Sendou

Sendou

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Competitive Splatoon & programming. Creator of https://sendou.ink

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sendou.ink update - October 24th 2026 To help you pick your SendouQ map pool win percentages from the last 4 season are now shown in the picker! Either pick your best maps (for wins) or worst maps (for practice) + there is a new developer-oriented docs.sendou.ink + other smaller things #sendouink

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sendou.ink update - October 23rd 2026 Higlights is the redesigned builds (weapon builds, ability stats, popular builds & user builds) pages. Brand new look and many new functionalities! Thank you @umizuumie.bsky.social for design work on this. #sendouink

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We also now save avatars on our end so there is no more changing avatar on Discord causing it to go blank on sendou.ink till you log out and back in If you want to update your avatar then there is a new button to do that without having to log out and back on settings page (also updates connections)

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Register now! sendou.ink/to/4478/regi...

sendou.inkIn The Zone 55The premier high/top player focused Splat Zones only tournament since 2018.
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ill be handling the broadcast for @sendou.ink's In the Zone #41 this upcoming Saturday, October 24th at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CEST 🎙 @chaedr.inkling.social @ej46spl.bsky.social @dhvf28.bsky.social @sasuinurpants.bsky.social feature i thought of on a whim: generate a casters graphic in the overlay

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Stellaris Phantasm #34 🥇 Was a new experience to play a gacha tournament. Props to the organizers very creative concept and to my mates was enjoyable.

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Playing Mini, Blob, 96 etc. was a lot of fun and maybe I should play those sometimes outside of a special rules tournament like this as well.

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sendou.ink update - October 16th 2026 1) new translate page w/ live preview feature 2) language selection was pruned 3) select site and in-game names languages separately 4) sq ready check 7->6min 5) sq map list now alternates groups 6) reporting weapon, own map pool quick select +more #sendouink

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Thank you everyone who contributed to every language so far! Reason why we now have fewer is just because many of those languages were added years ago with no active contributors and maybe not so many if any users. In-game name languages have same selection as before.

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Thinking of a few changes: 1) Make "custom url" mandatory and only allow changing it rarely. Show history of the custom url. To identify each account. 2) Make it forbidden to use in-game alt names in SQ/tournaments. 🧵 for reasoning but feel free to give your opinion here or Discord #sendouink

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I probably would have done 2) already but it finally could be automatically enforced with the scanner now. At first just warn user then start with short automated bans then longer. I just don't know what the legit uses for this feature are but that's what I'm hoping to learn if there are some.

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At the end of the day the rule is 1 player = 1 account. Being able to identify players is quite necessary for a competitive scene. Sadly rule breakers always exist so I'm keen to make measures that make things ultimately easier for our staff.

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Thinking of a few changes: 1) Make "custom url" mandatory and only allow changing it rarely. Show history of the custom url. To identify each account. 2) Make it forbidden to use in-game alt names in SQ/tournaments. 🧵 for reasoning but feel free to give your opinion here or Discord #sendouink

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So 1) is just because currently we have no lasting way to identify a user that they can't hide. So this would be your "@" name that Discord has. Must set before joining SQ/tournaments. Maybe something like supporters can change it once a season, others twice a year?

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For 2) the biggest motivation is to make alting harder but also it has side benefits. Makes it nicer to host. More automated stat collection opportunities. Better for casting tournaments.

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Update! Voice chat is in beta (by @hfcred.dev). If you used Discord you should more or less know how this works. VC both on match & group level. We also now support YT streams in addition to Twitch. Need to have #sendouink somewhere in the title/description for the stream to be picked up.

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Please try out the VC and tell us how it works for us. We want to get rid of "hunting for VC" part of SQ. + in addition there are some other upcoming features where this would be a very obvious fit. There were also many smaller tweaks and fixes. Check the img for those:

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This set was a roller coaster. Also if you use scanner it will automatically report comps & other stats for SQ and tournament matches. I promise to make some really cool😎 stats so might be worth start gathering already even if the current usage on the site is still limited.

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sendou.ink update - October 9th 2026 Headline is the new multi-step tournament form that features a visual bracket builder. We also have new formats with SE/DE groups. SE/DE can also now skip rounds (useful for qualifiers). Also other misc tweaks and fixes, mostly related to Scanner. #sendouink

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Even with only one PoV, the Coach Mode ™️ always saves the latest map frame as a reference on the side. Either do simple drawings without leaving the page or take it to the full Map Planner experience with the own team & enemy team comp ready to go.

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These interactions are so simple to implement now that the scanner exists but it just still feels so nice to play with this.. -> filter weapons down to tenta brella (4 games out of 14 game VoD) -> quickly jump through games/deaths/events with hotkeys I feel like it can be a game changer.

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What kind of events would you want to see the coach mode mark for you? Below what I have so far (+ push/defense + game winning variants for TC/RM) + if anyone could give me some footage for demo/dev purposes of around 2 PoV + top down minimap footage of around 10 matches (tournament or scrim) lmk 🙏

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Today's update! @hfcred.dev put work in and overhauled the whole chat. Along a slew of fixes like fixing stacked chats for mobile he added: - mentions - stickers - replies - new message divider - failed message retries + more! In addition: scanner speed & correctness improvements. #sendouink

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Main idea is to leverage the existing scanner data to build a more intelligent outline of your matches that you can easily scroll through. Imagine what already demonstrably works with clips but extend for... everything. Am I just going crazy here or could this be a genuinely useful addition?

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Oh yeah and obviously scanner makes it trivial to sync VoDs perfectly even if they are not the same length or even of the same sets of matches. But as mentioned the utility goes way beyond that.

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poc/feature exploration Optional "Coach mode" after you upload VoD. Quickly filter through matches and moments in the matches. For example imagine... 1) Watching my own VoD back, just back to back all the failed pushes -> efficient compared to manually finding those (nobody go time for that)

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2) VoD review with a team, watch many PoVs all synced up. Coach can draw on the screen and make notes available for players during the right stage+mode in SQ or tournaments 3) Watch lobstar VoD, how do they push against E-liter when they are down in points? Again find all moments like this in a sec

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[K]yo!
@kyochandxd.bsky.social

please have a look! thanks to sendou scanner i was able to capture the game winning quad while maintaining my focus on the X match! Sendou is way too amazing

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Just want to advertise this feature of Scanner a bit but if you have uploaded your tournament run to YT and want it also to /vods/new, it is as simple as reading the file in with scanner and clicking a button. No more filling timestamps/weapons/modes/stages manually no matter how long the VoD is.

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Always so satisfying to watch these graphs after some perf improvements. Currently half the requests resolving in around 5ms. You should have seen the same graph this time last year. Yesterday we had easily 700-800 players between tournaments and SQ and you can't really see it in the graphs at all.

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Thank you for the great response to the scanner release yesterday! Today's update adds Discord-like "crop/rotate/zoom" when uploading images. Scanner also now reads CB objective and X Rank powers. + fixed a bunch of Scanner related issues (tyvm people who reported!) #sendouink

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Speedran making a video on this since it's just that cool The new Scanner tool on sendou.ink has the potential to push Splatoon content significantly! It's never been easier to obtain and organize clips or otherwise decide on matches to highlight in videos than now. 🔗Link: youtu.be/7WHxmiYwBb8

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sendou.ink scanner is now out for everyone! - Scan VoDs or live footage via capture card - Computer vision reads the events off your capture in your browser - Upload SendouQ & tournament sets detailed data - Upload timestamped vods - Clips Give it a go and tell me how it works for you! #sendouink

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Huge thanks @hfcred.dev once more. His help in the prototyping stage really set the stage for what is even technically possible & how to get it working really fast

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sendou.ink scanner is now out for everyone! - Scan VoDs or live footage via capture card - Computer vision reads the events off your capture in your browser - Upload SendouQ & tournament sets detailed data - Upload timestamped vods - Clips Give it a go and tell me how it works for you! #sendouink