Tests all pass everywhere, but somethings going on with the clojure tests across codewars, they never count as passed

I think you have a problem in your recursion: not tail recursive or bad re-initialization of your variables. If it works locally it will work at CW. Print some output to see what happens.

im recursively looping through to find the price for the total amount for systemb. I pass the total, the ticket price the percentage, and the number every time. my base case is if systemb > systema return number of tickets

Is your recursion too deep?

Getting a stack overflow error on the clojure branch. Run the same test cases locally and things work fine.