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Splatoon Stronghold @splstrong.com · 28/05/2026

Today we’re celebrating 4 years of Splatoon Stronghold! It’s crazy how fast time has flown by and how much we’ve grown since 2022. We couldn’t have done it without you all, so to show our appreciation, our Head Artist @elibvn.bsky.social has created some Cas wallpapers for the community!

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Scepidilionz @scepidilionz.inkling.social · 01/05/2026

It's time to tell you the truth. SSC has been dead for a long time. Let's talk. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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What Happened

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Worth noting that if the apology for the gem situation involves trading which person is “the bad one,” it’s not really growth. It’s saying “I’m sorry I picked the wrong team”

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 10/09/2025

If you are celebrating violence, take a moment to think of whether you still have the moral high ground. Even if you despise them, you can still be the better person and recognize that loss of life is never cause for celebration.

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Great-Hero-YELLOW @great-hero-yellow.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Now that I’m back from #riptide2025 and my TL is full of LAN sentiments, I decided to add my own piece. As both a writer and a sentimental person, I can’t speak with brevity about how much this first LAN experience meant to me, and the amount of thanks I have for everyone there. (Thread 1/8 🧵)

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 02/09/2025

+4 NA Open League, >2400xp, no backline. Dm saminospl on Discord if interested.

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DRF @drf-splatoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The community involvement in the Splatoon NA League is absolutely the biggest breakthrough of this whole event. It shows that Nintendo NA is in fact invested in everything we have done and that they are still all-in on our "little" esports scene here. This feels like a decade in the making.

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 28/08/2025

Blog post -> Video would be cool

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mar @marcushatesshot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

hello i made a guide for putting images videos dividers etc. fancy stuff in your tournament description on sendou.ink you can check it out here note: if you're viewing it on mobile view it in the docs app and enable view in light mode or it'll look weird #compsplatoon #splatoon3

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Stylizing your tourney description on s.ink

Introduction (for stylized sendou.ink Tournament pages) Best viewed on a computer (color issues on mobile Dark Mode) Disclaimer: I’m by no means a code expert so sorry if I’m missing anything lol ...

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ely 🔜 AREA CUP Live! @elymental.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

hi good mornkng splatoon three observer / spec cam guide youtu.be/ikExEUyfAUI feel free to reply questions here or DM me, I'm not an incredible speaker so I may not have been the clearest requested by @ckk312.xyz #compsplatoon

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A guide to Splatoon 3 spectator camera

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Splatoon Stronghold @splstrong.com · 27/08/2025

Fall 2025 has big events in store for Splatoon 3 as it nears its 3rd anniversary. Riptide, New InkLAN #5, SuperJump 6, and when to expect news from Nintendo on the Splatoon 3 NA League are in store! Check out, here: www.splatoonstronghold.com/news/upcomin...

A rectangular image with a dark gray background that is patterned with curved black arrows. In the top left and bottom right corner are orange ink puddles. In the top right and bottom left corners are blue ink puddles. To the left of the center, white text reads, "Upcoming Major Splatoon 3 Fall Tournaments". To the right of the text is an orange and blue kraken with a fleur de lis pattern, surrounded by orange ink splashes

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Magic8Ball #FreePalestine @splatbooks.ink · 26/08/2025

Riptide getting ~500 attendees is blowing my mind. Those are numbers that attract eyes, if you actively push in the right places. Not just the “oh this is a fun little game I’ll ‘sponsor’ a team”, but the peripheral companies and the energy drink teams, looking for opportunities. A #compsplatoon 🧵

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Magic8Ball #FreePalestine @splatbooks.ink · 25/08/2025

When you, as a victim SSC was attempting to help, perpetuated lies and vitriol so only YOU could speak on the matter — under the threat of legal enforcements and public backlash — they have every right to disprove their claims (like how YOU did the same). You are the exception, not the good kind.

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ely 🔜 AREA CUP Live! @elymental.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

you may ask: why does my stream get shit from a butt for viewership answer: casuals/viewers arent on twitch, other platforms like tiktok are untapped markets that we need to sell to (part of the) solution: stream to multiple places at once!! its free!! obsproject.com/forum/resour... #compsplatoon

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Radha @ismiseradha.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I've remained silent on recent discussion, and will probably remain to do so, but If people in this community have the ability to put hours of their time each week to help run it You can put 5 extra minutes to word something mindfully and with nuance Be respectful, we all want the same thing

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Cyren @cyrenbanshi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

There's not a single Splatoon TO whos extrinsically motivated to do this, btw. No one is making a living off this, we are not "professionals", we're humans who put our own time, effort, and resources into making this work.

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Fisk @zapfisk.splstrong.com · 23/08/2025

My thoughts on Splat Safety and recent community discussion

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I understand that this discussion is extremely emotional for many. However, I hope we can all find common ground in that something like Splat Safety should exist. Without something like it, TOs and organizers (like me) could not do the work they want to do and would likely quit (and we're already seeing a lot of organizers expressing that they are no longer motivated). More importantly, victims would have to make their case to many different orgs to get perpetrators out of the community, and I don't think any org would be equipped to adequately investigate a situation like Splat Safety does. Without something like Splat Safety, the community becomes a much more hostile environment towards victims.

I trust Splat Safety, and its volunteers have my utmost respect. They voluntarily and repeatedly investigate the darkest sides of our community to keep it safe, without any pay, without anyone saying thank you, with many community members spreading hate against their work. I cannot stress enough how emotionally difficult that must be. I imagine the only thing that keeps them going are altruistic beliefs in a better and safer community.

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I can see how others do not have that same trust, especially if you feel Splat Safety has acted unjustly. I hope that some can watch their video and see the same maturity and responsibility for a safer community that I did, but I also understand that some will not. Trust takes time to build, and is almost impossible to keep up for a small volunteer org like Splat Safety, when the cases they regularly deal with too often contain extremely dividing sides. I hope you can at least see that Splat Safety and its volunteers have good intention.

I understand and encourage voicing criticism you have of Splat Safety. I would ask you, however, to not spread hate or misinformation. Sending emotional, short, and not-fact-checked messages is far easier and faster than trying to investigate and find the truth. Please take the time to carefully review the public information we have before sharing your opinion. Please realize that in many cases, you will not and should not have access to every part of a case. Spreading hate and hurtful messages doesn't help anyone, let's talk about this in a constructive way.

To quote Dr. Piggy, "Twitter justice doesn't work." Bluesky justice doesn't work. For everyone's safety and well-being, we need an organization like Splat Safety. I hope that at least this is something we can agree on.

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Chara @prochara.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Please take the time today to listen to the TO's and other community leaders who are speaking about their experiences today, there have been many times their voices do not get the attention and respect they deserve and we have lost too many people good people already, I'd like to not lose more.

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 23/08/2025

If the community is so quick to dogpile on anyone who is out of line or makes a genuine mistake, which organization will be next? It happened to Dapple this last week, it's happened to IPL, whose to say it won't happen again? We're expected to gain the trust of a community that we can't trust. (3/3)

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 23/08/2025

The community's utter negligence, careless spread of misinformation, and lack of a willingness to exercise due diligence and look at the case for what it truly is disappoints me. Without Splat Safety, organizers are going to burn out so fast. The community is now actively driving TOs away. (2/3)

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 23/08/2025

After the community's reaction to Splat Safety's post, it's incredibly demotivating to want to continue doing community work. I'm passionate about what I do, but much of the joy has been sucked out. It's hard to trust a community that's so quick to judge without considering the implications. (1/3)

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HoeenHero @hoeenhero.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

All of this because the community trusted an incomplete story and so much hate was generated that someone decided an appropriate response would be to commit crimes. SSC isn't perfect, IPL isn't perfect, I'm not perfect, nobody is perfect. But we all genuinely try to do the right thing.

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xi @imxi.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I might just stop TOing after I'm done with my upcoming responsibilities. The players act like we get paid to be here and don't thank us basically ever when we work at least 3 hours (often more) every edition to give you a fun, fair, and safe tournament experience to the BEST OF OUR ABILITY. (1/3)

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Thyme @freshsquiffer.inkling.social · 23/08/2025

Regardless of personal feelings, SSC has always been something I really took pride in our community having Their investigations seemed to take more time due to how thorough they were- which made me feel much better about them I remember how devastating the hack was and how some were overjoyed

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Boing @boing.ink · 23/08/2025

It truly is important for competitive splatoon players to know they've earned less than nothing and are lucky anyone bothers doing anything for them anymore. Unfortunately for the TO and staff side of things, we like the game as well 😵‍💫

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Birdger Town @hugeburgertownden.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

very confused by the response im seeing to this -allegations come out -splat safety says “we arent gonna make a statement yet cause theres an ongoing legal situation” -everyone gets mad -splat safety makes a statement -everyone gets mad at splat safety cause theres an ongoing legal situation ???

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toastγ @toastyspl.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

When this happened, there was so much panic behind the scenes that never saw the public eye. Many TOs no longer felt safe running their events, knowing that there was intentional harm done to try and attack the SSC, that does all of its volunteer work to help in keeping the scene safer, and TOs.

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Magic8Ball #FreePalestine @splatbooks.ink · 22/08/2025

Thank you for taking the time to articulate your thoughts with extensive nuance and perspective, for the sake of explaining your side of a tense, confusing, and extremely publicized occurrence in our community in pursuit of furthering the purpose of safety to the community.

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Joy @joythedatanerd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Worth noting that splatsafety was doxxed and the resulting doxx was circulated as a result of this case. The backlash against splatsafety is conveniently memory holed now but it was intense and quite serious.

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Thoma @thoma.inkling.social · 22/08/2025

We as a community need to have real dialogue about what exactly safety looks like and how to achieve it in a way that still has a baseline of unbiased and through review to ensure integrity for both those who report their cases and the accused in those cases Whether or not you agree with the video

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 19/08/2025

Tech companies are seeming to get continually worse at protecting data, especially newer startups. There's plenty of tools out there to secure things easily; they just choose not to do because it's "extra". See the recent Tea App scandal. (tldr: everything, incl. drivers licenses were unencrypted)

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 19/08/2025

Age or any kind of biometric verification will not only kill the internet, but also make companies holding this data (the number of which will continue to go up) very appealing for hackers. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when a data breach will happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWf...

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The War Against The Internet

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Radha @ismiseradha.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

not to be sub tweety or anything... but...

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Power @andhy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Eliter won area cup!

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Maddie/Madeline 🏳️‍⚧️ @madmaidenmadeline.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Shouldn't divs estimate a teams skill level, and not you as an individual player? I think X power should be the way to determine your own skill level because it shows that you can work well with other people, despite the lack of communication with your teammates (from someone new to #compsplatoon)

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Samino @saminospl.splstrong.com · 05/08/2025

euphoric is the only way to describe the music from the f1 movie

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Pika @pikadave465.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Got this out and it's enhanced by the current relevance of discussions around growing the scene and developing player skill. Let's turn discussions into actual change that we want to see! Why Splatoon Needs Good Analysts and Coaches 🔗Link: youtu.be/3AvR2tER7I0?...

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Why Splatoon Needs Good Analysts and Coaches | Splatoon Community Discussion

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xi @imxi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The SWS Replay Code Database is now live! 60+ replay codes featuring some of the best competitive Splatoon players in the world are now available for you to use (until they expire in a month, so act fast)! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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SWS Replay Code Database

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Inkling Performance Labs @iplabs.ink · 04/08/2025

We're not quite done yet! The Splat World Series will be revisiting every match played off stream to release them as fully casted tournament sets. Keep an eye out on the IPL YouTube during the coming weeks to catch these hidden gems as they come up. youtu.be/_UcrXzLUawg

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What's next for the Splat World Series?

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Splatoon Stronghold @splstrong.com · 03/08/2025

Signups for Season 4 of the Stronghold Beginner's Academy are now open! Learn more or apply today at www.splatoonstronghold.com/academy

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Dapple Productions @dappleprod.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Squid Junction 100 - The End of Squid Junction 23rd of August 7 pm ET / 1 am CEST Double Elimination Starting prizepool: 300$ + GOLDEN sendou.ink badge This tournament will be the last instalment of the series. Thank you all! Server: discord.gg/HhstwnMezR Sign-up: sendou.ink/to/2329/regi...

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Gabe :] @gabe-sword.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The Western Scene Spectating

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ambird 🌤️ @ambirdoodles.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

there's always that one person... 🦑💢 🏷️ #merch #splatoon #art

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Broadcasting Esports Every Play @broadcastbeep.com · 30/07/2025

All right the jig is up. No more procrastinating. It's time you knew the truth... About our Tournament Ranking System :) We've been hard at work with this system and have a bunch of tournaments ranked under this system. Here's how it works!

Broadcasting Esports Every Play Tourney Ranking. A system designed to rank tournaments by its size and top level attendance. Its purpose is to assess the skill required to win a prestigious event.

Tournaments are ranked on a scale from Unranked to S+ (Super Major). The higher grade a tournament is, the more stacked the competition and stakes are.

Individual plalyers are given a point value based on their placement on the previoius SendouQ Season User Leaderboards.

The closer a player is the top of the leaderboard their point value increases.

Tournaments must meet minimum requirements before being ranked such as having a broadcast and a minimum of 8 teams.

A tournament earns points base don the players that participate in the tournament. Extra points are awarded to tournaments that are invitationals.

Tournaments will receive levels of coverage by Broadcasting Esports, Every Play TM depending on their rank.

Player Points: Not Top 500 = 1p, Top 500 = 8p, Top 250 = 16p, Top 175 = 24p, Top 100 = 60p, Top 50 = 100p, Top 25 = 160p, Top 10 = 200p

Tournament Ranks: Not Qual = 99-0, C = 100 Qualified, B = 1800 Mediocre, A = 2800 Average, A+ = 4000 Strong, S = 5200 Major, S+ = 6000 Super Major

We hope this tournament ranking system helps viewers discern the prestige of different tournaments and encourage competitors to participate in high-stakes events.

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