The “friend” assist can give you interesting bonuses if you get 3 and
they are thematically related. For example, all cheerleader outfits, or all China
dress outfits. On top of that, there is character related bonuses; for example, all

1st years, all in Printemps, etc. From what I can see, all outfits require an S rank
in score, all same year is end song with full health and all the same sub unit requires
a full combo. It’s an extra bonus on top of the friend assist. I
thought I saw a list of rewards based on who shows up and what they are wearing.

If you get a double bonus (for example, all same outfits, all in Lily White), you
get an extra medal reward. I’ve only had this happen once, and it ended up
being a gold reward. Okay, actually I had it happen twice, but it was a sub unit bonus

and then it gave me Yuuki no Reason random (5th song), so there was no way I was going
to full combo that. ^_^;

Are my teams that strong? I can get S score all the songs. S combo, OTOH…:P


I’m actually on pace with the 2nd tier, more or less, which is unusual for
me (I usually scramble up the list in the last 2 days. ^_^; )

--Tim

> On Mar 10, 2016, at 1:58 AM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:
> 
> The current event in Love Live School Idol Festival
> is a new event called Challenge Festival.
> It's very similar to the Medley Festival, in that one event
> is multi-song (between 1 and 5 songs).
> But unlike the Medley Festival, you can choose to give up or
> change your team after each song.
> The difficulty of the songs keep going up with each song.
> 
> As with the Medley Festival, there are options you can buy
> to add more points, or assist your game.
> Also there is also a "friend" assist, but unlike the
> Medley Festival there are a maximum of three per song.
> 
> The current cutoffs for the score prizes are the same as the
> Medley Festival, 25000 for the first SR card.
> But the current scores are very high.
> The cutoff for the 2nd SR will probably be over 100,000.
> It's definitely easier to get a higher score (per LP)
> in the Challenge Festival than the Medley Festival.
> 
> Right now I'm just playing the EX challenge.
> The first two songs are pretty easy, and I can get a S score
> almost every time.  The 3rd song is sometimes hard, sometimes
> doable.  The 4th song is almost always impossible for me.
> The points you get go up with each song, so it's better to
> keep going if you can do the song.
> 
> I calculated the expected base points (when always buying the
> 1.1 point up option).  This assumes no combo bonus.
> 
>         D    C    B    A    S
> song1   331  347  364  380  397
> song2   352  370  387  404  422
> song3   373  392  410  429  448
> 
> Looking at this data, it's better to keep playing the 3rd
> song as long as I can get at least a B score.
> 
> 6 games
> S S / S S / S S = 2457
> S S B / S S B   = 2458
> 
> But at the very end of the event, if I only have time for 4 games
> the points become as follows.
> 
> S S / S S = 1638
> S S A / S = 1645
> S S B / S = 1626
> 
> So playing 2 two song events is better than playing a three song
> and one song if I can't get A or better on the third song.
> 
> --
> Hitoshi Doi
>                         " this space for rent "
> http://www.usagi.org/doi/                                    doi@usagi.org
>