The 300th edition of the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) was a little different, but the result was very similar to the previous: Aegon winning a stage involving a side known by their four-letter initialism.
Los Angeles Football Club - let’s face it, LAFC - are inadvertently subject to the current backlash towards black-and-gold football kits, having the overused colourway as their first-choice look, but the relatively young MLS team certainly have a striking identity, which our challenge embraced.
Each entry was presented the same way this time, also including details of the entrant’s record in the CRCW, and it made for a pleasing selection that was then to grace the voting.
The heavily angelic stylings - “The Angels”, remember? - fueled many of the designs, including Aegon’s winner. In that case, as UFC commentator Jon Anik may say, the black and gold befitted a champion.
