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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 12, 2019 4:43:37 GMT -5
The idea of having a championship banner came to me when I attended a live Bellator event. At these, Bellator hangs banners of their champions in the arena. I felt like it added some prestige to the belts, and wanted the same for ManMMA, and went straight to work. Early incarnations looked like shit, and were never published on ManMMA:
Then, finally, after some tinkering, I found a design I was happy with, and we had this, the most basic banner, for our basic weight classes: (circa ManMMA 100)
Then, we added the SuperFight title, and split the women's weightclass in two: (circa ManMMA 296)
During Season 17, we ran a "ManNXT" minor league system, concurrent with our regular season (simmed by Rattlesnakes). The ManNXT fighters would be eligible for draft in the upcoming ManMMA draft. During the season, we had this banner: (ManMMA 337)
Then, as the ManNXT season completed, and a male and female champion were crowned, we had this: (ManMMA 340)
Because of time constraints, disputes over how ManNXT should be operated, etc., ManNXT did not carry forward into subsequent seasons, and was removed from the banner as a result. We were back to this relatively straightforward design: (ManMMA 371)
Over time, we split the men one more time, creating a lighter weightclass, and merging LW and WW into Welterweight: (circa ManMMA 458)
Then, I thought about how cool it would be to have the Grand Prix winning team honoured all season long. So I got to work on a new design... (ManMMA 459) ...And promptly forgot to add the Grand Prix winning team part to the new design.
So back to work. Eventually, after a few different font changes, we came to the design we have now: (ManMMA 460)
And thus concludes Evolution #1: The Championship Banner. Stay Tuned for "Evolution #2: The Event Banners". It will be a good one!
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 12, 2019 10:08:36 GMT -5
It's neat because it also shows a nice history of the breakdown of weight classes and whatnot too
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Post by The Mighty Ducks on Aug 12, 2019 10:33:46 GMT -5
not enuf me on there
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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Aug 12, 2019 10:56:21 GMT -5
That's pretty damn awesome
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Post by Lord Byron's Conquistadors on Sept 2, 2019 5:23:41 GMT -5
I appreciate some of this work but lets be honest there are some ugly as shit rough drafts in there lolol glad we didn't have to put up with those and im also glad we have the champ bammer because I think its swell. just not those ones that looked like shit and never got published or whatever you said.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Sept 2, 2019 11:02:37 GMT -5
I appreciate some of this work but lets be honest there are some ugly as shit rough drafts in there lolol glad we didn't have to put up with those and im also glad we have the champ bammer because I think its swell. just not those ones that looked like shit and never got published or whatever you said. someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today
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Post by The Sandmen on Sept 2, 2019 14:44:05 GMT -5
I like the part where he unironically said something was "swell". I am totally going to be using that as much as possible now.
Also, in my defence, the huge black rings on the shitty versions are because the backgrounds of the images are transparent, but the site background itself was not, so they didn't look quite as shitty on our background as they do on a pure white backdrop.
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