'Team Rice' Wins The Latest Splatoon 3 Splatfest

Well, that came out of nowhere. This confirms Final Fest is for the September anniversary for sure.

I can practically live off of bread. Nothing like a batch of delicious, buttery rolls! I have an aunt who makes amazing homemade bread. I must also stop Shiver's losing streak. Roll out the Octo Oven!

So this is not the final Splatfest then?

Oh we know people are gonna pick rice. Anytime white is an option for ink that’s the popular choice….

All three. I could eat all three every day.

Wow they are quick to announce splatfests lol. They must be very eager.

The final splatfest should be which game did you like the most.

Splatoon 1, 2 or 3.

But will most likely be who was your favourite member of deep cut, Frye, Shiver or Big Man

Too many carbs in this Splatfest.

@UltimateOtaku91 They just had that last one last year. It won’t be about the games. I think it’s about our favorite idol group, but evidently it has the codename “Sand” and some believe it might have a Salmon Run theme. Which group should stop the Salmonid apocalypse? How does the desert influence the next game? Who knows?

Ahhh the most anti-diabetic splatfest theme yet…

@UltimateOtaku91 I was just thinking the other day about how cool it would be if, for the 10th anniversary of the series in May 2025, we got a fest asking which idol group (Squid Sisters, Off the Hook, or Deep Cut) is your favorite. It looks like @Croctopus already brought up the idea, too.

Ahh, bread with more peanut butter, cheese, ketchup to put on it.
Creamy, salty, and tart ah the best! 🤤
Invented myself true story!
I was five years old! 🤣

Team bread all the way. This is the first time I've gone Team Shiver

@AccessibleDaydream That would be a good one, although after this september they are ending support for the current game so maybe that also means splatfests. Maybe for the 10th anniversary we get splatoon 4 for the "Switch 2".

I try to go on a pretty rigid diet, so pasta is immediately off the table. I’ve cut rice mostly out of my diet but I can’t stop myself from cutting Subway for a nice and easy turkey footlong on flatbread.

Hmm. Shouldn't Shiver be representing rice since she's far more Japanese oriented than Frye and Big Man?
I feel like they're trying to have Frye win more.

Hmm probably gonna go with rice for this one although pasta is a close second. This is the first time, though where all the options are tempting

Yay we have at least one extra fest! Pasta for sure I love pasta all sorts of pastas! And while bread and rice are definitely tempting considering all the things you can make with em, nothing beats good pasta for me

TEAM BREAD !!! ACTUALLY PRETTY FIRE SPLATFEST THEME NGL (this is the final fest🙀🙀🙀)

@UltimateOtaku91 I don’t believe they’ll only give us two years of updates. New content, maybe, but seeing as they just made pretty significant balance changes yesterday, with more apparently coming at the end of this season, I don’t think they’d leave the game at that. Additionally, Splatoon 2’s ‘final fest’ was two years after launch, yes, but looking at the Wiki there were four Splatfests after that one. To that same point, the last content update to Splatoon 2 was around the time of the ‘final fest’, though the last balance update was released a few months after the actual final fest.

@BoyfriendOfDeath Rice is also Indian in nature, hence it being Frye’s team.

@UltimateOtaku91 I still think we’ll get more Splatfests and Big Runs after the consequential one. I believe Splatoon 4 is far away, especially if it’s not just a simple sequel like 3, so they’ll want to keep 3 alive for a good while longer. 2 got more Splatfests in spite of the not-so-Final Fest, but all except the Mario collab were just rematches and I’m convinced Nintendo did it because of the pandemic.

Fun fact: This Splatfest is a reference to the Japan-only Rice vs. Bread in the first Splatoon, which Rice won.

bread. not only is it good with a topping, but as a part of sandwiches.

@UltimateOtaku91 The final splatfest always determines the next game's theme, so I doubt they'll make it about the games before this, and I think we already did the who's your favorite idol theme last September.

@RubyCarbuncle I missed it too!!!! I added four reminders to my calendar a second ago!

Pasta would be my second choice because I like some good macaroni and I recently started liking chicken alfredo or carbonara. Green is my favorite color, but I've noticed that green ink teams haven't done well in Splatoon 3 except for Team Nessie. I still don't mind some rice now and then.

As for how I think this will go, my guess is that Bread will be popular, but Rice has some serious potential since it's a white ink team, and we all know how well those usually do.

It's interesting that they reference Rice vs. Bread because that was the very first Splatfest in Splatoon history. Last August was Money vs. Fame vs. Love, which was a returning Japan-only Splatfest with an extra option, too.

I love all three of those. Quite conflicting.

Yay! For once, I'll be off work that weekend! Team Pasta for me!

Team Bread, rise up! I’m bready to roll. I’ll even try to eat some bread products throughout the Splatfest. Better make the most of it if this is the last normal Splatfest in Splatoon 3.

@Ogbert A man after my own heart.

Can someone please educate this noob? I realize I don't actually know what a Splatfest is. Is it like a global tournament on Switch or is there more to it?

@Lightsiyd Yes! You pick one of the teams to represent for the weekend and the games you play contribute to that team’s final score. The metrics that determine which team wins are:

Popularity/Number of Votes

Conch Shells Turned In (A currency you get for playing matches, so essentially which team had members playing the most amount of time).

Win Rate in Open (Mode where you can invite friends and choose to stick with the players you just played with in the previous match).

Win Rate in Pro (Mode where you can only play solo and cannot keep the same teammates between matches).

Win Rate in Tricolor (Special Splatfest only mode where all three teams are on the map at the same time, since Splatoon is otherwise always a 4v4).

It reminds me a lot of camp games. People participate and get can get very passionate about their teams depending on the Splatfest topic, but it’s ultimately all in good fun and friendly competition, since members of the winning team do get a slightly better in-game prize when it’s over, but the prize simply for participating is still really valuable in-game.

@KidSparta Wow. That sounds really fun. Thanks for explaining.

My internet is out, in fact I am at the library at the moment, so I will sadly have to miss this Fest unless the internet folks fix it soon...!

I am so Team Pasta, the two cooks from Lady and the Tramp are singing "Bella Notte" as I roller-paint my team to glory!

I don´t eat bread, Pasta, and...rice I eat in small quantities.

I've been going to the gym from Monday to Saturday for 16 years.

Everything I eat is chicken, cassava, meat, eggs, oats, whey protein, cereal, creatine, vegetables and salad.

I think I'll sit it out this time.

It seems like we're well and truly living in the era of Frye these days and I'm all for it!

Haha, I like all of them, so I don't have to choose. Congrats to team rice!!!

@BoyfriendOfDeath African and Latin American cultures eat a lot of rice as well. So it wouldn’t be limited to an Asian/South Asian rep.

Also congratulations to team Frye!

OK; admit it, Team Rice. You mostly chose it for the white ink. I absolutely refuse to believe bread could be that unpopular. Or pasta. I’m disappointed.

So Team Bread was toast in the bad way. I can’t believe Bread did just as poorly as Palace in Summer Nights last time. Good for Frye winning another Splatfest, but it’s so frustrating how a team with white ink almost always wins. I say “almost” because it didn’t do Team Order any good in Splatoon 2’s Final Fest. Speaking of Final Fest…

Forget about this meh fest. Bring on the Grand Festival! This Splatfest was just ordinary. The next one will be EXTRAordinary. The final countdown starts now!

I ate an entire loaf of bread in solidarity with my boys ✊

I was team bread but Frye seriously needed another W before the final splatfest

Let's go, Team Rice! We destroyed the competition and proved that we're the best!

They are all starchy……a minute on the lips a lifetime on the hips😳

The Splatfest team-matching algorithm needs a an overhaul. The algorithm consistently places four elite experienced players on the opposing team, and placing me on a team with three members who are noobs or 100% clueless. I kept seeing a pre-occupied teammate inking a remote corner away from the action. Or one dead weight teammate who was caused the whole team to get slaughter.

@beaus27

There is no algorithm. It is completely random. I mean, I totally get that it can be frustrating sometimes and bad teams happen, but what you are suggesting is literally impossible. It is you and 3 other people chosen completely at random vs. 4 other people also chosen completely at random, unless you are grouped, in which case you are matched against a group of the same size if possible, also chosen completely at random.

The turf your "pre-occupied" team mate was inking is worth just as much as any other terf. If it's in a out of the way area, not only is it less likely to be taken by the other team, but they need to invest more time into going to ink it. Pro teams have "roles", and one of the member's role is to do exactly that ... ink out of the way spaces to full their ultimate, then join the team briefly to push forward with the ultimate, before going back to inking remote spaces again.

So while, sure, there is always the chance it was someone who only plays on Splatfest and isn't the most skilled (which is fine, Splatfest is a time to encourage this type of player!), but it's almost MORE likely that what you are describing is someone playing extremely high level Splatoon, likely wondering why (from their perspective) all their pre-occupied team mates are tossing themselves at fights and no one is playing actual roles like point or guard, or why you are not making coordinated ultimate pushes.

I was amazed at how aggressively Team Rice played. Even someone in-game noticed that and put it on their Splatfest post. I was Team Pasta, and even though I did make it to Ruler rank, I wasn't able to participate in this Splatfest as much as I had hoped (especially since I was out of the house most of yesterday), so I don't think I was able to contribute much.

@beaus27 As @HeadPirate said, it's all random matching. If you ask me, the real problem is that you can't voice chat to coordinate with your team during a match. I know that Nintendo is trying to go for a kid-friendly experience (so we won't have what people end up with in Call of Duty or Halo with kids screaming into their mics and trying to be edgy by cursing out everyone), but I have also noticed how a lot of people tend to go do their own thing instead of having any strategy.

That being said, though, by inking as much turf as you can, even if away from the action, can help tip the scales in your favor. Of course, going for the middle of the map is a must, but don't ever neglect the outer edges of the map, either. Those can mean the difference between victory and defeat.

So continues my streak of being on a losing team in Splatoon 3. 😆 I was on team bread.

I still had fun, though I still don't love the tricolor battles. Rice, and sometimes Pasta too, were super aggressive. It was an intense Splatfest!

I think the results are not surprising. I don't know how Nintendo didn't know this would be one of the most one-sided choice wise, given your opinions for what you eat every day were something that would likely kill you, something that would like you kill you and give you constipation, and something billions of people already do. It was really funny, when I was playing on NA time (6pm-11pm EST) the teams were pretty normal, but when I was playing more on Japan time (5am-10am EST) most matches were Rice vs. Rice.

Still, I don't know why, but this was one of the most enjoyable Splatfests for me. Set a personal best 770,000 clout! I think it's just the result of years of small adjustments putting the game in a really good place, rather then anything major.

Gratz to everyone who played. Like I always say, we're all winners today.

@AstroTheGamosian

I mean, "Team Rice" was 60% of the entire Splatoon's player base that played this weekend, so it's unlikely they were playing any "different" then an average player. They literally were the average.

In anything, I think it's just because the team was a little skewed towards SEA over NA members, and the average SEA player is way more pro-active (and skilled in general, if I'm being honest). It exposed some people who don't generally play at peak SEA time to that type of play style. To me it didn't feel any different, and I played 110 matches on team rice.

It's great you were able to play even being so busy! That's one of the things I love about Splatfest, how so many people make this an actual event they try their best to be part of!

Yes! Another win for Frye! I was on Team Pasta but the results still make me happy. Remember when Frye won with Team Bucket List and she had her first win in over a year? I love cheering for the underdog! Plus I had a lot of fun playing with my friends. This was a really great Splatfest overall!

@HeadPirate Forgive me if I don't know what SEA means. I assume it means Southeast Asia, correct? I live in North America, and I do tend to be on the losing team more often than not (both in individual matches and the Splatfests overall).

Most of the time, I am usually working when these Splatfests are going on, so beyond a couple of hours in the evening on Friday and Saturday, the only day I really have time to play is Sunday, when I am not working. But this was one of the rare times that I had the whole weekend off, so I could also play on Friday and Saturday.

I meant to play more yesterday (Sunday), but my girlfriend invited me to go to the circus (set up in the parking lot of a shopping mall) with her and her sibling. Unfortunately, admission for the circus was $63 per person, so we didn't do that.

Instead, we walked around the shopping mall, played some games at a new arcade that opened up, and I even won a Cinnamoroll plushie at a crane game (and yes, I tweeted a photo of it to popular VTuber Ironmouse, who is obsessed with them). Then we went out for dinner at an Asian restaurant, chowed down on some takoyaki, ramen, sushi, and shrimp. That was my entire afternoon, so I didn't get to play at all yesterday.

@AstroTheGamosian, with the exception of Flounder Heights, (which I charge forward to a key vantage point), on every stage map, I stay behind at my team's base to ink as much as possible, until I think my absence from the melee is needed. I sincerely do which we had team speak! I scream at the TV for someone to take out the pesky sniper or splatting gun player.

@AstroTheGamosian

Actually that's my bad, I shouldn't use acronyms that are not common in every community. You got it right thought, Southeast Asia. In most pro gaming communities, SEA is synonymous with constant aggression. Except in the FGC (fighting game community) where it's synonymous with the exact opposite. Weird, really.

$63! That's insane. Speaking of Cinnamoroll, you could go to Puroland AND Harmonyland on the same day, and that's less then $60 US including train fare. Really sorry to hear that, I'm sure it was disappointing. But it sounds like you still had a great day!

I've never heard of Ironmouse, but anyone who loves Cinnomoroll can't be bad! Maybe I'll check them out. English speaking Sanrio super fans are pretty hard to find!

@beaus27 I do that too. I ink my team's home base before joining the fray. Occasionally, I'll make headway into the enemy's base as well.

@HeadPirate No problem. I head a feeling that's what it meant. I just wanted to confirm.

And yeah, we were a bit disappointed that we couldn't get in, as my girlfriend and I hadn't been to one in over 20 years, and her sibling had never been to one at all. But we couldn't justify $63 per person; that's highway robbery. Despite that, we did have a good time.

And for the record, Ironmouse is a VTuber, and one of the more prolific ones in the English-speaking world, hailing from Puerto Rico. In fact, according to her Wikipedia article, she's the most-followed English-speaking VTuber on Twitch.

Despite suffering from a debilitating medical condition, she has made a name for herself, has become very successful (with over 2 million followers on Twitch and over a million subscribers on YouTube), and won several awards, including The Game Awards for Content Creator of the Year in 2023 (becoming the first VTuber to do so). She also does charity livestreams with her friend, Welsh ex-pat Connor "CDawgVA" Colquhoun (who lives in Japan) to raise money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. So definitely check her out if you can!