Maybe something a bit more accessible for the demographic? I also think the sponsored JP ones were nice because they were food and not something so upper middle class and something that people already would have an opinion on which is better.
But popularity does not effect the Splatfest win percentage at all. While teams that face each other will win and lose simultaneously, having no effect on their team's win percentage, a team HAS to face the other to get a win, also giving the other team an opportunity to get a win. That way, it's always evenly matched in terms of numbers, and if the popularity factor is abolished, Splatfest becomes a true competition not affected by which team has more or less popularity at all, which is the point I'm trying to make: Splatfest should not factor in popularity, and it's easy to make that happen.
I started taking them less seriously after the team cat fiasco and I think it is more fun when teams are even. I think even if you lose the highest rank for both teams still nets you an almost equal prize so I just play to reach rank for the most part. I am hoping the next splatfest will be pretty balanced team wise.
This forum's not really complaining, seeing as most of us play this game a lot, and therefore are a little more battle hardened when it comes to these things. The salt regarding scoring's become sparce after Cats vs. Dogs.
The less popular team does not have an advantage because of "dog-eat-dog matches". Every game that counts is always one team vs. the other team, so both sides inherently get the same amount of opportunities to push the win percentage in their favor. It's completely up to how the players perform at that point. The Rock vs. Pop and Milk Tea vs. Lemon Tea events have shown that the more popular team can just as easily crush the less popular team. That was the whole point of the changes made after the Rice vs. Bread incident, so that matches between teams from the same side cannot influence the win percentage at all, positively or negatively. Dog-eat-dog matches are time-wasters if anything, but nothing more.
But that's wrong. At a point, everyone is only going to play a certain amount of matches or invest a certain amount of time into Splatfest, making any time spent on Dog eat Dogs a waste. If a Marshmallow plays the same amount of games as a Hot Dog, but only 4/5 of them matter, that's an inherent advantage to Team Hot Dog.
I said that matches between teams from the same side were time-wasters, that's not what I'm arguing here. This seems to suggest that having to play those extra games tangibly affects how the more popular team performs when it matters, like they're getting their energy sapped or something, and there's no solid proof of that (and no, the current Splatfest records are too small a sample size to eliminate variance as a factor). Many people play this game for hours on end anyway, especially to level up their Splatfest rank (because it does take that long to max it out). Dog-eat-dog matches could just as easily be considered warm-ups or even stress-relievers since they know these matches don't count.
If you're just plopped onto one side, then there's literally no point for it to be an event, since it'd be exactly the same as Turf War. Voting the side you truly want to win gives you a motivation, a goal to reach. And yet many are already talking about cutting the middle man and just choosing the one that's more popular. That ain't fun.
But how does team Hot Dog earn points without facing team Marshmallow, giving them a chance to win points? They don't. Facing the other team is the only way.
Splatfest is almost exactly like turf wars in the first place. If there is no weight for choosing your team why choose? It is more fun when they are even so why take away the only reason voting matters and not replace it with something that makes it a better experience for both sides? The Sea snail goal is still there and there is no way I will believe you have strong feelings for either team on a splatfest with the current questions they have been asking.
A more accurate ratio would be 64 Marshmallows playing while 36 hot dogs play. That means almost 1/3 of players are playing their own team and 1/3 might not even have full teams of 4. The bigger the gap in team size the more annoying splatfest can be. I really don't think they will make any huge adjustments to splatfest like removing the popularity vote completely, but I think we also need not to take it so seriously. If winning is the most important thing to you about splatfests, then choose the more popular side if the popularity gap is large or the less popular side if the gap seems pretty close.
Um, I'm confused... I wasn't even implementing any ratios into my example at all. Just division, 140/100, only work as far as a whole number, then do something with the remainder, and that's have them fight themselves.
