First place in everyone's hearts

No Splatoon news? It's fine; my Riptide vlog just went live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqb... 🏝️ Featuring sets from our team @maliburising.bsky.social, goofy shenanigans, and my reflections on this particular LAN as well as on community in general #compSplatoon

This was my other extremely clutch moment at Riptide #compSplatoon

The SCREAM we all let out when we won this game in overtime at Riptide for @maliburising.bsky.social Malibu? RISING!!!!!! #compSplatoon

We learned that @alwayssherbert.bsky.social is the most likely of @maliburising.bsky.social to hit the jackpot at the arcade (And it STILL wasn't enough for a good prize)

Riptide 2025 was the LAN of tummy aches and migraines and nosebleeds for Malibu WE STAY STRONG

The breakfast of champions (or Silver groups, whatever)

We had a day of Riptide matches against friends we've met through @metroink.bsky.social! Great way to close it out, going 2-1 in our Silver Pools sets, which means we're done for the weekend. GGs all, and thanks to Sasu for emergency subbing for us when Merci fell ill

We have made it to the Silver Bracket in Riptide after our day of pools! Merci unfortunately got really sick after our first set, but Sasu subbed in to save us at the last minute to play our other sets. And we got to play our besties at @rrremix.bsky.social!

Hi so yeah I'm at riptide fun fact I'm with Malibu rising! If you see me come say hi I have many stickers to give out

SEE YOU SOON, RIPTIDE! #compSplatoon Find us for these sticker designs!

The summer edition of the stickers for Riptide have arrived!

Our VC was going nuts for the reefslide under the basket maneuver Just @maliburising.bsky.social things 😇 #compSplatoon

Challenge: Find Malibu Rising at Riptide. Reward: Get free stickers!!!! We have our brand new stickers of our inksonas (for Rose, Sherbet, and Merci) with our logo, and assuming stickers arrive in time, we'll have chibi stickers of each of us in summer gear, special for Riptide! #compSplatoon

A little preview of our goodies for Riptide... @gaymerci.bsky.social made the logo, and our OCs were illustrated by @leixo-demo.bsky.social!

Assuming they arrive in time (CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND YOUR TOESIES!!!!) We will have a second set of stickers to pass out, this one being summer versions of our Riptide team! Featuring @roseofbattle.com, @notdin0.bsky.social, @alwayssherbert.bsky.social, and our artist @gaymerci.bsky.social 🥰

We'll be scrimming with C:\ Sea Drive tonight! You can watch it from Rose's POV over on Twitch at twitch.tv/roseofbattle It'll be our first time scrimming with them, and we're looking forward to it! Their team name is an A+ pun.

This week is front-loaded for streams! The Riptide folks at @maliburising.bsky.social are practicing tonight (and maybe tomorrow), so catch our scrim tonight against Mafia Studio! twitch.tv/roseofbattle I'll be at Anime NYC from Thursday to the weekend. If you find me, come say hi! #compSplatoon

According to @maliburising.bsky.social, this is Evil Rose (coz I look like Draco Malfoy). What weapon in Splatoon does Evil Rose main? (Also no, I didn't stay blonde--the pink is back on in full)

From last night's scrim! We've got lots to work on and plenty of room for improvement, but the zone lockouts are feeling better. www.twitch.tv/roseofbattle... #compSplatoon

We've got scrims tonight and tomorrow! Riptide is in a month! Waaaaaahhh!!! We'll be playing against UV Rays in one hour, and Rose will be streaming! www.twitch.tv/roseofbattle #compSplatoon

A little preview of our goodies for Riptide... @gaymerci.bsky.social made the logo, and our OCs were illustrated by @leixo-demo.bsky.social!

We had a fun time in Ranked Refreshments but dropped before brackets started for BEDTIME! @aceemerald.bsky.social: "this tourney is HOW LONG?!" @roseofbattle.com: "5 rounds of groups?!" @gaymerci.bsky.social: did artfight for 45 mins @jaytheprotagonist.bsky.social: an hour behind us and less sleepy

Today @gaymerci.bsky.social is playing at Anarchy NoVa!!! LET'S GO! GOOD LUCK, BESTIE!!!!

When you're taking a team drip pic, but the demons speak too loudly 💙 @alwayssherbert.bsky.social

Dapple triple in Supply Closet :)

We played Supply Closet for the first time and won Silver Bracket! @roseofbattle.com: Basement flooded before the tourney @jaytheprotagonist.bsky.social: cooking on vDapples! @aceemerald.bsky.social: thought she'd play reflux, ended up on her main @notdin0.bsky.social: cooking on L3! #CompSplatoon

The P2P in Splatoon works perfectly, no notes www.twitch.tv/roseofbattle...

Emmy: "Hey, Rose..." Me: "Emmy, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" 😏😏😏 ...*pulls out my baby after so long*

Congratulations to the winners of FTIU Week 81! Gold Bracket 🏆 Cooper Fanclub 🏆 🥈 Saturday Night Speedle 🥉 Reign Silver Bracket 🥇 Dubble Bubble 🥈 Starboard! 🥉 Malibu Rising Bronze Bracket 🥇 PANGEA 🥈 Strictly Splatonic 🥉 Sigma-Pickup.com (Female)

We're going out for ice cream!!! Joined by two of our OGs subbing in, we got Third Place in Silver Bracket of From the Ink Up 81! @notdin0.bsky.social: going out for ice cream @roseofbattle.com: watermelon sorbet @alwayssherbert.bsky.social: classic orange creamsicle @procyonspl.bsky.social: YUH!!

Most of our team had other obligations this weekend, so we've roped in a couple friends for a pickup today in Low Ink! Wish us luck!

Since Splatoon servers are down, why not watch the edited VOD of Malibu's run through A41 Zones last week where we won Silver Bracket? Just uploaded: youtu.be/xR4YwHNXuXs #compSplatoon

THE COMP SPLATOON CALLOUT FOR THESE IS GONNA BE TWINKS

The triple to win it in A41 silver finals!!!!!!! 🥈

Malibu drops only TWO GAMES in all of All 4 One Zones #40 and wins SILVER BRACKET! @roseofbattle.com: dread all day erry day @alwayssherbert.bsky.social: trislosher in your nightmares @aceemerald.bsky.social: had to survive on wellstring vs an eliter @procyonspl.bsky.social: SHOT QUEEN #compSplatoon

We're off to silver bracket!!! A close 1-2 loss to Red Leviathans stole the gold bracket placement away.

I've been catching up on shorts uploads between having several longform videos cooking in the oven. Quick one from this morning is taken from a recent scrim with a huge reefslider pop. youtube.com/shorts/jwOqv... #compSplatoon

We'll be scrimming with our friends at @washedspl.bsky.social tonight! You can watch at www.twitch.tv/roseofbattle

We are Malibu Rising, a competitive Splatoon team! Hot off a Top 8 Finish in LUTI Season 16 Div 9 Americas and making waves in low level, we've been around since September 2022 and reformed in fall 2024 with a new roster! 🌊🌊🌊 It's time to meet our team!

This is @gaymerci.bsky.social coded

LOOK AT US RISE! We finished this month's Low Ink in Gamma Bracket 3rd Place, a new record for us, and we'll be looking to break it next time. Thanks again to our subs! 💗 @roseofbattle.com: dread @yuwur0.bsky.social: stamper @aceemerald.bsky.social: wellstring @procyonspl.bsky.social: luna/vshot

Silly little tournament triple (as a treat)

Work schedules and an emergency accident took out half our team (Sherbert's okay! 💗), so we were fortunate to have @yuwur0.bsky.social and @procyonspl.bsky.social subbing in for us, joining Rose and Emmy! We went 3-3 and will be coming back tomorrow for Low Ink Day 2 Gamma Bracket!

From Division 9, here's @maliburising.bsky.social! Fresh off a Top 8 finish in LUTI S16, they've consistently put in hard work & effort. With a unique style of team, they'll be diving in headfirst out of Malibu waters & into your team! Look out for the splash they're making in #compsplatoon!

Nerfed by us being sleepy adults past our bedtime... 💤😴 Malibu took 4th place of Shark Tank Shallow Waters (and was undefeated in Swiss). I think we had silly things for a post but we are FALLING INTO BED and begging for no 2-hour Swiss formats in weeknight tourneys #CompSplatoon

CONGRATULATIONS, MAFIA STUDIO!!! When they knocked us out of playoffs we called it: We knew they'd win our division.

Real ones remember the first LUTI season of Splatoon 3

We got Silver Bracket 3rd place in our first ever Coral Clash! @gaymerci.bsky.social: support shooter juggler @alwayssherbert.bsky.social: nTri renaissance?! @aceemerald.bsky.social: it's hammer time @roseofbattle.com: slider triple! @jaytheprotagonist.bsky.social: get located, fools #CompSplatoon