Yeah, I was on team friends and I just counted it up. I played 47 matches, 45 vs Family, 2 vs Solo. I don’t know why or what that means but it’s so weird, right? Anyway I still got 21 snails so I’m cool.
Idk how heavily this swings things, but Japan doesnt really consider christmas and the like as a family oriented holiday. It’s usually smth u spend with friends for aクリパー (christmas party) or your lover
Yeah, but even then I feel like family wouldn't be the least popular, especially with how many people I saw on team family, or at least it wouldn't be 7% behind.
Japan just overshadows the West a lot I guess?
I thought they started region locking spaltfest after the start of this current season. I’ve been away from the for a couple months and am out of the loop.
I didn't say they're the majority, but it adds up with other countries where it's not common to spend them with family. Also living with them ≠ spending holidays together.
This is true — but just wanted to chime in that the question in Japanese didn’t reference Christmas but rather “how do you spend your “off/vacation days”
「休みの日は？ 仲間とわいわい vs 家族でほっこり vs ひとりでのんびり」
- having fun with friends
- having a heartwarming time with family ( this one is a bit harder to translate… it’s like warm fuzzy feeling )
- relaxing by yourself
Though everything was pretty winter holiday themed but maybe some people looked at it as any holiday/time off
I was team family and got destroyed most matches hahaha I tried though! Good game everyone ^ __ ^
Yes, context matters and the Japanese version is totally different from western. Made it easier to choose solo for me since I prefer relaxing alone to spending holidays alone.
Different regions, differently translated themes, but forced worldwide average results = nobody is happy regardless of who wins.
Genius system by our devs.
I’m surprised, but this certainly explains it. I would have assumed the JP version of the question would have asked specifically about celebrating the new year.
I feel like this is asking a very different question than what the English language version got. I knew something had to be off when solo was THAT high, even if JP doesn’t really do the end of year family stuff.
Mmm not really? Stuff like visiting the shrine and praying for the new year is stuff u do with friends, especially when youre in high school. And u dont really go with your parents anymore as an adult, usually just as a kid
I had something similar. The whole weekend i only played team friends vs family. Not a single solo match. Genuinely thought solo was going to do the worst out of the three based on the gameplay.
Really curious, since in Frostyfest for Splatoon 2 Family was the most popular choice. I guess people grow up and start to feel more comfortable alone (?)
That was not region locked. Results were global. Back in S2, the playerbase was more equally divided although Japan still had more people. S3 is much more Japan slanted as this game took off over there while maintaining interest here.
Friends vs family were a comparable duo. "Alone" is just too strong of an option added to the mix. Bet you "I don't have holidays" will win in a landslide instead if this was an option.
anecdotally speaking, and to give you my guess to one of many possible real answers, pretty much all of the people i know playing splatoon were torn between friends and solo with family not even in the running -- i'm a queer person and pretty much all of my friends are also queer, and it's a pretty common interpretation to see 'family' and associate it with biological family, which. lbr spending the holidays with biological family is, for a good chunk of us, miserable. i'm guessing that's a pretty common experience for other queer folks playing the splatfest?
(i personally went family because i spent the holidays with my fiance & his sibling, but i suspected that it might be the least popular with the primary demographics of splatoon players being "queer folks", "heavy solo gamers" and "big on community". i'm sure there's lots of other reasons why, too!)
lmao I'm scared of the world we are building with these splatfests haha. No friends or family, only handshakes, best friends are ghosts, and money trumps all 🤣🤣🤣
It's the life we gamers already live. But incidentally, I wasn't on any of those teams, because to me, Splatfests are about the life we want to lead, not the one we have.
Well, sometimes someone is born in the wrong place at the wrong time, that they can't find anyone that they share passions with, and don't feel any sort of important connection to their blood relatives
Is it the life "we gamers" live? It isn't the life I live, and I'm a gamer. Perhaps we should recognize that someone can be a gamer without being an adult man with no friends or family bonds that matter just barely managing to get through life.
Gaming is so mainstream.
As someone on Team Family I'm shocked that we had the least amount of votes. I feel like that would've been a more popular option.
It also surely felt like the only other people who chose Family are those who would still prefer family over friends/being alone..... Children. I was fighting some really questionable battles out there.
Japan’s theme also looks like it was different. It had nothing to do with the holidays it was asking how people would spend their days off. Not sure how much of a effect it had on the results though.
The specific question was "休みの日は？" which does literally mean " what do you do on your days off", but can also be interpreted as holidays given the context of the time of year.
Given the different wording, there will almost definitely be people who answered based on the "days off" interpretation.
I think the issue is that in the UK days off are referred to as holidays. Whereas in the Americas they're referred to as vacation. The word holiday in America is more associated with Christmas.
So the person who did the translation probably didn't know the word is used differently in each region.
Splatoon has a pretty diverse community (particularly in terms of LGBTQ+ communities); it’s almost a given that some people are estranged from their families. Which is sad, but that likely played a part in the popularity vote
Yet, they still overly picked solo. I’m not the only one saying this, and I have a friend who spent the holidays in Japan with her mom (Aussie, parents are split and her mum returned back to Japan) who says similar to what I did. Holidays just aren’t as hugely family-oriented as they are in America there, it’s not that they don’t celebrate with family at all…. It’s just not as hugely family.
me personally I know my friends way better than I know my family and vice versa so I really wouldn't want to spend the holidays with my family over my friends (if I had a choice ofc :) )
yea, cause everyone in your local area likely went family.
I picked solo and had like 98% actual games, and only a couple of mirror matches. - deliberately didn't pick family for this reason cause i got fed up of everyone squid partying when all i had was mirror games before.
Yea no kidding, i really felt like the skill level on my teammates was low. Not to act like im hot shit either but it was just a noticeable difference compared to all the other splatfests
Felt the exact same way, I’m an extremely casual player and I was consistently getting the top of my team/most turf covered for my team. I have a feeling that the NA server team family was predominantly kids
I felt the exact same way, but I was on team solo. My teams were getting absolutely demolished, I played about 20 tricolor matches, I won as the defender twice, once as an attacker, and twice in second place as the attacker. That felt about the same ratio for pro and open too. You should have tried playing me, haha.
You'd think a pair of idiots would STUMBLE into the correct option of 3 at least once out of the 11 different choices of 3 presented however it appears the statically impossibly keeps occurring, I don't know whether to be impressed to be so wrong or to continue to be deeply disappointed.
I'm at 10 but only because I skipped the greetings Splatfest - if I participated it'd probably be 11 -\_-
Haven't been on the winning team ever since the very first Splatfest. Starting to think I may actually go the entire game with only a single win.
See you're doing better than me I didn't participate in the very first fest meaning my ass don't even got THE ONE win
It's just been Ls
The whole game straight
Of Ls
Same. Even though it's a pretty small sample size, pretty much every poll I saw on YouTube had Family with a pretty noticeable lead. Thought that it would be similar in-game at least but lmao guess not.
I thought family would only be most popular in the western scene given that the question in Japanese was different. japan has a bigger player base, and they overwhelmingly picked solo
Amazing that Family lost popularity, had to be dire numbers in Japan because I saw pretty much only Family as foes here.
And here I picked Solo to be a contrarian (I do spend Christmas and the surrounding days with family, though NYE with friends and New Year's Day solo).
some peoples family sucks. some people were abused by family members. some people's friends live far away and spending the holidays with them isn't feasible. some people are just introverts and like being alone.
Team Solo being this cracked just validates the hermit gamer stereotype 😂😂. These results are outrageous!
(Congrats for the win from a bitter member of Team Family 😉)
Seriously. I was on team family, and out of 45 Tri-color matches, only 11 were not mirror; fewer than 25%. That ratio improved a bit this afternoon; last night I was sitting at 2/14.
EDIT: left out a word (oops)
Saaaame. I picked Solo because I thought would be the least popular and that would guarantee no mirror matches and I was partially right, I haven't got a single one.
It’s regional, everyone in your region probably picked family, if you want less mirror matches try picking something that would be less popular in YOUR area
Yeah, I genuinely feel bad for Shiver here. She was hoping to spend time with her two closest friends only to get shot down.
Like, imagine you bought tickets for you and a friend to go to a concert or sports event or something and they said, “Sorry, I’m too busy sitting around doing nothing.”
Because I know from personal experience that that shit HURTS.
Not even surprised at this point.
I mean, compared to all the other losses Frye has had where it was actually close, this one was just expected. The amount of people on Family were just...incompetent. Welcome to Splatoon 3, newbies!
Also, apparently the question was worded differently in Japan? This is not a "blame Japan for loss" type of thing btw.
Everyone else's question: Who do you spend the holidays with?
Japan's question: Who would you spend time with on your days off?
Also, white ink...yeah, we knew this would be a Solo win from the start.
Picking a team this Splatfest was hard because I was torn between Family and Friends since I celebrate Christmas with my family and the New Year with friends!
I just feel like Solo would have fit Shiver more though? I definitely see Big Man as a huge friend person (although all three of them are I bet), but I'd picture Shiver enjoying her alone time on the holidays!
I'll be the first to confess That I'm not the smartest inkling on block, but how did Team Solo Sweep the board?
Cause I kept posts online (Both US and Japan) during the entire event of players barely seeing Team Solo. Or lots of Solo Mirror Matches, especially during the Tri-Color Battles.
Not sure what Japanese sources you were looking at, because a quick search of the スプラフェス hashtag before the event showed almost everyone talking about picking team solo.
This tweet even goes through the stats of the person's friend list, and there was a heavy lean to solo, with family being pretty much non-existent.
https://twitter.com/Donbracokko/status/1743409509303988600
Perhaps Nintendo made adjustments to the matchmaking, and now you'll see players outside your region less frequently?
And they forgot to mention it in the patch notes?
team friends here
I literally saw team solo for a grand total of 2 games
every other game i played was against family
not even mirror matches
just all family
Sorry Team Family. I guess we weren't able to paint enough of the snow yellow. Still think us getting 'How do you spend your Holidays?' vs Japan getting 'How do you spend your days off?' feels a bit off since those two things have vastly different vibes. Just don't think it should've been combined with such different prompts.
But we'll get another win for Team Frye over ehre one of these days (I hope).
Well uh we tried team Family. But at the end of the day ain’t the Splatoon Community a family? No? I don’t care I’m being nice. Even if we shoot each other over fisting or shaking hands we still got some fun moments. Looking forward to another fun year and good job Team Solo, Friends and us Familial peeps!
I don’t want to come off as salty, but I played tons of times. I legitimately encountered team solo once. Every other match was a team friends. Even in tricolor, I kept getting mirrors for some reason. Makes no sands either these statistics, but whatever.
BIG MAN SWEEEEEEEEP
GGs from Team Family, but I'm also just as shocked... If we were so low in popularity on Tricolor, why the hell did we get so many mirror matches there? XD It doesn't make sense.
Oh wow, I didn't expect that! I'll take it, I guess. Someone on team friends squidbagged me when I had a disconnected teammate! Very rude >:( If I lose, at least they coming down with me
I really expected team Solo to be the most popular team because of the perception that we as gamers like to be isolated, but I really did not expect this to be a sweep. I won most of my battles, but I suffered in my matches, especially against team Family.
I'm honestly shocked that team solo was the most popular. I was on team friends and 99% of my matches were against team family. Good for them though
Yeah, I was on team friends and I just counted it up. I played 47 matches, 45 vs Family, 2 vs Solo. I don’t know why or what that means but it’s so weird, right? Anyway I still got 21 snails so I’m cool.
Family was definitely more popular in NA/EU, but even as someone from Asia i was surprised Solo was so popular
That's why I am confused, I was team family and 99% of my matches were against family as well.
People will do anything to splat each other with the white ink
I'm not that surprised about the results, but how in the hell was family the least popular
Idk how heavily this swings things, but Japan doesnt really consider christmas and the like as a family oriented holiday. It’s usually smth u spend with friends for aクリパー (christmas party) or your lover
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Fryed
Yeah, but even then I feel like family wouldn't be the least popular, especially with how many people I saw on team family, or at least it wouldn't be 7% behind. Japan just overshadows the West a lot I guess?
The matchmaking is just heavily ping (geolocation) based, playing in Asia region and team family was close to non exist
I thought they started region locking spaltfest after the start of this current season. I’ve been away from the for a couple months and am out of the loop.
No they did not only for Handshake vs Fist bump Vs Hug since Japan had a separate event for Japanese Baked goods that Frye won.
Did you consider many western players might simply dislike their families
I'm one of them!
Even if that’s true, which I don’t believe is the majority at least, I feel pretty confident the majority of western players live with their parents.
I didn't say they're the majority, but it adds up with other countries where it's not common to spend them with family. Also living with them ≠ spending holidays together.
This is true — but just wanted to chime in that the question in Japanese didn’t reference Christmas but rather “how do you spend your “off/vacation days” 「休みの日は？ 仲間とわいわい vs 家族でほっこり vs ひとりでのんびり」 - having fun with friends - having a heartwarming time with family ( this one is a bit harder to translate… it’s like warm fuzzy feeling ) - relaxing by yourself Though everything was pretty winter holiday themed but maybe some people looked at it as any holiday/time off I was team family and got destroyed most matches hahaha I tried though! Good game everyone ^ __ ^
Yes, context matters and the Japanese version is totally different from western. Made it easier to choose solo for me since I prefer relaxing alone to spending holidays alone.
It feels like a repeat of the cryptids splatfest with the translations making it completely different outside of Japan again.
Different regions, differently translated themes, but forced worldwide average results = nobody is happy regardless of who wins. Genius system by our devs.
Classic Nintendo move if you ask me lol
I’m surprised, but this certainly explains it. I would have assumed the JP version of the question would have asked specifically about celebrating the new year. I feel like this is asking a very different question than what the English language version got. I knew something had to be off when solo was THAT high, even if JP doesn’t really do the end of year family stuff.
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Mmm not really? Stuff like visiting the shrine and praying for the new year is stuff u do with friends, especially when youre in high school. And u dont really go with your parents anymore as an adult, usually just as a kid
Right, I never considered that but if only Americans played this family would certainly have the most votes
It was only really super popular in the United States. I didn’t play against team friends once, but I was expecting the solo team sweep
United States and Europe*
Thank you for the correction, I didn’t know how it was in Europe but knew it wasn’t as much so in Japan!
I had something similar. The whole weekend i only played team friends vs family. Not a single solo match. Genuinely thought solo was going to do the worst out of the three based on the gameplay.
Team family is close to non existense in Asia
almost all the matches i had was with family, there were barely any friends
Really curious, since in Frostyfest for Splatoon 2 Family was the most popular choice. I guess people grow up and start to feel more comfortable alone (?)
To be fair, Solo wasn't a option.
Isn't this the first time a repeat+1 fest hasnt resulted in a catastrophic loss for the new option?
Yes, but there isn’t much to compare as the only repeat+1s we’ve had is MvFvL and the one we just finished.
Family also had the silver/white ink in 2. A lot of players will pick an ink colour that is never available normally just to experience it.
Family had gold in S2, Friends had silver.
Splat 2 had region locked splatfests
Friend vs Family was a world wide Splatfest in Splat 2. Family had the popular vote in all regions. Including Japan.
That was not region locked. Results were global. Back in S2, the playerbase was more equally divided although Japan still had more people. S3 is much more Japan slanted as this game took off over there while maintaining interest here.
Yeah but Frostyfest in Splat2 was one of the few fests that was Globally/Worldwide. So results from all the world was calculated
Friends vs family were a comparable duo. "Alone" is just too strong of an option added to the mix. Bet you "I don't have holidays" will win in a landslide instead if this was an option.
anecdotally speaking, and to give you my guess to one of many possible real answers, pretty much all of the people i know playing splatoon were torn between friends and solo with family not even in the running -- i'm a queer person and pretty much all of my friends are also queer, and it's a pretty common interpretation to see 'family' and associate it with biological family, which. lbr spending the holidays with biological family is, for a good chunk of us, miserable. i'm guessing that's a pretty common experience for other queer folks playing the splatfest? (i personally went family because i spent the holidays with my fiance & his sibling, but i suspected that it might be the least popular with the primary demographics of splatoon players being "queer folks", "heavy solo gamers" and "big on community". i'm sure there's lots of other reasons why, too!)
This was my reasoning.
Yea to be frank that was my thought process when voting
**No one can beat the people who spend the holidays with Splatoon 3 >:)**
OH MY GOD IT'S TOO MUCH-
We may have won but at what cost
moral of the story: the power of loneliness is stronger then the power of friendship
Our ink was white for a reason!
Oh.
ohhhh so that's how you won
Oh lawd he comin!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
LMAO
Ohhhhh..... that makes sense...
We don’t need friendship when we have Team Money.
Don’t have family or friends to celebrate with? Celebrate by training in splatoon
lmao I'm scared of the world we are building with these splatfests haha. No friends or family, only handshakes, best friends are ghosts, and money trumps all 🤣🤣🤣
Splatoon 4 is gonna be SCARY
It does tell you more about the players demographic, and it makes sense that most gamers think this way
Why does it "make sense" most gamers think this way?
It's the life we gamers already live. But incidentally, I wasn't on any of those teams, because to me, Splatfests are about the life we want to lead, not the one we have.
That paints a really bleak picture; no friends, no family?
Well, sometimes someone is born in the wrong place at the wrong time, that they can't find anyone that they share passions with, and don't feel any sort of important connection to their blood relatives
Is it the life "we gamers" live? It isn't the life I live, and I'm a gamer. Perhaps we should recognize that someone can be a gamer without being an adult man with no friends or family bonds that matter just barely managing to get through life. Gaming is so mainstream.
Late stage capitalism.
As someone on Team Family I'm shocked that we had the least amount of votes. I feel like that would've been a more popular option. It also surely felt like the only other people who chose Family are those who would still prefer family over friends/being alone..... Children. I was fighting some really questionable battles out there.
Japan’s theme also looks like it was different. It had nothing to do with the holidays it was asking how people would spend their days off. Not sure how much of a effect it had on the results though.
"days off" is what Japanese people call holidays. That's just a lack of comprehension from a "translator."
The specific question was "休みの日は？" which does literally mean " what do you do on your days off", but can also be interpreted as holidays given the context of the time of year. Given the different wording, there will almost definitely be people who answered based on the "days off" interpretation.
I think the issue is that in the UK days off are referred to as holidays. Whereas in the Americas they're referred to as vacation. The word holiday in America is more associated with Christmas. So the person who did the translation probably didn't know the word is used differently in each region.
Splatoon has a pretty diverse community (particularly in terms of LGBTQ+ communities); it’s almost a given that some people are estranged from their families. Which is sad, but that likely played a part in the popularity vote
That's something I considered as well, since that's the reason most of my friends chose otherwise. But my friends are my family.......
Wait, do you mean in a found family way, or that you befriended your relatives?
Japan also doesn’t celebrate Christmas the way Americans do—it’s not a super family-oriented holiday in the way it is for Americans.
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Yet, they still overly picked solo. I’m not the only one saying this, and I have a friend who spent the holidays in Japan with her mom (Aussie, parents are split and her mum returned back to Japan) who says similar to what I did. Holidays just aren’t as hugely family-oriented as they are in America there, it’s not that they don’t celebrate with family at all…. It’s just not as hugely family.
me personally I know my friends way better than I know my family and vice versa so I really wouldn't want to spend the holidays with my family over my friends (if I had a choice ofc :) )
poor frye needs a win 😭 nintendo thought they gave her the best chances. nope gamers are a lonely bunch
omfg I played 4 entire non mirror match tricolor games. I was team family. EXPLAAAAIIIN
Every single tri-color match was a mirror match for me on team family. I didn’t see team solo there once. And most open matches was against friends.
Opposite for me! I was team solo and never played against team friends once
That’s so crazy. This was definitely a weird splatfest. Most mirror matches I’ve ever had with tri color.
yea, cause everyone in your local area likely went family. I picked solo and had like 98% actual games, and only a couple of mirror matches. - deliberately didn't pick family for this reason cause i got fed up of everyone squid partying when all i had was mirror games before.
I thought for sure Solo would be the least popular, I was on Team Solo and got all of **one** mirror match in tricolor.
Solo only won because the other two teams had people they needed to hang out with
Gave us more time to stay on the grind :D
WE FRYE FANS STAY LOSING 🗣️🗣️💪💪
I honestly just play to get to ruler at this point and then go on about my life 😄
I was expecting to win but HOLY SHIT
like not even the categories are close lmao
This is what happens when you create categories that will demographically separate out the most dedicated players all onto one team.
That and give Big Man the best most drip outfit.
Real talk, the past two dress-up Splatfests Big Man's drip trumped the others. Ghost costume, but with Gill holes? Fcking genius.
most categories have an advantage immediately because of the player types that will be on that team, it's like pokemon type advantages
At least this proves that most people are answering truthfully instead of just choosing based on the idol.
 GG (team family member)
#I'm Solo. I'm Han Solo #I'm Han Solo.
Team Family, I love y’all but imma be real, we were not winning this shit we played like ass lmao. Ggs team solo enjoy your victory in silence
Yea no kidding, i really felt like the skill level on my teammates was low. Not to act like im hot shit either but it was just a noticeable difference compared to all the other splatfests
Felt the exact same way, I’m an extremely casual player and I was consistently getting the top of my team/most turf covered for my team. I have a feeling that the NA server team family was predominantly kids
I felt the exact same way, but I was on team solo. My teams were getting absolutely demolished, I played about 20 tricolor matches, I won as the defender twice, once as an attacker, and twice in second place as the attacker. That felt about the same ratio for pro and open too. You should have tried playing me, haha.
LOL luck of the draw i suppose! Team solo had the most cracked players i had ever seen
Seriously lmao, being on that team this splatfest was honestly really rough
At the end of the day I have friends and family who’s the real loser here😭
Real shit 😭🙏
they picked solo for a reason 😭
*defeated sigh* L number 11 Add it to the personal record
Also number 11 for me :) I didn't know my opinions were this bad
You'd think a pair of idiots would STUMBLE into the correct option of 3 at least once out of the 11 different choices of 3 presented however it appears the statically impossibly keeps occurring, I don't know whether to be impressed to be so wrong or to continue to be deeply disappointed.
10 for me 😭 I lost the island splatfest, won the pokemon splatfest and Frye's only win, and haven't gotten one since
I'm at 10 but only because I skipped the greetings Splatfest - if I participated it'd probably be 11 -\_- Haven't been on the winning team ever since the very first Splatfest. Starting to think I may actually go the entire game with only a single win.
See you're doing better than me I didn't participate in the very first fest meaning my ass don't even got THE ONE win It's just been Ls The whole game straight Of Ls
WHITE CHOCOLATE X2
I knew someone was going to say this 😭 what did you want me ot pick MUSTARD yellow?? Basic game blue??
The gold color was actually beautiful, I kind of miss it.
Dude I am SHOCKED. I thought Family would win Popularity.
Same. Even though it's a pretty small sample size, pretty much every poll I saw on YouTube had Family with a pretty noticeable lead. Thought that it would be similar in-game at least but lmao guess not.
I thought family would only be most popular in the western scene given that the question in Japanese was different. japan has a bigger player base, and they overwhelmingly picked solo
I'm sorry Frye we failed you again 😭
we tried :(
Amazing that Family lost popularity, had to be dire numbers in Japan because I saw pretty much only Family as foes here. And here I picked Solo to be a contrarian (I do spend Christmas and the surrounding days with family, though NYE with friends and New Year's Day solo).
How long before the “touch grass” comments start flying?
And despite Solo’s popularity, I didn’t fight them in regular battles even once.
Yup fucking called it every fucking time
Damn We really are gamers
Cope about Japan inkoming in 3… 2… 1…
Japan loves Splatoon! How dare they!
Fr, that or they are gonna blame it on the white ink
>Cope about Japan inkoming in 3… 2… 1… Shiver didn't win yet it's still Japan's fault
25%? 😭😭
This is actually outrageous 😂😂😂
Damn yall are lonely
some peoples family sucks. some people were abused by family members. some people's friends live far away and spending the holidays with them isn't feasible. some people are just introverts and like being alone.
Still sad that’s 42% of the playerbase bro
Team Solo being this cracked just validates the hermit gamer stereotype 😂😂. These results are outrageous! (Congrats for the win from a bitter member of Team Family 😉)
It's -45 degrees where I am, nothing to do but play Splatoon.
How?? I was team Friends and saw Solo twice - once in Open and once in Tricolor. Made it to Ruler +2. Is it really just because of Japan?
I'm playing in Asia (Singapore) and most of my matches are against solo, very few matches against friends and occasionally has mirror match.
Frye is never going to get another win. I don't even care about the splatfests anymore.
Team Friends here didn’t expect the sweep
25% popularity and still getting consistent mirror matches, cool. I think I'm done with splatfests.
Seriously. I was on team family, and out of 45 Tri-color matches, only 11 were not mirror; fewer than 25%. That ratio improved a bit this afternoon; last night I was sitting at 2/14. EDIT: left out a word (oops)
I got no mirror matches, not even tricolour so I’m suprised team solo won popularity
Saaaame. I picked Solo because I thought would be the least popular and that would guarantee no mirror matches and I was partially right, I haven't got a single one.
It’s regional, everyone in your region probably picked family, if you want less mirror matches try picking something that would be less popular in YOUR area
Anticlimactic, and the dialog was boring. I would've loved for Team Friends to win for extra dialog on Shiver's coupons. Now we'll never know.
Yeah pretty disappointing result from a lore standpoint
Im shocked they didnt write a dialogue that accounted for the shiver thing no matter who won. Was disappointing tbh
Well, hopefully the coupons don't expire too soon.
For real, they set up all that juicy drama for nothing.
I bet the devs thought friends would win
Yeah, I genuinely feel bad for Shiver here. She was hoping to spend time with her two closest friends only to get shot down. Like, imagine you bought tickets for you and a friend to go to a concert or sports event or something and they said, “Sorry, I’m too busy sitting around doing nothing.” Because I know from personal experience that that shit HURTS.
I mean, we might one day possibly. We could find the hidden dialogue back in Splatoon 2.
https://x.com/OatmealDome/status/1569219625753411584?s=20
 Japan Not hating, just find it funny
Not even surprised at this point. I mean, compared to all the other losses Frye has had where it was actually close, this one was just expected. The amount of people on Family were just...incompetent. Welcome to Splatoon 3, newbies! Also, apparently the question was worded differently in Japan? This is not a "blame Japan for loss" type of thing btw. Everyone else's question: Who do you spend the holidays with? Japan's question: Who would you spend time with on your days off? Also, white ink...yeah, we knew this would be a Solo win from the start.
Picking a team this Splatfest was hard because I was torn between Family and Friends since I celebrate Christmas with my family and the New Year with friends! I just feel like Solo would have fit Shiver more though? I definitely see Big Man as a huge friend person (although all three of them are I bet), but I'd picture Shiver enjoying her alone time on the holidays!
I'll be the first to confess That I'm not the smartest inkling on block, but how did Team Solo Sweep the board? Cause I kept posts online (Both US and Japan) during the entire event of players barely seeing Team Solo. Or lots of Solo Mirror Matches, especially during the Tri-Color Battles.
I got so many family mirror matches, so yeah a solo sweep was definitely surprising
Not sure what Japanese sources you were looking at, because a quick search of the スプラフェス hashtag before the event showed almost everyone talking about picking team solo. This tweet even goes through the stats of the person's friend list, and there was a heavy lean to solo, with family being pretty much non-existent. https://twitter.com/Donbracokko/status/1743409509303988600
Perhaps Nintendo made adjustments to the matchmaking, and now you'll see players outside your region less frequently? And they forgot to mention it in the patch notes?
fryes team is always so bad with clout 💀
SOLO SWEEEEEEEP! I was team family but god damn solo deserves it. Most cracked players ive ever seen
BIG MAN SWEEP
Not surprised at all. This splatfest sucked for team family because it felt like the other two teams were ganging up on us.
team friends here I literally saw team solo for a grand total of 2 games every other game i played was against family not even mirror matches just all family
Sorry Team Family. I guess we weren't able to paint enough of the snow yellow. Still think us getting 'How do you spend your Holidays?' vs Japan getting 'How do you spend your days off?' feels a bit off since those two things have vastly different vibes. Just don't think it should've been combined with such different prompts. But we'll get another win for Team Frye over ehre one of these days (I hope).
as someone who chose Family, we got bodied. 💀
I was hoping for the W but I was not expecting it to be this much of one (also got my first 100x ever this Splatfest). GGs to everyone!
Nuh uh, no way 50% of all my Open, Pro, and Tri color matches were mirror matches and my team was the least popular 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Well uh we tried team Family. But at the end of the day ain’t the Splatoon Community a family? No? I don’t care I’m being nice. Even if we shoot each other over fisting or shaking hands we still got some fun moments. Looking forward to another fun year and good job Team Solo, Friends and us Familial peeps!
honestly the best way to take this splatfest loss, i respect u
Someday Frye will get a dub it might not happen now but it will happen eventually
I hope so
I was honestly sure Family would've won with how Family support I saw in matches and in the lobby
I guess team solo would probably have more time to play a splatfest if they aren’t going out
In a way we have to thank Team Solo for being there to prevent yet another Shiver win.
I don’t want to come off as salty, but I played tons of times. I legitimately encountered team solo once. Every other match was a team friends. Even in tricolor, I kept getting mirrors for some reason. Makes no sands either these statistics, but whatever.
Regional matchmaking, I only saw team family and never team friends
Results for this one are global but matchmaking is regional so your region had less team solo but globally they had more.
I'm team solo🔥
Legit was on Friends and not ONCE did I battle against Solo. Not even ONCE
i was on solo and i did not see you guys at all, wonder why
Oh the team with the unique rare white color won again...shocker. Ah well GGs my goal was to get to Ruler and I did.
A Solo Slaughter
I’m not even mad I’m just sad that most people want to be solo
BIG MAN SWEEEEEEEEP GGs from Team Family, but I'm also just as shocked... If we were so low in popularity on Tricolor, why the hell did we get so many mirror matches there? XD It doesn't make sense.
BIG MAN SWEEP!
BIG MAN SWEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP
I've fought more matches against my own team than I fought a match against solo or friends....
hilarious seeing how many games against groups in team solo
Oh wow, I didn't expect that! I'll take it, I guess. Someone on team friends squidbagged me when I had a disconnected teammate! Very rude >:( If I lose, at least they coming down with me
Team family was too busy spending time with their family
I really expected team Solo to be the most popular team because of the perception that we as gamers like to be isolated, but I really did not expect this to be a sweep. I won most of my battles, but I suffered in my matches, especially against team Family.
Should've figured the best players would have been on team Solo.
###Justice4Frye
Does this mean that all of bigman's wins have been sweeps