Yeah, it was one of the major drawbacks of the splatfests with the first game... when one of the choices will obviously be more popular (who doesn't prefer ice-cream?!), you end up fighting your own team to cut down on waiting times, if you chose the overly popular choice. Also, the splatfests were always turf war in the original game which made me grow very bored of splatfests. Hope that changes in 2.