r/vexillology • u/Vexy Exclamation Point • 11d ago

Contest December Contest Voting Thread

/r/vexillology Flag Design Contest Website - Vote Here!

Voting takes place at the link above! Rate all entries from 0-5. We've moved away from Reddit contest threads, see last year's announcement. This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the contest, and is generously sponsored by our New Contest Sponsor, Flagmaker & Print!

Prompt: Flags for the Chagos Islands

As you may have recently heard in the news, the Chagos Islands will now no longer be represented by the Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory

We want you to design a flag for the Chagos Islands, now that things have changed. A flag to represent these islands specifically within the Mauritius aegis.

We approved 85 entries.

Good luck and may the odds be in your favor!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please contact the mods

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u/Miguk4Real United States / South Korea 10d ago edited 10d ago

First, congratulations to the designers for making me wrong. There weren't duplicates other than variations from individual designers! Nice!

I am a bit concerned that the random shuffling of the flags isn't working properly. I've seen pairs of flags always together on all of my devices, as well as the flags in the same order. To ensure the fairness of this contest, I hope this issue can be fixed promptly.

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u/heshammourad :SE22: Sep 22 Contest Winner 10d ago

Flag order is randomized per user, to ensure that if a user stops voting halfway thru, they can come back and see the unrated flags in the same order. Each individual user will see the flags in a different randomized order, however.

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u/Miguk4Real United States / South Korea 9d ago

Thanks for your explanation. I never knew. Also, thanks for your efforts to make this contest the fun contest it is.

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u/Brasitino_do_Sul Apr 24 Contest Winner 6d ago

I'm happy with a higher number of entries (specially compared to last month's contest)! Lots of them with a main symbolism on the Chagossians, which is reasonable! Just a little nervous since neither of my flags focus that much on them (on second thought, I maybe should've, but eh, it is what it is!)

But I've got a question: Is the sun emblem on this entry the same one as the one in the flag of (Greek) Macedonia?

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u/Ozymandius21 Nepal 6d ago

looks the same symbol.