Unfortunately, it did not help.
Did play it a bit and here's my review up until the point it stopped working: The base premise is just fine. Having two players compete fits the theme nicely. The voice made it a bit personal and i really like you went that way instead of using AI generated voices. I, myself, am not a native english speaker and I did have trouble understanding it, haha.
I think my overall advice for a next jam would be: make sure you have some friends or family play it a bit for you upfront and make sure blocking bugs are out.
All in all, you did deliver a project ánd in time. Congratulations!