Right, here are the results of the Odd Football Shirt Photo Competition.
The contest was a simple one - a picture of you in a football shirt from a club that most people would deem it odd for you to be wearing. That is, obscure professional football teams from somewhere else in the world than where you were from. We had quite a few entries, so we have presented them all here for you to see. They can all be found at the foot of this blog entry, with details of what it is you are looking at.
The competition had some criteria by which we would judge oddness:
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Geographical distance of club from person
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Fame of club (the less famous the better)
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Interestingness of the kit (away usualy better than home, if it is a cup final kit, or something else is special, let us know too)
Your dilligent competition manager has taken a considerable amount of time working out how to rank the different shirts. Obviously, what is odd to you might not be odd to him, so he had to come up with a formula for working out points for the club shirts being presented, that took into account the location of the individual wearing the shirt. The formula was refined and refined until a formula that was fair for all was established. This then allowed the photos to be scored and then ranked to find our winners...
A reminder of the prizes:
- 1st place - 150 Credits
- 2nd place - 75 Credits
- 3rd place - 50 Credits
- Funniest Picture - 50 Credits
Our Winners...
1st Place (150 credits):
Couttsey21, manager of SOS FC
Seen here wearing the 2002 away shirt of Club Athletico San Miguel, a regionalised 4th teir side in Argentina that is 7005.2 miles from his house in Sutton on Sea, UK.
Total points: 9462.2
2nd Place (75 credits):
Dicho_Boss, manager of CSKA Redlions
Shown modeling the current Dinamo Huston home shirt from the MLS. He's from Sofia, a whopping 6111.3 miles from Huston Texas.
Total Points: 6813.3
3rd Place (50 credits):
Barcks, manager of Tingnesodden FC
Here seen wearing a 6 or 7 year old Singapore Armed Forces Shirt, at team that are regular champions of the Singapore 1st Division and a staggering 6242 miles from his home in Oslo.
Total points: 6545
And finally, the best (funniest) photo award of 50 credits goes to....
Matinn, manager of Gallipoli FC
Matinn sports the blue Al - Ahly training shirt, and his unnamed mate wears the red home kit. Al - Ahly play in the Egyptian 1st Division, 474.1 miles from Matinn's home in Antalya, Turkey.
Matinn assures us this is the natural pose he and his mate adopt when they are playing indoor football with a tiny white ball. I'm sure you'll agree this is a tremendous action shot, made all the greater by the apparent display of white underpants by Matinn's unnamed mate.
And the Rest of the Rouges who entered...
we will update this page over the next few days with other notable entries, so stay tuned...
- Competitions Manager
