Ultimate World Landmark Tournament

Omackeral

Schafberg Peak



Prater Park



St Stephen's Cathedral



Hallstatt Village



Swarovski Crystal Worlds



Schonnbrun Palace

Necro

Schafberg Peak

I mean it's like you're about to fall off the edge of the world seemingly at the top. Just amazing.

cdeb

Schafberg Peak.

Best pub view in the world. Even better than the Blue Light Pub. Found about it watching Michael Portillo earlier in the year, and it's firmly on the bucket list.

HeidiHeidi

Holy ****, that Schafberg Peak looks AMAZING!


But I've always wanted to go to a concert (preferably a New Year's Day concert) in the Schonbrunn Palace.....


Feckit, that mountain top has to get my vote!

Purgative

They're all lovely excepting the funfair thing and the cathedral is OK, but has to be Schafberg Peak. Fantastic, it gives me vertigo just looking at the picture.

Necro

Boardsie trip to Schafberg Peak after the pandemic is over anyone?

Mehaffey1

Hallstatt Village

To borrow the line from In Bruges, 'it's like a f**king fairy tale, how can it not be somebody's thing!?'

Hallstatt. It's like a fairytale place where you'd find wooden puppets or elves and shoemakers.

cdeb

I put this up on the I Bet You Didn't Know That thread in July actually - the train that takes you up to the peak. It's so steep that the locomotive is tilted to keep it level on the slope.

HeidiHeidi

Necro wrote: »

Boardsie trip to Schafberg Peak after the pandemic is over anyone?

I'm there!

Sawduck

Swarovski Crystal Worlds, its a giant face spitting out water, not sure we will see many more in this tournament

HeidiHeidi

cdeb wrote: »

I put this up on the I Bet You Didn't Know That thread in July actually - the train that takes you up to the peak. It's so steep that the locomotive is tilted to keep it level on the slops.

Great Freudian typo there while you were at it!

cdeb

Ninja edit!

JohnGreenFan

Schafberg peak, no beating that!

HeidiHeidi

cdeb wrote: »

Ninja edit!

Not ninja enough! :pac:

cdeb

cdeb wrote: »

I put this up on the I Bet You Didn't Know That thread in July actually - the train that takes you up to the peak. It's so steep that the locomotive is tilted to keep it level on the slope.

The Little Engine That Could - and does.

Cosmo Kramer

Some of the nominations in this are going to make our own efforts in the All Ireland competition look fairly mundane by comparison.

I was fairly sure I would be voting Hallstatt for Austria but that Schafberg Peak looks amazing and gets my vote.

Necro

I wasn't sure if we were re-nominating for Ireland so left them out. Would have gone for the two finalists and the Skelligs though.

Schafberg Peak

Wow, I didn't actually know about this place & I thought Austria was beautiful, this is better then anything I have seen before.
First new place on list

Omackeral

Schafberg Peak advances and will represent Austria

Omackeral

We stay in Europe as we visit the first of the Benelux countries next.

cdeb

I'm actually a little surprised at how clear that was tbh!

Omackeral

Grand Place



Bruges Belfry and Markt Square



Atomium



Manneken Pis

JohnGreenFan

Bruges Belfry and Markt Square - It's just fabulous. Was supposed to be visiting this summer... thanks Covid

Necro

Tempting to go for the peeing statue but I'll avoid my immature nature and vote for

Atomium.

Looks awesome.

HeidiHeidi

Can I register an anti-vote for the Mannekin Pis? The most underwhelming thing I've ever made an effort to see, ever!


The Atomium, on the other hand, is absolutely bonkers, and brilliant, and fairly unique, so absolutely gets my vote!


(I think it's a bit unfair using a pic of the Grand Place with that flower display, which is only there every second year - it's an impressive square, but a LOT more boring usually!)

Sawduck

Atomium, I'm not a science nerd but this is pure class and gets my vote

Mehaffey1

Bruges Belfry and Market Square, as I've mentioned I'm a big fan of the movie but I'm yet to visit.

Purgative

Atomium - went there when I was 12 absolutely facinating

Cosmo Kramer

I would agree about Mannekin Pis, one of the most underwhelming city sights I have ever been to see (although still not as underwhelming as The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, I'll probably moan about that again if it appears in the Denmark round).

Anyway it's a tough one between Grand Place and Bruges Markt for me - the Grand Place looked amazing when we were there at Christmas time and I love how they change it around during the year. But Bruges really is a bit special - as someone said earlier, it's like a ****ing fairytale, so the Markt gets my vote.

I find Belgium really fecking boring

Atomium is something actually different, interesting and not fecking boring. Vote for that.

cdeb

bubblypop wrote: »

I find Belgium really fecking boring

You could call it the Longford of Europe I guess. I'll vote Brugge cos it's a lovely city.

Does this mean that the Flame Towers in Baku are either not in the tournament or have a bye as the only Azeri nomination btw? Presume we're going alphabetically through this.

Irish Aris

I will echo the sentiment about Mannekin Pis, very very underwhelming.

I will vote for Atomium. That and the Mini Europe are really cool!!

Omackeral

The Atomium advances and will represent Belgium

HeidiHeidi

cdeb wrote: »

Does this mean that the Flame Towers in Baku are either not in the tournament or have a bye as the only Azeri nomination btw? Presume we're going alphabetically through this.

I'm sure Omackeral has enough to be doing, so I'll anwer this.....


Any country that had only one nomination goes straight through to the national contest.


These are the prelims, where countries had more than one nomination.


Hope I've got the terminology right!

cdeb

I know - but the question was to confirm we're going alphabetically?

Also, I figure the Flame Towers deserve a mention, even if they didn't get nominated.

Omackeral

cdeb wrote: »

Does this mean that the Flame Towers in Baku are either not in the tournament or have a bye as the only Azeri nomination btw? Presume we're going alphabetically through this.

Ok so I landed on my feet with 64 countries when I did up the original nominations list. I was chuffed and settled on that as a perfect tournament number. I was still taking for nominations for any mentioned nations but not any for those yet to be mentioned. Azerbaijan falls into the latter.

HOWEVER, I will create a Wild Card Battle Royal and your Flaming Towers will be in it

HeidiHeidi

cdeb wrote: »

I know - but the question was to confirm we're going alphabetically?

Also, I figure the Flame Towers deserve a mention, even if they didn't get nominated.

Yep, he (she??) said it's going alphabetically.


I'd assumed you'd nominated them, and were wondering why they were skipped!

cdeb

Omackeral wrote: »

Ok so I landed on my feet with 64 countries when I did up the original nominations list. I was chuffed and settled on that as a perfect tournament number. I was still taking for nominations for any mentioned nations but not any for those yet to be mentioned. Azerbaijan falls into the latter.

HOWEVER, I will create a Wild Card Battle Royal and your Flaming Towers will be in it

Oh sweet!

I may PM you later.

But actually, a Wild Card would be a nice way of catching what we've failed to nominate. Provided it doesn't mess around with your neat 64-country draw of course!

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'd assumed you'd nominated them, and were wondering why they were skipped!

No, though I did do that a couple of times on the Ireland landmarks thread alright. But it might be handy to see what's been left out and to at least give more unusual places a shout out.

Omackeral

cdeb wrote: »

Oh sweet!

I may PM you later.

Please don't!!! I've just created a Wild Card Round with a whopping 12 additional countries. That'll give us two prelims and a play-off to see who grabs the last spot. There is now no country left out that was nominated!

Omackeral

Right we go to Bubblypop's favourite part of the world next and that's the Balkans. Hold tight.

Omackeral

Stari Most Bridge



Kravice Waterfall



Sarajevo Olympic Bobsleigh Track

cdeb

Omackeral wrote: »

Please don't!!! I've just created a Wild Card Round with a whopping 12 additional countries. That'll give us two prelims and a play-off to see who grabs the last spot. There is now no country left out that was nominated!

Fairy nuff!

*Waits to see whether the Gates to Hell in Turkmenistan got nominated now...*

Necro

Waterfall is gorgeous and Skate park kinda cool but gotta go with

Stari Most Bridge

Picturesque. I'd love to visit there.

cdeb

The abandoned bobsleigh track is a good nomination for whoever's responsible for that!

But the bridge in Mostar is quality, even after it was blown up and rebuilt. Gets my vote. (But I'm damned if I'm jumping off it...)

Kravice waterfall is pretty spectacular, but the Mostar bridge is other-worldly beautiful.


Mostar Bridge.

HeidiHeidi

Stari Most for me.


Despite having the **** bombed out of it, and being in fair tatters when I visited, there was just the loveliest atmosphere in Mostar - and that bridge was just a very sad, poignant symbol of everything that had happened.


(I'd have nominated the Hilton in Sarajevo if I'd thought of it in my five minutes of panic when I realised nominations were closed!)

JohnGreenFan

Stari Most Bridge. That's class.

This is going to be such a tough contest!!

Purgative

Stari Most Bridge Quite magical. It looks a thoroughly lovely place.


The waterfall, OK but there's always a better one and the bobsleigh track is OK but I wouldn't go out of my way - currently 5 kms.

Sawduck

Stari Most Bridge, looks really nice and has an interesting history behind it