u/Melody-Shift

Panda counts as a Culling Games player, and since he's a sorcerer it's pretty safe to assume he would be worth 5 points as per usual. Therefore, Cursed Corpses can participate.

Kokichi doesn't seem to have a hard limit on how many Mechamarus he can control, wherever he gets them from. So there is a distinct possibility that he could have flooded any colony at any time to basically drop care packages of free points to JJH's agents. They could have solved the rule issue super easily, even ignoring how each puppet could both gain points and protect civilians independently. Plus, they would be additional insurance against Sukuna activating the Merger in Shinjuku.