Ultimate Battle of Western Europe

Omackeral

La Rioja
Spanish Autonomous Community



VS

Flevoland
Dutch Province

quickbeam

La Rioja is pretty. The other has a wonky yellow line.

Necro

La Rioja - All round better looking flag imho

Not mad about either but I'll vote for Flevoland

Simpler

Cosmo Kramer

Flevoland for me, I just think the colours go a little better together than the other one.

Purgative

La Rioja - More wine

Both of these are quite nice but I'll go for Flevoland. I like the asymmetrical wavy line.

I do like a Rioja so it gets my vote.

Omackeral

This is a great bout. 4-3 in favour of Rioja with 15 mins to go

Omackeral

La Rioja hangs on and advances

Omackeral

Two islands to do battle now, that's a rare one.

Saba
Dutch Special Municipality



VS

Corsica
French Region

Necro

Corsica. I do like that flag

Has to be Corsica

cdeb

Yup. Bizarre, different, yet it works. I can't really work out why they've a Moor's head on the flag, but it's kinda cool

KathleenGrant

Saba to be different

Saba, Corsica is unsettling.

Cosmo Kramer

Saba for me, feels more like a proper flag design and Corsica is basically just one quarter of the Sardinia flag.

Purgative

Corsica

Omackeral

And it's a tie. From 3-0 to 3-3, no less. Purgative's post was after deadline so we delve into the reasons to see if we can split the votes.

Necro wrote: »

Corsica. I do like that flag

Just a straight up choice but no reason really.

bubblypop wrote: »

Has to be Corsica

As above, no real reason.

cdeb wrote: »

Yup. Bizarre, different, yet it works. I can't really work out why they've a Moor's head on the flag, but it's kinda cool

Ok I like this. We'll call that 1-0.

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Saba to be different

Fine but doesn't discuss the flag. Still 1-0.

Candie wrote: »

Saba, Corsica is unsettling.

I can accept this as a valid reason against Corsica. 1-1.

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Saba for me, feels more like a proper flag design and Corsica is basically just one quarter of the Sardinia flag.

Yep, sound logic and gives plus and cons. 2-1.

Saba wins.

Omackeral

Marche
Italian Region



VS

Bremen
German State

KathleenGrant

Marche. I like the bird superimposed on the letter M.

I don't get the German ones with their misaligned squares.

Cosmo Kramer

Not really feeling either of these two, but the M shaped bird is kind of interesting, so I'll go with Marche.

Purgative

Marche - unusual. They have put some effort into it.


Go Marche

Omackeral

And Marche continues its run into the third round. We'll park it off there for the night and get the remaining Round 2 matches completed tomorrow. Take care y'all.

Omackeral

We're back for a quick match

Ceuta
Spanish Autonomous City



VS

Lower Saxony
German State

Pawwed Rig

I like the horse so Saxony for me

quickbeam

Both actually pretty cool. I generally don't like b&w but the crest in the middle adds a bit of spark joy to it, so going with Ceuta.

cdeb

It is a good horse.

But that Ceuta design is unique; love the diagonal black/white parts. Ceuta for me.

Cosmo Kramer

Ceuta. The other one is just a picture of a horse slapped on a German flag.

Zaph

Lower Saxony, prefer the colours to the Cueta one. Black and white doesn't really do it for me.