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

Electric Nitwit

Baggly wrote: »

FYI - while the bear is in the teams colours, its a regular bear and not a polar bear.

Kapan are a mountain team and there are bears in the mountain.

So you're saying it's so badly drawn it's not even obvious what it is? :pac:

Baggly

Im saying some people dont know their bears.

eire4

Koln and the goat get the nod from me in this match up. The Koln crest just jumps out and looks better.

Baggly

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Vote Koln - it looks better on the shirt, the Kazan one looks a little cheap to me, I can imagine facing a 5-a-side team with a shıt pun in their name wearing that

How dare Armenia not have the same GDP as Germany. 'Sake. What are they even doing.

Electric Nitwit

Baggly wrote: »

How dare Armenia not have the same GDP as Germany. 'Sake. What are they even doing.

I don't care if they pay their graphic designers terribly, they should still pick a good one. Preferably one who knows the difference between polar bears and mountain bears :pac:

Baggly

So do you know many monochrome goats EN?

quickbeam

Baggly wrote: »

Im saying some people dont know their bears.

It's the heron / flamingo fiasco all over again :eek:

Electric Nitwit

Baggly wrote: »

So do you know many monochrome goats EN?

Actually, since one butted me in the head when I was 6, I can only see in monochrome, so they all are

Baggly

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Actually, since one butted me in the head when I was 6, I can only see in monochrome, so they all are

Touché

KathleenGrant

Gandzasar Kapan for me

Translated from Armenian, ‘Gandz-a-sar’ simply means ‘Treasure Mountain’, and the football team of the area are known as ‘The Bears’. These two details go some way to explaining the bear climbing a footballing mountain of sorts on the club badge.

Who said it was a polar bear? If colours don't matter for a green and red horse they hardly matter for a blue and white bear.

I love the mountain, the bear and the colours.
Like I said last night, I don't get the goat.

Omackeral

15 minutes remain

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

I don't get the goat

People who don't get the goat really get my goat :pac:

KathleenGrant

normanoffside wrote: »

FC Koln. The Goat is a symbol which represents the city and it strides over the Cityscape. The badge represents the place the team plays for which in my book is worth a few points..

Meanwhile there aren't even any polar bears in Armenia unless they are in the zoo.

The goat does not represent the city actually............

KathleenGrant

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

People who don't get the goat really get my goat :pac:

Well I can't bear people who don't love the bear.:pac:

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Well I can't bear people who don't love the bear.:pac:

Well played, well played

Our views are just polar opposites here

Cosmo Kramer

Balls, I missed the first two today and they were close, could have saved a whole load of hastle with the tie breakers. At least the ones I would have voted for went through in the end.

Anyway, I'm going for Koln here, I like the goat and that they've also included by far the most famous building in the city on their crest as well.

Omackeral

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Balls, I missed the first two today and they were close, could have saved a whole load of hastle with the tie breakers. At least the ones I would have voted for went through in the end.

Anyway, I'm going for Koln here, I like the goat and that they've also included by far the most famous building in the city on their crest as well.

Irony is that you've just made this match a bloody stalemate with your choice :pac:

KathleenGrant

Omackeral wrote: »

Irony is that you've just made this match a bloody stalemate with your choice :pac:

No way! Kick him out, I want to be on the winning side in one match...

duffman13

FC Koln

Polar bears be extinct soon! Same should happen to that crest in this game. Koln has great colour and design. Other is bland enough

Baggly

You have let yourself down there Duffers.

Skylinehead

FC Koln.

For Hennes IX, the magnificent GOAT that he is.



Polar bear just doesn't cut it in comparison.

Omackeral

Köln win and advance to semi finals , while I advance to the kitchen for a cup of tea as I don’t need to do a tie breaker!

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Who said it was a polar bear?

duffman13 wrote: »

Polar bears be extinct soon!

Skylinehead wrote: »

Polar bear just doesn't cut it in comparison.

Baggly

Omackeral wrote: »

Köln win and advance to semi finals , while I advance to the kitchen for a cup of tea as I don’t need to do a tie breaker!

duffman13

Baggly wrote: »

You have let yourself down there Duffers.

I see Koln advanced, I'm happy with the outcome

Chiangmai winning this, its a battle for 2nd at this point

KathleenGrant

Skylinehead wrote: »

FC Koln.

For Hennes IX, the magnificent GOAT that he is.



Polar bear just doesn't cut it in comparison.

Oh look, a captive goat paraded before thousands for the hell of it.

alchemist33

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Oh look, a captive goat paraded before thousands for the hell of it.

Maybe the goat's holding the human captive?

(I'd have voted for the bear. Disappointed I missed the last 3 rounds but at least I missed some heartbreaking decisions)

Omackeral

This is the last quarter final and it’s a cracker. Two former Soviet entities collide but only one can get into the semis. Make your choice now.

Torpedo Moscow (RUS)



VS

Krumkachy Minsk (BLR)

Zaph

duffman13 wrote: »

Chiangmai winning this, its a battle for 2nd at this point

Nah, the trophy has Juarez written all over it.

Necro

Omackeral wrote:

Torpedo Moscow (RUS)

I don't like the crow. He irks me.

Baggly

I no longer like either tbh. Have fun with this one lads.

KathleenGrant

Dislike both.
Abstaining

Electric Nitwit

Krumkachy Minsk (BLR)

Look at him. Look him in the eye and tell him you won't vote for him because you want to vote for a boring grey car behind a badly written letter T

KathleenGrant

Baggly wrote: »

I no longer like either tbh. Have fun with this one lads.

More in common than I thought.

martyos121

Krumkachy Minsk, there’s much more danger in that crest than the torpedo one, and given that it’s a crow versus a f**king torpedo, that’s some achievement IMO. And it’s my nomination, so I’ll stick by it till the end.

Omackeral

Baggly wrote: »

I no longer like either tbh. Have fun with this one lads.

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Dislike both.
Abstaining

Skylinehead

Torpedo Moscow. The torpedo car, the gear, the T. Crow FC doesn't bring the same joy.

Hennes and Koln for the tournament though.

Cosmo Kramer

Really like that Minsk crest, pure evil but in a way that somehow makes it likeable. Torpedo is a decent effort too, but lacks colour. Minsk gets my vote.

Zaph

Minsk is great, but Torpedo Moscow is the perfect example of Soviet functionality over aesthetics. The club's origins as the club of the ZIL car factory can clearly be seen with the large gear wheel in the background. But it's a club that aspires to more than mere functionality, as evidenced by the sleek, futuristic, some might say western bourgeoisie-style car. It's a team that has had a relatively humble existence, but it deserves so much more, such as a place in the semi-finals of this competition.

quickbeam

I really like that angry crow. Krumkachy please.

I wonder what "HØK" means? Is it meant to be the sound the crow makes?

normanoffside

Minsk, the bird is pure evil looking and that makes it stand out.
The Badge also looks more Soviet than it's Russian Counterpart which is a plus in my eyes.

Baggly

Feck it ill go Torpedo. Its a unique design, there is good detailing; and that crow is a scumbag. He stole a fiver off me several years ago.

KathleenGrant

quickbeam wrote: »

I really like that angry crow. Krumkachy please.

I wonder what "HØK" means? Is it meant to be the sound the crow makes?

Think it's Russian for hawk.

normanoffside

Minsk's old logo (2011-2019) is nearly even better again

Baggly

Id vote for the old one.

KathleenGrant

normanoffside wrote: »

Minsk's old logo (2011-2019) is nearly even better again

Not just nearly better. Definitely better.

Cosmo Kramer

quickbeam wrote: »

I really like that angry crow. Krumkachy please.

I wonder what "HØK" means? Is it meant to be the sound the crow makes?

The other name of the team is NFK Minsk.

Нфк is simply the letters NFK in Belarusian Cyrillic.

cdeb

Well, in any Cyrillic script.

FK = Futbol Klub.

cdeb

Sorry - a vote. I'm torn on these two - though I guess that should happen at the quarter-final stage.

The Torpedo crest is unique and is ideal to the club. Yet Minsk not only has a nasty-looking raven on the club, the club is called Ravens. And it was only formed in 2011.

So I can picture these guys looking out the window at a typically nasty Belarusian raven and getting the inspiration for the crest, and then deciding to go the whole hog and name the whole club after it. Edgar Allen Poe would be proud!

So Minsk, just about.

pickarooney

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Think it's Russian for hawk.

It's NFK, their previous name.

Minsk play in the Belarusian league which was possibly the only half-decent sports League on the planet to laugh in the face of the Corona Virus, before challenging it to a fight. The judges scored that
COVID 19 : Corvids 20

I will therefore pick the crows over the car, but I suspect I've missed the cutoff.