Tuesday
Jul292008
IHA Poll: New York Americans
60 Comments
NEW YORK AMERICANS
FINALISTS
The original post follows.
Cast your vote and leave a comment about your decision. If you chose a non-finalist, tell us which one. Then tell all your friends to drop in and vote! The more voices heard, the more accurate the results!
Starts Tue Jul 29
Ends Fri Aug 1
As promised, below are a handful of the logos that were submitted but not selected as a finalist. If you think one of these should be the New York Americans logo, select "non-finalist" in the poll and tell us your pick in the comments.
Reader Comments (60)
Hey chris, any chance we can get a tiered voting system? As it stands, the third logo has the most votes but nowhere near a majority. Maybe you could cut it down from 4 options to 2 after the first round? That way people who voted for one of the first two (similar) logos could rethink their options when it is only one shield logo vs. the flying A.
Josh: I'm not going to force anyone to "rethink" their decision. We don't need a majority. The logo with the most votes wins.
By the way, the only way we would do another vote for the same teams is if the "non-finalist" option won the most votes. Then we'd obviously hold a vote of non-finalists.
I vote for a non-finalist and it's the eagle, really sharp by the way !
K cool. I only said anything because as a political science student these things just come natural; most democracies in the world actually use a tiered voting system now.
I just thought that since the first two logos were so similar, they are probably "splitting the vote", kind of like what would happen if Hilary AND Obama were allowed to be separate democratic candidates, and they both took on mccain on their own (i bet they'd like that). It would probably be something like Hilary 25%, Obama 30%, Mccain 40%, Others 5%... therefore a republican would be in power despite democrats having the majority. Thank god for primaries.
K cool. I only said anything because as a political science student these things just come natural; most democracies in the world actually use a tiered voting system now.
Josh, I couldn't agree with you more. But I would consider the United States presidential election to be of considerable more importance than a vote on some random blog about a bunch of logos that will have no effect on the world. I'm trying to get through this process as quickly as possibly without going into overload.
We're going to do this again in the future where you guys will vote on the cities, colors, names, logos... the whole nine. I'll take my time with that one. For now, just rock and roll.
And for whatever it's worth, Icethetics merely offers the illusion of democracy. :)
Awesome, I can't wait to see all of these logos on jerseys with their secondarys and wordmarks.
(secondarys or secondaries? not a common plural)
Voted for the first shield, but I think that the first non-finalist eagle would make a WICKED secondary shoulder patch, while the #3 finalist would make a cool helmet logo, or pantleg(crest on the thigh) logo.
@ kerrsil
I agree with you completely
I know each person who submitted had to also sumbit a secondary and wordmark. But from the looks of things could we mix and match.
In other words option 3 looks like it's gonna be the winner, so is that secondary logo gonna be used or can the popular eagle head be made the secondary.
Also, Chris, did you judge the logos individually or the package as a whole (primary, secondary, wordmark) to choose the finalists?
Count one vote for the eagle with the flag incorporated into it. (The 1st non-finalist). BTW, if the artists are not supposed to copy actual logos to show their originality, why did the inventor of this project show such a lack of originality in the names? The New York Americans, for instance, are an actual historical NHL franchise and the Houston Comets are a WNBA team.