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Week 10: Final Logo Voting

We've reached the final voting phase of the IceHL's 2013 logo design contest. Five teams still await a final decision on the logos that will represent them going forward. You can find those polls below. For each team, there are two options. The logo with the majority of the votes will be declared the winner.

Only primary logos are shown in these polls. This is to cut down on page clutter. To see the full sets that were presented last week, use the links at the top of the page.

Results remain hidden until polls close. Winners announced Sun., June 23.

Following the reveal of the winning designs on Sunday will come the final phase of this project. Jersey design kits will be made available on Mon., June 24 and submissions will be accepted for two weeks. Voting will open on Mon., July 8 and close on Sat., July 13, ending 13 Weeks of R&R.

At that point we'll shift to our month-long 13 Third Jerseys project, which runs July 13 to Aug. 13. More on that to come.

IceHL 2013 Logo Evaluations

The time has finally come to begin voting on next logos to join the IceHL ranks as 13 Weeks of R&R continues. We have more than a hundred logos representing the work of dozens of artists. Because there's so much here, each team gets its own evaluation page. The number logos for each team varies, though, with some having as many as 15 designs to choose from and others as few as five.

The logo decisions will be a two-week process. This week, you'll grade all eligible entries on a very simple scale. Positive, neutral or negative are your options. These results will determine which logos make it to the final voting round next week.

NOTE: Included among these sets are not just logos submitted in the last three weeks but, if applicable, select logos submitted the first time around when we began this league back in 2008. We're allowing some second chances for those designs.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask and feel free to share your thoughts on each team's set of submissions in the comments on each page. Happy voting!

Update on Wednesday · Jun 12 · 2013 | 11:38 AM PDT by Chris

Two days in, voting is going very well. The designs are getting lots of feedback — good and bad. And it looks like we're on our way to having some great new logos for a handful of IceHL teams next season. While we're still early in this process, I wanted to take the time to answer some questions.

Can logos from different sets be put together?

No. I know some of you may like the primary logo from one set and the secondary from another. But in most cases we're looking at two very different design styles. Each artist has put together a package of logos that they believe complement each other and we're not going to fracture their vision. We're voting for the entire package, not piecemeal. All or nothing.

How many logos go to the final round of voting?

This is a tricky one. I don't have a set number. It will vary from team to team based on the sort of feedback the logos are receiving. For example, if three different entries are neck-and-neck, I don't want to have to throw one out because of an arbitrary rule that there can only be two. Something like that.

So instead, I'll look at it case-by-case. If there's one design that's running away with positive grades and I don't think any other designs stand a chance, I might call it this weekend. For teams where multiple designs are doing well, the final round of voting could have 2 or 3 options.

How is the score determined for each entry?

If you want to figure out how I'm scoring these jersey, it just takes a little bit of math. Take the positive vote percentage and round it up to the nearest whole number. Take half the neutral vote and round that up to nearest whole number. Add those together and you have your score out of 100.

For example, at the time of this writing, I'll score Eric Poole's redesign of his Colonials logo. It has 71% positive (71 points) and 21% neutral (11 points, after rounding). So right now the score of that design is 82 — very high. If other designs end up approaching that number, they'll be included in next week's polls.

How do I know who designed what after I vote?

I realized some of you were having trouble describing your favorite designs after you voted, since the designer's name was only visible in the poll question. First off, if you click "Return to Poll" it'll take you back to the original question. But just to save the extra click and make life easier, I've added the designer's name beneath each entry.

Once again, happy voting! (And let me know if you have any other questions.)