How our team played Spread, the car-transport dispatching challenge at Junction 2026, in one recorded week: the organiser's test final of 14 November.
Final result: 5th of 75 ranked teams, €17,442.75 margin, 356 orders, 97.2% on time, 1,030 requests.
This is the recorded test final, replayed as a pure function of the clock: scrub forwards and backwards and every counter, car and feed line is exact.
←→ step one event shift+← one hour ctrl+← one day space play
Click a ring or a feed line to inspect that request. The amber marks on the timeline are the week's story.
Replayed with the settings that played this week (shown in Inspect a decision). The system as it is now differs in the fee floors and the short-lane tilt those produced.
Below 90% of orders on time, a team is not ranked at all, whatever its margin. So the desk's central question is never “how much can we win?” but “how much profitable work can we still promise?” The final is one secret week at the hardest level: a third of the drivers, unevenly spread between towns, a price war nobody announces, and dealers who trust a team only after on-time deliveries.
| when | request | lane | km | price vs list | outcome |
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Pick a request to follow it through the desk.
This is the system as it stands now: eight parts, each with one reason, six of them with a measured effect. The week in The week was played by the version of Saturday 18:00; the analysis of that very evening changed the fee floors and added the short-lane tilt.
Negative results, all paired weeks on the same seeds; the reason is the rule, not the number.
Margin change over 40 paired worlds, one comparison per row; the rows are not additive.
The live leaderboard feed of the test final, recorded every 2 seconds from Tuesday 13:51 to the end. We finished 5th of 75 ranked teams. The gap to the top was volume, about 110 cars on lanes under 100 km, not price; the fix went in the same evening and is in how it works.
Requests stop at Friday 18:00; deliveries and the account run on to Wednesday, so the part of each chart past the dashed line is the quiet tail.