yoshi
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This is is the last time I'll be bumping the thread for this comp. Vote now because it's all to play for! -
25 hours and a few minutes left for you to decide our newest winner. One way or another, this ends tomorrow!
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This was going to be saved for the announcement, but it works better for our arrival in the big city: The urban sound tells us, the logos tell us, the tower blocks tell us we've arrived in one of the biggest & fastest growing cities in Africa, Kenya's capital, our Olympic city - we made it to Nairobi! The centre of the buzzing metropolis is the ideal location for the final battle to determine our champion - once we look at how we got here: A: 2. B: 4. C: 5. It's a close one, but there's no majority, meaning that we must have a one-on-one between the top 2 to determine our winner. We must say goodbye to @Aussie bum/Davey - better luck next year. For @JDCLauron & @Glacib, welcome to the final! The rules: This voting round will be open for (approximately) 48 hours - it will close at 10pm UK time, Wednesday 18 January. This is the final. There are only two candidates. Most votes wins, simple. Vote in the poll for your favourite logo. You have ONE vote, so make it count. Your vote is public and can be seen by all. Entrants MAY vote for their own logo. For transparency, I will not vote unless required to break a tie. Votes are valid if cast by members of GamesBids as of January 1 2023 with a bona fide posting record. I will rule on the validity of any suspicious or disputed votes, or who constitutes a bona fide voting member. I will not vote in this round. However, if a tie-breaker vote is needed, I will reserve my right to vote in order to break it. Be fair and sportsmanlike, this is meant to be fun and the entrants all deserve RESPECT. Whatever happens, we will see each other again on Wednesday in the national stadium, to announce our winner. Until then, good luck, and may the best logo win!
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BONG Voting closed, the final will start imminently.
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One last bump to get any remaining votes
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24 (well nearly 25 really) hours to go! Vote to have your say!
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There's a local flavour coming, Nairobi will shine - when we get there (I've always been slightly amused by how FIFA emphasised the first World Cup in Africa, made a song literally called This Time For Africa.... and then got that legendary African star of music... Shakira to do it )
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Shakira, what is the time? It is indeed time for Africa, just like the Colombian (!) says - so where better to be than the very heart of East Africa, Lake Victoria. It borders 3 countries, including Kenya, where we find Kisumu! Looks like a very pleasant place for a game of cricket, and a third round logo comp vote! Here's the outcome of Round 2: A: 1. B: 5. C: 3. D: 4. A rare chance to do an exhaustive ballot properly, knocking out one and only one. It means it's goodbye to @fatixxx, better luck next year. For the other 3, it's Round 3! Rules: This voting round will be open for (approximately) 48 hours - it will close at 10pm UK time, Monday 16 January. Voting will now be conducted in rounds until one entry has an absolute majority and is declared the winner. In this and following rounds, the logo with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated at the close of the poll. Vote in the poll for your favourite logo. You have ONE vote, so make it count. Your vote is public and can be seen by all. Entrants MAY vote for their own logo. For transparency, I will not vote unless required to break a tie. Votes are valid if cast by members of GamesBids as of January 1 2023 with a bona fide posting record. I will rule on the validity of any suspicious or disputed votes, or who constitutes a bona fide voting member. I will not vote in this, or any subsequent rounds. However, if a tie-breaker vote is needed, I will reserve my right to vote in order to break it. Be fair and sportsmanlike, this is meant to be fun and the entrants all deserve RESPECT. We will see each other again on Monday in the capital city, either for the final or the winner. Until then, good luck, and may the best logo win!
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BONG Voting is closed - we move on to Round III!
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One final bump, less than two hours left.
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24 hours to go to vote!
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Not a good April Fool, it's much too plausible Also yeah all votes for the logo comp are very very welcome, I'd post the link if it hadn't already been done, thanks Rols
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Toto, I know this isn't Kansas, but where are we exactly? Ah, good to know...although you do know Africa is quite big? We are in the place next to where all that Serengeti rain eventually ends up - by the Indian Ocean in the other Kenyan city the tourists have heard of - Mombasa! The resorts around Mombasa can be so luxurious, even Tommy might be satisfied with holding a vote here. It's certainly good enough for us - so let's see what we're voting on with the Round 1 results: A: 9. B: 2. C: 1. D: 11. E: 3. F: 8. G: 3. H: 8. Four clearly at the bottom, four clearly in the hunt - you're very thoughtful Sadly it does mean four logos have to go so it's goodbye to @Scotguy II @Victorian @Sir Rols & @PikyoK. Thank you and better luck next year. For the rest of you, welcome to Round 2! We are now in the exhaustive ballot stage, which means the rules are slightly different: This voting round will be open for (approximately) 48 hours - it will close at 10pm UK time, Saturday 14 January. Voting will now be conducted in rounds until one entry has an absolute majority and is declared the winner. In this and following rounds, the logo with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated at the close of the poll. Vote in the poll for your favourite logo. You have ONE vote, so make it count. Your vote is public and can be seen by all. Entrants MAY vote for their own logo. For transparency, I will not vote unless required to break a tie. Votes are valid if cast by members of GamesBids as of January 1 2023 with a bona fide posting record. I will rule on the validity of any suspicious or disputed votes, or who constitutes a bona fide voting member. I will not vote in this, or any subsequent rounds. However, if a tie-breaker vote is needed, I will reserve my right to vote in order to break it. Be fair and sportsmanlike, this is meant to be fun and the entrants all deserve RESPECT. We will see each other again on Saturday, either for Round 3 or a winner. Until then, good luck, and may the best logo win!
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BONG Voting is CLOSED. To the coast & Round 2!
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One more bump for the thread with a little bit under 24 hours to go
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So is it the newer extreme sports in the winter games that are the main source of the problem? Are you saying they should be left to the X Games, to bring the Winter Olympics back to just traditional sports in the snow section? Only that doesn't solve the problem of needing a megacity for the indoor stuff.
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Is that really a big problem? I can't imagine there's many ski resorts that don't have others nearby to host other stuff. That national scale idea is interesting but wouldn't it just make (what would be) the Olympics even more unwieldy and lead to a problem with them instead?
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Just over 48 hours remaining to vote!
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Well by a full scale split I wasn't envisaging something like Milan Cortina, but a truly full scale split - completely separate Games, held in separate countries (for example the Netherlands, famously without mountains, could host the ice event with no problems at all) & most likely in separate years (if they got going now, they could have it set up for 2031 & 33). It's really a version of what Baron said and Rols agreed with - I know it's quite radical but the 26 & especially 30 saga has made it clear IMO that the Winter Olympics as they are can't continue. This split feels to me like the only way to preserve a form of Olympic event for winter sports. When something is beyond all fixing, you start work on replacing it, you don't keep hitting it until it starts again.
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Bumping this into the recents again.
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That's probably a line that should be developed further - a full scale split of ice and snow. Ultimately those ice events, what Baron calls arena events don't need mountains or even snow. They could be held in London or Melbourne, or any big city with a few arenas. The snow events don't need a big city, they can go back to the ski resorts. They'd have to be held completely separated, maybe in the odd years on either side of the summer games. Failing that, if it's the Olympic brand that's the problem, maybe the time has come for the IOC to abandon the Winter games & leave it to the federations to organise a World Winter Games themselves, like how the European Championships work. It's not like there's many federations involved, and they're obviously getting hosts for their World Cups etc. Whatever happens it's clear now that the Winter Olympics don't have a future as a combined event at this scale under the IOC - it's time to start thinking about sustainable long term replacements rather than tinkering quick fixes. Edit: you mention competition from the X Games, could the IOC take control of them & put the new extreme sports (which I love watching btw especially in the Winter games) in there? Would that do any good for solving the problem?
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Who is this new envoy, helping the comp find suitable locations? (I bet you never set foot in Nairobi itself )
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Karibu Kenya! The most famous Swahili song ever written welcomes us all to the heart of the mighty jung...wait, what?! Yes, that is snow, and that is a mountain. Begone with your lazy stereotypes It's Mount Kenya, the thing the country's named after, and it's where we decide the shortlist. Just like in Reykjavik, we have a field of 8, so just like in Reykjavik, we begin by chucking about half of them into Lake Victoria. This next bit is, of course, to be read carefully - it's THE RULES: This voting round will be open for (approximately) 72 hours - it will close at 10pm UK time, Thursday January 12. Voting will now be conducted in rounds until one entry has an absolute majority and is declared the winner. IMPORTANT - As I say, this is a cut round - so the (around) FOUR logos that receive the fewest votes will be eliminated. The four remaining will go to the exhaustive ballot. All logos that get 0 votes will be eliminated, even if there are more than four. What exactly happens will depend on the exact numbers that we get, it might not be exactly four that go out. Vote in the poll for your favourite logos. You will notice this is a multiple-choice poll - you may give up to FOUR votes, so make them count. More than FOUR votes will invalidate all your votes. Sir Rols and I will monitor votes cast, but feel free to alert us if you notice anyone voting more than thrice. Your vote is public and can be seen by all. Entrants MAY NOT vote for their own logo. For transparency, I will not vote unless required to break a tie. Votes are valid if cast by members of GamesBids as of January 1 2023 with a bona fide posting record. I will rule on the validity of any suspicious or disputed votes, or who constitutes a bona fide voting member. I will not vote in this, or any subsequent rounds. However, if a tie-breaker vote is needed, I will reserve my right to vote in order to break it. Be fair and sportsmanlike, this is meant to be fun and the entrants all deserve RESPECT. Thanks again to Rols for assisting with the rules for the multiple voting section. That is all - time to get voting again. Unless one logo here gets a majority - unlikely in a field of 8 but you never know - we will move to somewhere a bit more...wet for Round 2 on Thursday. Until then, thank you to all, good luck to all, and may the best logo win!
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I am quoting myself! To tell you that we will be starting the Nairobi comp tonight - thank you for your submissions
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Would anyone have a big problem with starting the Nairobi vote tonight?