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Ultimate Battle of Canada and the USA

Omackeral · 2020-06-09 11:49:55

Hi folks, following on from the Ultimate Flags of the World Tournament, I thought I'd give this one a whirl. It's on a smaller scale but hopefully it will be interesting as many of the flags will be new to a lot of folks, myself included. This competition centres on the big boys of North America and their internal…

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#102 09-06-2020 6:31pm

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Nebraksa is less bland than the other

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#103 09-06-2020 6:32pm

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Rhode Island for being the lowest of the low key

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#104 09-06-2020 6:32pm

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Rhode Island

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#105 09-06-2020 6:33pm

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End of the rhode for Nebraska. RI wins!

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#106 09-06-2020 6:34pm

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Rhode Island. Nebraska has too much going on

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#107 09-06-2020 6:35pm

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Another bluesome twosome
Pennsylvania

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#108 09-06-2020 6:36pm

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South Dakota, I like the colours!

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South Dakota because I feel sorry for them; the fact that they felt the need to mention Mount Rushmore on the flag shows how little else they have going on there.

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#110 09-06-2020 6:38pm

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Pennsylvania
Pretty cool flag

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#111 09-06-2020 6:39pm

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Horses and eagles - Pennsylvania please.

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#112 09-06-2020 6:39pm

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South Dakota by a mile.penn is awful

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#113 09-06-2020 6:41pm

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South Dakota.

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#114 09-06-2020 6:41pm

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Pennsylvania - cool horses and stuff

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#115 09-06-2020 6:44pm

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South Dakota wins!

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#116 09-06-2020 6:49pm

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Two states that share names with countries up now
Georgia

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New Mexico

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#117 09-06-2020 6:50pm

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New Mexico. Minimilist and nice colour combo.

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New Mexico because I've no idea what it's meant to be and therefore it's more intriguing than Georgia, which is fairly boring.

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#119 09-06-2020 6:51pm

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New Mexico for simplicity and it looks indigenous too. Don't know if it'll get far though

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#120 09-06-2020 6:52pm

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New Mexico because Breaking Bad

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#121 09-06-2020 6:53pm

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Quick KO there for poor ol' Georgia who's not on anyone's mind. New Mexico takes the victory.

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#122 09-06-2020 6:55pm

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From one Breaking Bad location to another...
New Hampshire

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Arkansas

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#123 09-06-2020 6:57pm

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New Hampshire as Arkansas flag just oozes racism

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#124 09-06-2020 6:58pm

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New Hampshire, it's cartoon-like. The other one looks like an old garage sign.

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#125 09-06-2020 7:00pm

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New Hampshire - I like boats

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#126 09-06-2020 7:02pm

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Arkansas because emblem on blue background is getting very boring.

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New Hampshire

There should be more flags with boats on them.

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New Hampshire as Arkansas flag just oozes racism

Wait 'til we get to Mississippi!

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#128 09-06-2020 7:04pm

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New Hampshire. Arkansas does indeed look dodgy

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#129 09-06-2020 7:07pm

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Arkansas. It's not too bad

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#130 09-06-2020 7:07pm

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Wait 'til we get to Mississippi!

Is Mississippi actually the confederate flag? I genuinely didn't know any US state flags apart from California prior to this comp

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#131 09-06-2020 7:08pm

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New Hampshire and its boat sail on!

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#132 09-06-2020 7:09pm

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New Mexico.

Simple, but distinctive.

Edit: late too the party.

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Is Mississippi actually the confederate flag? I genuinely didn't know any US state flags apart from California prior to this comp

You know how the union jack soils the top-left corners of the Hawaiian/Australian/New Zealand flags?

Basically that but instead of a union jack it's the Confederate flag.

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#134 09-06-2020 7:10pm

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This is a tasty cross-border affair. Either could go far.
Quebec

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Arizona

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#135 09-06-2020 7:12pm

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Arizona it looks like a Superhero logo. I do like the Quebec flag too though to be fair.

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#136 09-06-2020 7:12pm

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Arizona

Those French speaking twats can do one

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#137 09-06-2020 7:12pm

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Quebec and the fleur de lys

Arizona is a bit meh, sort communist rising sun - pah

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#138 09-06-2020 7:13pm

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Arizona.. it's actually pretty nice !

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#139 09-06-2020 7:15pm

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Arizona. Vibrant.
The other one looks like four separate flags when you see it first

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#140 09-06-2020 7:16pm

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Quebec, I enjoyed Montreal a lot

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#141 09-06-2020 7:17pm

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Québec.

Because Fleur de lís.

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#142 09-06-2020 7:20pm

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Arizona, it has passion

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#143 09-06-2020 7:50pm

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Arizona

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#144 09-06-2020 7:53pm

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Arizona. It's Seychellesy.

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Quebec, it's more elegant.

I love these threads, but nearly missed this after the apparently arbitrary move.

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#146 09-06-2020 7:55pm

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Candie wrote: »

I love these threads, but nearly missed this after the apparently arbitrary move.

You (and anyone else, of course), might find it handy to follow this thread which notifies new games in Forum Games: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057987935

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quickbeam wrote: »

You (and anyone else, of course), might find it handy to follow this thread which notifies new games in Forum Games: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057987935

Done, and thanks.

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#148 09-06-2020 8:01pm

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Arizona because I have a keyring of it because I was there last year.

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#149 09-06-2020 8:03pm

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Also if I went digging I would probably find a pin badge for all 50 states of America from exchanging them at a Science Fair there in 2002 and 2019.

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#150 09-06-2020 8:06pm

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Arizona.
It is like the imperial Japanese flag

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#151 09-06-2020 8:17pm

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Arizona wins. Next match will be up shortly

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