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By default the Chaos will be my team, but I feel no connection to the name or branding package. It needs some blue to feel like a real Charlotte team. I would've rather had the Hounds brand back, but I understand why they kept most of the old cityless names. The Carolina + scorpion tail logo feels squished horizontally. Not a fan of using Maryland over Baltimore, either. Philly, Cali, and Utah are excellent though, no complaints there.

You look me in the eyes and tell me that this jersey was good. It's only saved from the absolute bottom because of Miami's serial killer set.

The Japan design is unique and I think would fit an up-and-coming hockey nation like Japan. That said, the yatagarasu is a crow that specifically has three legs - you've removed one to add the hockey stick. I don't mind the hockey stick but the crow needs three legs to be a yatagarasu and therefore relevant to the content. Enjoying the rest, can't wait to see you finish!

Every single 24 scheme would be dramatically improved if they would go back to using the proper gold numbers on every car. Keeping the number color that iconic gold would help the car look a lot more like the iconic cars Jeff Gordon ran that made the number famous. The Pods scheme isn't too bad but the Z and Relay schemes are embarrassing.

Where are you getting that? As far as I remember, the 17-18 jerseys just had the criss-crossing gradient stripes, meant to emulate a hornet's wings, the 18-19 jerseys were the "City of Flight" set, and the 19-20 jerseys were the awful gray set with a honeycomb pattern down the side. No Charlotte Coliseum references as far as I'm aware.

Took me a second to get it, but it's solid. Sets itself apart a little better than the old.

This is the only one I dislike but that has more to do with my distaste for the Avs using black gear than not liking colored helmets. Slate blue would look pretty good, in my opinion.

The Canes' red helmet on the road looks great. It's excellent color blocking, pairing very nicely with the red shorts. I hope more teams start wearing colored helmets on the road. More color is a good thing!

Count me among those that wants creamsicles full-time for the Bucs. Vibrant colors, gorgeous shades, much better than the dull red and gray mess they've worn since. The cannonball looks (both Super Bowl sets) suffer from major dullness syndrome. The pewter pants are dull, the pewter helmets are dull, the dark red is dull, the black socks are dull. Vibrancy is in - capitalize on that.

Yep, the old Wizards logo:

So glad to see you back! I've loved watching your progress and I can't wait to see you finish this series out. NAFA: I love the bones of the new logo, but the white-to-gray gradient isn't doing it for me. I think it looks a lot bolder without the gradient. LA: Oh, this is beautiful. I love the gradient here, especially its use as a shortened block gradient on the helmet an white pants. My only minor complaint is that the orange and teal clash a little but it's really not that big of a deal. SA: Hmm. I think I agree with you where the logos are great but the uniforms and color scheme isn't quite right for me. The white jersey's yoke is super dark with the green and black. Maybe getting rid of black is the way to go? I like the new secondary logo but I'm not huge on including the year and I think the star isn't quite centered in its little pocket. MIN: The cream is a really warm shade here and I'm not quite feeling it on the green jersey - maybe make the numbers white to emulate the white jersey? Other than that it's a great set. I love the sublimated plaid. PHI: Very classic feel here and I love it. Nothing much to say here, a great look. WPG: Huuuuuuge fan of the powder blue here. It's such a unique shade and it's used really well here. QUE: The Lumieres remain my favorite set of yours. The aurora stripe is sick and I agree, I love how the secondary color changes depending on the angle of the jersey. 11/10, no notes. JAX: I like the purple and lavender, but the gray isn't working for me. It kinda dulls down the set and I think it would look better if it was a pure white anyway. Still really nice-looking, the double purple is great. Keep it up! I can't wait to see the league at the end of this project.

Not sure if this is a truly unpopular opinion, but I don't like any option of red, Irish Rainbow, purple, blue, whatever. Green and cream for the Bucks. That's it.

I love the Cardinals-style Orioles! Such a classic baseball design that translates pretty spectacularly to the O's. I think the birds get a little lost on the orange set (the real-life Cardinals put a stroke around all that on their red jersey, maybe something like that is justified here?) and as a matter of speculation - the STL Cards place a lot of emphasis on their STL monogram. Maybe this hypothetical Orioles franchise, instead of an O's mark, uses a B cap logo instead? (I'm really only saying this because I, as an O's fan, hate the O's logo and wish they'd replace it with the script B.) Funnily enough, the number font, which I remember not particularly liking from your MLB redesigns, works really well here. Must be something about the style of the script. Nice work!

What's funny is they probably wanted 7, but it belonged to Robby Gordon at the time, who was sponsored by Jim Bean. There was no way to acquire then, given it was sponsored by a Jack Daniels competitor. I do agree that they should've gone for 70 or 77, as while 77 was being run (part-time at this point I think) by Penske, 70 was open.

No, the goal was to get it closer to the team's official shade of blue, Panthers Blue (or Process Blue), that Nike was unable to properly recreate when the NFL made the switch in the early 2010s, whenever it was. Presumably Reebok had been able to properly produce Panthers blue so the new blue jerseys look more like the pre-Nike set.

I get it in weekly short track or dirt track scenes, but in NASCAR, things are structured enough to ensure that teams won't need a 0#. With 0-99 available, there's no need for those extra 10.

Oh wow, I love the Marlins-style seafoam and black set! It looks really nice and I can imagine their alternate teal jersey would be stellar. This new set isn't doing it as much for me, as the contrast between the green and seafoam and orange and seafoam isn't enough for me. The numbers in particular stick out poorly on a flat template like this, they may look better in real life. The scripts are really nice, I've always loved that old Tides script.

I love the Tides! I do have to wonder how the set would look with a seafoam-ish teal instead of green. I like the orange in the set, but if I remember correctly, it was added because the team is an affiliate of the O's - what would it look like without?

Just because, I've checked every Big 5 city. Boston - Atlantic Ocean New York - Atlantic Ocean Buffalo: Lake Erie and Niagara River Newark - Passaic River Philadelphia - Delaware River Baltimore - Chesapeake Bay Washington - Potomac River Pittsburgh - Alleghany, Monongaheia, and Ohio Rivers Raleigh - None (closest is Neuse River) Charlotte - None (closest is Catawba River) Atlanta - None (closest is Chattahoochee River) Jacksonville - St Johns River Miami - Atlantic Ocean Orlando - about a billion lakes Tampa - Tampa Bay Detroit - Detroit River Cleveland - Lake Erie Columbus - Scioto River Cincinnati - Ohio River Indianapolis - White River Nashville - Cumberland River Memphis - Mississippi River New Orleans - Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain Chicago - Lake Michigan Milwaukee - Lake Michigan Minneapolis & St. Paul - Mississippi River St. Louis - Mississippi River Kansas City - Missouri River Oklahoma City - Oklahoma River Dallas - Trinity River Houston - Buffalo Bayou and Trinity Bay Austin - Lady Bird Lake and Colorado River (different from the Grand Canyon's Colorado River) San Antonio - San Antonio River Denver - South Platte River Salt Lake City - None (Closest is Jordan River and of course the Great Salt Lake) Phoenix - Salt River Las Vegas - None (Closest is Colorado River and Lake Mead) San Diego - Pacific Ocean Anaheim - Santa Ana River Los Angeles - Los Angeles River and Pacific Ocean San Francisco - San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean Oakland - San Francisco Bay San Jose - Guadalupe River and San Francisco Bay Sacramento - American and Sacramento Rivers Portland - Willamette and Columbia Rivers Seattle - Puget Sound Montreal - St. Lawrence River Ottawa - Ottawa River Toronto - Lake Ontario and Don River Winnipeg - Assiniboine and Red Rivers (but not Lake Winnipeg, strangely) Edmonton - North Saskatchewan River Calgary - Elbow and Bow Rivers Vancouver - Fraser River and Strait of Georgia Only five I judged to be far enough away from bodies of water so as to not really be "on" one. Every one of those has bodies of water close enough to them to justify including them as a part of the city's culture if you really want to.

And he's right to say it.

Two white helmet games and only one orange game is such a shame. Their best uniform and they're only wearing it once.

The real problem with the Bengals is that they made their default white uniform the "white tiger" look. Now, I don't like the look no matter what, but they should've made the road uniform include every color, then have an all-white look as an alternate. A remnant of unfortunate timing as the Bengals redid their set right before alternate helmets became a forgone conclusion. I'm not sure if they had done it now they would've made the road uniform just black and white.

I'm pretty sure the 4+1 rule is for uniforms that get the full merchandise treatment, with authentic retails, and shirts, and whatnot. Anything extra like the Canada Day jerseys can still be worn, they just won't get the full retail treatment.

The halfway point seems like a good time for me to give my thoughts. For the teams you've updated, I'm only looking at the newest version. CIN: A good start. Purple and orange is an attractive color scheme and fitting of a city like Cincy. I don't think the logo needs the drop shadow you've given it, however - Just the C plus the "mohawk" for lack a better term. On orange it can be all purple and on the caps it can be all orange. No need for that extra orange stroke, either. CLE: Solid. Very White Sox, which isn't a bad thing. I'd give the home wordmark a white stroke so that it stands out from the pinstripes a little better, like you've done on the black alternate. I think the stroke on the road could be thicker as well. The Nike logo appears to be a royal blue or purple, almost like it's a leftover from the Cincy set - is this intentional? BAL: Hmm, not quite feeling this one. You mention that this is an old team, but the touches they have on their jerseys feel very modern. The skyline on the sleeves is one such example. The gold wordmark on the road doesn't fit at all, with the rest of the jersey or the home set. Sticking to red, black, and white (maybe with small gold highlights) would be the way to go in my opinion. NY: New York looks good! I like the version of the logo you ended up with. I think the "Aces" wordmark is slightly off-center to the right. I also don't like the double orange on the socks - that feels like a holdover from an older version of the team. KC: The colors you've selected are way too bright. Both the blue and the yellow need to be brought back. This is true of more than a few teams you have - I'd suggest referencing TruColor.net and sampling colors that real teams use. It'll give you that sense of realism. Beyond the colors, the logo needs a little more work. The K and C should actually interlock, not just have the C overlaid on top. Fix those two things and you've got a nice, classy set. TB: The shade of cyan is obnoxiously bright, especially on the alt. You might be better served dropping it entirely. For the road jersey I'd suggest an all-navy crown instead of the cyan taco you have now (reference the Orioles' road jersey). I think the cyan and pink clash too much on the navy alt - replacing cyan with white would help a lot here in my opinion. The rest is a nice set, I especially like the scripts you're using. They feel very beach-y. DAL: I love this set. Really nice colors, wordmarks, and the throwback is pure class. I think my only critique would be the logo - snakes don't bend like that. Especially for an older team as well, I think using a D for Dallas would make more sense, but either way the curve of the snake needs a revisit. BOS: I really only have one problem with this set again, and it's the logo. I'm not feeling the connection from statue of pilgrim -> governor -> Irish color scheme. Maybe a simple roundel (see: Texas Rangers or Oakland Athletics) would do the job? NO: Good call swapping from NOLA to NO. I think there should be more interaction between the letters here as well - like the O hooks around the stem of the N or something. I'm iffy on having NO at home and "PIRATES" on the road, but it's fine. The alts are great. The socks are.... strange. The striping doesn't match anything else in the set and is angled for some reason? Might be worth redoing. Outside the design, but a New Orleans team starting in 2005 might be the worst timing I can think of besides buying a home in 2007. MTL: I like using powder blue here. The red is definitely too bright - check TruColor for a more accurate shade. I think the blue and red are blending too much in the piping on the home and road set. Maybe instead it could be red with a white inner stroke? I'm not huge on the powder cap on the road but I don't think red would be better, so maybe it has to stay powder. The Quebec alt is decent but the wordmark gets lost at a distance. Either give some more contrast between the powder and white or instead use a navy stroke to separate the wordmark from the piping. FLA: This set is different but I like it! It feels like a natural conclusion for the current "Sun Rays" branding that the real-life Tampa Bay uses. I'm not sure why the Florida flag patch changed color between the home and road? I think the version with the navy stripes is better. The powder blue doesn't contrast well enough with gold or white. I also think you might be able to drop the "Fla" from that logo as well. Nice work here! CHI: Thank goodness you updated the color scheme, because to be honest, the original one was awful. It was way too bright for any team, let alone a historic team from Chicago. This set is much better. It's basically the A's but the A's look great so no notes. LA: This is a solid set. I like the bear logo and the colors. I'm undecided on the wordmark. It doesn't feel right to be. Maybe a more traditional block set would fit better? I'm also not sure how that gold set would actually look on the field - usually translations of colors like those don't look so great as the main color of a jersey. The Nike logo is also incorrectly colored on this set. MIN: A really nice set all around. Love the rope striping, love the colors, love the logo. As a matter of personal preference I think I would like it more if the M logo was on at least the road cap. The navy over powder set works surprisingly well. Nice stuff! HOU: Another great update. The white ball stands out so much more. I like the scheme, it feels very appropriate for Houston. I don't like how the logo is red on a red cap, the H gets lost. Try swapping orange and red for the cap logo. On the flip side, I actually think you should do the opposite for the Texas logo - orange stroke, red fill. I'd also lose the H patch on the right sleeve - it's already on the cap so there's no need for it on the jersey as well. ARZ: This one's not doing it for me. I'm not a huge fan of the sleeveless jerseys and the color scheme is fine at best. Using both off-white and white on the same jersey is a bold choice that I firmly disagree with. The logo is also lacking in dynamism - the stroke weights are uneven (check where the purple points of the star meet the A) and the triangle used for the empty space in the A should follow the points of the star itself. I think this one needs another pass. Overall nice work. I'm looking forward to the final 16!