First Splatfest Concludes in Europe and North America

Splatoon's initial Splatfests in both Europe and North America have concluded and the results have been announced.

Splatfests are an occasional competiton between players in one region who pledge allegiance to one of two teams depending on a survey question. They then do battle over the course of 24 hours to find out which choice is truly the best.

In North America, where players were asked to choose their favourite pets out of cats and dogs, dogs were overall victorious with a score of 160 compared to cats' 140.

This was mainly due to popularity - 62% of players joined Team Dog compared to the mere 38% on Team Cat, meaning that even Team Cat's narrow victory during actual battles (counting for double the points of the popularity category) wasn't enough to beat the dogs overall.

Over in Europe, where the focus was on favourite music genres, rock fans took victory over pop fans in both categories, with 64% of the votes and 53% of the wins.

Two Splatfests have already taken place in Japan: one in June, in which rice was victorious over bread in both categories; and another on Friday, in which Akai Kitsune branded udon beat out Midori no Tanuki branded soba after receiving more votes but fewer wins.

Further Splatfests are expected to take place in the near future. Splatoon continues to be updated on a regular basis with new free content.