Global Splatfest: Fancy Party vs. Costume Party

[Dessgeega]

Quick! Someone come up with a conspiracy theory to put this all in perspective!

How dare this global splatfest ruin the NA splatfest meta. >={

That's your cue @Award ! Write the Great American Theory! ;)

 

[dapperlace]

I had a feeling Fancy would win, but I had to stay true to myself even if I don't like the color orange. I still don't regret it.

 

[Flareth]

Did somebody say Combo Breaker? What a refreshing surprise. Soon as I saw that we were the popular team I groaned, then the wins result came up and I let out a loud WHAT. Truth be told, I've bought into the "popular=loss" myth for a while now, so it truly came as an utter shock. I actually achieved what I set out to do. Man, do I ever feel accomplished...

Say that it only happened because of the Japanese all you want (there ya go, @Award, I've saved you the trouble :p), but the fact remains that the trend hath been broken. I daresay we start a fancy squid party to celebrate.

 

[xXShadeXx]

With all those matches I went through, I was sure Team Fancy would've lost. But oh well, shocked even if I didn't play on both accounts I'll still get snails. Props to both teams for doing their best really. I didn't have too much fun this splatfest, but still.

 

[SkyBlue]

Let us start with the national anthem.

AHEM

It is with great honor and dignity that we accept our award for being the mostest fancifullest asljkflskjfklsjf

I lost 70% of my games because a teammate kept dcing this is not what I was expecting.

Tut Tut Cheerio

 

[SquiliamTentacles]

Quick! Someone come up with a conspiracy theory to put this all in perspective!

Team Costume's shirt has a inkling in a hot dog costume.

Some hot dogs contain large amounts of sodium.

Sodium is often used as a term for salt.

Salty is how Team Costume felt after losing.

Iwoomynati confirmed.

 

[NovaScienceNever]

Today I learned not to pick my splatfest team on a whim. Careful analysis and well-educated guessing wins the Splatfest.

 

[Babycowland]

Still, it was basically playing hours of normal Turf War without friends being able to drop in. I definitely, definitely don't want global Splatfests. Part of the Splatfest fun is having names you can read be your teammates and trying to bond with them. I couldn't even tell if my Japanese minions dropped out or kept going because the names all look the same to me anyway.

I sort of get what you mean. It can be difficult remembering Japanese names when you can't read the language at all.

That said, I actually really liked this Splatfest and hope that we have more global ones in the future. I think there's something really cool about teaming up with people half the world away and cooperating towards a common goal. Although we didn't speak the same language, I still felt like I could communicate with my teammates, even if it was just booyahing when they got a splat and c'moning when we were in the last minute of a match. Granted, my experience may have been different from yours; a lot of my Japanese teammates stuck with me a while.

 

[Sol64]

Ha, Callie strikes again!
All is good again.

 

[blu]

I had a feeling fancy would win, but I honestly don't feel like a winner. I suppose me backing out for the night was the right move??

I also played with mostly japanese players. (kanji and all), but...well, let's just say not every player is a winner :/

 

[Dessgeega]

I had a feeling fancy would win, but I honestly don't feel like a winner. I suppose me backing out for the night was the right move??

I also played with mostly japanese players. (kanji and all), but...well, let's just say not every player is a winner :/

 

[Hero of Lime]

Team Costume's shirt has a inkling in a hot dog costume.

Some hot dogs contain large amounts of sodium.

Sodium is often used as a term for salt.

Salty is how Team Costume felt after losing.

Iwoomynati confirmed.

Let's not forget, Team Hotdog lost its own Splatfest. Costume was doomed from the start.

 

[blu]

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If you saw the face of fear that is the kraken, you would run too!

 

[Zero Meddler]

I was thinking it'd be something closer to 99%...

Gotta give everyone else some credit. XP

 

[ϛ(°³°)/`]

I saw the popularity and was like "Crap."
It did seem fairly close though, I faced a lot of terrifying teams and oddly enough no fancy vs. fancy.

 

[AlphaOmegaSplatter]

I thought that costume would be more popular, but no! I thought we were gonna lose.

 

[Inyo]

I played like garbage during the Splatfest, but hey, my team won! And I somehow ended up above the Splatfest power I started with (1600) despite two very long losing streaks.

 

[Award]

Yay, Team Fancy won!

Told you guys Team Fancy was the way to go, and fortunately, most of y'all agreed.

This Splatfest wasn't as bad as Sandcastles or SpongeBob. Disconnections/lag were at a minimal, probably because I mostly played with sleep-deprived Japanese people. (I was playing between like 4:30 PM and 7:30 PM Eastern! They should be asleep!)

Still, it was basically playing hours of normal Turf War without friends being able to drop in. I definitely, definitely don't want global Splatfests. Part of the Splatfest fun is having names you can read be your teammates and trying to bond with them. I couldn't even tell if my Japanese minions dropped out or kept going because the names all look the same to me anyway.


I finished above 1400 (where I started) so obviously I helped Fancy's win rate, but getting from Champion to King was sooo much harder than Fanboy to Champion. I lost more than I won there.
Didn't play against my own team even once.

Personally I've always found it easier to bond with Japanese teams than western ones, even if I can't remember or read the names. The way they play, the communication via booyahs, they just seem more like you're part of the group. I just feel bad that all I can do is remember "yes, squggle,squiggle, backwards-C-thing,kinda-a-sideways-t is back on my team again!" Or just bucketguy for short.

Honestly, even though i was on team costume, i'm just glad the popular team won even if the japanese had to get involved to break that ****ty trend. Man did i suck this splatfest. I only remember doing well in a handfull of matches. I managed to win more than i lost (since my splatfest power was a little above starting point) and a lot of the matches i won was because i got carried hard :(. And it didn't help much that ancho-v games was in rotation, one of my worst maps. The japenese are really good at turf wars, that's for sure. i was not prepared for the *** kicking i was about to receiveo_O. Besides the servers going kapoot a few hours in, i never had any connection issues. It pretty much went as smoothly as any other day i play against japanese players.

TW is my strong point probably because I spent so many months playing only TW mostly with Japanese players. And trust me, not all Japanese are good at TW....not the ones on my TW fancy teams ;) They were downright awful :P I did my best to make Fancy lose. Lost every game for like 5 hours.... Even carrying hard I couldn't win.

That's your cue @Award ! Write the Great American Theory! ;)

Nah, no consipracies on this one. Japan was in and they outnumber everyone else 8:1 in this game. Japan Splatfest meta was always going to be the applicable on :)

 

[fuchsia]

Yeah, I know. It´s still weird how no matter what time of the day you play, you will always encounter japanese people who don´t seem to mind playing even very late at night. I don´t think I could play that well at 3 AM.

to be fair, not everyone has a 9-5 schedule. some people might work overnights so they're up during the night on their days off, some might just have messed up sleep schedules [i did for a long while, still do on the weekends]. maybe some people get home from work, fall asleep, and then wake up and play splatoon before going to work in the morning. i have a friend who wakes up at 3am because he falls asleep at 7-8pm. no reason, that's just his body's sleep schedule!

 

[ReeSquidGig]

Not being jealous or anything but... THI PARTY IS DONE AND OVER WITH! MAKE AN UPDATE FOR THE NEW ONE!