God dammit Monomi stop telling everyone our strats

Eh it's okay. We'l just win anyway

I'm trying to understand the challenge a bit more. So from what I understand, our first priority should almost solely be to gather players with very high strength? Then as it gets later in the challenge, we try to fill holes missing in our team?

Reread my strategy post if you got time

Also, gotcha chiaki. I don't see teams being bigger than 3 and we can' give advice. So just cheer whoever is playing on...I guess

With the player we started with on our team, we have about $200,000 per remaining player. Ideally we use slightly more on the players we're actually playing and slightly less on the benched players, because the 25% penalty is less on a lower strength player.

Monomi Monokuma Do we know how many people are participating in the challenge yet?

I just got home. I need to do something real quick but will be around at 7

Makoto, this is how we get the rule that tagged in players can only do jigsaws.

we'll find out in round one

The places we need to look for hidden players are most likely only areas that *all* players have access to, I think they're unlikely to be here or in Cliques or Confessionals (at least, it's unlikely enough that it's not worth wasting time on it).

Places to look in order:

#1 - Despair Video on the Index page. Will take 2 seconds to click and check and it seems like a decent spot to hide one.
#2 - Idol Clue links at the bottom of the index page, and the logo at the top. These are unlikely to contain anything but it'll be easy enough to check them that it's probably worthwhile.
#3 - Previous Challenge threads. Check for the 'edited on August 29th' at the bottom of each post. I'm not sure if mods can conceal this but if they can, they have not been doing so thus far.
#4 - Mood music topic in the Dining Hall, and the very first post in the Dining Hall topic itself. The latter is probably more likely to contain something.
#5 - Previous Announcements threads (again, check for the edit date).

Make sure you click images in threads, sometimes they're hyperlinked. There are two in the Announcement forum that are already hyperlinked (Monokid, blue, in Welcome to Hope's Peak links to a Rickroll, and Shirokuma in the Headmasters thread links to an image of a crime scene) - make sure to recheck those two to see if they've changed, because I don't see much point to them in their current forms.

I'm getting the sense that it might be worth it to pick up anyone who looks like they have somewhat decent strength/salary ratio. It's a waste of time to skip over some to be picky with others, I think. Or maybe we can have some people going for speed-picking decent players, while one person looks for the best picks?

I mean I'm fine with just speed picking. Easy check, since the "average" player should cost 200,000 with a strength of 50, just multiple the strength by 4,000, if it's higher than the salary it's likely a decent pick.