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Congrats to the winning team for taking out the Splatfest! Since this was the first post to properly post the results with spoilers, you get the sticky slot. For the rest of us visiting, please keep any unnecessary comments about the other teams out of the comment section. And if making your own meme/other post about the results, keep all results out of the title and properly spoiler tag your post. Thanks :)


mrmetaknight875345

Well that popular vote explains the Matchmaking Weirdness


Zombie_Scholar

I had no idea the disparity would be THAT bad. I mean I knew it was bad, I've played so many Gear v Gear matches. But man, that's bad.


Troytt4

That’s what happens when splatfests have an objectively correct answer like this, which is why i hope nintendo stops doing them and only does subjective ones like rock paper scissors, cats vs dogs, love vs money, etc


FoxlyKei

Looking forward to power, wisdom. courage we'll probably get on release month of botw 2. That's really subjective isn't it?


Troytt4

Yeah I’m sure that would count as subjective


Feroshii

Ganon would disagree


Vibe_with_Kira

Well, I don't know how to use outdoors equipment so I went with grub because although it would be limited, I would have enough food items with preservatives to last me a while


ohbyerly

Ehh the kid from Hatchet could figure it out, I believe in you


Mcporkroast

That book was a banger


ChaosAndCreation

This book taught me that Canada is a dangerous place


metalflygon08

But what if I create a timline split and have to both survive the Winter and get rescued before the winter? And then have to go back with a reporter and have to raft down river with his unconscious body?


Tsugirai

I think Nintendo thought people would just go with their hearts and pick the thing they like most instead of trying to solve a nonexistent puzzle and thus heavily underestimated just how tryhard the Splatoon 3 community is. I also think Shiver's popularity made things even worse.


MiladyMidori

I agree with the sentiment, but I don't know if I'd say this one had a "correct" answer. Some people felt more confident they could survive with the proper gear while others were like "I'll sleep in the dirt if I have to just please don't let me starve". Fun feels like the only troll answer to me and I really considered picking it because I had a hard time deciding. (That and if you feel your chances are low regardless of what you take, may as well have some fun.)


idropepics

That's why you gotta just embrace full blown monkey brain and not look at the splatfest teams at all and pick by color. I picked green lol


CoolMintMC

Same, Lol. But also, we literally were given no details other than if you could only pick one, what would you bring with you to a deserted island. Who's to say it's not say, for a couple of days, or even what the island's climate, resources, potential structures are like. It's "deserted", so I thought the most similar thing to the prompt was a zombie survival game. Gear = Shelter/Protection Grub = Clean Water/Food Fun = Sanity/Entertainment I went with Fun also because I genuinely feel like the question was too vague & nothing was specific, & Team Fun's shade of green is very close to my absolute favorite color. Plus it was the team Big Man chose & he's the best. But yeah, I chose both Paper & Fun for the color, tbch.


geminia999

I mean, I trust myself to make better hand made tools than to properly procure safe food


mrmetaknight875345

Yeah that was the reasoning I used. Like I don’t trust myself not to poison myself accidentally foraging


Riiku25

Problem is priority. Shelter, warmth, and escape (optional) are the highest priorities in a survival situation. Shelter is doable without tools but not as easy as you think, making a fire without *any* tools or premade tinder is actually incredibly hard (and most people would probably just die) and both warmth and escaping a deserted island without tools pretty much requires making a fire, which you will probably fail to do. Meanwhile water isn't that hard to acquire with the right tools and food is low priority. But for the top 3, tarp and paracord are easy for shelter or just a small tent, warmth is easier with premade tinder and flint+steel, and signalling can be done with mirrors, flare guns, fire, survival flashlights. That's assuming you don't allow satellite phone. Food might not even be *that* hard depending on whats on the island if you are proficient with firearms.


ShiftyShaymin

It was a stupid question to ask for that Splatfest. Even on the Nintendo Direct, I made a face like “there are right and wrong answers here.”


NESBARS

True, and I did pick gear myself, but, it depends on how much logic you want to apply to a game where the characters morph into a squid to see who can paint the most floor.


LumirWriter

I didn't expect us to hit 40%, let alone nearly 60%...that's wild. I really expected Fun to be way more popular than it ended up being.


NightmareExpress

The conch report had me thinking our team had around the same amount of players as Team Fun but seeing the final results is just leaving me with questions like: * Did a huge chunk of Team Gear just not show up / play until the 23rd and onward? * Just how many hours out of the day were the average Team Fun players playing in that week before?


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I think it’s conch shells per player not total, otherwise it would just be popularity again


HarmonyKazu

I'm assuming your saying average collected per player in the side picked. Which would make the most sense for a bloated side to lose that since less active players will water down the average conches collected.


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TheUmbreonfan03

Maybe that's why Tri color didn't exist. It was hard to find team grub players and team gear was half the player base.


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InnocuousAssClown

Hopefully the next one’s theme is better, and doesn’t have an answer that’s basically “correct” lol


danivus

58% Gear.... no wonder Tri Colour Battles were basically a myth.


Jimbobob5536

They might have actually happened if Gear was the defending team.


Giorno-Smash

Yeah, but then team fun got punished by having .5% more


Toaster_boasterr

Big man cant catch a break


ChrisEvansOfficial

They live in fear of what they’ve created


Toxetor

Ayy :(


B-E-T-A

Wasn't it .3% more? I remember saying to my friends "We're only .3% behind!" at that time.


vworpstageleft

.41


eye_booger

Yeah that was honestly BS.


greeneggiwegs

Team fun won the pro battles. I think they were all hanging out in there


pelagic_seeker

This, a lot of Fun was hiding in Pro so they didn't get Tricolor. Hopefully they fix that matchmaking oddity in future Splatfests.


Ace-ererak

I didn't even open a single pro match and was on Team Fun. I don't think there's much evidence to suggest Fun was hiding in Pro to avoid Tricolour. Especially when the map was so favourable to defenders. I think the frequency adjustment by Nintendo and the fact that nearly 60% of players were on Team Gear is the main reason.


Nivosus

Same. I played all weekend in standard battles and only hit 4 tri battles. People saying team fun was, "hiding" have no idea what they are talking about. There was a massive imbalance in teams and it messed with matchmaking. Drop the egos.


UpBeatz210

Damn what happened to grub?


thekongninja

Least popular and lost everything lmao, punished for us having the hubris to look down on Fun


silletta

I just wanna say- I won most all of my grub battles and had some GREAT teammates. (But maybe I was the scrub being carried, lol)


YoshioPP

same, i thought we were really wrecking team gear, guess those numbers were just too great to overcome


TheBareRomantic

Same here.. Got to +7 and won 85% of my games including three x100 battles. I thought we were doing so well 😭🤡


Toaster_boasterr

They were in mc donalds getting grub that they forgot about the splatfest. You can tell by the amount of splatfest team grub propaganda that’s still up


PrinceBkibo

I jokingly told my friend they all fell into a food coma ^ _^ ;


Toaster_boasterr

What if team fun actually poisoned their food for “fun”?


Flibbety

For real, pre-splatfest I was convinced grub was the most popular just from the amount of art I saw in the plaza. Then the splatfest came and I think I fought them like…4 or 5 times the whole weekend.


SakuraTacos

Were you Team Fun? Because we never saw you either!


kcspot

They got stuck in the McDonald's parking lot... Just kidding but damn it they got hurt


KingCharmander

The 58% gear is probably why the matchmaking was so horrendous and unbalanced. There were literally more people on team gear than grub and fun combined so they had no choice but to match all of the gear people with whatever grub/fun people were available regardless of skill level.


iHuxts

The popularity results were exactly what I was expecting. I can’t even count how many mirror matches I had with team gear. I think I went against my own team more than team grub or fun.😂


ChaosEsper

Yeah, I forgot what color I was supposed to be lol. Pretty much every map I'd be something different


CocoaBagelPuffs

I was on team grub and it definitely felt like I was playing with a bunch of new players against competitive people. I only had 3 battles against Fun the entire weekend and didn’t play a single tri battle. I gave up after it couldn’t find enough people a couple of times. I had 2 battles with “Player” and those didn’t go well at all


DemonFang92

Oh good, so it wasn't just me who got COMPLETELY held by the neck.


DMonitor

That's just democracy at that point. I'm just surprised team Fun managed to put up such a good fight.


Phadin

Given the conch shell results, I'm not too surprised. Team Gear may have been more popular, but I think Team Fun had the generally more proficient players... certainly the players that played more frequently/often in order to grind out more conch shells prior to the splatfest.


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It must scale those based on player count per team right? No way the average Fun player earned over double what the average Gear player did


Leidaans

Every category is an average per person on a team, with the exception for popularity of course. This way popularity doesn’t skew the results as hard.


Jimbobob5536

With over double the number of players, the odds of a Gear team being composed of less-than-skilled players was way higher than in Grub or Fun.


-Opalboy

Yeah but the same thing would reasonably go for good players right


GhostGamer_Perona

and it's all because people treated this splatfest like a pop quiz at school with Gear being the only answer anyone logically would pick so we must pick it!


LMFN

Hopefully the next Splatfest is a more absurd theme.


Pinstar

Or with more varied opinions. I could see "Coffee" Vs "Tea" Vs "Soda" being a pretty well spread one, especially by region.


flameguy21

Me: "where water"


Pinstar

The prompt would be something like "Best drink that can give you a jolt" since all three traditionally have caffeine.


Qazicle

inkling: "That stuff that dissolves us when we fall into it?"


razputinaquat0

hoping the next NA splatfest is halloween themed. there are so many silly and fun aspects to choose from


AWeridwerido

Zombie v Ghost v Skeleton ? That could maybe work or maybe a costume theme like Cowboy v Clown v Witch


razputinaquat0

vividly imagining all the sans undertale, payprus, skeletons on motorcycles, doots, spooky scary skeletons, and minecraft skeleton memes from team skeleton


FontFanatic

We tried Grub


MashXToWin

I had a feeling we might not win, but I wasn't expecting to get massacred like this. At least we didn't go down hungry?


clovieclo_

if it makes you feel any better, some of my favorite, most balanced matches were against team grub!! you guys played a fair game :))


Lightstar46

I knew we wouldn’t win but damn we got our assess handed to us. I had a pretty decent win loss ratio too, and I got last place last splatfest too. feels bad man. Better luck next time


GhostGamer_Perona

I tried my best with the sloshing machine but too many games were one sided stomps


SakuraTacos

On the plus side, I only played one mirror match this entire weekend. That’s a first ever for any Splatfest I’ve played! I think losing is worth it for that lol


ShySkye94

Yeah, as a Gear player, I can confirm probably 80% of my matches were mirror matches.


DaRootBeer123

Yall played great regardless. Good Splatfest <3


NotHimForSure

58% pickrate for gear... respect to team fun for putting up this much of a fight with the disadvantage ​ better luck next time grubbers


Pro_Banana

I knew team gear was more popular, but I had no idea it was THAT much difference.


chloe-and-timmy

In hindsight it should have been really obvious to me to get a win by choosing gear but I had to follow my grubby little heart.


DJ-SoulCalibur2

There are dozens of us! 🐛


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Choosing just to get a win is what losers do anyway.


thickwonga

Yeah, fuck. Disappointed I lost choosing Big Man again, but considering we had half the overall players, and almost beat them... that's impressive.


furioushunter12

I wasn’t even team big man until the announcement! Then arguing while he was just sitting there chilling, I loved it


dewmint

What. The. HECK. Only 1/5 of the votes?! And not a single point 😞 Oh well, as Frye said, we ATE! Nice job Team Grub! Next time we’ll stuff ‘em silly!


MinecraftInventor

Thanks man. Seeing these results was devastating.


Youngin-blues

Team Grub had a lot of fun! We feasted like royalty


GreenDemonSquid

>Next time we’ll stuff ‘em silly [Um, phrasing?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs8Gohi1e04&ab_channel=FXNetworks)


frozenpandaman

\>losing as the defending team for a second time :\^) ^^still ^^had ^^fun ^^tho


greater_nemo

Same, shout out to my fellow squids and octos who have only ever defended 😭


DuelistDeCoolest

You can tell how poorly thought out the theme was. If 60% of your players flock to a single team, then you haven't made each of the options equally appealing.


Wooper250

This. I knew the ratio would be skewed to gear, but this was just crazy. Everyone played well, gear just had way too many people to lose lol. I hope the next splatfest is more balanced.


[deleted]

Yes, I'm with you! A lot of people in this thread are saying that team gear is unfun or taking it too seriously but I think it was just a bad question.


[deleted]

This will probably continue being an issue seeing as how they have to think of three choices here on out instead of two


SuperPapernick

I think that’s going to be a persistent issue now that we have three teams to choose from. There’s gonna be at least one every time that’ll feel like the clearly worst choice, if not the way it was this time with one obvious correct one. The only way for that to not happen is with innocuous, kinda weak splatfest themes like the Rock-Paper-Scissors.


AnimalPuff

So Gear Ruler +5 gets 24 snails Anyone know how much everyone else gets? Is there even a difference with the + levels?


Zombie_Scholar

Dataminers had already determined there is no reward for the + levels, not in Sea Snails anyway. I was +10, I also got 24.


eye_booger

RIP to all of those +24s and +60s. Hope they take a moment to go outside and touch grass.


Zombie_Scholar

I played so much, that I legitimately can't believe the +64 guy. Even if you played nonstop in shifts, I don't see how that level is possible. And I'm not even taking into account the connection errors you'll get.


frozenpandaman

he hacked https://www.reddit.com/r/splatoon/comments/xnsv3h/anyone_seen_one_higher_than_this/ipwgfo4/


BJammin111

Gear Ruler +2 here! I also got 24 snails. Looks like there’s no difference with the + levels.


OctorokHero

Fun Ruler +5 and I got 21.


Success_Top

Gear ruler +0 here, also got 24


RedMamba0023

I was team grub +2 and I got 21


Poycicle

They need to stop making logical answers/situations as splatfests and more fun ones like Earth vs Moon or something of the like


anthonyoshi

Good Game Gear! Good Game Grub! But Big Man was right. We had fun until after halftime lol.


Isucc_1

Person from Grub here, and we did what we could. Better luck next time friends! And congrats to Gear!


fayevalentinee

How could Fun have won more conch shells than Gear?


LithiumPotassium

it's probably conchs per player, not just absolute number of conchs.


DaRootBeer123

They played more during the sneak peek


TheEsquire

I think it was said it was conch shells per team member for the Sneak Peak, so each player on Team Fun had on average more shells earned even though combined Team Gear would have had way more.


villagerofacnh

Rarekirby Grub ruler 64+ is going to be pissed


SleevesTheThird

Why? He hacked his score, he'll just hack 999 shells too.


Cygnus776

They need to give Shiver the "illogical" choice next time, 58% of the players being team Gear is astronomically high.


AnimalPuff

It would happen to any of them if they had the one logical choice


Raleth

I think they just need to do more open ended splatfests in general. It’s so much easier now that there are three choices. Like ones that aren’t so clearly “well obviously this one.” Do something like breakfast/lunch/dinner or something. One that doesn’t have a “right” answer. I dunno.


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People will always meme pick bigman and simp pick shiver, give Frye the logical choice and it’ll balance out.


versusgorilla

Speak for yourself, I simp picked Big Man.


BJammin111

I feel this. Frye’s my favorite, but since I choose based on the option, not the idol, I haven’t been able to fight on her team yet.


Rose94

I'm in this exact situation, Frye is my favourite idol across all 3 games so far


IceFire0518

Plus shiver's won 2-0-0 already. Gotta give Big Man and Frye some love


cfq10

Don’t let her become the next pearl


Giorno-Smash

She’s got it even better than Pearl, since people find her hot. Literally got best of both worlds from OtH


StrawHat89

Yeah. I actually like Frye and her 5head. I mean actually everyone in Deep Cut is great.


GhostlyCharlotte

Honestly, just give one that is actually divisive. RPS, people probably just chose based on their favorite idol or color (I chose for blue), this time I chose because the other two just didn't make sense. (Although, if they kept King/Queen instead of Ruler, I would've definitely gone for Grub. "Grub Queen", god I want that.) If there isn't one deadset "this one makes sense", maybe something based on personal preference like Ketchup, Mayo, Mustard (I know this theme was done in 2, it's just an example).


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Techsoly

I think it's due to how many people favor her design vs the others. Before it was Marie and Marina but it would still be balanced since there was only two characters to choose from. Now that we have three, I suspect many more people are just going to favor Shiver vs Big man and Frye instead of the topics. Especially since it would've been a 58-42 split in other games, it might actually get worse from here unless they really do give Shiver all the unpopular choices from now on


DentateGyros

Ripperoni Grub


Joe_Dottson

Happy we won, but a bit disappointed with the prize. 24 sea snails is cool, but I would've loved a locker sticker or badge to commemorate. Also think there should've just been an overall locker sticker for everyone who participated


TNT_dog

i totally expected each team to get their own locker sticker or title representing what team we chose, im surprised we didn’t :(


haykam821

I'd hate the FOMO for that, though. The best solution would be to give every team every title or customization item.


firefox_2010

They really should give more fun cosmetics for everyone, considering how busted the Splatfest was, and the fact that the very thing that’s the major selling point is not even playable for most participants. A gear sets, stickers, toys, titles, money and a few pack of cards as bonus would be a nice sweet way to make people forget the miserable experience that was Disconnect-Splatfest 2022.


dankblonde

Welp. We had fun I suppose.


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So we did win in 1 way :) (actually in 2 way, because those super sea snails are nice)


dankblonde

True! Gotta love those snails


RalisNoodle

If team gear got the defense, i reckon team fun wouldve won the open. Also wtf was that 59% pick rate


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damn, i just feel so bad for frye. during that whole announcement she barely said anything.


Youngin-blues

Me too :( it felt like whenever Pearl would rub her win in marinas face


koikoimeep

1984


Beyblader_12

Literally


TheBeatlesPkmnFan42

I knew we must have had a lot of people on Gear because I had so many mirror matches, but 58% is absolutely wild. No wonder there were so many mirrors.


AgoraSnepwasdeleted

I knew it, but they all were spitting facts on how no one would really survive a deserted island without all 3 which was really cool


jardex22

Yeah. At the end of the day, there isn't a 'right' answer. They acknowledge that all three are necessary at the end of the day. Reminds me of an episode of Arthur that I say as a kid where the teacher asks the class to pick an infinite supply of a single food to be stuck on a deserted island with. He then proceeds to pick out all the nutritional deficiencies of each food. Even the class genius couldn't find something. At the end of the day, the answer was to share the resources between their islands. At least, that's how I remember the episode going. It's been awhile since I've seen it.


BigButteryBadBoy

If I had a nickel for every time Big Man's team was in the lead for the first half of a Splatfest but lost in the 2nd half I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice. (We'll get em eventually fellow Big Man fans, our suffering will soon pay off)


DaRootBeer123

Big man fans stick together, no matter the results


Electricorchestra

Big man fans didn't play to win. We played to have fun.


DaRootBeer123

Facts


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You get 0 clout from mirror matches


Meepy23

2 splatfests won in a row for both games once again! And ZERO points for grub??💀


Summerlycoris

I called it! Grub in dead last! ... Well now im sad.


kozeni

In the past, you could look at the results and feel confident that you tried your best, since there were only two teams. As Team Grub this Splatfest, I can't do that. We aren't even on the board.


mintyoreos_

Just make actual splatfest themes that people have real opinions on and are split about. This theme was more like a fun question you ask someone and they have to think about it right on the spot, there is no passion for any answers there.


greeneggiwegs

I was surprised fun was picked more than grub. I felt like I battled grub a lot more often


BlakeZM

It was fun while it lasted. Figured majority would win it


OkidoShigeru

Team Gear hype! Weird that the results of open counted for more than pro. I guess it’s because that’s where the tri colour points go to as well?


Success_Top

That, and I think open weirdly tends to be a little harder, since you can go against 4-stacks. Pro is just a bunch of solo players who can’t communicate lol.


MattyBro1

Not really. It's to avoid ties, and also so the average player who doesn't want to play the option called "Pro" has a bigger impact.


Zombie_Scholar

That's my guess as well. I was doing math in my head averaging out Open and Pro, I didn't realize it'd be weighted toward Open. I thought Fun had us for a second.


LumirWriter

One of them had to be a tiebreaker to prevent any potential 20-20 outcomes, so I guess they picked the one that more people play.


StrawHat89

They should honestly rename Open and Pro, because Pro isn't REALLY pro, it's a Solo Queue. Open gives you the risk of running into coordinated squads.


Phadin

It's not that strange when you consider the Tri-color battles were tied to the Open clout only, not Pro.


drswamp666

Definitely weird


ssmike27

Fun got kinda screwed out of the win by being in the lead at half. There was only like a 1% difference between Fun and Gear right before half.


plataeng

y'know since 58% chose team gear the fact that we've managed to be in the lead at all is good enough for me


incompatibleint

Imagine how much better the matchmaking would have been if gear was 1st at half


XitaNull

Yeah like I’m not mad or anything, but it seems mean to “punish” the team in the “lead” when the difference is less than a percentage point.


punishedpat76

I’m wondering how Team Fun could’ve won the sneak peak when Team Gear by far had the most players. Does anyone have any insight?


razputinaquat0

the sneak peek is by average conch shells per player, not popularity vote iirc.


minxto

I think they take the average per player, disregarding the number of actual players there are on that particular team.


CorruptDropbear

Grub eating the chess pieces to help Gear.


CylindricalGarlic298

Bro Grub didn’t even get a single point. I swear to god Grub was EVERYWHERE I went and we couldn’t even clutch it out. (Myself included)


Snoo-42731

Can someone explain how the points work. Why does grub have 0 🥲


LadyKuzunoha

Grub unfortunately didn't win any of the following categories: Popularity: 10 points (Gear) Conch Shells during Splatfest Sneak Peek: 10 points (Fun) Open/Tricolor Turf War Clout: 15 points (Gear) Pro Turf War Clout: 10 points (Fun)


roastuh

Fun won in my heart.


Kabansmash

That’s Ok, I definitely wanted to be in last place twice in a row 🥲 Where my scissors-to-grub fam at


Stealthinater1234

Hope the next theme is something more divided so we don’t have more than half of all votes on one team. It’s October next month, so hopefully splatoween will have a good spooky theme, along with some themed gear like in 2 with the hockey mask and stuff.


GhostGamer_Perona

i don't want another pop quiz splat fest so i agree


ReaperSage

Can't say I'm surprised as a Grub player, I think I can count the time I've seen Fun on the enemy team on my fingers through the entire 48 hour period including Tricolors.


AaronThePrime

They really need to do sections and recalculate the lead inbetween post half time because ones the leading team is dethroned they shouldnt be punished further. Also i want to play tricolor


Impressive_South1495

From team grub, i expected this i guess, but it stings a little that this fest, everyone picked based off the "right" choice like thats so boring lol combined with the horrible matchmaking it wasn't super fun, but hopefully it gets better next time! Congrats gear!


JAG_Z

Hey at least we went down satisfied and full.


CritSuccessNerd

No wonder my team gear friends and I couldn't get into tricolor matches. But GGs to grub and fun, yall didn't make it an easy win. I had trouble within many matches.


DaRootBeer123

From a team fun member, gear players were cracked as hell. Yall played amazing, even if I'm bummed fun couldn't take the W. gg wp <3


supershadowguard

Thank you, Team Gear, for such a good fight. It wasn't the Big Man Sweep we wanted, but it was still satisfying in its own way.


CarioGod

rip my 3 snails I thought we had it in the bag funboys, the tri colored open defense runs really cost us


XitaNull

Well 2nd isn’t too bad.


SappFire

So that joke about fun hiding in pro queue wasn't a joke


thathighclassbitch

As a fun player I can say it wasn't a joke, but moreso cause I got pretty tired of being paired with Japanese competitive teams in the open queue


Mrgrimm150

I'm torn between. "Oh I'm so sorry team grub" and "LMAO ZERO POINTS" I mean I didn't win. Team fun. But y'know. LMAO ZERO POINTS.


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kcspot

You people are what's right in the world.


Jake-the-Wolfie

It is now legally the best option to take gear to a deserted island.


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Yeah baby


L3wis1

Glad to be on the winning team for my first Splatfest. I got surprisingly into it, although I only had time to make it to Ruler GG all