ok then. Statement from a discord server I'm in.
honestly, i feel like now everyone knows shiver's team is gonna win, so its just more likey shiver is gonna win, by the final fest, it will probably be a 100% popularity for shiver, meaning a shiver sweep gaurenteed, so at this point, each splatfest from here on out will just have less and less participants cause everyone knows the outcome, so we get bored. in conclusion, the devs are just screewing up the game more and more, and they just dont know it.
TL;DR by letting shiver win, it'll be less fun to play splatfests. Ya really want to get unfun shiver vs shiver matches? just think about it!
(btw censored it 'cause jesus knows how much swears were in the original message)