Another weekend has been and gone, and with it came Splatfests in both North America and Europe. As usual, both events were well contested, with Splatoon 2 players of all ranks and skill levels taking part to bring home the win for their selection.
As is often the case, both events resulted in narrow 2-1 wins, with each competition seeing the most popular side lose out in the solo and team matches. The North American Splatfest was particularly close, with Baseball just coming out on top thanks to some very marginal wins.
It was a similar story in Europe, although the solo and team games swung a little more in the winning side's favour. Salted popcorn came out on top.
Did you take part in the Splatfest? Were you on the winning side? Let us know how you got on in the comments.
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Once again the team with less support wins overall. Way too predictable.
Baseball Win ?
Haha...!
Well there were loads of disconnects this weekend. Infact, When playing Splatoon 2 there is nearly always only 3 people one team after the match starts. Soemthing Nintendo really needs to sort out
I was in team salty! Lol I usually get sweet popcorn because everyone I go cinema with likes sweet, but I think I actually prefer salted. I'll get salted next time haha
I'm really "disappointed" with the results. That was my best Splatfest yet past the initial first 7 matches. Once I got out of the lower power score I was winning a LOT with team soccer. Oh well, got my snails. Time to get fresh!
So much salt...
@thesilverbrick Stop being so salty.
Good work, team baseball.
Guess we knocked it out of the park.
Marina maintains her incredible streak of no Splatfest wins in Europe, why do I keep siding with her? 🤣
I'm not surprised that soccer was more popular, but sweet popcorn? Really?
@Matthewxcv I wish I could have been salty, haha. America has the worst themes.
I don't give a damn about losing Splatfests, but it's getting incredibly annoying at this point to see Pearl's side taking home all the wins. Not because I'd rather see Marina winning, but the way it is now, it really kinda takes the thrill out of Splatfests, it's kinda disheartening. I'll still keep picking my Splatfest choices based on my own opinion, whether it's with Pearl or Marina, but really, regardless of what side I end up picking, Marina needs to win some Splatfests. It's not even funny anymore.
Anyone else have more communication errors than ever before? I even got a couple in brand new places!. Got disconnected right before they'd tally up my points, a few times. I was a Baseball King, so I played a lot. Didn't matter what time it was.
@thesilverbrick It seems that way - but it seems to be working out ok since we're at 6 for Pearl and 4 for Marina, in wins in the US at least.
So weird. I was Team Soccer and I would say I won about 95% of the matches I played against Baseball. And I played in the morning, took a break, started back up in the early afternoon, and then played some more in the evening right up to when it finished at midnight. When Baseball won, I was like, "how?" Must have been a lot of terrible other Soccer teams.
Dan dan dan dan, dan dan dan dan, doo-bee doo bee-doo! ⚾️
yessssssssssss.Salty won!!!
I'm personally confused as to how soccer got popularity in NA. I guess all the people who dislike baseball sided with Soccer in addition to fans of Soccer.
...now if they had named it team football...then they would have gotten fans of both games on board.
@jayronauron Most of the people with a switch in latin america uses a northamerican account, and I'm pretty sure the ones that use an account from their original country have the same splatfest as Northamerica, and baseball is not a huge sport outside of the US really.
@Jayronauron I believe Splatoon 2 actually has Oceania included in with North America for Splatfests, so besides the US you also have Canada, Mexico, and Australia.
@elyfant @MrJuancho ah, well then that makes a lot more sense. I figured US and Canada (wasn't sure how popular soccer was in Canada since I don't live there), but I know baseball certainly drops off elsewhere.
I was very surprised by the victory of the baseball team. I won almost all my matchs with the soccer team. Life mysteries...
@Jayronauron: Sadly, way more kids in my area are taking to soccer than baseball these days. The pace of play at the early levels is unavoidably slow, and for the most part, baseball is limited to boys, whereas soccer is not.
Man. I keep missing these Splatfest events. I'm out all weekend when these events occur missing out on Sea Snails. Dang. Next time!
I've been in the winning team 4 times in a row now!
Go team baseball
GOOOOOOOAAAALLLL!!!!---
Wait.
GRRRRAAANNNDDD SSLLLAAMMM!!!
I only won one of my Splatfest matches. Sorry, Team Soccer! 😅
Then again, even though I'm not gonna completely throw the blame on my teammates, my teams were pretty trash. Even when I had to play Soccer v Soccer, my team was the worse one.
This is the first Splatfest since several of my friends got the game and frankly - I hate the way Splatfests make you need either a full team of 4, or play solo. Not to mention I had more communication errors this weekend during the Splatfest, than I have had in the last month of regular play.
I really hope that the paid online service offers a proper party system with friends, and than existing games like this one, get their online overhauled.
@DarthFoxMcCloud @0muros If Japanese Splatfests are any indication, a 51%-49% split could actually mean 50.10%-49.90%, difference of a mere handful of wins. (Japanese Splatoon twitter account always reveals two decimal places) Meaning it could have gone either way for this NA fest.
Wow! I had no idea that people even ate sweet popcorn, let alone preferred it to salt.
Like I said. I called it. Pretty unsurprising.
Amazing that I nailed both predictions but yeah, unsurprising....
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