Latest Splatoon Splatfest Results Are In, Eating And Roller Coasters Emerge Victorious

Good job roller coasters. I would still rather be on a water slide in the 110F(43C) Texas heat. But you guys brought the pain. Nicely done.

Popularity shouldnt even be a factor in the final results. look at the Europe results.Team eat got 26 extra points just because of the way people voted, Its not fair at all, with that the way it is there would have had to be at least a 13% gap in the win count for the other team to even make it even and there is almost no chance of the wins being that far from 50/50 ever.

A bitter sweet victory for my Team Food. Winning on popularity alone is a false victory I reckon. We lost 48%-52% in actual game win ratio and that is what really counts.

Rolling our way to victory. Whoop! Whoop!

Ahw. I joined Team Sleeping, but I wasn't able to play over the weekend, unfortunately...

Also, I agree that losing simply because your side was less popular even though you won more matches is utterly stupid.

Proud Team Water Slide member. It was a fun splatfest yet again. I was a King Dog last time, and King Water Slider this time. The prizes:

Dog: 24 snails/720,000 coins
Water Slide: 18 snails/540,000 coins.

difference of 6 snails of 180,000 coins. Considering a match is ~1000 coins, that's one heck of a loser's purse for a day long event.

I was on Team Sleeping and feel a bit cheated.I fought heroically for 3 hours winning at least 70% of my matches only to lose because I was in the less popular side.It's a scandal I tell you,a scandal!

I was glad I was on Team Sleeping. I was on Rock last time and half my matches were against Rock. At least by being on the least popular team, I always got to play against Eating. Gutting that although we won more matches we lost because it was less popular.

I played Waterslides, happy to lose on wins vs loses and not popularity.

twice now the less popular team in north america has had the greater number of victories; watch out fox news...

@NintyMan
They didn't win by skill, they won by CHEATING - their games were HACKED to allow stuff like non-stop Instrikes with NO recharge time, and UNLIMITED Beakons (which can't be done with Bomb Rush).

@SavoirFaire are you sure on thise numbers for the coins??

@PigmaskFan How do you know?

Having been on the NA winning team both times (one where popularity helped us win and one where wins helped us win) I have to say that I don't mind popularity being a factor. I just think that it should only be 1/4 of the total score instead of 1/3.

@PigmaskFan Or maybe the other team had 2-3 instrike users with Special charge up. When they all launch at once it is a sight to behold. Had one match the other day with 6 instrike users that all launched in a 15 second span. There were 5 splats from that barrage alone.

In this case (NA Splatfest), I'm glad popularity was factored. My perception is that waterslides appeal to young kids (who may not even be able to ride real coasters). My 6-year old daughter fought valiantly for Team Waterslides, but her team was constantly outranked and outgunned by the Coaster Teams they faced.

I was on the losing side with Team Water Slide, but I only got to play 4 rounds. I was the top player on my team all 4 matches, and all 4 matches were losses for my team.....I knew we were in trouble at that point. Although the final results were fairly close.

I still wish the Splatfest was Friday/Saturday/Sunday instead of just Saturday; but it's still a blast.

Imagine if Man. U played Arsenal. Man. U wins 3-2. Then, the ref turns round and says "Sorry lads, Arsenal wins instead because they have more fans in the stadium."

That's how dumb the scoring system for the Splatfests are.

Sincerely,
A salty Team Sleeping member.

It was a bit strange to have more wins than the other team... and then lose, but it was still a lot of fun.

My team won, but I hate when you have 3 vs 4 matches as they are unfair. Or when the same team must fight against each other because of no opposing players available.

i did pretty good on helping team sleep winning the games, only lost one game on the final 2 hours

LOL at the Inkstrike saltiness! Most weapon classes have a loadout variant that has Inkstrike. Check out the flyby at the beginning of the match. Count how many Aerospray RG's everyone has, for example. Yup, that's how many Inkstrikes you can expect. And off the start, people are goung to rush to get their first one out. I, personally, run with gear that has Special Up if I go out with the Aerospray RG. And I can get 2 out and one more charging in the first minute, provided I don't get splatted. It slows down after that because most of the stage is ink-covered (Specials charge faster on uninked ground). I've yet to see any instaces of unexplainabe BS, A.K.A. "hacking" in my 110+ hours of play time.

Was on team sleep so didn't end well. Don't agree with popularity being a factor but it was good fun all the same. This being my first splat fest, I really liked the 3 stage rotation (should be standard )and night time themed stages. In future, I hope they extend the time slot,one day seems a little on the short side I think..

My first splat fest and it was a blast. Had to split time with my wife and son, so sidnt have enough time to get to king. It was very competitive and I can't wait til the next one.

Hard to believe in Europes case that the more popular team got less wins. Good thing Popularity is on like 33% of the final results instead of 50% but yeah that is dumb.

Water Slides. Went 28 and 24 and won a 3v4, so I'll always remember that fondly, but I definitely did feel like I had more weaker teammates than on team Dog, so I'm not surprised the overall winning percentage was so low.

@Evenmoresteven
Even still, I prefer roller coasters.
But yah, it be blazin outside.

@sinalefa
Try 1 on 4

I would of loved to sleep with Marie.

Ah darn. Had a sick kitten and work all weekend. Forgot all about this.

@rylo151 Exactly! It's terribly frustrating to see all my valiant efforts come to naught just ebcause my tribe was smaller. Not fair!

Proud member of team roller coasters. Call me when a water slide can go 128 mph.

Whilst my Team Pop lost, I emerged victorious on Team Eat. My tactics are to wait a couple of days, and see which side has the most propaganda in Miiverse. Worked for me this time!

@PokeMario Yeah, If I was American, I'd vote roller coasters. But I'm a proud British member of Team Eat!

I was a Coaster and Dog queen, so I'm rollin' in snails. I already have 4 slots on all the gear I use regularly, and I've re-rolled a few times to get the gear perks I wanted. So I hope the good folks at Nintendo give us some more fresh styles soon.

Roller Coasters FTW

European Splatterfest was a mess... I was team eating, which had 66% of the whole contest population (WTF?!) and most of my matches were eating-vs-eating, so logically pointless, since "eating wins 1 match and loses 1 match". It was still a great deal of fun, but pitifully they locked only 3 stages from which I totally nailed it in Kelp Dome, did pretty well in Saltspray Rig and did really badly in Bluefin depot, which i personally hate

This was my first Splatfest and I joined Team Roller Coasters. Woohoo!

@Shiryu technically the whole scoring was broken, since eat-vs-eat shouldn't add to the score at all, and I think it was added completely pushing it off-balance

@KomrathDE Yeah, this time it got so bad I even ended up fighting my team alone! I hope Nintendo listens and irons out this whole scoring deal.

As far as the teams being uneven in a match . . . it seems to me that if one team has less people, someone from the opposing team should be randomly booted until it is even. I'd rather get booted from a match than play unbalanced matches.

I hope Garfield didn't miss the European splatfest.

Strange... I must've played about twelve matches for team eating against team sleeping. Team eat lost those matches 0-12, team sleep were pretty unplayable. Did not see that result coming!

Man i must of played about 60 matches and i say we lost about 10 percent for Water Slide and we still lost. GGs though ~

@PigmaskFan

I think it's less hacking and more the Aerospray RG being overpowered. Especially with special gauge boosting skills.

-Cover a center area QUICKLY with the Aerospray RG
-Launch a rocket
-Camp and kill everyone who runs in before they see you because of the absurb fire rate
-Recover whatever space the people you camped took
-Launch another rocket

Now imagine this pattern with 3-4 Aerospray RGs on the same team. It's the same tactic with the Kraken Roller. Cover, camp, Kraken, repeat.

That's why I use Blaster-type weapons mostly. It DESTROYS 80% of campers...and they're precious rocket gauges :3 Pop...POP! You splatted salty_camping_kid999997894.

Though I lost, it was still a lot of fun this time around. I missed most of the first Splatfest due to my internet dying, so it was great to be able to play lots of it this time. Ironically, though I was Team Sleep, I missed an extra couple more hours of this Splatfest than I had planned to because I overslept.

Hopefully next time, Nintendo of Europe will choose teams that have a similar level of popularity.

As someone on Team Eat, I concur that winning the Splatfest because we were greater in number is pathetic.

Oh well, not like anyone expects Splatoon to be sensible anyway, right?

I missed the whole thing because I was visiting relatives in Nebraska. Shame waterslides lost. I felt they seemed natural for the summer season

Sorry Team Sleeping, you played better and should have won.

@KomrathDE same team matches don't add to final score because they negate each other out. One team wins and one team loses so that round would end with 1 win & 1 loss. That's pretty fair really. Especially when twice as many players were on team eat.

Missed it! Should've been more on the ball with the event date. Are there any more planned?

Lucky streak, won both Team Dog and Team Roller Coasters!

I've got a great loser streak rolling with Cats and Waterslides! Was a fun time. The matches definitely feel more intense during Splatfest, lol!

I've got a great loser streak rolling with Cats and Waterslides! Was a fun time. The matches definitely feel more intense during Splatfest, lol!

@edhe That's just awesome, lol!

@rylo151 That's not how it works. Teams battle against each other, so they play the same amount of matches... Which means they have exactly the same amount of chance to get more wins. It's just the skill of idividual people in the less popular side make a slightly bigger difference.

Okay, there are some instances when two teams of the same side battle each other, but then that side is guaranteed to get a win AND a lose, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't count for anything.

@polarbear Very slightly better, yes.

@Hero-of-WiiU It's kind of boring answering to all these kinds of comments, but having more people on one side has nothing to do with chances of winning more matches.

I never did get past Roller Coaster Champion due to my internet going down for the whole day, so I'm glad the team won in the end.

Roller Coasters Vs Water Slider > RESULTS

Nintendo should separate the popularity and win results as separate awards instead of combining them.

@edhe You just made my day tbh.

Congrats Team Roller Coasters! I still prefer water slides, but hey, we gave it our all.

@Krisi That is what Im saying. No matter how the teams are numbered the wins wont ever be very far from a 50/50 split so popularity is more important with the way the scoring works

I was on Eating and won like most of my games, so... I'm surprised about the 4% win difference. But hey, there are some salty players here, so I'll just leave.

I barely played this time around but yEaH Team COASTRs

@Aqueous Agreed!

@day Sorry that coin number should have been in parenthesis, as a snail is worth a slot addition or a stat reroll, which costs 30,000 coins.

Point is, those are some hefty rewards considering how long it takes to earn 30,000 coins.

ha ha team sleep! You snooze you lose!

Eternal Sleeping Girl here. Now 18 snails richer

It was strange, because husband was Team Eat and when he played, it was very rare that the Team Sleep would have been sleepers but another eaters.

Wait what? US has coins instead of seasnails? How uncool...

Got back home late Sunday afternoon from a weeks holiday but managed to squeeze in a couple of Splatfest hours before it finished. Got with a team where we pretty much stayed together until the end and we won all but two games out of twenty five, and all against the Sleep enemy. Go team eat.

It was by far the best session of Splatoon I've had. The Splatfests have a great balance of being very competitive but not disastrous if you lose. Although the scoring could do with some fine tuning. Can't wait for the next one.

It's nice being Roller Coaster King. Didn't play any Splatoon matches for 6 day prior since last time I crammed 6+ hours for Splatfest, I got sick of the game for a few days. Didn't want that happening again.

Overall it was more balanced then the last. Less people put blame in popularity, although there's still sore loser in the gaming world regardless.

Really enjoyed the splatfest... .until 11:40pm here (3 hours before the close?) when the servers decided to stop working. Had 20min of continuous failed to start game errors ... matched 4 people on my team (sleep), and then ... failed to match anyone on team eat.

Apart from that, it was lots of fun ... they just need to tweak the rules, and make sure the losers get something out of it as well.