Ultimate Battle of Western Europe

Hainaut, four dragons > demon dolphin. The other one is just ugly.

Electric Nitwit

I'm late to the party but may I join in?

Bavaria for me. It makes me chuckle to think they originally designed it with squares but it got stuck in the printer (true story)

Plus the other two... look, I love an animal on a flag but if you're going to include one pay someone who can fecking draw to draw them!

Electric Nitwit

Omackeral wrote: »

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
French Region

Is that even their flag though?
They seem very confused...


Don't vote for such mixed messages!

quickbeam

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Bavaria for me. It makes me chuckle to think they originally designed it with squares but it got stuck in the printer (true story)

Really? Nothing about that on Wiki and if it's not on Wiki it can't be true :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bavaria

Electric Nitwit

quickbeam wrote: »

Really? Nothing about that on Wiki and if it's not on Wiki it can't be true :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bavaria

The Bavarian secret police try to suppress the truth to protect the region's reputation, but it's true I tell you!

quickbeam

Ahhh, EN said it on the internetz so it must be true :P

Omackeral

ENOUGH! By which I mean, Bavaria wins! We've only two matches left folks.. stay with us.

quickbeam

quickbeam wrote: »

Really? Nothing about that on Wiki and if it's not on Wiki it can't be true :P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Bavaria

I can't BELIEVE you fell for that! :P

quickbeam

Weirder things have happened.

quickbeam

:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o

Omackeral

La Rioja
Spanish Autonomous Community



VS

Mecklenburg-Vorpommer
German State



VS

Cantabria
Spanish Autonomous Community

Zaph

La Rioja - a four stripe flag is a bit different from the norm. Plus I like their wine.

quickbeam

Toss up between the first two because they're both quite pretty, but going with Mecklenburg-Vorpommer. Apparently the yellow stripe represents the millions affected by yellow fever back in the 1700s. True story.

Electric Nitwit

Vote Cantabria - bit of class to it

La Rioja, the colours are too garish
Mecklenburg-Vorpommer looks like the background to a game of Frogger

cdeb

Yeah, the better of the two quadricolour flags on offer. I like the green/yellow combo in particular

La Rioja, pretty colour combination. Would make an excellent beach towel.

Electric Nitwit

quickbeam wrote: »

Apparently the yellow stripe represents the millions affected by yellow fever back in the 1700s. True story.

Nope, I'm not going to Google it

I probably am though.

Let me just double check the La Rioja crest to make sure it's not hiding a lion....

....


.....ok, it's clear. La Rioja for the bold "horizontal tricolour but it's actually four stripes" move.

In other news, gullible is the only word in the English language not listed in the Oxford dictionary.

Purgative

La Rioja

Zaph

Candie wrote: »

In other news, gullible is the only word in the English language not listed in the Oxford dictionary.

However it is in the Merriam-Webster dictionary because it's the dictionary most widely used by Americans.

Arghus

Lá Roija. Cos I like to say it with a flourish, as if someone has insulted my family's honour.

Omackeral

La Rioja does it in record time! Last match of the round coming up next.

Omackeral

Match 32 is ready to go. Who's taking that last spot in Round 2?

Rhineland Palentinate
German State



VS

Saarland
German State



VS

Marche
Italian Region

Purgative

Marche - because the other two are just variations on a theme

Saarland, I prefer the symmetry.

Regione marche looks like a warning label on a packet of poison, the bird on it looks like he's in the throes of terminal diarrhoea.

Lion. :mad:
Lions. :mad: :mad:
No lion.

Marche it is then.

I have absolutely no idea what that's meant to be, the closest I can come up with is 'Xatu throwing black sludge behind its back'. And I'm totally on board with that!!

Also, black white and green is a nice combination that's very underused on flags.

quickbeam

Not thrilled by any of them, but first two are too German, so I go for Marche. That's a woodpecker in the image which is a totem of the Picentini tribe of Italy. True story.

Electric Nitwit

Rhineland Palentinate, because it looks like they've just pulled back the curtains to surprise Homer with a lion :pac:

Electric Nitwit

Marche's looks like the logo of a pharmacy where you'd buy cheap sunscreen that's past its use by date, we can't let that tat go through

Omackeral

Despite EN's protests, Marche marches on!

Zaph

Rhineland Palentinate - I like the German colours and it has fewer lions on it. The Marche flag loses out because I hate flags that tell you where they're from on them. It smacks of chronic insecurity. Plus it's a bird that they realised only made half an M so they added a black squiggle for the rest. Altogether a bit shoddy.

Omackeral

Round 2 will kick off tomorrow and a special thanks to all the new players who jumped on board today, hope you can stay around for some more action

Electric Nitwit

Omackeral wrote: »

Despite EN's protests, Marche marches on!

Omackeral

So it's time for Round 2 to kick off. It's all head to head bouts from here on out. Same as before, 5 votes will get a flag through and reasons will be considered in the event of a tie. 30 mins remains as your time limit. Let's see who's first up...

Liege
Belgian Province



VS

Sicily
Italian Autonomous Region

quickbeam

Liege is a bit too "busy" but Sicily is just freaky, so I'd better stick with Liege.

LadySkunk

Hahaha it has to be siege for me. That abomination on it is amazing

y0ssar1an22

quickbeam wrote: »

Liege is a bit too "busy" but Sicily is just freaky, so I'd better stick with Liege.

exactly my thoughts. liege for me

LadySkunk

I just realised I voted for the hybrid of the two, I meant Sicily but I reckon that was obvious from my description

quickbeam

Viva La Siege!!!

Sicily. Who doesn’t like a three legged contortionist?

Zaph

I'm going with the freakiness, Sicily for me. I like how weird it is and the Liege one is a bit of a jumbled mess.

Necro

Zaph wrote:

I'm going with the freakiness, Sicily for me. I like how weird it is and the Liege one is a bit of a jumbled mess.

Yes to this. Sicily for the win!!

cdeb

Don't like the baggy eyes on the Sicily one. Other than that, it'd win. So I'll vote Liege, which is just the right side of "too busy"

Fr Tod Umptious

Hey Sicily

The Isle of Man just called, they want their flag back.

Liege for me

cdeb

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Hey Sicily

The Isle of Man just called, they want their flag back.

Liege for me

Wiki says -

First found in Sicily in the 4th century BC
First found in the Isle of Man in the 13th century AD...

quickbeam

^^ True story!

Omackeral

Fr Tod tied it up at 4-4 .......but, it was two mins after the expiration time.

Sicily rolls on, probably literally as that's how it would move I imagine.

Purgative

Sicily - looks kind of saucy