The Ultimate Football Crest Tournament: Europe vs Rest of the World

Probably too late but I'd go for Persebaya, simply because I've voted against Juarez each time and it keeps progressing. :mad: (I don't even particularly dislike it, just always seem to prefer what it's up against!)

Omackeral

Even taking the votes after the bell into accounts, it's a stalemate. Let's disect the reasons given within the alotted time.

Zaph wrote: »

FC Juarez - the weird watery yokes have had a good run, but they're up against some serious class now

References the crest. Prefers class over weirdness. 1-0 Juarez

Sheridan81 wrote: »

Juarez is a city run by drug cartels with a high rate of feminicide.

Vote Persebaya.

Doesn't reference the crest. Points raised are fair though.Will award half a point for the lols. 1-0.5 Juarez

alchemist33 wrote: »

Persebaya is good, but the nightmare horse of Juarez is magnificent.

Go Juarez

Specifically likes the nightmarish quality of the animal. 2-0.5 Juarez.

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Yeah, but psychedelic horsey!

Juarez for me, though don't love either really

Admits they're not mad into it but does describe it. Half a point. 2.5-0.5 Juarez

Necro wrote: »

Persebaya.

Alpha predators collide

Enjoys the animal warfare. 2.5-1.5 Juarez

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Persepaya.

No reason given.

Going on reasons provided...

FC Juarez advance to the quarter finals

Omackeral

Kerala Blasters (IND)



VS

Torpedo Moscow (RUS)

It's amazing Omackeral finds the time to run these competitions and still manage his day job as Chief Justice of the Irish Supreme Court!

Omackeral

Deleted User wrote: »

It's amazing Omackeral finds the time to run these competitions and still manage his day job as Chief Justice of the Irish Supreme Court!

Zaph

Deleted User wrote: »

It's amazing Omackeral finds the time to run these competitions and still manage his day job as Chief Justice of the Irish Supreme Court!

Omack at his day job

Kerala Blasters. James David belatedly found his level, and Robbie Keane's dream was cruelly denied when he joined his other dream club ATK.

Hmm, I'll go for Torpedo Moscow.

Admittedly I liked it more when I thought the car was a warhead. But I'll still give it the nod because there's already a superior elephant (Chiangmai) in contention. Also the two similar but different shades of blue on Kerala Blasters crest is a bit of a visual oddity, and not a particularly pleasing one - they should have either stuck to one colour or else used two more clearly contrasting colours.

pickarooney

It's a hard thing to vote against Kerala Blasters but that is what I must do to ensure the wacky wonder of Torpedo progresses.

It's like Archer meets The Prisoner and I love it.

Zaph

Torpedo Moscow - look how the car is shaped........like a torpedo! Damn clever these Russkies.

KathleenGrant

Didn't realise we had to give reasons this round. Was working and blindsided by early start.

This round:
Torpedo
Reason
Hopes it blows the ones I didn't want to get through to hell.

Omackeral

Half time!

Omackeral

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Didn't realise we had to give reasons this round. Was working and blindsided by early start.

Reasons haven't been mandatory in this at all but are used as tie-breakers in the event of a draw, as per the last match.

alchemist33

Kerala's is a bit plain, and not the best elephant.

And I like a bit of black and white, so Torpedo gets the vote

duffman13

Necro wrote: »

I got the away one in blue, I couldn't bring it on myself to buy the pink one and didn't like the home one

I got the red one, hoping the quality is decent

Chiangmai supporters club needs its own forum

cdeb

Anyone else have a game called Hill Climb Racing on their phone? I do - no idea why - but the Torpedo crest looks kinda like the car from the Ragnarok level. Which makes a very random crest.

So I'll vote Torpedo. (I hope it's a draw so I can see how many points my reason is worth )

martyos121

I’ve only just noticed that the Torpedo Moscow crest is depicting a man driving a torpedo-shaped car, which reminds me of the rocket car from the Simpsons.

So I’m voting for Torpedo.

Omackeral

Torpedo blasts the Blasters and advance to quarter finals.

Our last quarter final is up now, cast your votes.

Omackeral

1.FC Koln (GER)



VS

Amiens SC

alchemist33

Amiens for me - cool mythicals, cool colours, cool font

The goat has gone far enough

PsychoPete

Amiens because they deserve some sort of win after their relegation

Zaph

Pretty indifferent to both tbh, probably the weakest tie of the round. 1.FC Koln just shades it because of the goat.

Electric Nitwit

The Koln crest in red is nice and simple, but covers the city well with the cathedral. Then the goat mounting it is a bit of fun

The Amiens one is just all over the place. They need to simplify!

Vote Koln

Pawwed Rig

Amiens needs a bit of colour so I am going with Koln

Hill St Blue

FC Koln for me. I like the colours and the goat has that 'I'm up to something' look in his eye.

duffman13

FC Koln, the colouring is much better and more impactful

eire4

2 unicorns beats 1 goat for me I go with Amiens.

martyos121

Giant billy goat wins this with ease, and I’ve just explained why.

KathleenGrant

Amiens for me. I just don't get the goat to be honest

Omackeral

1.FC Koln scores the victory for ze Germans. They are the last team into quarter finals.

Join us tomorrow for the start of the Last 8 folks!

Electric Nitwit

Cheers, night night Macker!

quickbeam

Aw, both Kashima and Persebaya gone overnight. I'd have had them through. Especially Kashima. I think it's my favourite of the tournament.

Omackeral

We are now at the quarter final stage. Some numbers for you to consider. Europe has got the upper hand now with 62.5% of the field while the Rest of the World entrants all hail from seperate confederations, namely CONCACAF (N. America), CONMEBOL (S. America) and AFC (Asia). An interesting note is that we have 3 nations of the former Soviet Union in the final 8. It's still anyone's guess as to who could win it all but right now get yourselves ready for the first quarter final, it's coming up next...

cdeb

F5 F5 F5 F5...

Omackeral

For the quarter final, reasons for your choice are strongly encouraged as it's the proper business end of the contest. A team will progress if they obtain 7 votes. There is a time limit of 45 minutes at this stage. In the event of the time expiring, the leading team advances. If there is a draw, reasons will be taken into account for the purpose of a tie-breaker.

Roma (ITA)



VS

Chiangmai United (THA)

Necro

Chiang Mai.

I nominated Roma but I'm sticking with the elephant crest till the end here.

Baggly

Well ****.

I like both of these, but i suppose ill go for Changmai as the colour combination is deadly, the detailing is deadly and the elephant itself is really well designed.

I also like it doesnt have a (TM) mark.

cdeb

I've never really felt the love for that elephant to be honest. The trunk is like one of those paper cut-outs from primary school, the red swirly things are weird and dammit, the year is wrong (it's 2563 in Thailand - that club is not 546 years old)

So Roma for respecting tradition far better.

Voting for Chiangmai

The elephant is pretty, the colours work well and the exaggerated nipples on Roma's wolf-with-head-of-a-rhino just look silly to me.

Wuff Wuff

roma, breastfeeding babies from a wolf

gerrybbadd

Chiangmai - Elephants beat Diddy Wolves every day of the week. Twice on Sundays

KathleenGrant

Roma I Giallorossi
I love the colours, they look majestic.
The symbolism of the birth of the city.
It's iconic...you could never confuse it with another club crest.
Also Totti..... for obvious reasons.

Electric Nitwit

Chiangmai United

Very fine margins here, both are great. But the wolf's face on the Roma crest isn't very well drawn. The colour scheme and the Elephant's evil eyes on the Chiangmai United crest are both awesome

Zaph

Chiangmai United - I've never liked the Roma crest, I think it's pretty ugly, and I've been surprised by the love for it in this competition. I'd prefer if the Chiangmai crest wasn't predominantly black, but it's still the more aesthetically pleasing of the two imo.

Omackeral

10 minutes remain in our first quarter final.

Pawwed Rig

Roma because Romulus and Remus history.

One of my favourites despite the colour scheme

quickbeam

Roma because it looks like a rhino and I like alliteration.

normanoffside

Roma for the Iconic Romulus and Remus story.
The foundation of modern civilisation is on the badge.

Omackeral

It's next goal wins... 1 minute to go....

Omackeral

Game over and it's honours even! Stand by for tie-breaker.