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After a grueling almost-week of exhaustive voting, I think we can declare the winners of the 2009 Modern Vespa Patch Design Contest. I want to thank everyone who submitted a design, as it wouldn't have been a contest without their hard work and talent.

This really was a tough contest. There were so many good entries that picking just one was really difficult. In the end, we added additional prizes to recognize the many talented entries that made it through the voting process.
The Prize
It wouldn't be a contest without a prize, and we've got that covered thanks to the generous support of New Enough. New Enough has a wonderful program that allows its customers to designate a user group to receive donations with every purchase, at New Enough's expense. The user groups (that's us!) are then able to redeem their account balance for merchandise or gift certificates in promotions and contests. When you make a purchase at New Enough, be sure to choose Modern Vespa as the group to donate to during the checkout process. It won't affect your purchase price, and we'll be able to continue having contests like this one.

(We're not just doing this because New Enough is sponsoring this contest, we really like New Enough!)


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The People's Choice Award
These are the winners of the People's Choice award, voted by Modern Vespa members.




First Place
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robotribe-1



Second Place
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Ironfoot



Third Place
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robotribe-4


Fourth Place
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ericalm-4



The Modern Vespa Staff Pick
Just as there's a wide difference of opinion within the community over which design people want sewn on their jackets, the moderators had some trouble coming up with a definitive single winner. After repeated bribe vote counts, much discussion, several cases of tequila, and a lame attempt at an instant runoff vote among the moderators, we have a result.

The Modern Vespa Staff Pick goes to Ironfoot.


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Ironfoot


The Tyrant Award
I abstained from the voting in the Modern Vespa Staff Pick in order not to influence the results too much, but I had strong feelings about a couple of the designs. Most of the designs I really liked ended up winning a prize, so I'm going to bestow the Tyrant Award to the one design that I really like that didn't get the attention I thought it deserved. Plus, I want to reward the artist for having the balls to include a vintage Vespa headset in a Modern Vespa design contest.

The Tyrant Award goes to zxsimonw.


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What Next
If your design is listed on this page, you won a prize. Please PM me your real name and the email address you want to give to NewEnough.
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Congratulations to all the winners and to all the contestants as all the entries were excellent!
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YAY!!

I always knew the staff around here were a cut above!

many thanks to everyone involved, it's been great fun.
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Congrats to everyone. Was a fun exercise, and the resulting patches will be great.

A&A
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Congrats to the winners! And thanks MV staff for a fun contest. Can't wait to get a patch...and a T if those are gonna be made too.
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Congrats to all the winners!!!

Who'd have thunk voting could be so much fun.
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Congratulations WINNERS!
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Congrats to all the winners and all the other participants - there were many other patch worthy designs in addition to those that made the many, many run-offs.

Robotribe-1 was my fave from the beginning, even in the original orange background, until Ironfoot swept in at the last minute. Great to see both are winners!

Looking forward to April (is that really May in Scooter-time?) and getting new patches for the rally jacket.

Thanks Jess for a great contest.
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Rats!
No more polls, no more contest, no more great contestants (that are impossible to choose between)
My life is empty now ( :sniff: )

But seriously guys,
great job all around!!
That was fun!
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Congrats to you all. It was really fun watching you create and explore the possibilities of the patch design.
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Funny, Considering the circle shape of all the badges,
No one entered an outlaw shape like the shape that is like a cake,
But with Modern Vespa written on it and with crusty edges.



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Good job, winners. congrats.
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What an amazing array of talent-- Congratulations to the winners, and to all the contestants. There were so many worthy choices, it was hard to choose at every step of the way. Thanks for making us suffer--- in such a good way. 8)

Stylin' swag is on its way!

--Deborah
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Yay Ironfoot! I have primo jacket real estate set aside and waiting for a super classy patch 8)
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Congratulations to all winners, thanks to the contestants (I really envy your skill Sigh emoticon ) and to the staff for the fun! Clap emoticon

Thanks to NewEnough for the prizes! Clap emoticon
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will only the #1 design be made into a patch?
how and when will we be able to purchase the patch?
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NICE! Glad to see my favorites in the winning bunch. Can't wait to order a few.

Well done, Jess.
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megnez wrote:
Good job, winners. congrats.
(Pssst Meg - I liked your best. -grin-)


Winners, winners, chicken dinners all around! Congrats! This has been a fun week around here.

Gitta
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Hmmm... don't agree with the results..

I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!
Just kidding!!

Congrats to all the winners!
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So...

Which patch will be produced in mass for common distribution?

Is it 'power to the people'?

Or the 'star chamber' selection?.... Razz emoticon

Perhaps the 'tyrant' choice?

And just to probe my own curmudgeon bona fides...

"Those who cast votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything"...Lenin..... ROFL emoticon ROFL emoticon ROFL emoticon

Great contest......kudos to everyone who participated.

R

8)
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Well done to all the finalists! And GREAT job Robotribe! I'll take a t-shirt (in blue) please! Clap emoticon

Sorry but I have an aversion to almost all shades of orange and many shades of red. Still voted for you though!
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Great contest with excellent entries!

Congratulations to all!
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is it to late to submit mine now... man i got to stop procrastinating .... congrats to the winner
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Congrats to the winners! I am really, really impressed with the quality of the work.

I keep thinking that ericalm-4 would make a great poster on my wall!
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... and may I extend a virtual handshake to robotribe. Congratulations and well played!
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wooo hooo. Good times everyone. I'm glad one of my designs at least made it to avitar status.
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Yay, now where do we place our orders?
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Congratulations to the winners. It's been great fun watching the competition.
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buglake wrote:
megnez wrote:
Good job, winners. congrats.
(Pssst Meg - I liked your best. -grin-)
Gitta
Me, too!!



Congratulations to all.
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all the patches looking good.....how much will these cost ?..and are they all available ?..+ postage to the uk...etc.......would,nt mind one of each, to be honest.
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Ironfoot wrote:
YAY!!

I always knew the staff around here were a cut above!

many thanks to everyone involved, it's been great fun.
Likewise! I'm just glad it didn't come to this:
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Congrats to all who contributed. Good work all around (behind the scenes peeps, too)!
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robotribe wrote:
Ironfoot wrote:
YAY!!

I always knew the staff around here were a cut above!

many thanks to everyone involved, it's been great fun.
Likewise! I'm just glad it didn't come to this:
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Shoot, I would totally pay to see the li'l rascal-type brawl.
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So, when will we be able to get our hands on the winning patch?
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from another thread: Vote Again! 2009 Patch Design RUNOFF
Jess wrote:
Patches typically take three to five weeks from order to delivery. There are a number of other things that need to happen as well. I have to work out order fulfillment, lay in stocks of supplies, figure out the tradeoff between the weight and strength and sealability and cost of different envelopes, and generally figure out a million minute details.

We're probably looking at April for getting these out to the public.
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Well done to all the winners! And to everyone that had the skills to submit a design.

Now when do we all get our free patches?

(but seriously, will everyone get a chance to order a few and do we know what the approximate cost will be?)
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robotribe wrote:
Ironfoot wrote:
YAY!!

I always knew the staff around here were a cut above!

many thanks to everyone involved, it's been great fun.
Likewise! I'm just glad it didn't come to this:
So I see you made Ironfoot the "bad guy".
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astromags wrote:
robotribe wrote:
Ironfoot wrote:
YAY!!

I always knew the staff around here were a cut above!

many thanks to everyone involved, it's been great fun.
Likewise! I'm just glad it didn't come to this:
So I see you made Ironfoot the "bad guy".
Actually, I was referencing myself more (I'm a scrawny below average height guy).
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It's been a slice

Heh


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and all done on a mac, right?
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