Final IceHL World jerseys unveiled!

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The IceHL's summer 2014 design contests officially end today with the unveiling of winning jersey designs from the final four brackets. Let's take a look!

Representing the Crete Minotaurs is this gorgeous and subtle set of jerseys from the talented Nick Burton. Nick currently holds the honor of being the most frequently featured artist on the Icethetics Concepts page. But believe it or not, this is his first ever winning IceHL jersey.

Simple yet superb, the Geneva Mountaineers get their uniforms from Christian Legault. This is Christian's second IceHL contest victory after creating the new look of the Quebec Armada earlier this summer.

Dylan Alexander also picks up his second win of the summer with this pair of sweaters for the Gold Coast Rush. You may recall Dylan previously created the Moscow Cosmonauts jerseys.

And finally, it's the Cinderella story that keeps on giving. Matt McElroy continues to make his distinctive mark on the IceHL as he becomes the first artist to design the winning logos and uniforms for, not one, but two franchises with the fan-voted look for the Royal London H.C. He accomplished the same feat last summer with the Philadelphia Aces.

Given his amazing contributions to the league, I was pleased to offer Matt the job of GM of the Crete Minotaurs, which he happily accepted — though I think he might've preferred London seeing as how the team's branding turned out! You can follow the Matt and the Minotaurs on Twitter at @IceHLMinotaurs.

Congratulations to everyone who entered artwork for all of the design contests held this summer. It takes guts to submit yourself to the judgement of a community like Icethetics.

We'll be back next summer in some form to do it all over again!

Rush Jersey Voting: Final Round

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It's time to select the winning design in the Gold Coast Rush jersey bracket. Congrats to Dylan Alexander and Matt McElroy on going the distance!

This bracket ends Wednesday night. Happy voting!

The winning design will be revealed after all jersey brackets have closed.

Rush Jersey Voting: Round 4

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The polls continue! We pick up with Round 4 of the Gold Coast Rush jersey bracket. Congrats to Dylan Alexander, Kyle Rubin, Matt McElroy, and Taylor Roy on advancing! See the remaining entries then vote below.

Jersey Submissions

These polls end Monday night. Happy voting!

Check back Tuesday for the final poll!

Rush Jersey Voting: Round 3

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The polls continue! We pick up with Round 3 of the Gold Coast Rush jersey bracket. Congrats to Dylan Alexander, Duncan Lyle, Christian Ryder, Kyle Rubin, Eric Westhaver, Matt McElroy, Ryan Haslett, and Taylor Roy on advancing! See the remaining entries then vote below.

Jersey Submissions

These polls end Saturday night. Happy voting!

Check back Sunday for the next round of voting!

Rush Jersey Voting: Round 2

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The polls continue! We pick up here with Round 2 of the Gold Coast Rush jersey bracket. Congrats to Nick Spiteri, Caleb Fuller, Matt McElroy, Colin Magee, Ryan Haslett, Taylor Roy and Christian Legault on advancing! See the remaining entries then vote below.

Jersey Submissions

These polls end Thursday night. Happy voting!

Check back Friday for Round 3 polls!

Rush Jersey Voting: Round 1, Part 2

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The jersey polls continue with the rest of the opening round of the Gold Coast Rush jersey bracket. Congrats to Duncan Lyle, Saku Kesonen, Christian Ryder, Tyler Kochan, Kyle Rubin and Alan John Herbert on advancing! See the remaining entries then vote below.

Jersey Submissions

These polls end Tuesday night. Happy voting!

We move on to Round 2 on Wednesday!

Rush Jersey Voting: Round 1, Part 1

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The final phase of the IceHL World Initiative is underway with daily jersey contest polls all the way through mid-September. Up next are the Gold Coast Rush!

The Rush bracket opens with 30 submissions. Before you vote check out all the entries below.

Jersey Submissions

These polls end Sunday night. Happy voting!

Check back Monday for Part 2 of this round!

IceHL World: Division B logos revealed!

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It's finally time to reveal the winning logos for the rest of the new IceHL World teams!

CRETE MINOTAURS
Logos by Joshua Benkelman

This is Josh's second win this year. Earlier this summer, he won the Hawaii Honu logo design contest. After some comments on his original primary mark, Josh made some adjustments. However, the original design will remain part of the team's logo package and will be made available to jersey designers.

GOLD COAST RUSH
Logos by Tim Schellenberg

Tim has been participating in IceHL design contests since the project first began in 2008. So imagine how he must feel to finally win for the first time! He's definitely paid his dues and his logos will represent the IceHL's first Australian team well.

GENEVA MOUNTAINEERS
Logos by Colin Magee

Colin Magee joins the elite group of designers to enter multiple winning logos during this summer's IceHL expansion. He previously won for the Osaka Samurai. His simple yet sophisticated Mountaineers set is the second single-color design in the IceHL — following the rebrand of the Olympiques last year.

ROYAL LONDON HC
Logos by Matt McElroy

There really is no stopping this guy. It seems we can't announce a batch of IceHL logo contest winners anymore without including the talented Matt McElroy. He joins Benkelman and Magee with multiple winning logo designs in 2014.

Congratulations to all of our exceptional designers — even those who didn't win in the end. It takes enormous skill and dedication just to create a set of logos to submit and I am extremely grateful to have all of you as part of this project.

That leaves only one thing thing. Jerseys! If you're itching to start working on uniforms, stay tuned. The Jersey Design Kit will be available soon.

Mountaineers, Rush Logo Voting: Final Round

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We're going to knock out two teams on one page today.

First, we'll select the final logo for the Geneva Mountaineers — and they're two incredible designs. I truly have no idea how you guys are going to choose. Good luck with that. Congrats to Colin Magee and Matt McElroy for continuing to be awesome!

This final poll ends Friday night. Happy voting!

But the fun doesn't end in Switzerland. Let's go down under and pick a winning logo for the Gold Coast Rush. Once again, I don't envy your decision. Seriously, how do you choose? Congrats to the seriously talented Colin (again) and Tim Schellenberg!

This final poll also ends Friday night. Happy voting!

All winning logo designs will be unveiled on Aug. 20.

Rush Logo Voting: Round 1

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As you can see, the Gold Coast Rush present a unique problem. Since I only received three entries, a bracket would be overkill. Instead, we'll be using a round-robin format to determine the winning design.

We'll do this in two stages. First, all three logos will face each other here in Round 1. That gives us the three polls below, in which points will be awarded based on voting percentage. The two designs with the most points will then square off once more in Round 2.

Logo Submissions

This round ends Monday night. Happy voting!

Check back Wednesday for the Rush's final logo poll.