Ultimate Battle of Oceania

Tauriel

Western Highlands


Much more interesting to look at and again that shade of green is perfect

Tino Rangatiratanga

It's a great flag, swirls are super unusual

Purgative

Western Highlands - I like it more, its more like a national flag, than the other. The other could be the logo of the design council, or some equally worthy crew.

Omackeral

Tino Rangatiratanga advances to the final

Omackeral

Final coming in the next half hour

Omackeral

Final is incoming. As per previous tournaments, answers will only be accepted via PM . You may show support or canvas for your choice on thread but only votes via inbox will be counted. Feel free to muse over past matches too! The time limit for the final is 45 minutes. Let's crown an Ultimate Champion of Oceania.

Omackeral

Tino Rangatiratanga

National Flag of the Maori People



R1 def. Australian Capital Territory
R2 def. Kingman Reef
R3 def. Northern Mariana Islands
QF def. Tokelau
SF def. Western Highlands

VS

Australian Aboriginal Flag

National Flag of the Aboriginal People



R1 def. South Australia
R2 def. American Samoa
R3 def. Marquesas Islands
QF def. Eastern Highlands
SF def. Wellington

Necro

Is it vote on thread Omack?

Tino Rangatiratanga if so. I love both flags and genuinely think the Aussies should consider replacing their current national one with this permanently, but I just think the design and colour scheme of Tino is genuinely just brilliant and deserving of the win here just a little bit more. Happy with either one winning mind.

cdeb

Omackeral wrote: »

Final is incoming. As per previous tournaments, answers will only be accepted via PM .

Probably not Necro!

Necro

Whoops. missed the first post there somehow!

ari101

Tino Rangatiratanga without a doubt for me.

It came down to Maori vs Aboriginal interestingly!

cdeb and I campaigned for it in Round 1 when it scraped through against Australian Capital Territory (not a bad flag but really...).

It is really a beautifully simple idea, well executed, maybe it does not have the symbolism of some, but it gets my vote.

Come on Tino!

cdeb

cdeb wrote: »

I think Tino could be a dark horse here actually. That's quality.

(Provided it doesn't get dumped out in the first round of course!)

cdeb wrote: »

I'd better chip in with a reason in case this goes to tie-break.

Love the black and red combo, and the wave feature is different too. Bit like a sea of blood washing up on a pristine white beach at night. What's not to like?

Just going to leave these here from Tino's round 1 bout.

Ye know what to do!

Purgative

Necro wrote: »

Is it vote on thread Omack?

Tino Rangatiratanga if so. I love both flags and genuinely think the Aussies should consider replacing their current national one with this permanently, but I just think the design and colour scheme of Tino is genuinely just brilliant and deserving of the win here just a little bit more. Happy with either one winning mind.

So Australia should replace their flag with the Maori flag?


Are these the same Maoris from New Zealand?

ari101

Necro wrote: »

Whoops. missed the first post there somehow!

I'm glad you did and I would never have copped and my vote would not have been counted :D:D

Necro

No I'm on about the Aboriginal flag, sorry

Purgative

Necro wrote: »

No I'm on about the Aboriginal flag, sorry

Sorry, thought you were bigging up the Maori flag

Necro

Purgative wrote: »

Sorry, thought you were bigging up the Maori flag

Well I was, but I think the Aboriginal flag is far nicer than the Australian national one at the same time

Purgative

Necro wrote: »

Well I was, but I think the Aboriginal flag is far nicer than the Australian national one at the same time

Thanks for clearing that up :pac:

Omackeral

Lads, how mad is this... A non state/province won the Canada USA state/province tournament, that was Nunavut which is a territory. Then a technically non European entity won the Battle of Western Europe when the Canary Islands won and they're just off Africa. Now a non subdivision is going to win the Oceania subdivision tournament!

Barna77

Omackeral wrote: »

Lads, how mad is this... A non state/province won the Canada USA state/province tournament, that was Nunavut which is a territory. Then a technically non European entity won the Battle of Western Europe when the Canary Islands won and they're just off Africa. Now a non subdivision is going to win the Oceania subdivision tournament!

Anarchy!

Purgative

Omackeral wrote: »

Lads, how mad is this... A non state/province won the Canada USA state/province tournament, that was Nunavut which is a territory. Then a technically non European entity won the Battle of Western Europe when the Canary Islands won and they're just off Africa. Now a non subdivision is going to win the Oceania subdivision tournament!

I suppose the smaller you are the less people you have to please, the less political symbolism you have to worry about.


Our house flag is the nutz.

Omackeral

15 minutes remaining

Omackeral

3 minutes to go

Omackeral

And we have a winner, in a First Nations vs First Nations duel we have an victor. With a percentage of 57% of the vote, the winner of the Ultimate Battle of Oceania is....

Tino Rangatiratanga

Purgative

Great comp Mack thanks for pulling it all together. Entertaining and I learned a bit too.

A great flag!

both are good but a deserving winner.

Necro

Cheers for running Omack, happy with the result - wouldn't have minded the result going the other way either mind

JP Liz V1

Purgative wrote: »

Great comp Mack thanks for pulling it all together. Entertaining and I learned a bit too.

+ 1

ari101

My favourite flag was Enga, it didn't make it all the way, due to flower dislike happy to see Tino top the table as my second favourite

Thanks for the hard work putting this together, it was fun!

Zaph

Another hugely entertaining tournament Omack, thanks for running it. Good winner, that flag is a lot more unique than the Aboriginal one.