I didn't realize we are going to need some time after the contest closes on Friday at 11PM to review the final entries. So actual announcement of the winner will be made on Saturday at 11PM. Thanks for your entries and your patience!

Attention participants:
The contest director has just informed me that he would like to select a winner this Friday at 11:00 PM.
Thanks again everyone for your entries!

Hello everyone, we have a new announcement. After considering the wide range of ideas you have so skillfully presented we have narrowed down a more specific direction for the logo. We feel the concept of the two B's opposing each other, evoking the image of two human forms facing, and in contact with each other as they would be in contact sports, really exemplifies the words "body on body". The key word here is evoke, we don't want literal drawings of human forms inside the B's or the B's themselves to become drawings of human forms. The B's themselves should be recognizable as B's and give the feeling of being athletes involved in a contact sport. Apply what we wrote in an earlier posting to an athlete:
--If I were to use the two "B"'s for a ballet company logo, I would probably choose type that looks very thin and flowing and has some swirling movement to it like a script letter rather than a block letter. If I was really good I would somehow design those "B"s to "suggest" (and if I could underline suggest here I would!) the form or movement of a dancer. --
You can use the B's themselves or the negative space inside the B's in a symbolic (very very symbolic) way to evoke 1. the feel of sports or athletes in contact (bold, dynamic, fast moving, strong ect.) or 2. the suggestion (very very symbolic) of a human shape. We would still like to see the words "body on body" as a subtext with the B's. thanks

We didn't realize we had to give feedback to each individual entry, sorry about that- the contest is not suspended! We will give individual feedback but it will probably say the same things we've been posting to everyone!

http://www.funonthenet.in/content/view/344/31/
The fedex, amazon, sun, and families logos are examples of how letters are used in a symbolic way. There aren't any packages in the fedex logo, no people in the families logo, no microchips in the sun logo and no faces of customers in the amazon logo- yet all of these things are implied by the letters. They are very subtle. (The square to the left of the sun logo looks like a microchip which is not mentioned in the comments on this web page)
When I said the two opposing "B"'s look like two opposing players, I mean the letters themselves could represent the players. This is just my one interpretation of what the two "B"'s could represent or suggest-not the only interpretation possible. In the amazon logo, curving that "z" a little bit makes the logo look like a smiling face. If the "z" was flat it wouldn't work as well. The shape of the "s' and "u" in the sun logo square look like circuits on a computer chip. Altering the height in the "i" and "l" in the family logo make them look like people in a family. If I were to use the two "B"'s for a ballet company logo, I would probably choose type that looks very thin and flowing and has some swirling movement to it like a script letter rather than a block letter. If I was really good I would somehow design those "B"s to "suggest" (and if I could underline suggest here I would!) the form or movement of a dancer. I hope this helps to clarify what we mean, thank you everyone again for your efforts!