Splatoon

I hope Marie is ready for an unforgettable luncheon.

Signups for the Mayo vs. Ketchup Splatfest rematch starting this Friday have begun. I have now officially joined Team Ketchup.

Excellent! Together we shall strike down the foul forces of Mayonaisse and raise up Ketchup to its rightful place as the superior condiment!

I will agree that as a condiment ketchup is superior, but as an ingredient, mayo has far more applications. I put ketchup on fries, hot dogs (if no good mustard is available), and maybe on top of a meatloaf before you pop it in the oven, but that's about it.

A game very near and dear to my heart is finally being brought over today, and I thought I'd use another game very near and dear to my heart to express my thanks.

Splatfest starts in one hour! Eternal glory to ketchup!

War.... war never changes

I did some Normal mode last night, and my teammates and I didn't fare so well. This afternoon, I tried some Pro mode, and my starting Splatfest power was 1826.7, after 1 win and 6 losses. I haven't been getting off to a good start, but I have reached Champion Rank, and I'll be going for Ketchup King after dinner.

I just made it to Mayo Royalty and I'm going to say, I think Mayo has this again, at least in terms of Normal Splatfest mode. On Friday, my matches were more even, but I still had a slight edge in wins, but my run of matches just now, I only had one loss against a ketchup team, and all of the others have been mostly curb-stomps with a few more even matches.

Mind, this is from the perspective of one player, so I won't be surprised either way.

For some reason, when I logged on yesterday, I kept on getting ketchup vs ketchup battles. Took a while before I finally got to fight some foul mayonnaise-liking degenerates; I had a string of losses, but then I ended up with a team I really clicked with and we won battle after battle after battle.

Yet I keep seeing news items about mayonnaise monsters winning 100X battles, so who knows. I guess a lot more people have embraced the truth of ketchup.

I see the resumption of Splatfest Salt has begun.

Yeah, honestly, Splatfests really are a mixed bag for me. They're a fun little event and great for getting people to log in and play, but the ranking/point system inspires so much salt. Since the game mechanics rely so heavily on teamwork, each match is basically random, and it feels super terrible to go on an absolute tear and ink 1500 turf while you get 12 kills and then lose 20-80 because your team is trash.

That said, the first match I logged in for yesterday I got a 100x battle and we crushed it like 60-35. RNG giveth and RNG taketh away.

Here's my final stats for this Splatfest.

• Rank: Ketchup King
• Normal Mode:
  • Win/Loss Record:
    • Vs. Team Mayo: 7/12
    • Vs. Team Ketchup: 6/7
    • Total: 13/19
  • Clout: 24,651
• Pro Mode:
  • Ketchup Power:
    • Starting: 1,826.7
    • Highest: 1,865.6
    • Ending: 1865.6
  • Win/Loss Record:
    • Vs. Team Mayo: 17/19
    • Vs. Team Ketchup: 6/5
    • Total: 23/24
  • Clout: 30,150

I got off to a rough start, but almost pulled even toward the end.

I just barely made it to king. Last match was an upset win (our team was rated 1850, theirs was 1940) and that gave me the last 90 points I needed (I was at 914/999).

Turns out I still hate splatfests. The limited time available and the splatfest ranking points turns it from a fun event to a frustrating, miserable grind. My total record was 17 wins and 20 losses — with most of the losses clustered at the end, where it took a full two hours of constantly playing to get through Champion.

God I hope Splatoon 3 fixes it so that Splatfest ranks are less grindy, or at least give more bonus for individual performance.

Congratulations Team Ketchup

Team Ketchup won Votes and Pro.

Mayo got dethroned... We got caught up...

Good has triumphed over evil!

Damn. Now I'm really paying the price for being a coward who would assume history would repeat itself.

At least I didn't turn traitor though.

Edited by RainingMetal on May 24th 2020 at 5:43:03 AM

Honestly not the way I saw things while struggling in the ketchup trenches, having to fight our own group intermittently. But I'll take it

The old Love VS Money Splatfest, which Love has won 3-0.

Edited by AceOfScarabs on Jun 24th 2020 at 8:43:52 PM

Club Herbert plus Shark Bytes = fresh high-quality rip

Edited by AceOfScarabs on Jul 16th 2020 at 11:15:09 PM

The Chicken-Or-Egg Splatfest will be rerun next month.

Also, there will be two more Splatfest reruns by next March.

The answer depends on whether it's referring to the egg in general or to the chicken egg in particular.

Scientifically speaking, the answer is objectively that the egg came first. Even if you're talking about specifically chicken eggs rather than eggs in general, the first chicken hatched from a chicken egg that was laid by not-a-chicken.