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Jonas Albrecht posted:Oof, winner announcement got delayed. Winner announcement usually happens during the second newscast after Splatfest, so we'll probably find out at 2am PST/4am CST. Which is more useful with a tri-slosher, special charge up or main ink saver?
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Feb 21, 2016 08:16
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Cialis Railman posted:Winner announcement usually happens during the second newscast after Splatfest, so we'll probably find out at 2am PST/4am CST. Nintendo said the winners would be announced simultaneously at 1am CST.
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Feb 21, 2016 08:20
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Nintendo said the winners would be announced simultaneously at 1am CST. Oh. Apparently the rumor going around is that some people were trying to sabotage splatfest. I'm fairly certain that's just people trying to tie a conspiracy theory to lovely teammates and bad connections, though. And I first heard about it through Tumblr so...
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Feb 21, 2016 08:47
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Whoops, I wasn't paying attention to when Splatfest ended so I only got to Blue Fiend. Seems like it would have been a good Splatfest too.
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Feb 21, 2016 08:47
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 Blue Wins. Marie Wins. Everybody Wins.
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Feb 21, 2016 09:07
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Jonas Albrecht posted:
Marie won a thing! It's only been, like, six months.  My winstreak, meanwhile, remains secure. 
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Feb 21, 2016 09:10
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Blue (or Green) destroyed Red in every territory, but Japan was a slaughter of a higher magnitude. 
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I have the vaguest suspicion that that exceeds the maximum character count.
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WarpedNaba posted:I have the vaguest suspicion that that exceeds the maximum character count. Nope, 10 Character maximum for Pokémon. Marie chose a great name for that Vulpix.
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Feb 21, 2016 10:21
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Cialis Railman posted:Oh. Even with a concerted effort its not really possible to sabotage a Splatfest team which is more popular. If you made a squidkid alt account of the less popular team to queue up for battles and then abandon them to leave that team in a 3 v 4 that would work. But the more popular team has lost in wins% in basically every single splatfest. Unless that is to say that the popular team is always being sabotaged by a diff/2 population from the "less popular" team implementing a strategy as such. If that was in place though for Team Red they certainly did a good job hiding their sabotage. I never had a single team mate disconnect during a match. Sometimes i'd have disconnects from the lobby after getting awarded my points. I always spend these things leaving every lobby after 1 round, trying to join at the same time as my friends are. So I usually get a better look at the general team capabilities than smarter squidkids who find a winning team and stick out the 2 hours in one lobby. But jfc the Red team was just plain godawful. They were certainly disconnecting their brains after hitting the 'Join Splatfest Battle' button. You really can't carry a team of 3 morons. I do remember one resounding success against a team of blues with a level 2, 5, 5, and something respectable. But that dear level 2 splatterscope despite my best effort had several confirmed kills on my team mates. So I guess the 'sabotage' lesson to take from this is that children are just bad at the video game and you should always pick the opposite of the thing they like. Was glad to see players who weren't 9 monthers / level 35->50 for once. Also Splatfest still isn't fun. The road to Champion (10/10, 25/25, 50/50) is relatively sane but I made the mistake of playing two 'evenings' of Splatfest and fighting my way through 99/99 Champion aka King for the first time in a while and those requirements are arduous and you really feel every minute tick by as you go from a 3 game winning streak with equal teams and telling your SO you'll be done in 21 minutes! To taking 60 minutes because you lose every single match to the end. Is a divide of 2 points to 5 points really necessary? But never speak ill of lord and savior Splatfest so i'll just cut it off here >8
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Feb 21, 2016 11:17
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Feb 21, 2016 11:19
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The Deleter posted:You're a whiny baby. I put myself through Champion and actually felt the considerable skill bias on the two teams. I feel like I'm missing some Splatoon-competent-players-secret poll every Splatfest now. All of these Splatfest topics seem like 50/50 arbitrary choice polls but consistently you have the significantly less popular team have a significant win-rate ratio. Is there some reasoning i'm missing here? I was playing last evening when the Splatfest started, and I would get a team of random competency squidkids from level 5 -> 50 and I wound up facing about 20 different teams of Pokemon Blue supports who were all level 50. The game would throw me up against better players than I, teams of mobile, tactical, clear S+ rank murderers, and my team mates would despite my best efforts to wipe the enemy team and paint them a foothold or maintain a chokepoint, just run straight into murder and fail to paint anything.
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Feb 21, 2016 11:36
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Feb 21, 2016 11:40
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Knorth posted:Holy crap  u 2
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Feb 21, 2016 11:49
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Holy poo poo if it's that easy to troll you then I think you should probably play something else. I mean I agree about playing to King/Queen because I don't have time for that poo poo, but your constant complaints about teammates and "busted" matchmaking make you sound like you belong in the Dota thread. I was on Blue team this splatfest and I had a bunch of lovely games, and hell I made a whiny post too, but that's anecdotal as gently caress and I had no clue about the bigger picture. I didn't make up wild conspiracy theories about how Splatfest works, or why what is essentially a random poll with some minor rewards is in fact rigged. You are taking this minor event in a kid-friendly shooter game way way too seriously. Hahaha holy poo poo I saw your new post and you really think it's rigged, that's comedy gold. You deserve that title.
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Feb 21, 2016 11:55
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The Deleter posted:Holy poo poo if it's that easy to troll you then I think you should probably play something else. Hey dipshit did you even read the post where I say "its not rigged. Its definitely not rigged. I feel like i'm missing something because the pattern is consistently low population = high winrate, high population = low winrate. but its definitely not rigged." But no, please take my "Haha maybe these problems are exacerbated by the fact i'm apparently really bad at coin tosses. look at this salt.png" post as "its definately rigged" e: Why the gently caress would I play something else. Its a fun game. I'm levelling up all the equipment to max as a goal. And I definitely enjoy playing the game every day in 30-40 minute bursts. All of my greivances are with Netcode which doesn't matter when you can turn the game off after playing 3 matches or 30. And a terrible mode that forces you to play 2-5 hours in a 24hr period to get value out of.
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Feb 21, 2016 12:05
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zolthorg posted:
Not fresh. Not fresh at all. 
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Feb 21, 2016 12:23
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I say just try a few splatfests where there's no modifier and see what happens.
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Feb 21, 2016 12:40
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What the gently caress is this? I just got up, turned on the game and found out that EU Splatfest is over already? It's usually 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday! I never even got to take part at all, why'd they change it all of a sudden?
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Feb 21, 2016 13:02
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Suaimhneas posted:What the gently caress is this? I just got up, turned on the game and found out that EU Splatfest is over already? It's usually 6pm Saturday to 6pm Sunday! I never even got to take part at all, why'd they change it all of a sudden? This was one happening simultaneously worldwide. The voting booth had the hours listed.
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Feb 21, 2016 13:10
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Looks like even if I had noticed, I would've been at work or asleep for most of it anyway. That's really annoying, even if it was the same theme it's not like they had all the regions playing together, so what's the point of changing the times? 
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Feb 21, 2016 13:17
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Suaimhneas posted:Looks like even if I had noticed, I would've been at work or asleep for most of it anyway. That's really annoying, even if it was the same theme it's not like they had all the regions playing together, so what's the point of changing the times? They probably tabulated the results from the worldwide statistics as a whole.
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Feb 21, 2016 13:18
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Neddy Seagoon posted:They probably tabulated the results from the worldwide statistics as a whole. Nope, each region had their own scores. I guess they wanted to see how well their network scales out something.
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Feb 21, 2016 13:37
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The first thing I was hoping to see when I woke up was the results. The second thing was this.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:38
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Maybe a bunch of good people pick the less popular option because they figure there are a bunch of kids who picked the more popular option.
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Feb 21, 2016 16:36
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Jonas Albrecht posted:
Yes, Turtle Tank supremacy!!
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Feb 21, 2016 16:59
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I can't believe a super sea slug is the equivalent of 30,000 (what's the currency?). I was rich as gently caress for about 10 minutes until I squandered it all. I must get rid of all ink saver (sub) from all decent gear.
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Novasol posted:As a bucket main, Blackbelly Skatepark is a map made of wishes and dreams. So many free kills on ledge-camping snipers. I am probably now a bucket user forever. I went into the Splatfest using my old friend the Krak-On roller for old times' sake, and just wasn't feeling it. I switched back to the Slosher Deco and proceeded to crush it all the way to Blue Queen. My teams this time around were average. Had some shut-outs where we pushed them all the way back to spawn, but mostly pretty normal. 'Grats to Team Marie. GG Team Callie.  Now I am excited to play Pokemon Blue on the VC later this month. EDIT: OH! I forgot. I squidbagged a dude for the first time yesterday! I was making an rear end of myself at the enemy spawn in Blackbelly. Went after this dude with a Tri-Slosher, popped a Kraken. A split second later, he popped his Bubbler and proceeded to swim around me, squidbagging. I fell back, waited a few seconds, and Splatted him with my normal one-two Slosher punch. Then I squidbagged him. A few seconds later, he re-spawned, Splatted me, and squidbagged me.  I wasn'te even mad, because it was funny.
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zolthorg posted:e: Why the gently caress would I play something else. Its a fun game. I'm levelling up all the equipment to max as a goal. And I definitely enjoy playing the game every day in 30-40 minute bursts. All of my greivances are with Netcode which doesn't matter when you can turn the game off after playing 3 matches or 30. And a terrible mode that forces you to play 2-5 hours in a 24hr period to get value out of. You aren't being forced to do anything. If you get tired of playing during a Splatfest then just stop playing. The value is fun.
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Suaimhneas posted:Looks like even if I had noticed, I would've been at work or asleep for most of it anyway. That's really annoying, even if it was the same theme it's not like they had all the regions playing together, so what's the point of changing the times? Oh that's why the time was a little bit different, it was only off by an hour in Freedomland.  the truth posted:Maybe a bunch of good people pick the less popular option because they figure there are a bunch of kids who picked the more popular option. I like the color blue!
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I haven't done the math on this, so I could be way off, but is it possible that when there's such a discrepancy in popular vote that the more populous team gets an overwhelming concentration of unskilled players? As in, can we explain the destruction without invoking some "all the good players vote for the less popular choice" conspiracy? Let's assume that the Splatoon player base is split roughly 80% unskilled and 20% skilled, then the Splatfest vote goes 70% Red and 30% Not. Let's further assume the skill is evenly distributed. Can we then say that Red will always have a tougher go of it, due to Red vs Red battles and having a harder time getting a competent group of four together? I'm worthless at stats so I honestly have no idea if this is possible. Intuitively it sounds workable but my stats intuition is usually wrong so  .
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Feb 21, 2016 18:19
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If you vote for the side you think will win, then you don't deserve your sea snails.
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pokeyman posted:I haven't done the math on this, so I could be way off, but is it possible that when there's such a discrepancy in popular vote that the more populous team gets an overwhelming concentration of unskilled players? Statistically, the less popular team will have an easier time keeping up a good win rate, which is why the less popular team wins every time after they altered the formula to affect how much the popular vote affects the score.
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Feb 21, 2016 18:48
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Best $10 I ever spent. 
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Rexroom posted:If you vote for the side you think will win, then you don't deserve your sea snails. I vote for Marie and the legacy of Team Dog. I also think I will win every time. I also am wrong most of the time. Splatfest is rigged I tells ya! Rigged in favor of FUN
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Now that splatfest is over I'm quickly reminded why I don't play as much anymore. There's nothing more infuriating then getting a direct hit blaster on someone, hearing the noise; then having that someone turn into a kraken and fly into you, instantly killng you, or having someone do a really stupid predictable drop down ambush on you, only for him to reappear on the ledge he fell on, then fall on you again and kill you, over and over again.
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i wouldn't mind instantly dying every time i had the misfortune of trying to fight someone who has a fully charged bubbler/kraken if it didnt mean i have to claw my way back up in rank points every time i lost. I almost exclusively play during splatfests these days.
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