so i honestly cannot make myself care about winning splatfests - i know that my individual performance doesn’t go far in the long run, and even as a new player i was seeing how vicious people on social media got about fest results and going, yall, it’s REALLY not that deep - and i think that kind of thing turned me off from playing fests to win early on. i was like, “okay, i don’t wanna be like THAT,” so i went in the complete opposite direction. kind of thankful for that, honestly. splatfests are a 48-hour period where the only pvp mode available outside of PBs is my least favorite mode, so if i was going into splatfests feeling like the results mattered, i’d be miserable, y’know?
so i find my own fun. i like standing in the plaza(s) and pretending to be at a real festival. the hype of winning 100x matches and getting the float photos, especially with friends, matters to me a lot more than my team winning the fest in the end. sometimes if i touch grass during a splatfest weekend i’ll go out dressed in my team’s color. and if i end up on the same team as friends, playing with them becomes a social thing. we’re celebrating together!
this is all to say i had a great time because i got to do all those things i do to make fests fun for myself :D