Senri Ayumu’s Four-Person Team Drills for Three Hours Ahead of Weekend Tournament

NIJISANJI — Senri Ayumu and three fellow Nijisanji talents spent more than three hours on Tuesday drilling as a team for a tournament this weekend, working through a study session on stages and a string of practice matches in Splatoon 3.

Ayumu warmed up solo for about an hour and a half before joining Yamada Ryuichiro, Yuuhi Riri and Hibachi Mana, who are playing together as Team 20. The group opened with a *zagaku*, or study session, in which members went through routes, high ground and ways to hold or retake it across five stages. Tips included a squid roll that reaches a spot otherwise out of reach, and the others asked for a teammate’s notes on movement technique, which were sent around as screenshots. Hibachi said on his own stream that the tournament falls this weekend and that the team is together for this one week only.

“Rather than everyone watching videos one by one, it’s faster if one person watches and shares it.” — Senri Ayumu, closing the stream

The practice opponent was VOLTACTION, announced to the group as the team they would face in a private match. Team 20 won it, and the group celebrated the result. Later matches kept the pace up, and after one strong stretch one of the participants declared, “This is Team 20.” In chat, viewers wrote “Payoff from the study session!” and “Everyone’s strong...!”

Toward the end the group went back over stages it had not yet covered, with one of the participants walking through approach routes and where to hold ground on a map. The team name also came up, since it has to be submitted in writing, and “Tada no Ika” (“Just a Squid”) was floated as a candidate. Ayumu closed by thanking his teammates for the shared research.