Seible and Chirukiru Gals Bow Out on the Final Day of Nijisanji’s Splatoon 3 Tournament

NIJISANJI — Seible and teammates Kuri Eita, Nagisa Trout and Itsuki Sakyo were knocked out of the Niji Ika Matsuri 2026 Splatoon 3 tournament on Sunday, the event’s second and final day. The four played as Chirukiru Gals (ちるきる☆ぎゃるず), a team of Nijisanji streamers, and each streamed the day on his own channel.

Seible opened with ranked warm-up matches before the bracket began. In a pre-match interview, the team was asked about its day-one results; Seible and the others joked that they were sleepy after a late night. Matches were best-of-three in a double-elimination bracket, so a team had to lose twice to go out. The group took its opening match of the day, and Seible’s teammates praised the team’s calls and its steady play. A *gyaru* mindset, staying upbeat and keeping up the chatter on voice chat, was the team’s running theme: when the next match slipped away in the winners bracket, the four told one another to keep their voices up and to treat it as a lesson before moving on.

“I gave it everything. I think I did my very best with everything I can do right now.” — Seible, after the elimination

Their losers-bracket match against a team Seible described as a title contender went to the wire. With seconds left, the team was still pushing for the objective, but the match ended in a loss and the tournament with it. Chat answered with a wave of “NT” (nice try) and thanks for the team’s run. Teammates said Seible had improved at an extraordinary pace over the week, and Seible thanked them for teaching him and carrying him.

With the bracket over, the four used the lobby’s camera to take group photos, posing with their weapons in front of a ramen billboard on the stage, and agreed to go out for ramen together. Kuri Eita said he had no regrets and called it a good memory from his first Splatoon tournament, and Nagisa Trout and Itsuki Sakyo each said they wished they had done more for the team.

Seible closed the stream alone. He said a week earlier he had hardly known the game and that his teammates had supported a beginner throughout. He said playing Splatoon 3 as part of this team had been more fun than the game alone, and that the call-heavy Japanese team play had taught him a lot. He then said he was tired and would rest.