The War of the World

[Aozora ~Blue Sky~]

The War of the World is a battle between countries to decide which country has the best flag.

The countries will be split into 20 groups of 10 with the top 3 flags in each group advancing to the next round. Each round will last for 1 month once the voting begins.

To get 200 countries I took the 194 officially recognized countries of the world, split the UK into it's 4 member countries to get 197 and added Kosovo, Palestine and Taiwan, because their soverignty is recognized by a significant number of nations, to get an even 200.

To make the groups I typed all of the countries in alphabetical order into random.org. I then took this randomized list and seeded them in order into the 20 groups and arranged each group in alphabetical order. The end result are the 20 groups you see.  

[Aozora ~Blue Sky~]

The polls for War of the World are now open! They will remain open for 30 days and close on May 6th. Happy voting and may the best flag win!  

[Alphagirl]

Do you mind if we/I use this as a discussion thread and talk about our flag opinions here, or would it be best to do that somewhere else?  

[Aozora ~Blue Sky~]

Alphagirl

Do you mind if we/I use this as a discussion thread and talk about our flag opinions here, or would it be best to do that somewhere else?

Either here or in a new thread. 3nodding  

[Alphagirl]

Noted! Since it's here, may as well use this thread.

So I'm actually pretty impressed by how consistently pretty a lot of the central Asian countries' flags are. Ended up voting for a lot of them as a result.  

[Aozora ~Blue Sky~]

Alphagirl

Noted! Since it's here, may as well use this thread.

So I'm actually pretty impressed by how consistently pretty a lot of the central Asian countries' flags are. Ended up voting for a lot of them as a result.

I think I had a pretty good mix. A few groups made me wish I could vote twice. xd  

[Insomniatic Songbird]

There were definitely some groups for which I wanted to vote for more than one flag.
Also I gave up on voting on aesthetics/design/recognizability early on, because voting for the most badass design is more fun. I love the flags with suns/birds/dragons/temples on them so much.  

[Aozora ~Blue Sky~]

Insomniatic Songbird

There were definitely some groups for which I wanted to vote for more than one flag.
Also I gave up on voting on aesthetics/design/recognizability early on, because voting for the most badass design is more fun. I love the flags with suns/birds/dragons/temples on them so much.

Dragons seem to be dominating so far. xd  

[Alphagirl]

So now that I have real wifi again thanks to the technician guy fixing things today, question: When's the next round of voting start up again? Combing through the results was neat.  

[Aozora ~Blue Sky~]

Alphagirl

So now that I have real wifi again thanks to the technician guy fixing things today, question: When's the next round of voting start up again? Combing through the results was neat.

I was having some problems with depression. I'm back again now. I'll start up round 2 soon.  

[Alphagirl]

Aozora ~Blue Sky~

Alphagirl

So now that I have real wifi again thanks to the technician guy fixing things today, question: When's the next round of voting start up again? Combing through the results was neat.

I was having some problems with depression. I'm back again now. I'll start up round 2 soon.

No rush, friend! I'm just glad to see you around again. smile