Confused with data contexts, classes and Astronomy as model layer

Hello. I am trying to figure out why I cant get simple results from a nested class. Each is assigning random _ids to my data when they already have _ids assigned. Here is the spacebars documentation about it … How come it will correctly display the name and team but doesnt display the other information, something with how I am setting it?

I feel like I must be missing something simple here to get this working. I have tried so many different ways to set the _id, afterInit, beforeSet, etc, but those efforts have been unfruitful in solving this. What am I getting wrong here?

<template name="matchChannel">
    {{#with aMatch}}
     {{> matchTeamDisplay}}
     {{/with}}
</template>

<template name="matchTeamDisplay">
        <div class="ui middle aligned list" id="readyUpPlayers">
            {{#each players}}
                    <div class="item">
                    {{name}} --- {{team}} --- {{_id}}----{{readyUp}}----
                    <input type="checkbox" {{b "check: {{readyUp}}"}}>
                    </div>
            {{/each}}
</template>

&&& I am using Viewmodel and Astronomy, their code is below…

Template.matchChannel.viewmodel({
    aMatch: function(){
        var aMatch = ActiveGames.findOne({gameName: this.gameSelected(), "players.name": Meteor.userId()});
        return aMatch;
    }
});

ActiveGames = new Mongo.Collection('activeGames');

Player = Astro.Class({
    name: 'Player',
    fields: {
        _id: {
            type: 'string',
            //immutable: true,
        },
        name: {
            type: 'string',
            validator: Validators.unique()
        },
        createdAt: 'date',
        team: 'number',
        readyUp: {
            type: 'boolean',
            default: false
        },
    },
    events: {
        afterInit(e) {
            this.createdAt = new Date();
            this._id = Random.id();
            // console.log(EJSON.stringify(e.data));
        }
    },

});

ActiveGame = Astro.Class({
    name: 'ActiveGame',
    collection: ActiveGames,
    fields: {
        _id: 'string',
        gameName: 'string',
        host: 'string',
        stake: 'number',
        gameDetails: 'object',
        startedAt: 'date',
        players: {
            type: 'array',
            nested: 'Player',
            default() {
                return [];
            },
            validator: Validators.unique('name not unique')
        }
    },
});

Use this.readyUp for that. Read about the reasons here: https://viewmodel.meteor.com/docs/viewmodels#this

Good help, thanks. I am failing to understand how to make this reactive however. I know it’s not my original question, but could you help here?

Take a look at this thread: http://viewmodelboard.meteor.com/comments/ijnMjFvF8ofmguqrv