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title: GOLDEN Squid Junction 40
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date: 2023-03-27
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author: 공주 Alice & Chilliboi
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Squid Junction is a bi-weekly tournament hosted by [Dapple Productions](https://dapple.ink/) on Saturdays 7 pm ET.
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For the 40th tournament it turned golden, becoming a major tournament. The participant limit of 64 was reached for the first time after it rose from 32.
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Despite it being midnight in Europe, a number of top European teams joined the American titans to compete for the starting prize pool of 200$:
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The final winners of the tournament were:
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1st: Fiesta
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2nd: Crush Soda
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3rd: [New Meta](https://sendou.ink/t/new-meta)
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[New Meta](https://sendou.ink/t/new-meta) surprised a lot of people by getting 3rd place. They also lived up to their name by using a way different comp than everyone else did: 96 Deco, Tetras, Inkbrush and a Ballpoint Splatling. They beat several higher seeded teams such as [Squidding Good](https://sendou.ink/t/squidding-good) and [Seafoam](https://sendou.ink/t/seafoam) to clutch the bronze.
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The top-level pickup Crush Soda, comprised of [Kyo](https://sendou.ink/u/kyochandxd), [Gos](https://sendou.ink/u/300073469503340546), [Thunder](https://sendou.ink/u/thunder) and [Wave](https://sendou.ink/u/199763761026826241), not only won the North American Inkling Open In January 2023, but also qualified for the Nintendo PAX tournament in Boston on the 26th of March 2023. They had a very solid run and rightfully ended up in second place.
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Fiesta, the winner of Squid Junction 40, is a Japanese team. It is great to see our tournaments getting worldwide participation so we can see the talent across the globe!
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Other highlights of the tournament include the fast rising team [Silly Kitties](https://sendou.ink/t/silly-kitties)! They overcame the pickup Spotlight. with German top-level player [Noctis](https://sendou.ink/u/noctis), that was 9 seeds higher than them. [Seafoam](https://sendou.ink/t/seafoam) also impressed by getting a great win in over [Graveyard Shift](https://sendou.ink/t/graveyard-shift).
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With the help of the community the final prizepool was 435$ - thank you so much to everyone that contributed!
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The tournament was streamed by Dapple Productions streamer [Nebulaink](https://twitter.com/nebulaink) and commentated by [ACECT](https://twitter.com/ACECTTTT), [weef](https://twitter.com/weefslider), [Geenie7](https://twitter.com/Geenie7_) and [Soavdannom](https://twitter.com/SoavDannom).
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