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SPLATOON ESPORTS HISTORY - Coggle Diagram
SPLATOON ESPORTS HISTORY
Origins
Game was designed with competitive nature in consideration, was designed to be something easy to pick up but hard to master.
The Game featured a ranked mode where players would compete in a variety of game modes to work up from C- to S+ (the highest possible rank), this encouraged competitive play.
The first Splatoon tournament was part of the Nintendo World Championship 2015, where the first stage featured teams competing in Best of Three Turf War Battles.
Japanese Scene
Splatoon is massively popular in Japan with the first game selling over 144,000 copies in its release week, and overall having the highest sales figure with all 3 games.
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Splatoon Koshien, an official annual Japan Splatoon tournament was the first major Splatoon Esports event, with its 2016 tournament (aptly titled "Splatoon Koshien 2016").
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Splatoon is so popular in Japan that real life concerts were held using holographic versions of the In-game Idols who performed to a live audience.
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Nintendo and esports.
Splatoon was one of the few competitive games that Nintendo created and tried to capitalise on its competitive scene.
Nintendo has created a handful of other competitive titles such as ARMS, Pokken Tournament, Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart. The only two to see any major support being the latter two titles and Splatoon.
Nintendo's relationship with esports has been infamously questionable, as whilst they have run a number of tournaments such as Nintendo World Championships, they have often had strange regulations either at this events or made other tournament organisers stick to tight restrictions.
Notable Teams
Team Jackpot
Jackpot were the winners of the Splatoon World Championship 2024, however they became infamous for later being disqualified months after the event as the team was accused of having made multiple racist remarks in the past, therefore breaking Nintendo's community guidelines. As such, all videos and mention of them from official Nintendo posts have been removed, this includes multiple videos of the Championship 2024, such as the Finals.
GG BoyZ
GG BoyZ is a very skilled team, based in Japan, they have not only won both World Championships prior to 2024 (2018 and 2019) but also won the Splatoon Koshien of those respective years.
Nintendo and Splatoon
Due to the immense popularity of Splatoon, Nintendo decided to explore its competitive scene by hosting multiple different tournaments and events for the game.
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The developers of Splatoon were very keen on keeping the game balanced and fair, so much so that throughout the lifespan of all 3 games, even if there was no content updates, there would often be patches to update or balance specific weapons or features.