#I was team Frye and most of my matches were against Team Big man

[lovely-hikari-cosplay]

Alright, atp, Tricolor needs to be reworked so that the team in the lead is always defending (since Tricolor is supposed to be a catch-up opportunity for the losing teams) or the points need to be reduced.

There is no reason for Tricolor to still be 18 points if the leading team can be in any position, meaning they have a greater chance at winning period and thus unable to be unseated from the lead position.

You can correctly assume who is winning Tricolor by who wins the popular vote every time since they changed it to get more matches made, and that is antithetical to the purpose of Tricolor battles

[totaldramafan-lauri]

Apparently, I dodged a bullet by not being active in the Splatoon community on still-calling-it-Twitter, cuz apparently......things have gotten......a bit heated during the last few Splatfests.

Again, just as a reminder: I took a break between the Zelda Splatfest and this recent one, so I was NOT aware that Shiver was on a win streak. But....I-I don't mind it, and not just because I love her, but....because I'm used to it. Something similar happened in 2. There was a Pearl win streak at one point (during the old "reverse popularity contest" system). I forget how long it was, but I do distinctly remember Marina actually getting upset in-universe about it after the end of one fest. I-I hope that doesn't happen this time....

I-it didn't really hit me just how popular Shiver was.....after all, one of the last fests I took part in was the one where Team Alien, Frye's team, was the most popular. And Big Man had Team Water, which was the most popular. And I've skipped a total of....I think four. So yeah.....I didn't realize this. I knew Shiver was popular, but I didn't really think of her as a runaway favorite or anything, not as bad as Marina. At first, I thought this was because maybe Big Man happened to have the most vocal fanbase, but....

.....Turns out.....the reason it didn't seem that bad to me....AND the reason I had next to no mirror matches despite being on a team of 55%.....

.....Most of Shiver's success comes from Japan.

Y-yeah, at least, that's what people are saying. While Deep Cut are about equally popular internationally, Shiver is overwhelmingly popular in Japan, which has the most players and (from what I can tell) a lot of the best players. That's why it didn't seem like we had a lead to me, because the vast majority of my team was cut off from me due to ping.

I can't speak for the other fests I've been in - all of them have had predictable results to me and it never seemed like Shiver got a random amount of popularity no one saw coming (She won popularity for Gear, but I saw that as "the obvious choice", and she also won popularity for Power but I assumed that was people liking villains or something - and while she won overall with Nessie, she didn't win popularity) - but for the ones I wasn't a part of, maybe this was also the case? If Shiver really winning popularity just cuz of her Japanese fans, that's news to me....

Still, I wouldn't call her winning streak unearned or anything...*shrug* But maybe I just like seeing her win....? But still, I don't pick her every time.....I think I can shed my bias enough to say that I feel like not all of her wins came outta nowhere.....

But in this case, when we were literally voting for the idols themselves, I can definitely see it.

People are begging for region-locked Splatfests again for this reason, and.....while I don't completely agree (cuz of how bad some regional themes were in 2 like the toilet paper one or Spoon vs. Fork)....Y'know what, if it'll make people calm down, sure, I'll be for it. I just....have seen a lot of extremely rude comments toward Shiver and her fanbase over this, and it makes me uncomfy. I don't want too many people to turn against my girl. =<