Thursday, March 31, 2011

March Madness: THE NATIONAL CHAMPION!!!

Well, it's been a month of thrilling victories and agonizing defeats on the long road from from the regional openers through the sweet sixteen and the final four to our final matchup between upstart 47th state New Mexico and old-school colonial Maryland; between the fifth-largest state in the union and the state with the fifth largest population density.



And for this round only, I'll do something I haven't done in all the rest of the tournament. I'll vote myself.


So here's my vote for the best flag of the U.S. States and Territories!

South Carolina

Unfortunately, all y'all didn't even let it into the Elite Eight, so I guess I'll do like everybody else and cast my vote from the choices I have available.

Maryland!

But that's just my vote!

So, with no further ado....

the winner of the March Madness U.S. States and Territories Flag Tournament is......
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New Mexico defeats Maryland, 21 - 13!!!




Congratulations to the good folks of New Mexico and thanks to everybody who played along with my goofy little project.  Here's one last look at the bracket.  Hope you had a great March!

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5 comments:

  1. DavidMarch 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    Its too bad that Maryland didn't win, but I can't be too sad, at least it made it into the top 2. Congrats to New Mexico.

    Oh, by the way, when you finish reviewing national flags, why not review the flags of unrecognized nations like Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Palenstine, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkish Cyprus, and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic?

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  2. pflyApril 1, 2011 at 3:25 AM

    New Mexico, yay! Last I looked over the votes/comments, it seemed like Maryland was pulling ahead. Although I voted for NM, I wouldn't have minded if MD won. It was, for me, a toss up between elegant and zany. Also, NM and MD are really the fifth-largest state and the state with the fifth largest population density? How odd.

    South Carolina's the best, you say? Any thoughts on whether that is a crescent moon or a gorget? Anyway, thanks for putting this together, it was great fun.

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  3. Dennis BoltApril 4, 2011 at 2:54 AM

    How dis a flag win when to my eye, there were 14 comments and only 7 went for NM? Was there some sort of bell curve here or alogorithm?

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  4. CartophiliacApril 4, 2011 at 7:07 AM

    This contest was running concurrently here and on Michael5000's primary blog: http://michael5000.blogspot.com/

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  5. Michael5000April 4, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    ...and, just to dot the i's, on the Facebook syndication of the L&T.

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