Splat Zones

Splat Zones is a multiplayer mode in Splatoon. It will be released in the Ranked Battles category once a large amount of players has reached Level 10.

History
Splat Zones was announced on March 23, 2015 when video game journalists from around the world were invited to a Nintendo event in Seattle, Washington. It was revealed that this mode will not be available from launch, but will instead be released at a later, unspecified, date.

Description
Splat Zones plays similarly to the King of the Hill mode from other video games. It revolves around a central "zone," which players must attempt to cover in ink with a five minute timer. Once a team has covered a majority of the zone in their ink, the zone is "captured" and a countdown begins. The opposing team must try to capture the zone in the same manner. The first team who holds the zone for a total of 100 seconds or has the least amount of time left to hold the zone wins the match. However if one team has held it for a while, but the other team captures it, the team that used to hold it will get a few more seconds added to their countdown timer. This penalty depends on how low your countdown timer is. For instance if you only had 13 seconds left to hold the zone, but the other team captured the zone, 60 seconds will be added to your timer meaning you will have to hold it again for 60 seconds to make your real timer go down. This game also has overtime.