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frontend/public/data/README.md

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 # Static Public Data
 
-The frontend tries these JSON snapshots before falling back to the live API by
-default. The web server serves `/data/*` from the public data cache and fills
-missing snapshots from the matching `/api/tss/*` route with a short timeout.
+The web server serves `/data/*` from the same public data cache used by
+`/api/tss/*`, and fills missing snapshots from the matching API route with a
+short timeout. The frontend uses `/api/tss/*` by default; set
+`VITE_STATIC_DATA=true` only for static-first experiments.
 
 - `/data/leaderboard-teams.json`
 - `/data/leaderboard-players.json`