The entries are in, and now it is time to vote.
Go here to view the patches!
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/monster-hunter-international-patch-contest/
Please post to the comments in this thread which patch you think should become part of the official MHI universe and get a cameo in the second MHI book, Monster Hunter Vendetta. (coming Fall 2010 from Baen).
We have 47 entries. Please post the name of the patch in the comments. Please only vote once. We authors are easily confused. Please, tell your friends, post it to your blog, spam the intertubes. (sell more books!) Whoops. That last one was subliminal.
I will leave this open for this week. At the end of the week I’ll count up the votes, figure out the winner and announce it here.
Utah County – Werewolf toting subgun is a tribute to Earl Harbinger’s dedication to eradicating evil in our world.
Utah County.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Because I love radioactivity!
Salt Lake City Avengin’ Angels
Utah County!
Uh… Northeast Bloggers, of course!
Die, teddy, die!
Arkham
St. Mary’s
I’ve been to St. Mary’s County (Assuming that patch is from St. Mary’s County, Maryland) and there are plenty of monsters there. I’m pretty sure my ex girlfriend’s dad howls at the full moon.
Arizona Rangers.
The Bloody Bun
Man there’s some great stuff!
I’ll have to go with Team Talon (with special props to Italia & Chanute)
Utah County!
Arkham
Utah County!!!!
Yeah!
Utah County, of course!
I vote for the Arizona Rangers. Honorable mention to TALON and Black Mesa.
Gotta go with TALON.
Vote Talon!!!!!!!!!!
Dallas
honorable mention to TALON
NorCal – The Bloody Bun
Hollywood Hunters
Arkham
Gotta back my buddy Jay G and the Northeast Bloggers!
Chanute Kansas
I vote for Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Chanute KS, I hated those damn flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.
Utah County
Oregon, of course.
Self-vote FTW?
Exite! Chemicus Sum! (For those who didn’t go read the back story, that’d be Latin for “Back off man. I’m a scientist.”)
Texas, Adepto Is Perfectus
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Fighting monsters, with Science!
Texas Poison Bite
Utah County
Arizona Rangers!
Woop Woop!! big up to Utah!
Texas Poison Bite, although Utah County may represent the book best.
Talon gets my vote
Utah County
Utah County!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Because all problems can be solved with copious amounts of tritium boosted fission.
An entirely biased vote for the Los Alamos patch.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
“Exite! Chemicus Sum!”
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Miami
NorCal – The Bloody Bun
Dallas
Excite! Chemicus Sum!
Utah County
good luck!
Utah County
Honorable mentions to the Bloody Bun and the Armadillo, but my vote goes to “Excite! Chemicus Sum!” — almost solely for the backstory, which made me giggle.
Oregon Sasquatch
Yar!
GA Skull
One biased vote for Arkham.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
But not by much. There was alot of great entries!
Eastern TN
“… we nuke..”
Eastern TN.
W00t for voting for myself… And thanks, Hugh, for keeping me from being the only E.TN vote! 🙂
Lake Elsinore CA
Well done!
Eastern TN.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
If for no other reason than Science + Monsters + Wierdness + Latin is a traditional combination 🙂
NorCal – The Bloody Bun
Looks cool and it’s the home team!
Utah County
Utah County
Utah County
Utah County
Utah County
only one Louisiana patch? My vote is for taLon
TALON!
Oregon Sasquatch – giving the world the finger!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Excite! Chemicus sum! Gotta support the nerds.
I got to go with Texas Poisen Bite Me.
Honorable mention to Chanute Kansas, Italia, Talon and Utah County to name a few.
I can’t believe I voted for a Texan team….
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Utah County–we vot for geeks!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Because I’m afraid.
Chanute Kansas! I’m at Ft. Riley, and nobody likes flying monkeys!
Okies for TALON!
Kentucy Skull Hunters.
And that was tough, ’cause the Georgia Skull Crackers, and Exite! Chemicus Sum! are sweet.
Chanute Kansas
Damn, that one was good.
Labrat!
I mean, Exite!
🙂
NorCal – The Bloody Bun
I like clean patches, I guess. Reminds me of the bunny in Holy Grail.
Of course, I’m going to vote for my own:
Chanute, Kansas!
Utah County all the way, what’s better than a Werewolf toting a machine gun?
Chanute Kansas
Northeast Gunbloggers, because those Teddy Bears won’t just kill themselves …
Self vote for Crushing Evil in the South the weak-ass SC patch!
Exite! Chemicus Sum.
But I’d give Kansas second
Texas (that’s Latin for Get ‘Er Done)
Utah County
Utah County!
Utah County
Utah County!
Go Utah County!!
Utah County for sure!
Utah County
Utah County, love it!
Utah County
Go Eric, Utah County!
Utah County
Utah County!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum! because we all know scientists are the most dangerous Hunters of all. 😛
UTAH COUNTY
Utah County – love the werewolf!
Utah Co gets my vote
Utah County, all the way!
Kentucy Skull Hunters.
Utah County
Miami, werewolf howling at the moon has my vote.
Utah County!
TALON all the way
I have to go with the Middle TN Death Angels, due to a regional bias. (I live about 40 miles north of Nashville) Black Mesa was awfully tempting, though.
Chanute Kansas
Vote for the Skull Crackers – awesome design!
Cast my vote for the Los Alamos patch by the Atomic Nerds.
UTAH COUNTY!!!!
Arizona Rangers has my vote
Utah County! Go little bro!
Back off, man! It’s gotta be Los Alamos!
Monster Hunter Los Alamos, Exite! Chemicus Sum!
California’s…Sometimes you have to use wolves to protect sheep
Utah County – good luck!
Good job Eric, Utah County!
UTAH COUNTY
utah county, please
U T A H C O U N T Y A L L T H E W A Y ! ! !
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Go Team Nerd!
Oregon Sasquatch.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Utah County
Kentucky you all!
I vote for the Arizona Rangers patch.
To me, all the ones that actually spell out the company name, or even anything that is too clear of an indication of what it’s about, miss the point that this is a patch that someone is supposed to be able to wear in public among people that have no clue about the nature of the business.
Which is actually very common among military patches.
Just look at the original MHI patch for guidance on something that gets around the obvious.
Even the Arizona one is pushing it, IMHO, but since the public will just see coyote heads when they look at it, it works.
utah county
Utah county, of course.
Arizona Rangers
Because Arizona is Perfection, NM is whats left over, UT is what he couldn’t use for anything worthwhile and CO was and is totally worthless. 🙂
(Don’t get me started on Texas!)
Utah county.
Utah County, please.
Sorry Stingray and LabRat, I know it makes me a bad native son of New Mexico, but I have to vote for Arkham, MA.
Chanute Kansas
FLYING MONKEYS MUST DIE
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Utah County
Arkham, MA.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Georgia Skull Crackers – 1st
Arizona Rangers & Arkham, Ma – 2nd, with the colors muted to olive military shades.
Texas Poisen Bite – 3rd
Lake Elsinore, Ca – 4th, awesome design, but needs to not spell out Monster Hunter International.
Honorable Mention to: St. Mary’s County Hellslayers, No Cal – The Bloody Run, Central Utah Beehive Militia, Montana Headhunters, Dugway Proving Grounds Response Team and The California MHI Team.
Liked A Lot of the other ones too.
There can be only one:
Monster Hunter Los Alamos, Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
South Africa
it is Monster Hunter INTERNATIONAL
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Chanute Kansas
Dorothy showing excellent skeet form and perfect smirk.
And those divine ruby slippers simply MAKE the outfit.
Would have voted for my own but if I can’t produce a proper patch I don’t deserve to win. Damn digital technology. Gonna go wind up the Victrola and listen to some John McCormack 78s.
This was a tough choice, but I think that I’ll go for professional loyalty over location loyalty.
1. Excite! Chemicus Sum!
2. Arizona Rangers
Still very close vote for me. Kudos to all who designed these patches.
“Exite! Chemicus Sum!”
UTAH COUNTY
I liked Utah County best
Utah County
Italy.
That patch kicked an awful lot of (harpy) ass.
Gun totin’ werewolf, heck yeah, Utah County!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Lotsa good ones, though. Good work, people.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Although Dorothy with her over-under was a close second.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Utah County!!
utah county
Utah County!!!
Utah County, definitely!
Utah County
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
…Um, I first tried to vote in the “lookit the patches here” thread. Cos sometimes I am a spacecase.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
You’ve just gotta love that!
Gotta vote for TALON
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Gotta go with the arizona rangers…best of the bunch
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Science makes me happy.
Utah County!
Utah County
Monster Hunter: Los Alamos. It was the back-story that did it.
LawDog
Exite! Chemicus Sum! Go Los Alamos!
Los Alamos. Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Don’t mess with scientists!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Because glowing radioactive vampires are easier targets.
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Utah County wins my vote!
Utah County!!!
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Thanks
Ted
“Exite! Chemicus Sum!”
Exite! Chemicus Sum!
Dallas!