Talk:Auction Mopping-up Operation/@comment-213.66.199.45-20150403172805/@comment-24494906-20150403185714

The reports only list the squads of the contest winners.

A squad = Atou squad, B squad = Ooshiba squad, C squad = Tateshima squad, D squad = Isai squad, E squad = Shibashi squad.

For each squad, the contest winner members are listed. This wiki page lists the squad members in the same order.

For each squad member, first the name is listed, followed by some sort of keyword (see Trivia section on the corresponding investigator's page; should be complete now). Some keywords already tell you what will likely happen to that investigator; for example, there is still one investigator alive whose keyword is basically "providing meal"... Once, the keyword was followed by a black box that read "injured" (chapter 22). The stars below each name represent the number of ghouls that investigator has exterminated up till now. This is sometimes followed by some sort of status of the investigator in question in parentheses. It mostly states that the character died and the cause of death. However, in the case of Naoto Hayashimura, the last report stated that his status is unknown, in contrast to all the other members of this squad, who are listed as dead (so going by the usual story-telling rules, he's probably still alive). Or in Akai's case, the latest report states: "Death. Unidentified ghoul currently preying on him." In Ooshiba's case, the report states that his balls were cracked by Nutcracker and that he died from shock.

Below the names, the current status of the whole squad is mentioned, for example it says that the Tateshima and Isai squads are "under First-Class Mado's command, engaging Naki and Three Blades."

The circles at the bottom of each squad box seem to represent the reserve troops. White circle = alive, black circle = dead.

I wonder if Ishida intends to keep two or three of these contest winner investigators around.