Badge Design Contest

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Badge Design Contest

Each gym hands out a badge, and each badge absolutely must look snazzy. They need to be similar in style, so likely the final designs for each badge will either be pixelated or redone or, if they're already close enough as are, left alone.

Things you must keep in mind while designing the badge:

• It must resemble sort of what the gym is about, or the definition of the word itself that is used for the badge names.
  
• They must be original in design. We don't want just some overused random flames or feathers or such. Use your imaginations.
  
• Do not draw/write and credit on the badge directly. You will be credited on the gym leader's page for badge design.
  
• There is no limit to the number of entries each person can submit. You can submit any number of entires for any number of badges. That includes multiple entries for a single badge.
  
• Judges will include myself, Jazz, some friends of mine on my instant messenger buddy list, Athelo if she wishes, as well as, quite possibly, a poll on the website GaiaOnline. There may also be a poll here for members to vote on.

Here are the badges in order. Under each is the definition of the word used for the gym badge.

[/b][/color] :: Flying Types ::Microburst Badge
_"Microburst" : An intense, localized downdraft of air that spreads on the ground, causing rapid changes in wind direction and speed.
►Azurite Caverns :: Rock+Water Types ::Beryl Badge
_"Beryl" : "A mineral that is usually green, but also blue, rose, white, and golden, and both opaque and transparent, the latter variety including the gems emerald and aquamarine."
►Silverweed City :: Grass+Poison Types ::Verdue Badge
_"Verdue" : (Verdure without the second 'R') "The lush greenness of flourishing vegetation."
►Pepperstorm City :: Fire-Types :: Phlogiston Badge
_"Phlogiston" : A nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
►Echotech Detlas :: Electric-Types :: Galvani Badge
_"Galvani" : "Italian physiologist whose experiments led to the discovery that electricity can result from chemical action."
►Piicraet Cove :: Ice-Types :: Algid Badge
_"Algid" : "Cold; chilly."
►Gypsyroot Village :: Psychic-Types ::Augury Badge
_"Augury" : "The art or practice of an augur; divination; an omen, token, or indication."
►Blacktide Glen :: Dark Types :: Penumbra Badge
_"Penumbra" : "The partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off."
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Note: The name of Pepperstorm City's gym badge was changed.

The Prizes
---►Each badge decided upon a winner will be worth 150k.
So if two of your badges get chosen, that's 300k.
That means there is a grand total of 1.2mil (1,200,000d) floating on this competition. So do your best!

---►In addition to the prize pool of money, each user will be granted one randomly-generated Pokémon egg with one egg move.
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E N T R I E S

Microburst	Beryl	Verdue	Phlogiston	Galvani	Algid	Augury	Penumbra
	by: Moo

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Feb 26, 2008 19:06:19 GMT -5 moo said:

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Beryls, as i've found out, are types of gemstones, and this one is representing an emerald, which has both green and blue colorings in different gems or lights.
The badge is in an octogonal shape {or should be, this is more of a circle ;/} because most uncut beryls are found in that shape, the cut versions occasionally being sold as shown.
To add something slightly Pokémon-related to it, it has blue and brown on it representing water and rock.
The reason there are stripes going through the middle is because on each stripe, there should be a blotch of brown (helping represent pebbles in a river) on each, and the ribbons are suspended about a quarter-inch above the blue ('water') below it, if you looked at it in real life.

Once again, this is for the Beryl Badge :: Rock and Water Types :: Azurite Caverns

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Just trying to help. And yay for first submission~ o3<

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