Weekly Flag Challenge: New Challenges & Previous Winners

[Laqueesha]

FLAG CHALLENGE 125: It's Party Time!

In many countries, such as in Eurasia and the European Union, political parties have flags of their own. However, in the U.S., this is not the case. Therefore, your challenge is, to create a flag for one of the four major U.S. political parties: The Republicans, the Democrats, the Libertarians, and the Greens.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 23:59 EST, 27 February 2015.
Voting Opens: 28 February 2015
Voting Closes: 6 March 2015

 

[Larus Marinus]

It seems I won flag challenge 125. (Flag challenge 126 can be found below the image)

I have no real background story for this beyond the Libertarians adopting a flag.

Libertarian flag: Light of Liberty

FLAG CHALLENGE 126: Capitalism ho!
Design a flag for a state run by some sort of corporation. What this entails is up to you.

Examples include: a corporate republic, a colony run as an independent country by a company, a federation of cities ruled by some sort of corporation or company.

Future history is fine. Other forms of science fiction, fantasy and ASB is not.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 03:30 EST, 14 March 2015
Voting Opens: 14 March 2015
Voting Closes: 21 March 2015

 

[Larus Marinus]

Sovereign12 has won flag challenge 126!

Kellogg’s Corporate Kingdom

Starting in 2021 the worlds food supply started to fall well under that needed to feed the people of the planet. First attributed to the failure of GMO foods, many seed companies and large biotech firms went under from pressure placed on them by the starving masses. It was later revealed that terrorists loyal to former Russian President Putin had liberated several biological weapons from the former Commonwealth of Independent States. This information was withheld from the general population in order to keep the already present level of rioting manageable. When word got out, many governments fell to riots or civil war. Several countries were able to hold some semblance of unity together. Backed by the Kellogg’s company, the United Kingdom was one of those countries. After merging with the faltering Monsanto Company, Kelloggs had moved their headquarters out of the fatally dying US and to their facility in Trafford Park, Manchester. Holding a Royal Warrant issued by Queen Elizabeth II, and then by King William VI, Kelloggs was well established in the nation. As food riots and assassinations of political figures become the norm in the United Kingdom, the only source of non-infected agricultural seed was controlled by Kellogs. With the threat of civil war, Parliament looked towards…

 

[Sovereign12]

FLAG CHALLENGE № 127: [FONT=&quot]Of Mice and Mensheviks

In 1917, with the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks splitting, many non-factional social democrats returning from Europe and America had to take sides. Some returned to the Mensheviks, some joined the Bolsheviks at once, but many like Trotsky joined with the non-factional, anti-war group, Mezhraintsy, which would eventually merge with the Bolsheviks in august of that year. A smaller number of influential social democrats which was associated with Maxim Gorky refused to join with either side.

The challenge is to create a flag for a Russian state based on a TL where the Mezhraintsy, plus the social democrats following Maxim Gorky, merges instead with the Mensheviks and the end result is that Bolshevism is made illegal.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 03:30 EST, 30 March 2015
Voting Opens: 30 March 2015
Voting Closes: 5 April 2015

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[Sovereign12]

ah-sue has won the Flag Contest

THE RUSSIAN CONFEDERATION

After the final defeat of the Bolsheviks and the various ‘White’ Armies, the Socialist Republic of Russia was declared. Its first official flag was a large, central red star on a white background. During the Second Great War, there was widespread criticism of a flag that was mainly white and eventually a new flag was adopted as below. Upon adoption of the new constitution of 1963 the nation became simply ‘The Russian Confederation'.

 

[TPL99]

FLAG CHALLENGE 128: An Ameriwank State Flag

The goal of this challenge is to create a banner for a state (of any continent) a Ameriwank, joining elements of chosen state and United States. Can also follow coats of arms, but the divisions must be "respectable" (maximum a state with 60 to 80 million inhabitants) and may not be in current US territory (including Puerto Rico and the territories Pacific).

Slightly late, since I forgot all about the flag challenge this week.

US state flags don't really follow any set patterns beyond often including red, white and blue, so it was hard to think of anything appropriate. In the end, I came up with a somewhat silly concept: Scotland leaves the UK, only to join...The US!

 

[Larus Marinus]

FLAG CHALLENGE 129: Tricolors Forbidden
With flags such as the Dutch Prince's flag and the French Republican flag popularizing tricolor flags, we've seen more and more of them all over the world. While they sometimes have very striking designs, they also tend to be somewhat dull.

Your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to take a country with a tricolor flag and design a flag for it that doesn't conform to a tricolor format. However, it does have to make use of all three colors present on the existing tricolor flag of the country in question. How you use them, and the ratio of the colors, is up to you.

Examples with horizontal stripes include: Netherlands, Russia, Germany
Examples with vertical stripes include: France, Belgium, Romania


Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 23:59 GMT 10th May
Voting Opens: 11th May ish
Voting Closes: 18th May ish

 

[Larus Marinus]

Marc Pasquin has won flag challenge 129!

An alternate Chad flag using elements from its Coat of Arms.

 

[Marc Pasquin]

huzzah ! Somehow inspired by the previous challenge I give you:

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FLAG CHALLENGE № 130: Hold the Cross on High.

Picking a country that has, OTL, a flag with a different design, you must create a national flag with a cross as its main charge. The cross can be of any type (latin, saltire, potency, etc...) and minor charges can be included if wanted.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 09:00 sydney time, 2 june 2015
Voting Opens: 2 june 2015
Voting Closes: 9 june 2015

 

[viperhawkz]

I appear to have won, thanks to this flag of Macedonia:

So, here's the next one!

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FLAG CHALLENGE № 131: Where We Can Be Free

Your challenge this time around is to create a flag for a space colony established by a non-state community. This can be an ethnic/cultural community (Tuaregs, Basques, Tibetans, etc.), a religious community (Hindu, Mormon, Scientologist, etc.), or some other community (communists, white supremacists, Anonymous, etc.)

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: Wednesday June 17
Voting Opens: Thursday June 18
Voting Closes: Thursday June 25

 

[Krall]

I won!

Here's the new challenge:

FLAG CHALLENGE № 132: Convention Schmonvention

Your challenge is to make a flag that defies normal flag design conventions - specifically your flag must not be any of the following:

-A rectangle (non-rectangular quadrilaterals are permitted),
-A simple tricolour, vertical or horizontal,
-A simple cross flag,
-A flag incorporating a canton.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: Saturday July 4th, at midnight GMT
Voting Opens: Sunday July 5th
Voting Closes: Sunday July 12th


I don't usually follow the Weekly Flag Challenge so please let me know if I'm doing this wrong.

 

[ah-sue]

Flag Challenge #133

EUROPE: Christianity and Islam never occurred, the Roman gods predominated long after the fall of the Roman Empire, through the ‘Dark Ages’ until a Renaissance brought forth many things, one of which was a new monotheist religion. But within a century doctrinal disagreements caused a bitter and violent schism, one version of the religion dominating the north of the continent, the other version dominating the south.

The challenge is to identify a symbol for one version of the religion and incorporate it into a flag of a nation. Backstory wherever possible!

It’s up to contestants to decide where the division into north and south lies. Nations can be those that exist in OTL or in an ATL.

Entries open Thursday 23 July at 0001 BST and close on Thursday 30 July at 11pm BST.

 

[Comisario]

Looks like I won, so it's time for the next challenge!

FLAG CHALLENGE № 134: Revolution Rock

The ideals of the revolution aren't based on liberalism, democracy, socialism or fascism - this revolution is based on music! The old regime is gone and the new, revolutionary regime needs a flag based on their particular revolutionary genre.

Your challenge is to create a flag for a revolutionary state based upon any genre of music you can think of (punk, reggae, classical, etc.) and any nation (OTL and ATL) can be used.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 17th August
Voting Opens: 18th August
Voting Closes: 25th August

 

[Comisario]

The challenge is being extended by another week.

The new date for the end of entries is the 24th August.

 

[Comisario]

The entries are officially closed.

Here's the poll!

 

[ah-sue]

FLAG CHALLENGE #136 – SUCCESSOR TO AN ITALIAN EMPIRE IN AMERICA

Supposing Spain did not (or could not) back Columbus’s voyage of discovery. Supposing that Italy, united or federated * much earlier than in OTL, did take up the financing and subsequently established an Italian empire in central and south America.
The challenge is set centuries later, any time between 1850 and today. Define a nation arising from that Italian empire and design its flag (maximum display height 300 pixels).
*The united/federated Italy does not have to encompass the whole of modern Italy.

Submissions open: Friday 11 September
Submissions close: Saturday 19 September, 11am British Summer Time
Voting opens: Sunday 20 September
Voting closes: Sunday 27 September, 11am British Summer Time

 

[Petike]

135, Sue. The previous challenge was 134.

 

[Sovereign12]

135, Sue. The previous challenge was 134.

Well, Richard IV had already posted the new challenge, but in the Discussion and Entries Thread, as well as a separate thread of its own, but not in this thread.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=136905&page=135

And he followed Sue's 136 and made the new challenge 137..

Somewhere out there, lost to time and existing in higher dimensions, is the mysterious abode of Map Challenge 135. It lives between the apartment building housing the missing Roanoke residents and the white picket fence home of Jimmy Hoffa.

 

[Petike]

Counterfictional has won the round by a large margin, with 15 votes out of 23. Presenting her Texlahoma flag once again:

Congratulations !

 

[Petike]

In the absence of Counterfictional, we've discussed what topic to pick in order to continue the contest. Most people seemed in favour of this suggestion by TheProfessor:

How about imagined flags based on partial and incomplete descriptions of "present day" flags that have survived some great disaster. E.g. these Myrcian flags

This idea has received support from Krall, Rarayn, me and apparently also Sgtwolf00. Therefore, I've agreed to introduce the following new round:


FLAG CHALLENGE № 137: Future Imperfect

Create a flag based on partial and incomplete descriptions of "present day" flags that have survived some great disaster.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: Tuesday December 8th, at midnight GMT
Voting Opens: Wednesday December 9th
Voting Closes: Wednesday December 18th