Attention Designers:
We have had communication problems with the back-end of the rating and comment systems. For some reason, when we were rating and commenting on new designs they were not posting. That problem seems to now have been resolved and we will now be voting on which design concept it best and be communicating with you directly. If your design is no longer listed, it means it has been removed from consideration. With over 390 entries, this contest was highly competitive and we want to be sure no animosity was shown toward any designer. We appreciate ALL of your hard work and we want to thank you for being entrepreneurial and enriching the 99designs community. Again, thank you for your hard work.
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Final note: if your design is still listed, that means it is in for final consideration. If you want to know where we stand on your design if it is remaining, please shoot us a direct message if we do not contact you first.
Thanks!
Jared Fuller
Executive Director
Year of Youth

Attention repeat designers: Copying other artists work is not the way to get higher votes from us and win our contest. We appreciate fully your new hard work, but the reasons other artists have high ratings is due to the fact that they A:) stick to our design brief to a "t" and B:) Because the logo is professional. Copying other artists design elements is not the way to get our vote, making unique, cool, and professional designs are that stick to our brief. Thanks so much for your hard work! We love the 99designs community!

Attention all designers, we are removing eliminating all two star designs and eliminating designs that are multiple, leaving what we feel to be your best one. Please do not take it personally, we just have had so many submissions that we want to narrow the field a bit to see where we stand.
New submissions are very welcome! We comment and rate very fast!

Attention contest participants! With over 140 entries, we are clearing the field for only designs that we think have potential. If your design is still up, feel free to message us with further questions.

For new participants, do feel free to jump in the game now that we have narrowed the field--we still have not yet decided on any winners!

@terrics, we can be both professional and against authoritarianism at the same time :)

I'm not sure what's the problem--I will let the developers at 99designs know.
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