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4 minutes ago, BrySmalls said:
Maybe it's the lighting, but shouldn't the
pinkred be darker? Also, yellow, though not an official club color, was added to the jersey trim because of the city flag?
It is one of their colors, it’s just not used on the badge. The colors are City Red, River Blue, Energy Yellow, and Arch Steel (gray) -
Good job on St. Louis SC. That stadium you made for them looks almost just like the shoebox we have irl! XD
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You aren’t the first one to try to revive the ASL, but I always love seeing people's different ideas on what might have been. Boston is my favorite so far
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WIGTOWN WANDERERS
The Wigtown Wanderers play in southwest Scotland. Their famous emblem is a meat cleaver, a tribute to Walter Parkin, a butcher whose seven children made up the entirety of the Wanderers team in their inaugural season. It was said that Walter would go to all his kids' matches, and he'd always have a meat cleaver with him.
WIMBOURNE WASPS
Finally we have the Wasps. QTTA describes their robes as "black and yellow horizontal stripes with a wasp on the chest," and I found no reason to deviate from that. The primary features a wasp perched atop a quaffle, a ball used for scoring. While not as famous as the golden snitch, it’s still considered an important piece of Quidditch equipment.That does it for this series. I know it wasn’t my most popular work, being fictional teams playing a fictional sport in a story that is, as far as we know, quite fictional, but these ideas were swimming around in my head for a while and I wanted to put them out there is all. Thanks for your time.
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17 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:
Numbers inside the front star, maybe?
I thought about doing that, but decided that numbers would be best served where a spectator is most likely to see them on a player in flight on their broomstick, namely their helmet and cape.
PUDDLEMERE UNITED
PUQC is considered the league's oldest club, having dated back all the way to the 12th century. Their main colors are dark blue and gold, but prior to the late 1990s, United wore brown instead. I decided to bring back the brown in the form of clash robes.
TUTSHILL TORNADOES
The Tornadoes are based in Tutshill, a small village on England's western coast where JK Rowling herself spent much of her childhood. Their colors are navy blue and light blue, but I tried to come up with a unique shade for the light blue that looks different than the blue worn by the Arrows. The TT monogram on the capes are supposed to be like a throwback logo. According to Quidditch Through the Ages, the Tornadoes traditionally wore a "TT" monogram on the fronts of their jerseys. I decided they needed a logo with a little more substance. -
MONTROSE MAGPIESThe Magpies are the league's most successful team, having won the League Cup 32 times and the European Cup twice. Their home colors are, of course, black and white, but I came up with a burgundy and pink uniform for them on road games.
PRIDE OF PORTREE
The Pride plays in the Hebrides, a group of islands in the northern edge of Scotland. The star is an important part of the Prides' identity, so I provided plenty of them on their robes.
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HOLYHEAD HARPIES
The Harpies are Wales' second team, famous for hiring only women athletes. Their official club colors are dark green and yellow, but I used red instead of green for their clash robes. These colors are taken from the Welsh county of Anglesey, where the Harpies call home.KENMARE KESTRELS
The Kestrels are the lone representative of the Republic of Ireland, headquartered somewhere in County Kerry. I make a modernized version their classic logo, two Ks back to back, and drop their yellow in favor of dark blue, so they can more easily differentiate themselves from the Harpies. -
I’ve always preferred special uniforms for an all-star game. MLB has always had their players wear their team uniforms for an ASG, but had special uniforms just for the Home Run Derby, and I always felt it should be the opposite. When the NFL pitted conference all-stars against each other in the Pro Bowl, they had special jerseys, pants, and socks, but they wore their usual team helmets. Again I always thought that was odd.
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CHUDLEY CANNONS
Most HP fans were introduced to the BIQL through the Cannons, being loveable underdogs and Ron Weasley's favorite team. The primary I made combines their iconic CC monogram with some cannonballs, as well as a hand with crossed fingers, alluding to the club's motto, "Let’s just cross our fingers and hope for the best."FALMOUTH FALCONS
The Falcons fave a motto too, part of which you can see on their capes here. The full saying goes, "Let us win, but if we can’t win, let us break a few heads," referring to their famous ferocity and violence in their style of play. According to Quidditch Through The Ages, the Falcons traditionally play in dark grey and white robes with a falcon emblem on the chest. I decided to include yellow for a more attractive look.
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5 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:
Your Bats home has no gray, why not replace all the white with it?
Simply put, it was a personal choice. Like in soccer, some of these teams will not always use only club colors in their clash uniforms. -
BALLYCASTLE BATS
The Bats are Northern Ireland's only team. For this concept, I try to keep the design close to how it was described in QTTA, that is, black with a big bat on the front. The book and the wiki mention nothing about clash uniforms, but I decided to make ones for the whole league for this series because I figured there are teams here that have similar coloring that could use an alternate uniform to avoid color confusion.
CAERPHILLY CATAPULTS
The Catapults are a Welsh team known for their unique color scheme of light green and scarlet stripes. I added black as sort of a stabilizing element to the brand.
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18 minutes ago, BigRed618 said:
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As some of you are aware, aside from the main Harry Potter books, a number of other books were released to expand upon the Wizarding World. One of these was Quidditch Through the Ages, explaining the game of Quidditch, a fast-paced sport where players take to the skies on broomsticks and try to throw a red ball, called a Quaffle, through one of three hoops to score, while avoiding two black balls, called Bludgers, all while two other players hunt down a small, golden, winged ball called a Golden Snitch. The game ends when the Snitch is caught, and whichever Seeker (the name of the position for the player whose sole job is to chase down the Snitch) catches it gets a ton of points for their team, usually resulting in a win.
The book also talks about the culture around the sport, which is at least as popular in the wizarding community as soccer is in Britain, or baseball in the USA. It talks about a major Quidditch league in the Home Countries called the British and Irish Quidditch League (BIQL.) It went in depth about the league's 13 teams including history, trivia, and a general idea of what their uniforms looked like.
I decided to make a series creating concepts for the entire BIQL.
LEAGUE LOGO
The league logo is shaped like the playing field, with a Golden Snitch making up the central partition line. The colors represent England, Ireland (including Northern Ireland,) Scotland, and Wales in that order.
APPLEBY ARROWS
As a precaution against Muggle (non-magical person) interference, all BIQL teams are situated in smaller locales with low population density. In the Arrows case, they represent the West English county of Cumbria, known as a mostly rural region. In actual HP canon, there seems to not be much in the way of standardization on what a Quidditch uniform consists of beyond protective gear for the arms, legs, head, and eyes, so I went ahead and created a template that includes a helmet, jersey, shorts, socks, and a cape. The cape and helmet will be where the numbers will go since those are the parts of the player a spectator will see the most.
That should be about everything. Sorry for all the words
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First of all, the article has a paywall. Second of all, not bad. Not as drastic a change as I had feared. Not sure why they cropped off the lower half of the eagle. Were they trying to make it look like it’s flying?
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I read the regulations… it IS legal…
Article 15, Paragraph 03: The team or country name may be used in place of the team emblem, in which case the stipulations of Paragraph 14.03 apply and the height of the letters must not exceed 5cm.
incredibly stupid, but legal
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On 8/18/2021 at 1:00 PM, officeglenn said:
Puma's only gone and bloody done it: 10 new third kits all using the same template
- Manchester City (Premier League)
- AC Milan (Serie A)
- OIympique Marseille (Ligue 1)
- Stade Rennais (Ligue 1)
- Valencia (La Liga)
- Borussia Mönchengladbach (Bundesliga)
- PSV Eindhoven (Dutch Eredivisie)
- Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukrainian Premier League)
- Krasnodar (Russian Premier League)
- Fenerbahçe (Turkish Süper Lig)
Man City, par example:
As I said over in the news article, I’m surprised this sort of thing is even allowed. Doesn’t UEFA or FIFA have some kind convention on what a soccer kit is supposed to look like? -
Not a bad take here. The lily looks interesting, and the color scheme is unique. Most concepts I’ve seen for Louisville teams like to use purple, a mix of red and blue which represent the city's two major colleges (Louisville and Xavier.) I can see this being a fun design for their inaugural season, before going with solid pink hoops thereafter.
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Sorry, but I think they look better with the logos matching. "It’s what they’ve always done" isn’t a very good reason to continue using branding that doesn’t make sense.
Take my own Cardinals as an example. I started following them in my early childhood in the early 90s. By then, they were 30 or so years into a branding that even though it looked okay and there was nothing glaringly wrong with it, it did use no less than 3 different drawings of a cardinal in the same set. (The primary, the Sluggerbird, and the jersey wordmark.) When they updated their brand in '97, most of us, myself included, agreed that it was an upgrade.
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I remember a long time ago making a concept for a team in St. John’s, NL called Terra Nova FC. I still think that could be a cool name for a team up there if it ever happens
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I like the new logo. Everything comes together alright and I barely notice the line weight issues. And in all fairness, this is the first CPL team to call themselves United. We're all just tired of it because of MLS overusing it.
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Edit: nevermind, you already found it
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3 minutes ago, BC985 said:
I would have preferred this:
I know a certain restaurant that would very much NOT prefer that.Anyway, I do like the colors, though I find it kinda troubling to see so many people mistaking the red for pink. The arch and rivers design is a beauty, I think I just need to get used to seeing it for a bit.
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Welp... at least we're an SC and not an FC
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I do like the font they’re using. Very bold, very energetic. Anyway, looks like we have one week left to speculate. A glorious future, or a world of disappointment, is just around the next corner.
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The stars over the I's is what that look needed. Nice job