Ultimate Battle of Oceania

Omackeral

Good afternoon folks. In our next Ultimate Battle Tournament, we go to one of the lesser known regions of the world. You may call it Oceania, Australasia or even just Australia but no matter its name, we are gonna do some exploring.

Much like our Western Europe and USA/Canada competitions, we'll be looking at the flags of these antipodean subdivisions and deciding which one is our ultimate favourite. States, territories and incorporated dependencies will make an appearance here. Some you'll be familiar but most, I would wager, you might not be... that's half the fun.

We'll be kicking of in just a little while with an introduction to the rules. Would be great if you could get involved. So click follow if you can and join us!

Eminem.

Electric Nitwit

Come on Kiribati!

Omackeral

There'll be no sovereign nations in this competition lads, they were already in the Ultimate Flags of the World Tournament which, funnily enough, Marshall Islands won. Kiribati fell earlier than expected too. Did you know that it is actually pronounced Kirabass. Figure that one out.

Electric Nitwit

Damn you, getting my hopes up

...and when I say "you", I mean "my lack of reading" :pac:

Omackeral

We have 64 entities in this contest comprised of states, territories, dependencies and administrative regions of Oceanic nations.

- All draws are made at random using a number generator.
- All Round 1 matches have a time limit of 20 minutes. Most votes wins.
- In the event of a tie, any reasons given will be taken into account to decide a winner.

Necro

Can't see my wife's home state going too far :pac:

Omackeral

First match goes live in 10 minutes

Omackeral

Tamania

State of Australia



VS

Easter Island

Special Territory of Chile

Purgative

Easter Island - looks like a face mask which is just so apt, or a hammock for sunnier times.

Easter Island

Have no idea what this is meant to be, but I love it

Necro

Easter Island. The Ozzie state flags look like they just slapped a sticker on the national flag and said, 'that'll do folks'.

Zaph

Easter Island - I don't know what drugs they were taking when they designed that, but it was clearly some good sh*t.

ari101

Easter Island for it's peculiarity!

Such incomparable subjects, I'm not sure what to like about either really

Easter Island - like something from AAAHH!!!!! Real Monsters

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Easter Island. The Ozzie state flags look like they just slapped a sticker on the national flag and said, 'that'll do folks'.

Yeah, but it's a lion! What even is the Easter Island one?

Vote Tasmania, even though they could have done so much better...

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Yeah, but it's a lion! What even is the Easter Island one?

According to Wikipedia its a reimiro, a wooden pectoral ornament once worn by the people of Rapa Nui, painted in red, a symbol of power, with two anthropomorphic figures at its edges, representing the Ariki ('chiefs, nobles').

cee_jay

Easter Island

Omackeral

Easter Island advances

Omackeral

Tokelau

Dependent Territory of New Zealand



VS

Auckland

City of New Zealand

Purgative

Tokelau - neat without being gaudy. The other one is way too busy.

ari101

Tokelau - too much going on in Auckland for a flag

Zaph

Tolelau - Auckland is a bit of a mess

cee_jay

Tokelau.

Auckland is way too busy.

Electric Nitwit

Yep, with everyone else, Tokelau please

JP Liz V1

Easter Island

JP Liz V1

Auckland

Tokelau

The couldn't settle the argument on the other one!

Auckland - a horn, hammer & sickle and a boat.


Ticks all my boxes.

Tokelau is a car boot sale version of an upcoming beaut.

SineadSpears

Ooh shiny new game..


Auckland

Zaph

Deleted User wrote: »

Auckland - a horn, hammer & sickle and a boat.

It's a shovel and pickaxe :pac:

Omackeral

Tokelau advances

Omackeral

Otago

Region of New Zealand



VS

Cook Islands

Free Associate of New Zealand

Zaph

Otago - it's what the Ukraine flag aspires to be

SineadSpears

Otago is of the IKEA colours, so that means cheap & tacky.

Cook Islands looks a lot more impressive

ari101

Cook Islands - I like the ring of stars on the right, but mostly because I just don't fancy Otago for some unknown reason

Purgative

Cook Islands - Olympics on crack


The other thing is a school project from someone who didn't like art.

Otago

Purely because Cook islands just looks like another lazyass Aussie state flag.

Zaph

Zaph wrote: »

It's a shovel and pickaxe :pac:

Potato, tomato.

Toto Wolfcastle

Otago. So much more fun than the Australian/New Zealand flag clone.

Otago - nice and unique.

cee_jay

Otago

Omackeral

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

Otago. So much more fun than the Australian/New Zealand flag clone.

You're gonna love the Papua New Guinea entrants

Necro

Otago, agreed with others that Cook Island just isn't that great

Omackeral

Otago advances

Omackeral

Niue

Free Associate of New Zealand



VS

Queensland

State of Australia

Necro

:pac: let's go with Niue because at least it's yellow as opposed to having a sticker popped on it

Citizenpain

Queensland
Too much yellow in the other

ari101

Queensland (because I like the blue more than yellow )

SineadSpears

Queensland because I have a fear of the colour yellow. Horrible horrible colour

SineadSpears

Lol so I'm not the only one with yellow 'issues' it seems!