Welcome to the 1st Jury Thread for the Tech Icon Challenge of 2007.
This is also the first time for the new rule that the small Icon must also be previewed for Judging.

The contestants for this month are:

LizardmenRule!:
Steam Engines
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/52574/SteamEnginesLarge.gif http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/52574/SteamEnginesSmall.gif
And the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=4970475&postcount=73)

Partizanac:
BEER
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads//beerlarge_249.png http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/83393/BeerSmall.png
And the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=201216)

utro43:
Ceremonial Burial
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads//ceremonialburial_preview_1H4.jpg http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4126/ceremonialburialsmallprwm9.jpg
And the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4007)

TopGun69:
Industrial Mining
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/3342/industrialmininglgen2.png http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8921/industrialminingsmng9.png
And the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4013)

d.highland:
Salt
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o22/dhighland/salttech.jpg
And the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/104883/salt.zip)

Storm Grunt:
Bio-Tech
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3812/biopreviewlgkn7.png http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2121/biopreviewsmxm4.png
And a link to the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4015&act=down)

Spacer One
Nature Lore
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4224/naturelorepre6tj.jpg
And a link to the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4037)

Varlin Saliptor:
Bronze Working
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1/Varlin/prev.png
And a link to the file (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=5032229#post5032229)

Keroro:
Bronze armour
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/91667/Civarmy_Large.jpg http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/91667/Civarmy_Small.jpg
And a link to the files (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/91667/Civarmy.zip)

Bio Tech gets my vote.

Some great art there, but I think Spacer`s is the best one this time :)

Bio-Tech has a super cool look.

nature lore get my vote!

how can i get a ticket for this poll?

Steam Engine is great!

glad people finally like an Icon I did...and thank those of you voting for me this month

...But as close as we are its gonna have to be Bio-tech this time through...great job matching a background with the overlay...and the glow makes it all come together...great work...S.G....

I paid close attention to the small icons because of the new criteria; TopGun narrowly beat out utro for my taste, this time around. SpacerOne's image was really nice; I would have voted for it except that in the small icon it blends into the background a little too much.

awwwww....
oh well! lol
it's Beer for me! :cheers:

I voted nature lore. I don't know why, can't quite put my finger on the reason, but it's just the most appealing.

Steam Engine

Steam Engine

Throw in a vote for Bio tech.

Was really hard to decide, but went for the bio-tech. :)

Bump back to the first page.

Any more votes? (especially any more for Steam Engines :D)

Grrr...my best effort to date and Im in a sluggish 3rd :(

Me thinks the small Icon shoulda been cleaner...oh well, next month

I wasn't crisp enough, is I think what your problem was. Bio-tech is doing so well because it has a crisp and clean look with a very high contrast.

And i'm in the wonderful position of last.

of course, its always my bad color choices...I knew I should have used a brighter outline...

Semper Fi, Storm Grunt and congrats on a job well done. :)

Thanks to everybody who thought that my icon wasn't so bad either...

Congrats Storm Grunt. :)

:hatsoff: Storm Grunt...excellent work...

Congrats Storm Grunt :thumbsup:

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5672/techicontrophyxk2.gif

:trophy: Thanks everyone for your support. We had a lot of votes this month spread over a bunch of different entries which is great. I'm glad to see more people making their own backgrounds to fit in better with the original civ style. I think the new small icon rule works well and will drive people to put more effort into it to making it look better.
-Thanks to all who participated and to all those who cast votes.-
And Let's not forget to congratulate these two great contestants as well!
:trophy2nd: LizardmenRule!: Steam Engines
:trophy3rd: Spacer One: Nature Lore

Oh yer, i forgot about the new trophy smilies!

:trophy2nd: Thanks, and congrats to you too Spacer :thumbsup:

Congratulations to Stormy, a deserved winner this month IMO. Well done to all others too. :goodjob: I did particularly like Spacer One's icon too this month, though I think some messing with the background would be an idea.