The reported bug: a player knocked out in a non-scoring round earns no QP, so
+    // canonical promotion skips them (null placement) and the mirror can't detect the
+    // knockout locally. The primary passes its eliminated season_participant id
+    // (sp-PX) down; syncMajorFromPrimaryEvent must translate it to the canonical
+    // participant (cp-X) and each mirror window must re-translate to ITS own
+    // season_participant (sp-MX) before handing it to processQualifyingEvent.
+    const state = seedBasicState({
+      scoringEvents: [
+        { id: "ev-PRIMARY", sportsSeasonId: "ss-P", tournamentId: "t-1", name: "Wimbledon" },
+        { id: "ev-MIRROR", sportsSeasonId: "ss-M", tournamentId: "t-1", name: "Wimbledon" },
+      ],
+      seasonParticipants: [
+        // Placed finalist, present on both windows.
+        { id: "sp-PA", sportsSeasonId: "ss-P", participantId: "cp-A", name: "A" },
+        { id: "sp-MA", sportsSeasonId: "ss-M", participantId: "cp-A", name: "A" },
+        // Knocked-out player: different season_participant row per window, same
+        // canonical participant cp-X.
+        { id: "sp-PX", sportsSeasonId: "ss-P", participantId: "cp-X", name: "X" },
+        { id: "sp-MX", sportsSeasonId: "ss-M", participantId: "cp-X", name: "X" },
+      ],
+    });
+    const db = makeFakeDb(state);
+    vi.mocked(database).mockReturnValue(db as never);
+    vi.mocked(processQualifyingEvent).mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+    vi.mocked(completeScoringEvent).mockResolvedValue(undefined as never);
+    vi.mocked(recalculateAffectedLeagues).mockResolvedValue(undefined);
+
+    vi.mocked(getScoringEventById).mockResolvedValue({
+      id: "ev-PRIMARY",
+      sportsSeasonId: "ss-P",
+      tournamentId: "t-1",
+      name: "Wimbledon",
+    } as never);
+
+    // Primary derived results promote only the PLACED player. cp-X (the non-scoring
+    // loser) has no placement and is not promoted to canonical — exactly why the
+    // mirror needs the elimination threaded separately.
+    vi.mocked(getEventResults).mockResolvedValue([
+      {
+        placement: 1,
+        rawScore: "1",
+        notParticipating: false,
+        seasonParticipantId: "sp-PA",
+        seasonParticipant: { participantId: "cp-A" },
+      },
+    ] as never);
+
+    vi.mocked(upsertTournamentResult).mockImplementation(
+      async (data: { tournamentId: string; participantId: string; placement?: number | null; rawScore?: string | null }) => {
+        state.tournamentResults.push({
+          tournamentId: data.tournamentId,
+          participantId: data.participantId,
+          placement: data.placement ?? null,
+          rawScore: data.rawScore ?? null,
+        });
+        return data as never;
+      }
+    );
+
+    await syncMajorFromPrimaryEvent("ev-PRIMARY", {
+      newlyEliminatedParticipantIds: new Set(["sp-PX"]),
+    });
+
+    const mirrorCall = (processQualifyingEvent as Mock).mock.calls.find(
+      (c) => c[0] === "ev-MIRROR"
+    );
+    expect(mirrorCall).toBeDefined();
+    if (!mirrorCall) return;
+    const eliminated = mirrorCall[2].newlyEliminatedParticipantIds as Set<string>;
+    // cp-X → the MIRROR's own season_participant id, not the primary's.
+    expect([...eliminated]).toEqual(["sp-MX"]);
+  });
+
   it("throws when the primary event is not linked to a tournament", async () => {
     const db = makeFakeDb(seedBasicState());
     vi.mocked(database).mockReturnValue(db as never);

app/services/match-sync/index.ts

@@ -611,9 +611,16 @@ export async function syncTennisDraw(eventId: string): Promise<DrawSyncResult> {
     eventId,
     eventName: event.name ?? undefined,
   });
+  // Players knocked out this sync in a non-scoring round (rounds 1–3 of a Grand
+  // Slam) earn no QP and so never appear via changedParticipantIds. Computed here
+  // so it feeds BOTH the primary's own notification below AND the fan-out, which
+  // propagates it to every mirror window (whose placement-only data can't detect a
+  // knockout on its own).
+  const newlyEliminatedIds = new Set(newlyDecidedLoserIds);
+
   await fanOutMajorIfPrimary(
     { id: event.id, isPrimary: event.isPrimary, tournamentId: event.tournamentId },
-    { markComplete: false },
+    { markComplete: false, newlyEliminatedParticipantIds: newlyEliminatedIds },
   );
 
   // Announce QP changes for the primary window. Sibling windows are announced by
@@ -622,10 +629,7 @@ export async function syncTennisDraw(eventId: string): Promise<DrawSyncResult> {
   // outside the rescore transaction so the webhook HTTP call neither holds the
   // transaction open nor rolls back the score if Discord fails.
   //
-  // Also announce players knocked out this sync in a non-scoring round (rounds
-  // 1–3 of a Grand Slam), who earn no QP and so never appear via changedParticipantIds.
   // Fire even when no QP changed, so an early-round elimination is still surfaced.
-  const newlyEliminatedIds = new Set(newlyDecidedLoserIds);
   if (changedParticipantIds.size > 0 || newlyEliminatedIds.size > 0) {
     try {
       await notifyQualifyingPointsUpdate(

app/services/sync-tournament-results.ts

@@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ export interface SyncOptions {
    * stage. Omitted for golf-style majors (no bracket) → canonical row-count is used.
    */
   tieCountByPlacement?: Map<number, number>;
+  /**
+   * Canonical participant ids (participants.id) knocked out this sync in a
+   * non-scoring round on the primary bracket. Threaded through so each mirror
+   * window can translate them to its own season_participant ids and announce the
+   * "Knocked Out" section — these players earn no QP and so are otherwise invisible
+   * to the mirror (a null-placement filler row indistinguishable from "not yet
+   * played"). Canonical ids because they cross window boundaries; each window holds
+   * a different season_participant row for the same canonical participant.
+   */
+  newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds?: Set<string>;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -87,6 +97,7 @@ export async function syncTournamentResults(
     skipEventId,
     skipNotifications = false,
     tieCountByPlacement,
+    newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds,
   } = options;
 
   const report: SyncReport = {
@@ -216,13 +227,28 @@ export async function syncTournamentResults(
           }
         }
 
-        // 3d. Delegate to scoring engine inside the same transaction.
+        // 3d. Translate the primary's newly-eliminated canonical participants into
+        // THIS window's season_participant ids (same participantId → sp.id key the
+        // canonical result copy uses above), so processQualifyingEvent can announce
+        // the "Knocked Out" section for players drafted in this window's leagues.
+        let windowEliminatedSpIds: Set<string> | undefined;
+        if (newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds?.size) {
+          windowEliminatedSpIds = new Set<string>();
+          for (const sp of rosters) {
+            if (sp.participantId && newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds.has(sp.participantId)) {
+              windowEliminatedSpIds.add(sp.id);
+            }
+          }
+        }
+
+        // 3e. Delegate to scoring engine inside the same transaction.
         await processQualifyingEvent(ev.id, tx, {
           skipNotifications,
           canonicalTieCountByPlacement: effectiveTieCountByPlacement,
+          newlyEliminatedParticipantIds: windowEliminatedSpIds,
         });
 
-        // 3e. Mark the window event complete (final-results sync only). This is
+        // 3f. Mark the window event complete (final-results sync only). This is
         // what makes "score once" actually complete every window — without it,
         // each sibling stayed "In Progress" and had to be completed by hand.
         // Skip windows already complete so a re-run (e.g. a backfill) doesn't
@@ -297,9 +323,23 @@ export async function syncTournamentResults(
  */
 export async function syncMajorFromPrimaryEvent(
   primaryEventId: string,
-  options: { markComplete?: boolean; skipNotifications?: boolean } = {}
+  options: {
+    markComplete?: boolean;
+    skipNotifications?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * Primary-window season_participant ids knocked out this sync in a non-scoring
+     * round (from the primary bracket's newlyDecidedLoserIds). Translated to
+     * canonical participant ids here, then fanned out so each mirror window can
+     * announce its own "Knocked Out" section.
+     */
+    newlyEliminatedParticipantIds?: Set<string>;
+  } = {}
 ): Promise<SyncReport> {
-  const { markComplete = false, skipNotifications = false } = options;
+  const {
+    markComplete = false,
+    skipNotifications = false,
+    newlyEliminatedParticipantIds,
+  } = options;
 
   const primaryEvent = await getScoringEventById(primaryEventId);
   if (!primaryEvent) {
@@ -372,11 +412,32 @@ export async function syncMajorFromPrimaryEvent(
     db
   );
 
+  // Translate the primary window's eliminated season_participant ids into canonical
+  // participant ids so the fan-out can re-key them per mirror window. These are
+  // non-scoring-round losers (null placement), so they were skipped from canonical
+  // promotion above — resolve them directly from season_participants, not from
+  // tournament_results.
+  let newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds: Set<string> | undefined;
+  if (newlyEliminatedParticipantIds?.size) {
+    const eliminatedRows = await db
+      .select({ participantId: schema.seasonParticipants.participantId })
+      .from(schema.seasonParticipants)
+      .where(
+        inArray(schema.seasonParticipants.id, [...newlyEliminatedParticipantIds])
+      );
+    newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds = new Set(
+      eliminatedRows
+        .map((r) => r.participantId)
+        .filter((id): id is string => id !== null)
+    );
+  }
+
   return syncTournamentResults(tournamentId, {
     markComplete,
     skipEventId: primaryEventId,
     skipNotifications,
     tieCountByPlacement,
+    newlyEliminatedCanonicalParticipantIds,
   });
 }
 
@@ -434,7 +495,15 @@ async function deriveStructuralTieSpanForBracket(
  */
 export async function fanOutMajorIfPrimary(
   event: { id: string; isPrimary: boolean; tournamentId: string | null },
-  options: { markComplete?: boolean } = {}
+  options: {
+    markComplete?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * Primary-window season_participant ids knocked out this sync in a non-scoring
+     * round. Forwarded to the fan-out so each mirror window announces its own
+     * "Knocked Out" section.
+     */
+    newlyEliminatedParticipantIds?: Set<string>;
+  } = {}
 ): Promise<void> {
   if (!event.isPrimary || !event.tournamentId) return;
   try {