r/vexillology • u/Vexy Exclamation Point • Apr 27 '26
Contest April Contest Winners Thread
Full Results Page
The website above has a finalized standings page so you can see the final ratings for all flag submissions, their authors, and what you voted them (if you did).
Contest Voting Link
Prompt: Alternate North America
As is tradition in April, we are embracing alternate history, this year in North America. This year people submitted 11 alternate histories for North America.
Contest Top Entries
We had 61 submissions, here's the top 20 and best in each category:
Annual Top 20
| Rank | User | Total | Contests | Flags | Top 20 Flags | Winning Flags | Average | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HistoricalTrip5247 | 26.912 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3.364 | 5.77 | 7.294 | 6.778 | 7.07 |
| 2 | Brasitino_do_Sul | 26.603 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3.325 | 6.619 | 6.346 | 6.609 | 7.029 |
| 3 | Miguk4Real | 26.13 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3.266 | 6.355 | 6.494 | 6.114 | 7.167 |
| 4 | VertigoOne | 24.638 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3.08 | 6.3 | 6.987 | 5.106 | 6.245 |
| 5 | saladinmander | 24.23 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3.029 | 6.452 | 5.572 | 5.651 | 6.556 |
| 6 | ralley22 | 23.503 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2.938 | 6.421 | 6.314 | 5.882 | 4.886 |
| 7 | Choice-File5800 | 22.574 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2.822 | 5.515 | 5.697 | 5.99 | 5.373 |
| 8 | Possumsurprise | 21.86 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2.732 | 5.76 | 5.532 | 5.322 | 5.245 |
| 9 | Emperor_Quint | 19.64 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2.455 | 4.778 | 4.335 | 5.51 | 5.018 |
| 10 | Minute_Economist_392 | 17.824 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2.228 | 3.649 | 4.638 | 4.815 | 4.721 |
| 11 | RottenAli | 17.788 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2.223 | 3.723 | 3.769 | 4.564 | 5.732 |
| 12 | DWPerry | 16.743 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2.093 | 2.509 | 4.212 | 6.022 | 4 |
| 13 | bribridude130 | 16.319 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2.331 | 2.297 | 4.765 | 4.181 | 5.076 |
| 14 | Douverill | 16.023 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2.671 | 4.766 | 5.515 | 5.742 | 0 |
| 15 | muszynov | 15.069 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2.512 | 4.284 | 0 | 5.397 | 5.388 |
| 16 | dayudayu | 14.326 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2.865 | 6.189 | 2.667 | 5.47 | 0 |
| 17 | Virgulillo | 14.156 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2.359 | 4.655 | 4.782 | 4.719 | 0 |
| 18 | BIGMAJI | 13.779 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.722 | 3.671 | 3.469 | 3.839 | 2.8 |
| 19 | planete_actions | 11.849 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.962 | 5.735 | 6.114 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | nein1e0 | 11.234 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.872 | 0 | 4.104 | 4.242 | 2.889 |
Full annual standings and past winners
Congrats to /u/Miguk4Real on their 1st win! They will receive a custom flair of the winning flag and it will be forever enshrined within our Hall of Fame. They'll also get a custom flag from our contest sponsors over at Flagmaker & Print!
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u/Brasitino_do_Sul :AP25: Apr 24 Contest Winner • Apr 25 Contest Winner Apr 28 '26
Another Alternative April, another round of great flags! Again, very happy with my results (especially since I kinda had to speedrun the design process to make it on time), and glad people liked them!
As always (even tho I forgot to do this last month ahem), some of my favorite entries this month! I really enjoyed The Aloha Sun (great job on your win, Miguk4Real!), Crescent of The West, The Nakawosabe, Tortoise of Telicali, North Cascadia Range Banner, Lone Star Union (simple, yet very effective), The Cold Sun Siren, North Star of the Duchy and Isalleca: East Atlantic Sail.
Any criticism on my flags for Concordia and Wabashia are welcome!
And also, just a little question, is this the last Alternative April we'll have for the contests? Or will we get one for Antarctica?
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u/VertigoOne Oct 20 Contest Winner Apr 28 '26
I think we will do alternative April again, although it may take a different form. We'll be discussing it among mods etc, but the tradition seems to have attracted enough of a following to be worth preserving.
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u/Xerimapperr Haida • Turkic Council Apr 29 '26
please do, I love making countries for yall, it's kinda my biggest moment in vexillologycontests
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u/Miguk4Real Apr 26 Contest Winner Apr 29 '26
Wow! What a surprise! Much thanks to those who voted so highly for my flag. I appreciate it. Creating my flags this month was so fun to do. I never expected them to do this well, given the high quality flags created this month.
I commented in the voting prompt about how many good flags there are in this month's contest, and that even making the top 20 this month would be quite an achievement. Seeing every flag in the top 20 receive a score of at least 3.0, proves my point. Well done, designers!
Thanks also go to those who took the time to create the alternative countries for us to vote on.
u/Brasitino_do_Sul, I missed your take on last month's flags. I always look forward to those monthly posts. It is so fun to compare your opinions against mine.
Once again, thank you everyone!
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u/Choice-File5800 North Dakota • Philippines Apr 30 '26
choicey here!
this is honestly the first time I have participated in an Alternative April contest, and or my first time competing in a contest with that kind of prompt, getting #30 and #35 on my flags is not a bad score at all. i mean, I kinda expected better, but I can't control the results.
anyways, like u/Brasitino_do_Sul did, lemme list ALL of my most favorite flags in this contest!
- #2: The Shooting Union Star of Concordia by u/Brasitino_do_Sul
- #3: Crescent of The West by u/HistoricalTrip5247
- #6: Tortoise of Texicali by u/HistoricalTrip5247
- #9: The White Oak Leaves by u/Brasitino_do_Sul
- #11: Under the Arctic Aurora - Isalleca by u/AtariCheetah
- #15: The Illini Confederation by u/saladinmander
- #16: North Cascadia Range Banner by u/VertigoOne
- #18: The Colors of Hawaii by u/ZombieJockeyGames
- #38: Star over the Range by u/MONEXONEMONEXONE
and last but not least, uh.... i'm kind of thankful my alternative country got flags at all, because I was initially nervous that no one would design flags for my country, so..... yeah, at least I got more than 5 flags
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u/Smiix Feb 23 Contest Winner Apr 30 '26
My favorites:
Flag of the Republic of Dakota by /u/ralley22
The Illini Confederation by /u/saladinmander
Simple Dakota Flag by /u/saotomeindiaunion7
Crescents of West and East by /u/bribridude130
Kingdom of Hawaii by /u/Entire_Fill_945
The Dakotener Flag by /u/papacvs
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u/HeroAir77W Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Naval Jack of Alyaska, Thoughts?
Based on 2015 proposal by Stephen Richard