Team Power has won the Splatoon 3 x Splatoon Raiders Splatfest with 365p. Here is the full result, how the Raiders theme fits Nintendo’s current event cycle, and what players should claim now.
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Team Power takes the Raiders Splatfest, but the numbers tell a tighter story
Team Power has won the Splatoon 3 x Splatoon Raiders Collaboration Splatfest, closing the weekend event with 365p. The official Splatoon North America account confirmed the result on X, saying the event had wrapped and reminding participants to claim their Super Sea Snails in the plaza.
The final podium, as reported by Splatoon North America and multiple Nintendo-focused outlets, finished with Team Power in first at 365p, Team Speed in second at 285p, and Team Tactics in third at 220p. On paper, that looks like a clean win. In practice, the category breakdown published by Nintendo Everything shows a Splatfest that kept shifting under players’ feet.
According to Nintendo Everything’s full results, Team Tactics won the popular vote with 40.97 percent, well ahead of Team Power’s 30.28 percent and Team Speed’s 28.75 percent. Team Tactics also led at halftime with 33.80 percent, narrowly ahead of Team Speed at 33.65 percent and Team Power at 32.55 percent. Team Power’s eventual win came from the scoring spread across the event’s categories, including a Sneak Peek lead at 33.48 percent and a Tricolor Battle lead at 33.62 percent.
That makes this one of the cleaner examples of how Splatoon 3 Splatfest results can defy the first impression left by votes alone. Team Tactics had the biggest crowd. Team Power had the better path through the scoring table.
The full Splatoon 3 x Splatoon Raiders result breakdown
Nintendo Everything’s published breakdown gives the clearest picture of how the Splatoon Raiders Splatfest was won. In the Sneak Peek category, Team Power led with 33.48 percent, followed by Team Speed at 33.29 percent and Team Tactics at 33.23 percent. That was an early sign that Power had a stable base, even before the weekend battles settled the final ranking.
Votes went in a different direction. Team Tactics drew 40.97 percent of players, while Team Power had 30.28 percent and Team Speed had 28.75 percent. For anyone who picked based on perceived crowd momentum, Tactics looked like the safe bet. But Splatoon’s event scoring has never been a straight popularity contest, and this result underlines that tension.
Clout split across the modes. In Open, Nintendo Everything lists Team Speed at 33.75 percent, Team Tactics at 33.51 percent, and Team Power at 32.74 percent. In Pro, Team Speed again edged the field with 33.82 percent, Team Power followed at 33.46 percent, and Team Tactics landed at 32.72 percent. Tricolor Battle is where Team Power’s finish mattered most, with Power at 33.62 percent, Tactics at 33.40 percent, and Speed at 32.98 percent.
The final score, then, is less a story about one team dominating every lane and more about one team holding the right categories at the right time. For players searching Splatoon 3 Splatfest results after seeing the final announcement, the useful takeaway is simple: Team Power won, but Team Speed and Team Tactics each had strong pockets of the event.
How the Raiders theme connects Splatoon 3 to Nintendo’s next release
This was a Splatoon 3 crossover event built around Splatoon Raiders, Nintendo’s upcoming spin-off. Nintendo Life reported that the Splatfest asked players, “What’s your fighting style?” and split the community between Team Speed, Team Power, and Team Tactics. The outlet also tied those choices to the three tank types players will encounter on Raiders’ Spirhalite Islands.
That framing matters because Raiders is being positioned differently from the mainline competitive loop that has kept Splatoon 3 active. GamingBolt describes Splatoon Raiders as a single-player-focused spin-off centered on repeatable expeditions across the Spirhalite Islands, with exploration, combat, resource gathering, loot recovery, crafting, upgrades, and preparation between runs. GamingBolt also notes that Nintendo is presenting it as a single-player-focused action shooter, even though previews have drawn comparisons to roguelikes and extraction shooters.
The crossover theme was therefore doing two jobs at once. It gave Splatoon 3 players a familiar weekend ritual, complete with teams, tees, clout, and Super Sea Snails. It also put Raiders’ action vocabulary in front of the current audience before launch. Speed, Power, and Tactics are readable Splatfest choices on their own, but in this event they doubled as a soft onboarding tool for the new game’s combat identity.
That is sharp marketing because Splatoon’s best ideas often click through feel before explanation. A player may not know yet how a tank type behaves in Raiders, but they know what it means to self-identify as fast, forceful, or clever during a Splatfest. Nintendo’s crossover is using the multiplayer crowd to teach the language of a spin-off that, according to GamingBolt, shifts the series toward solo adventure and repeatable raids.
Raiders is changing the tempo, and the Splatfest result plays into that
GamingBolt’s preview-style explainer describes Splatoon Raiders as a departure from the series’ competitive multiplayer roots. Instead of the main focus being Inklings and Octolings firing ink at each other in competitive modes, Raiders centers on expeditions through a new archipelago. The Spirhalite Islands are described as bio-diverse and vertically explorable, with locations ranging from tropical shorelines and foggy hills to lava-ringed islets.
The player character is also different. GamingBolt reports that players control a mechanic hired by Deep Cut, rather than simply stepping into a familiar multiplayer combat role. After a mysterious light causes an emergency landing, that mechanic’s tinkering skills become part of the story setup, with treasure, relics, island secrets, and the search for a way home driving the adventure.
There is still room for company. GamingBolt says the story-driven missions are designed to accommodate solo players, but raids can also be tackled with up to three friends in four-player co-op. The same source says online matchmaking can be used before an expedition, and that solo play involves a member of Deep Cut piloting an Exploration Bot.
That context gives Team Power’s win an amusing thematic fit, although the sources do not say it changes anything inside Splatoon Raiders. Power winning the crossover event is a community outcome in Splatoon 3, not a confirmed gameplay modifier for Raiders. The practical distinction is important: this crown belongs to the Splatfest record book, while Raiders’ actual systems remain what Nintendo and preview coverage have described separately.
Nintendo’s current event cycle is serving both live game loyalty and launch promotion
The Raiders Splatfest lands at a useful moment for Nintendo. Nintendo Life noted that new Splatfest themes have become rarer in Splatoon 3 following the Grand Festival, which makes any fresh theme feel more pointed. This one was not a broad food joke or personality prompt. It was a direct Splatoon 3 crossover event attached to a new Splatoon product.
IGN’s sponsored BRISK x Splatoon Raiders page says Splatoon Raiders is being celebrated with a San Diego Comic-Con fan experience on July 24 and 25 in San Diego’s Gaslamp District, including hands-on gameplay demos of Splatoon Raiders on Nintendo Switch 2. The same IGN page lists Splatoon Raiders with an initial release date of July 23, 2026. Because the page is an advertisement by BRISK Iced Tea x Splatoon Raiders, its event details should be read as promotional material, but the listing still shows how the game is being placed in the public calendar.
Together, the Splatfest and the Comic-Con activation form a clear event runway. First, Splatoon 3 players get a themed competition that turns Raiders’ combat identities into team loyalties. Then, days later, promotional plans put Raiders in front of attendees with demos, merchandise, and a physical Ink ’n’ Aim Challenge using Salmonid-inspired targets, according to IGN’s page.
For fans, the useful read is that Nintendo is keeping Splatoon 3 socially active while steering attention toward Raiders. For lapsed players, Team Power’s win is less important than the signal around it: Splatoon is in a crossover cycle right now, and the next major stop in the provided source material is Raiders’ launch window and related public demos.
If you played, claim your rewards; if you missed it, watch the next seasonal slot
The immediate player action is straightforward. Splatoon North America told participants to claim their Super Sea Snails in the plaza. Nintendo Life also reminded players to pick up prizes if they participated. Those rewards are the only confirmed post-event action in the provided sources, so players who joined Team Speed, Team Power, or Team Tactics should log into Splatoon 3 and check the plaza rather than assuming the event ends at the results screen.
If you missed the Splatoon Raiders Splatfest, the sources do not confirm a rerun. Nintendo Life says players will have to wait for the next seasonal event for another Splatoon 3 Splatfest, but that is the outlet’s guidance rather than a dated Nintendo announcement in the material provided. My Nintendo News includes a reader comment hoping for another Splatfest in October, but that is community reaction, not scheduling confirmation.
There is also no sourced claim here that Team Power’s victory unlocks a Raider-specific bonus, changes Splatoon Raiders, or affects the new game’s launch content. The confirmed win is a Splatoon 3 event result: Team Power Splatoon fans get the crown, participants get their prize claim prompt, and Raiders gets a timely spotlight ahead of its Switch 2 push.
For anyone catching up, the headline answer is clean: Team Power won the Splatoon 3 x Splatoon Raiders Collaboration Splatfest with 365p. The richer story is that it did so while Team Tactics had the largest vote share, Team Speed performed strongly in several clout categories, and Nintendo used a rare late-cycle Splatoon 3 event to teach players the shape of its next Splatoon experiment.