Ultimate Battle of Britain and Ireland

Omackeral

Hello and welcome to the June edition of Ultimate Battle. This month, we sail closer to home as we explore the subdivisional flags of Britain and Ireland. The plan is to kick off either tomorrow night or Sunday night and have a straight shoot out from 64 to 1 to see who the champion is.

Click “follow thread” and get yourself on board for the opening contest. Some beauties between the auld enemies so it should be an interesting quest to find the best!

davetherave

Only 64, oh dear. I wonder who forgot to send in their paperwork or didn't get past the application stage.

Omackeral

davetherave wrote: »

Only 64, oh dear. I wonder who forgot to send in their paperwork or didn't get past the application stage.

It's a good spread geographically and it might not be what you're expecting in some ways.

KathleenGrant

Woohoo!!!!

Omackeral

We go live with this tonight folks!

Flags Omack?
We may see a lot of political voting in this I think!!!!

Omackeral

bubblypop wrote: »

Flags Omack?

Sh*t I probably should have said that! Yes it's the subdivisional flags, this is the latest in the series.

quickbeam

bubblypop wrote: »

We may see a lot of political voting in this I think!!!!

I hope not. I hope it comes down to the best design regardless of where it's at.

KathleenGrant

quickbeam wrote: »

I hope not. I hope it comes down to the best design regardless of where it's at.

It usually does in fairness. I would like to think that the regulars of this competition are all about the flag itself more than where it is from.

Omackeral

bubblypop wrote: »

Flags Omack?
We may see a lot of political voting in this I think!!!!

Omackeral wrote: »

Sh*t I probably should have said that! Yes it's the subdivisional flags, this is the latest in the series.

Amended the OP there :pac::pac::pac:

Electric Nitwit

There'd better be unicorns

My old hometown, of sorts, better be on.
It has a good flag!!!

KathleenGrant

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

There'd better be unicorns

Where are you from? Fairyland?

Electric Nitwit

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Where are you from? Fairyland?

I used to live in a city (I'll leave it unnamed for now ) with unicorns on the crest!

Edit: apparently it's the national symbol of Scotland! Didn't know that (that's not where I lived)

There'd better be dragons too!
Promise me there'll be dragons, Mackers

quickbeam

I reckon there'll be a few roses and lions too.

KathleenGrant

And castles.

rainbowtrout

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

There'd better be unicorns

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Where are you from? Fairyland?

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland so there could be unicorns

ari101

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

There'd better be unicorns

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I used to live in a city (I'll leave it unnamed for now ) with unicorns on the crest!

Edit: apparently it's the national symbol of Scotland! Didn't know that (that's not where I lived)

There'd better be dragons too!
Promise me there'll be dragons, Mackers

rainbowtrout wrote: »

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland so there could be unicorns

Bristolians, Scottish; all welcome if they bring unicorns

Electric Nitwit

ari101 wrote: »

Bristolians, Scottish; all welcome if they bring unicorns

If there's none on the flags I'm sure we can rely on Mackers...

ari101

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

If there's none on the flags I'm sure we can rely on Mackers...

But will they do this

SineadSpears

quickbeam wrote: »

I reckon there'll be a few roses and lions too.

KathleenGrant wrote: »

And castles.

and they will be the ones I'll be voting for over and over

Purgative

Omackeral

What in horny hell is going on in this thread!?

Draw has been made and the first match throws up an Ireland vs England pairing. We go live at 6PM

Omackeral

*Each Round 1 match will last 20 minutes.

*Whichever flag has most votes advances.

*Any reasons given for your choice will be taken into account in the event of a tie.

Trigger

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I used to live in a city (I'll leave it unnamed for now ) with unicorns on the crest!

Edit: apparently it's the national symbol of Scotland! Didn't know that (that's not where I lived)

There'd better be dragons too!
Promise me there'll be dragons, Mackers

Bristol City were playing at home parlez vous
Bristol City were playing at home parlez vous
Bristol City were playing at home,
And kicked the fart from here to Rome,
Inky pinky parlez vous

(We sang city instead of rovers)

Omackeral

Connaught

IRELAND



VS

Yorkshire

ENGLAND

BonnieSituation

Connacht by a furlong

Kolido

Both look awfully strange, will go Connaught though.

Zaph

Well seeing as it's on the crest of the mighty Leeds United, I have to go for the white rose of Yorkshire. Apart from anything else, Connacht's is schizophrenic, just pick one, ffs.

Oh two home flags here for me!!!!!!

Tough choice.....
I'm going to go with Yorkshire, it makes more sense to look at, and I think connaught will have plenty on here voting for it!

quickbeam

Yorkshire. If there was more blending done between the two halves of the Connaght one, where it looked like an actual crow holding a sword, it might work better. But yeah, as Zaph says, it's just schizophrenic.

cdeb

Kolido wrote: »

Both look awfully strange, will go Connaught though.

Yeah, this for me. A Habsburg eagle waving a sword in its arm is something different. Like a Jeff Goldblum experiment gone wrong

ari101

Connacht* - fierce, who wouldn't want a half eagle and a knights arm!

A bitta Eddie the Eagle for ye all




(*cough, clearly not from Connacht if you accept the West Brit spelling And I was determined not to get political :pac:)

ScoobyDosent

To "hell with it", I'll go
Connacht
😜

quickbeam

I honestly never knew there were two spellings!!

Trigger

Connacht is utterly bizarre but the the Yorkshire one is on Leeds crest so have to go with Connacht

ari101

quickbeam wrote: »

I honestly never knew there were two spellings!!

I think unless you are a local or into that kinda history you wouldn't.
Modern Irish 'Connacht' is spelled that way, some things still dating from British Rule still retain the anglicised spelling

Trigger

ari101 wrote: »

I think unless you are a local or into that kinda history you wouldn't.
Modern Irish 'Connacht' is spelled that way, some things still dating from British Rule still retain the anglicised spelling

Doesn't really matter, they both sound awful

SineadSpears

Connaght - the bird and the arm don't exactly work well together but the flower isn't very exciting either. so I'll go with the odd mashup

Electric Nitwit

Yorkshire, prefer the simplicity, even if there's no unicorns

Omackeral

A great opener but it's the luck of the Irish prevailing.

Connaught advances to Round 2

ohnonotgmail

Connacht. Who doesn't love ravens and swords.

Omackeral

Cheshire

ENGLAND



VS

Cumberland

ENGLAND

quickbeam

Cheshire! Castles and swords and nice colour combo. Cumberliand's green is too snotty.

Purgative

Cheshire by an edge.

Trigger

Cumberland looks like something from the start of Moana and the little fella loves that so I'll choose that one..

Trigger

quickbeam wrote: »

Cheshire! Castles and swords and nice colour combo. Cumberliand's green is too snotty.

Thought it was straw/hay not castles?

SineadSpears

Chesire - the other is a bit too pretty and the colours are kinda bland

ari101

Cumberland because I prefer the colour scheme, not really sure about either

SineadSpears

quickbeam wrote: »

Cheshire! Castles and swords and nice colour combo. Cumberliand's green is too snotty.

I thought they were wheat??

ohnonotgmail

Trigger wrote: »

That it was straw/hay not castles?

wheat but close enough.

Cheshire for me. Good colours and it has a sword. You may find the presence of a sword has a strong bearing on my choices.