[ajmurmann]

Yes! Squid Game is voluntary and motivation is economic pressure or greed whereas Battle Royale is a randomly selected school class which is explicitly a punishment for young people.

[mejutoco]

I wanted to add in BR the schools selected are the ones with the worst academic scores, IIRC.

[hmcq6]

I don't think this is correct. I remember it being a lottery

Maybe in Battle Royale 2 it was revealed this was the case