I'm pretty sure that the biggest rival the San Diego Tidal have is easily the Whalers and I'll tell you why. First of all, the Tidal respects all marine life and does a lot to donate to various charities involving keeping our waterways and oceans clean and protected. Meanwhile, the Whalers are out there just killing whales all willy-nilly and pretending it's not even a problem I haven't seen a team be so blind to public relations since Halifax, and they just were bad. Second, the Whalers had a chance to take any players they wanted in the draft with the 2nd overall pick in the draft and passed on taking multiple different players that now skate for the Tidal and we obviously now are out to show the Vancouver team how wrong they were to do so. So expect the Tidal to continue to beat down the Whalers this season, and seasons to come, to prove a point. The Whalers are a rival, but more so in that they are gonna get beat down, and less be competetive.