yoshi Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) Velkomin til Íslands! And welcome to the world-famous Blue Lagoon outdoor spa, the obvious place to spend January: After a month (and only a month!) of submissions, we have a remarkable field of 8 logos - so now it is time to head to Reykjavik to find out what you think about things! As that field is so big, having 7 exhaustive rounds would exhaust your patience and my supply of Eurovision songs, so we begin with a shortlist round to put half of the field in the nearest volcano before we properly start. Please read this next bit carefully, it's time for THE RULES: This voting round will be open for (approximately) 72 hours - it will close at 10pm UK time, Thursday January 5. 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 to Rols for assisting with some of the rules for the multiple voting section. That is all - time to finally get voting. 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...warm for Round 2 on Thursday. Until then, thank you to all, good luck to all, and may the best logo win! Edited January 3, 2023 by Sir Rols 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) And we’re off! If I could make a suggestion to competitors. We’re all in this thing to win, and one thing that would help all of us is to get as many people voting as possible. Perhaps all of us could put a link in our signatures to direct people to this thread to vote. That way we can advertise it across the board. And while you’re at it, why not promote your own logo in the signature too - it can’t hurt to do some campaigning of your own! Good luck everyone! #Respect … and for Thor’s sake Yoshi! Edited January 2, 2023 by Sir Rols Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 Just a bit of explanation of my logo, to those who haven’t seen it before. The logo is based around Veldismagn, a traditional Icelandic Magical Binding Runic Stave, which also doubles here as a snowflake. Veldismagn is one of the more important staves in traditional Icelandic folklore, and is used as a ward to confer strength, defense, protection and safe return from travels. Surrounding Veldismagn are Runes, the original alphabet of the Vikings who first settled Iceland. Iceland’s original literature was composed in such runes, culminating in the Icelandic Sagas, recounting the lives of normal people and heroic figures. They denote the new tales of heroes that will arise from the Reykjavik 2034 Winter Olympic Games. The logo is designed to be used in various colour schemes. My “official” entry, in the ballot, is the Gold/Silver/Bronze version. Others are shown in this post. If you like it, please vote for logo “E”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorchbearerSydney Posted January 3, 2023 Report Share Posted January 3, 2023 Incredible choice...maybe best ever! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted January 3, 2023 Report Share Posted January 3, 2023 8 minutes ago, TorchbearerSydney said: Incredible choice...maybe best ever! I saw you voted four times - it was three originally. But on pondering, figured it might be confusing when it was earlier mentioned that the goal is to eliminate four entries and leave four for the next round. So I changed it to allowing four votes to make them valid. It doesn’t affect earlier voters choices (who only voted once). Just a reminder to everyone that you are allowed up to FOUR votes (but no more). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted January 3, 2023 Report Share Posted January 3, 2023 good luck everyone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted January 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2023 Bumping the thread - remember to vote to keep your favourites in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palette86 Posted January 3, 2023 Report Share Posted January 3, 2023 I voted for option D.Simple but appealing and profound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted January 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2023 48 hours remaining to vote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted January 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 Lots of activity on the board today, this needs another bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 fun designs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted January 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 24 hours, or a day, left to vote to send your favourites to the next stage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted January 5, 2023 Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 Looks like I am heading out at the first hurdle Help cheer up a Gamesbids veteran and vote for logo B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted January 5, 2023 Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 2 minutes ago, Scotguy II said: Looks like I am heading out at the first hurdle Help cheer up a Gamesbids veteran and vote for logo B Done! You were always on my list for when I was gonna get round to it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy II Posted January 5, 2023 Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 9 minutes ago, Sir Rols said: Done! You were always on my list for when I was gonna get round to it Thank you my friend and Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted January 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 We've dropped off again! One last bumpy bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi Posted January 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 10pm, and that means voting is CLOSED. Stand by for round 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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