Toughest of the round by far. Striping on Fentons is grand, and kazzam's is all around p smooth with a nice collar. I feel like maybe kazzam's is a touch too plain, but it definitely works fine. On fentons my beef is with the graphic, not the fact it's banned or whatever, but the fact that it just seems a little bit "thrown in".
I agree with Moom, in that these match-ups are tough to decide. Given the round, a more rigid judgement will come into play. Alakazzam's Chile kit is good change from his recent work in that he does not use the present Puma templates. I like the attempt to create a unique collar and give it some accents around it in order to bring the kit together. He goes with the classic Red top, Blue bottoms and white socks, a good choice to not change that. Given such a bold collar choice, the combination of the two toned red with the white trimmings along with the collar seems out of place or jumbled if you will. It seems like you thought something was missing and added the two toned on the shirt just to finish it off. I would have liked it just as much with out it. The collar, again a bold choice, is a bit to heavy and long. Maybe a lighter approach to the size of the collar would have sufficed. I like the kit, its nice. Good job, Alakazzam. Fenton's Mexico kit is also a good, well thought design, regardless of the law controversy on the watermark. I'll be frank, I am Mexican, I love my Mexico shirts so I'll be as impartial as I can:). I love the shorts. The piping is great and gives justice to what a Mexico pair of shorts can look like. The socks are decent, simple and nice. The template on the top just looks dated for me. You chose Umbro, which is an interesting twist, though, it reminds a lot like an Ireland kit. I do not know what it is. I have an image of an Ireland kit from the 2000's in my head when I see that template. The piping works very well on the shorts but not so much for me on the top. From a distance you may think its Adidas due to the cut off at the seem of the sleeve. Up close, it looks like a knock-off Adidas jersey found at a flea market.It is just too similar to that of Adidas. I understand the attempt, I give you credit for that. The color of the jersey is something of debate for me. I sometimes prefer a darker tone, and sometimes a lighter tone. I love the nineties colors, including the watermarks. I love the present tone of green and the 2002 tone of green. I hate the 2000, 2009, and 2007 tones of green because of the design of the shirt. In this case, I do not like it for this design particularly. It diminishes the class of the team, shirt and kit all together. I darker hue would have suffice. That, combined with a altered watermark would fit better with the kit. Again, just my opinion as a die hard fan. I personally love the watermarks on Mexico's kits so awesome that you brought that back. As I fan, I thank you for the attempt to bring back old elements to the kit. As part of the voting community, it falls short though I appreciate the design. Again, great job with kit and with the competition all together, Fenton.
I vote for Alakazzam. The modern fit along with the compilation of the kit does it for me.
Another tough one. Can't really separate them. Irrelevant of the legality of the Mexico watermark I think it looks like it's been added last minute to give the, otherwise great, kit something extra. That said, I like the collar on the chile shirt even less, just too big for me a little bit smaller and would've been a great kit too. Fenton gets the nod, just!
[b]Alakazzam[/b]. The approach is quite simple, but the collar and the white details look great. However, a negative mention about those shorts and socks: the use of an existing template by Puma felt really uninspiring.
Fenton's kit also looks nice, somewhat like a 90s kit. The watermark on the shirt works nice, but I didn't like the stripes on the sleeves. I feel that the shirt would look nicer if you followed the stripe style used on the shorts.
I donĀ“t know witch one of this kits I was to pick they are both good, but there are things I do not like in both of them, in Alakazzam kit there is the collar it looks much the same as the one in New York Cosmos umbro kit design, I think he could have dun better but it looks ok on this kit. Fenton is using a stripe design on the shoulders of his kit something that looks ok but I feel it could have been better not to have so many of them, but that is my personal taste, also it has been pointed out to him that a symbol from the national flag is not aloud to be used in that way, we have similar law here in Iceland and I think if that is right then one should try to avoid using it, I have the impression that this symbol is caring most of the design on his kit and there for a bit difficult to look past that fact. I will there for go with Alakazzams kit here.