Talk to him, you can pay for sea snails... 30,000 each...
a lot of people actually. i'm not one of them though.
1-2. Lucky I picked Pirates. Was tough to choose.
Yes! This is why Marie seems to always be more popular because all my friends who play splatoon are DIE HARD MARIE FANS and always choose her because they like her better. Marie is the more popular squid, Especially in Japan and the US.
Naughty won because people likes the negativity from it (Callie's side). Decepticons won because people like the negativity from them (Marie's side). When it comes to Splatfests with morals in them, skilled players like to choose the negative/bad side of it instead, regardless of which sister is representing that side. For choosing good for both splatfests, this is a mistake that I'll not repeat again in the future.
I was on team Nice. Most of my matches were fairly even. I mean, I still lost most of the time, but only 2 or 3 were really bad.
In terms of level, I would have to say that it seemed as if I was playing on any other day. Plenty of level 35+ people with a few 35- people (including myself).
I think it also works in the opposite direction: generally (but not always) younger kids are less skilled than older, more experienced ones. Kids also seem to side towards the side of good and positivity rather than evil. Therefore, it would only make sense for the "good" team to be weaker.
And just like that, the snowball effect begins.
IMO it's coincidence, if nothing else the personality types of the best players tend to lean toward "edgy options", which makes sense given the whole "l337 gamer" image. Team Burger (I'll gloat a moment as a Burger King) was vastly disproportionate to Pizza and the math that makes the disproportionate teams win played big there (namely, the least popular team plays more rounds while the other team fights itself more) and therefore has more chance to win. And also is edgier, plus the multiplier, gave it a big win. But that was an oddball. This one was only 9% popularity difference, and I don't think that played into it. It really came down to personality types leaning toward edgy for the more skilled "I'm naughty, I'm so baad!", people I think, plus the screwy matchmaking I was seeing. Even with no multipliers it would have been a dead tie. Even a .001% multiplier to weight winning over popularity gives the win to Naughty, so the multiplier was entirely irrelevant this time. This one was a real balanced match compared to the others. It's just the unfortunate chance that it matched the familiar pattern. if it "snowballs" to Callie next time as people in the know pick the "winning side" I think you'll find Callie will win popularity and everyone will flock back to Marie the next time. Though it depends on their theme choice. I swear next time it'll be "Team Death Metal (Callie) versus Team Muzak (Marie.)" (EU, meanwhile, gets "Nylon Guitar Picks, vs ABS Guitar Picks")
i checked back on some of the splatfest colors and there were four where callie was pink/redish pink, her color and four where marie was a shade of green, her color in NA splatfests. And the other regions are pretty even too. Marie had two green ones in a row which is why it's noticable but she was also blue, purple and orange. sure this is insignificant information, but just letting you know.
I'm not totally sure which teams I would've sided with for the other Splatfests. I think I'd definitely go with marshmallows and Autobots, and probably would've supported water slides, cats, and pirates. I don't know about art vs. science (I'm terrible at both) or cars vs. planes (I'm not huge on either) though. I guess that's still a losing record either way...
My matchmaking experience was kind of like yours for most of Friday night/early Saturday morning. I was on Team Nice and went against teams that usually had at least one or two lv40-50 players and few, if any, below lv10. I think one time the opposing team had two lv50s, though they may have just seemed like lv50s because of how good they were, haha.
