February Contest Winners Thread

[u/Vexy]

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The website above has a finalized standings page so you can see the final ratings for all flag submissions, their authors, and what you voted them (if you did).

Contest Voting Link

Prompt: Black History Month

This month, we want you to make a flag that symbolises black history month for Canada, Jamaica, or the United States.

Contest Top Entries

We had 59 submissions, here's the top 20 and best in each category:

Rank	Username	Submission	Score	Category
1	/u/HistoricalTrip5247	Horns of Freedom	3.853	Jamaica
2	/u/Brasitino_do_Sul	The Abengs of Freedom	3.611
3	/u/Possumsurprise	Black Liberation of the Island Paradise	3.563
4	/u/VertigoOne	Afro-American Banner of Heritage and Hope	3.545	United States
5	/u/VertigoOne	Black American Umoja/Unity Banner	3.441
6	/u/HistoricalTrip5247	Kente - Canadian Pale	3.441	Canada
7	/u/ralley22	Jamaica's black center	3.344
8	/u/Miguk4Real	Nyansapo: The Knot of Wisdom flag	3.313
9	/u/Miguk4Real	Fawahodie: The Freedom and Independence Flag	3.182
10	/u/saladinmander	Canadian Black Spruce	3.118
11	/u/planete_actions	The Maple Heritage: Weaving History into the Red Field	3.114
12	/u/petrusmelly	US Black History Month - Fiftyfold Freedom	3
13	/u/planete_actions	The Northern Path: A Modern Afro-Canadian Standard	3
14	/u/ralley22	Black Canadian Heritage Flag	2.971
15	/u/Choice-File5800	Rising Stars of Liberation	2.909
16	/u/gmalatete	Reaching Out	2.879
17	/u/Vermicelli-Thick	Severed Bonds	2.879
18	/u/Douverill	American Black February	2.818
19	/u/Diabetic_Dingus	North Star of Resilience	2.818
20	/u/Chera_Empire	The Maple built by Black Blood	2.794

Annual Top 20

Rank	User	Total	Contests	Flags	Top 20 Flags	Winning Flags	Average	Jan	Feb
1	VertigoOne	13.286	2	4	4	0	3.322	6.3	6.987
2	HistoricalTrip5247	13.064	2	4	2	1	3.266	5.77	7.294
3	Brasitino_do_Sul	12.966	2	4	3	0	3.241	6.619	6.346
4	Miguk4Real	12.849	2	4	4	0	3.212	6.355	6.494
5	ralley22	12.735	2	4	3	1	3.184	6.421	6.314
6	saladinmander	12.024	2	4	3	0	3.006	6.452	5.572
7	planete_actions	11.849	2	4	2	0	2.962	5.735	6.114
8	Possumsurprise	11.292	2	4	1	0	2.823	5.76	5.532
9	Choice-File5800	11.212	2	4	1	0	2.803	5.515	5.697
10	Douverill	10.281	2	4	1	0	2.57	4.766	5.515
11	Virgulillo	9.436	2	4	0	0	2.359	4.655	4.782
12	Emperor_Quint	9.113	2	4	0	0	2.278	4.778	4.335
13	dayudayu	8.856	2	3	1	0	2.952	6.189	2.667
14	Minute_Economist_392	8.288	2	4	0	0	2.072	3.649	4.638
15	RottenAli	7.492	2	4	0	0	1.873	3.723	3.769
16	BIGMAJI	7.14	2	4	0	0	1.785	3.671	3.469
17	bribridude130	7.062	2	3	0	0	2.354	2.297	4.765
18	DWPerry	6.721	2	4	0	0	1.68	2.509	4.212
19	oblivicorn	6.625	1	2	2	0	3.313	6.625	0
20	rasterski	6.342	1	2	2	0	3.171	6.342	0

Full annual standings and past winners

Congrats to /u/HistoricalTrip5247 on their 1st win! They will receive a custom flair of the winning flag and it will be forever enshrined within our Hall of Fame. They'll also get a custom flag from our new contest sponsors over at Flagmaker & Print!

[u/VertigoOne]

Thank you all for the category win!

Would love to know what you all liked about it!

Here's the symbolism again in case people don't want to click back

19:10 ratio is the same as the US flag.

Gold, black, red & green are pan African colours. Red top, black centre, and green base comes from M Garvey's 1920 Pan African flag.

The black section is 60% of the background, for the three-fifths compromise concerning African slaves. The flag takes this horrible decision and turns it into a design element. It also makes it a triangle pointing fly-wards to representing progress.

This black section contains 36 stars, for the 36 states that were part of the US when the 13th amendment ending slavery was signed in 1865. 14 other stars represent America's other 14 states, totalling 50 stars.

The sword is a blunted Moorish Boarding Sword from the 1967 Black American Heritage flag by M Charles and G T Jackson. The hilt has a 12 pointed Juneteenth star in a hexagon for December (12th month) 6th 1865. The hilt also features 13 stripes of equal width on the grip, for the 13th Amendment, pointing fly-wards to represent progress. The chevron design also signals hazards/danger of messing/harming that progress.

The fact that this warning is part of a weapon is important symbolically. Meant to invoke American defiant spirit of "Don't mess with us!"

[u/Miguk4Real → u/VertigoOne]

I really liked this flag. However, I think having two dark colors together made it less appealing. I think I would have put a gold trim between the black, red, and green triangles, forming a "V" for victory element. This would not have required any loss of symbolism that you skillfully employed. Well done!