Friends Beat Family In The Splatoon 2 Frosty Fest

what is the over icons on the friend's icons (there is are a squid and an octopus but what are the overs?)

I am honestly shocked at how much of the vote went to family.

@Heavyarms55 Picking friends over family is kind of horrible.

Most games were pretty good. Wide skill difference amongst friend teams though.

I had a lot of fun. Hope there are more! Do think they should look at the way the scoring works. Surely 62% is worth more than 47%?

But that is minor. Splatoon is the funnest shooter I have ever played.

@Trajan It's really not. The vast majority of my family doesn't care about me, so why should I ever pick them over my friends? My uncle even called me a traitor. And I consider myself lucky. I've known some people who have legit CRUEL family. I'd take apathy over abuse.

We don't get to chose family, that connection is something you're just stuck with. Sometimes it can be great, sometimes it's self-censored. But friends and friendships are things we chose, people we chose to care about.

@Heavyarms55 I'd say the majority of people have families that do tend to care about them, and in such cases choosing family over friends is generally a no brainer. So I don't think this stat is necessarily too surprising. However, I recognize that many people have crappy families and such people shouldn't feel obligated to ever choose them over friends who actually care about them. If a family doesn't treat you well you shouldn't be obligated to deal with that.

@Heavyarms55 That depends entirely on how you look at it.

I voted family because I have the exact same point of view as Marina. I don't like having random light friendships, so I keep a select few friends. Those friends are family to me. Home is where the heart is, and your best friends are like family.

I do have a pretty great family as well, but that's not why I voted how I did.

@Blizzia I think of my friends as family too. I consider my best friend my sister. But looking at it that way for this sort of question makes the question a nearly pointless one. Who is gonna say the only want light friendships and nothing else? Maybe some emo 13 year old angsty teenager. That's about it.

@Heavyarms55 Does it really matter if it makes the question pointless? Just means that the answer is satisfactory.

@Panda943 Those are oracle bone script (1250 BCE) characters for "family" and "friend". In modern kanji they are written as "家" (KA as in kazoku = family) and "仲" (NAKA as in nakama = friend) respectively.

@Trajan Most people do have a better relationship with their friends than family though. That's just the reality that we don't live in a cartoon aimed at 2 year olds or an American sitcom.

I'm lucky enough that I do have a decent relationship with my (immediate) family. I know that many of my friends don't though and for the most part they're absolutely justified in their negative view of them.

Even saying that, you don't pick your family but you do choose your friends. It means a lot more when you can trust the latter just as much as the former because family is almost obliged to be there and be nice (though many didn't get this memo), friends do it because they genuinely want to.

At any rate, maybe take 2 seconds to think about other peoples circumstances before you just throw out as a blanket statement that everybody who chose friends over family is horrible. You might have a perfect relationship with your family but many others don't.

Darn. But there was no way I was picking friends over family.

I'm so glad Friends won

@Heavyarms55 I’m with you. My family has been nothing but a source of pain and abuse my whole life. I consider my friends to be my actual family.

@Blizzia Umm when the point of answering the question is to determine which team you are on in a competition, yeah, it matters. If A = A and B = A as well, then A is the only answer and you only have one choice, everyone on one team and we can't play.

I thought the topic for this Splatfest was terrible. Family or Friends??? I went Family without thinking about it. I'm very blessed to have an awesome family.

....but the matchmaking was not good in my opinion. Maybe it was just like this for me but most of my matches seemed like family vs family and took longer than usual to find an opposing team.

I still wish Nintendo would have done the entire week between Christmas and New Years.

The colors were awesome. I wish they would add them to the rotation or at least use them once a week or something.

@Heavyarms55 Well usually I just pick whatever Marina does, so the question barely matters. This time, both Marina and Pearl picked Family (coz Marina is in the friends are like family camp) and as such, I picked family. xD

@dkxcalibur When the votes are very lopsided like this and you are on the bigger side, that's what happens. I agree that this was a poor choice of a topic. Splatfests need to be things that are more distinct to chose between. As with my above conversation, we've seen how a lot of people consider friend's family, and I know there are people who consider family friends as well. Too much overlap.

The matchmaking for Splatfests is completely broken and annoying. The majority of the matches I played in were Team Fam vs Team Fam, which does not earn any of the players clout.

I understand that with a near 2-1 majority, it would be impossible to keep players on the popular teams playing, but they should at least still earn clout.

@Panda943 I think they represent the other species. I think the top right one represents the Jellyfish (like Jelonzo). Not sure what the other one could be.

Younger children are more likely to have picked family over friends, because the snot-nosed kid across the street probably won't get them presents the way their parents would.

Whenever I have a tough time deciding between teams, I just default to ink color. And silver ink was way better looking than gold ink.

Eh, I expected this. I had so many Team Fam vs. Team Fam matches that I didn't see how we could possibly get the Clout to win.

Chose friends because my family is just mean. Each and every single one of them, at each other’s throats. Over inconsequential b.s. Anyway, I’m surprised friends won. We were getting stomped. I kept getting paired with people who probably just got Splatoon for Christmas. Levels 1-7 were everywhere. I had fun though. Can’t wait for the next one

I would like to see them do a three team Splatfest. I think this would improve the matchmaking as there would be 2 different opposing teams to matchup against. Here's my idea for the next one:

Minions - Boo (white or purple ink) vs koopa (green ink) vs Goomba (brown ink, maybe this would blend too much with stuff)

or

Starter Pokémon - Charmander (red ink) vs Bulbasaur (green ink) vs Squirtle (blue)

Splatfest was kind of lame. Not terrible, and great decorating and theming of the game. I loved the setup. But the matches. I had mirror Fam/Fam matches probably 60% of the time and seemingly never saw silver/gold. And the overwhelming majority of my matches were all Western/NA squads of noobs against Japanese super-squads. I actually had fun playing Japan...I miss them in the day to day Splatoon since they have a fun play style and I often find fun rivalries with Japanese players where we keep trying to one up the other where that rarely ever happens with Western players....but for splatfest it also meant my team had a terrible lag disadvantage, and somehow I got stuck with lame teams against good Japan teams (I had the level 1 on my team...yay! My favorite match was where the Japan team had like 12, 8, 15, 6 kills, and my team had 0, 0, 0, 5.....I was the 5. ) Thank you Japanese countersniper for making that match fun even if it ended in spawncamp...the rivalry let me ignore my team. )

We also had an issue with several Japanese opponent teams that were clearly playing as a team, probably with voice (or in person) chat. Kind of a big disadvantage. How could I tell they were a team? They all had the same name with "A, B, C, D" suffixes and wore the same clothing.

Wait times were long. So it was a badly balanced fest, with more losing and mirrors than winning and actual fest battles....but at least it wasn't miserable play like later Splatoon 1 fests ended up being.

@Heavyarms55 I suppose the heartening take-away here is that most people that voted apparently have family that is neither apathetic or cruel, and thus feel closest to family rather than friends. Which is a good thing. It of course doesn't need to be all your family, everyone has some relatives they loathe. But the family connections most are close to are the closest people to them. 2:1. That's good to see, and slightly surprising with the young demographic.

The true winner in my heart is ´anti-social´.

I chose family this Splatfest, and this was the first Splatfest where I actually lost more games than I won. I had previously won more games than lost every Splatfest no matter what team I had chosen. I had SO many games where I would go on a blistering warpath across the map, inking large amounts of territory and splatting multiple enemies, only to get splatted myself and watch the enemy team roll over my teammates like it was nothing.

@dleec8 Isn't that every splatfest?

I chose Friends but couldn't play because I was on vacation at MAGfest and trying to maximize my time at the arcade (it runs straight all day and night from Thursday to 3PM Sunday).

Some friend I am :-/