Recount Lifts Dola’s Team From Seventh to Fourth and Into Day 2 of Nijisanji Splatoon Event

NIJISANJI — Dola’s team advanced from League B on the first day of Nijisanji’s Splatoon 3 tournament, Niji Ika Matsuri 2026, on Saturday, finishing fourth with three wins in five matches after the organizers corrected a standings table that had first shown it seventh. Dola, who joined the team as a stand-in, played alongside Sorahoshi Kirame, Sakaki Ness and Gaon. All four streamed the day on their own channels.

The team went by Attaka My House (“warm my house”). In the interview before its first match it said the name came from calling the high ground on the Manta Maria stage “my house”, a phrase it judged easier for teammates to follow. A viewer had tallied the team’s win rate on Manta Maria at 25 percent, a number the four joked about on stream. Each match was best of three, played on Splat Zones, Tower Control and Splat Zones in that order. The team won its first match 2-0, lost the second 1-2 and won the third 2-0. In the third, a teammate said afterward, the team would have lost the Tower Control map had Dola not pushed the tower further at the end.

“I’d been brought in as a stand-in, so I really wanted us all to go up.” — Dola, closing the stream

Manta Maria, which the team had avoided in every earlier draw, came up as the first stage of the fourth match, and the team lost 0-2. In the fifth and last match it dropped the first Splat Zones map, won Tower Control and took the deciding Splat Zones map, a stage the team called its real “my house”. That made the match a 2-1 win.

The first standings showed the team seventh, with the map point-difference column at zero, a figure that did not square with two 2-0 wins. The players asked the organizers to check it. Ness said he spotted the problem because the earlier league’s tiebreakers had been settled on knockout counts, a separate figure. Teammates suspected a slip in how the last result was entered, and Dola said she had reported it with the opposing team’s number first and might have caused confusion. When the recalculated table put the team fourth, the four thanked Ness. Kirame said she had felt something was off but could not explain it, and was glad Ness was on the team.

As a fourth-place finisher the team is not seeded and will open Day 2 against a team the players called Battou, which they said they hoped to beat. Ness, who played with a cold and said his runny nose had stopped by the end, said the team had found a counter to the rear flanks that beat it on Manta Maria and would settle his and Gaon’s positions. Gaon said he was glad to be playing another day.