The line ups for the North American City Flags Tournament are ready. Flags are from USA and Canada, and are all adopted to the best of my knowledge from 2000 to present. There's one from 1999 in one division, but I make the rules, so I can allow exceptions. Image
I've selected 80 of the best and pretty good flags since 2000 (with the one from 1999). An 80 flag full elimination setup means a lot of good flags may get eliminated too early, so I'm using a bit of the World Cup process with round-robins and elimination rounds.
City flags are placed in four geographic divisions:

West
Great Plains
Midwest
Atlantic Image
Because there are so many very good, good, and some decent flags - all 80, I've put 4 flags in each division automatically. All 16 other flags in the division have to fight it out in different round robins and eliminations to get to 4 more to make the final 8 division flags.
Shown here is the Midwest Division. Prequalified flags are:
Des Moines, Dowagiac, South Bend, & Madison WI.

You may agree or disagree, but I had to make a call and elevate these.
That means the lower 16 will compete for the 4 competitive slots to make the final Division 8 teams Image
The Midwest has some powerhouse prequalified flags with Des Moines' reinstated bridge flag, Dowagiac's geometric paper fortune teller, South Bend's classic, and the updated Madison WI. ImageImageImageImage
Animals, trains, airplane inspirations, stars, crossroads, rivers, anchors, boats and the letter "E" are included in the 16 competing flags. Thanks to folks who shared Slater and Peoria which didn't appear in the NAVA survey. Image
Tomorrow morning we'll meet the Atlantic flag's 4 premier flags and 16 competing flags. Image
Say hello to the Atlantic Division of the North American City Flags Tournament.

Coral Springs, Madison GA, Old Town and Burlington get an effecitive "bye".

Competing in Rounds 1 and 2, are flags with stars, moons, boats, lighthouses, a castle, fountain, and crossing stripes. Image
The Atlantic's prequalified flags include Coral Springs' sunshine, Madison's watersheds, Old Town's canoe, and Burlington's lakes and mountains. All solid flags. ImageImageImageImage
Lots of diverse styles competing 16 but few zingers greats.

Thanks to @KeystoneFlag who shared Gettysburg which didn't appear in the NAVA survey due to its adoption in 2000. Yes and we've added Kingston ON because:
1. Castles are cool
2. Frankly the east has fewer great flags Image
The third of four divisions, the West Division has powerhouses like Portland, Spakane and Pocatello, as well as newbies like SLC, and Bremerton. Image
The West's 4 prequalified flags that automatically will go to Round 3 are Aspen CO's snowflake in a leaf, Spokane's river and falls, Pocatello ID's mountains, and Portland's rivers and forests. ImageImageImageImage
The remaining 16 competing flags of the West will compete to get one of the 4 open Premier flag spots. Round 1 is a round robin to narrow the field to 8 flags, followed by Round 2 in which the top 4 compete in elimination matches to get to Premier status. Image
Salt Lake City ranks as one of the largest cities with a new city design- will that factor in? or will small Seward Alaska pull out a surprise? Or will the silhouette of an elk muscle into the top 4 over the tight knot of Palouse WA?
The Great Plains Division is a POWERHOUSE Division. Comprised of only 6 states and 2 provinces, North America's plains have been breeding superb city designs.

I wouldn't be surprised to see 2-3 of these in the semi finals. Image
Powerhouse Kansas has 2 premier flags and 8 flags in the competing group. Not to be outdone, Nebraska & Texas each have 3 in competition. Canada is represented by Altona Manitoba. Image
Dodge City, Sioux Falls, Topeka and Tulsa are all such strong designs they could win the tournament. Thus they are in the Premier slots for Great Plains.

Tournament starts this Wednesday, November 16.
#vexillology #vexillologie #cityflag #flag #CityFlagsTourney22 ImageImageImageImage
I don't know what's going on in the Great Plains but some these 16 flags competing for 4 premier slots could easily be "Premier" status in other divisions. Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas have such an abundance of new and well designed city flags! Image
So folks know, in Round 1, we'll see the two top vote getters move to Round 2.

That means we'll first have Altona, Corpus Christi, Augusta, and Ashland in competition.

The two flags with most and second most votes move on to Round 2 against the other top 2 votes of each column ImageImageImageImage
Similarly, Round 1 will see Kingman, Newton, Lincoln, and Lindsborg in a round robin, with the two higher vote getters moving to Round 2. ImageImageImageImage
So imagine if each flag got these votes: Top two vote getters were Kingman 45, and Lincoln 32, plus Corpus Christi 34 and Altona 29, then in Round 2 elimination, Kingman & Altona would meet, while Corpus Christi & Lincoln would meet.
#CityFlagsTourney22
However, rather than these 2 sets of 2 meeting in Round 2, there would be 4 sets of 2, ultimately yielding 4 competitively selected Premier Flags in the division, to compete against the preapproved flags. #CityFlagsTourney22

A diagram will be coming.
Showcasing North American City Flag Tournament flags from the Midwest Division from Round 1, we have Manhattan KS, Norman OK, Milford NE, and Baldwin City KS.

Which 2 of these flags will make it to Round 2?!?

Round 1 of the tournament starts on Wednesday!
#CityFlagsTourney22 ImageImageImageImage

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