OK!  Here it is.  Your chance to win the Westeros League Prize Pack is here.

Winner gets a shirt design of their choice, drink ware of their choice (mug, stein, or 4 shot glasses), a $20.00 gift card to Skreened, the complete set of Westeros League stickers, and Season One of "Game of Thrones" on Blu-Ray.

The giveaway runs from November 18th-26th, Midnight to 11:59PM.

Enter up to three times in the following manner:

• Answer the question "Which team do you root for?" by leaving a comment below.
• Answer the question "Which team do you root for?" on the Facebook image.
• Tweet "I just entered to win the #WesterosLeague giveaway from @AngryMongo."

Once the giveaway is over, I will choose one entry, at random, from all.  I will contact the winner and they will have 24 hours to respond. 


The fine print:
Chances of winning are not increased with spamming.  I will only take the first three valid entries (one from each method) from each entrant. The winner will be asked for their address, their choice of design for the shirt and drink ware.  The mug or stein come with winner's choice of designs.  The shot glasses can be four of the same design or four different from the 14 available.  Please no P.O. Boxes.  I will do my best to have the prizes to you prior to Christmas but I cannot guarantee delivery, especially internationally.  Prizes with choice of designs will be shipped separately.  Season One of Game of Thrones was bought from Amazon and is Blu-Ray.  I do not know if it will be compatible with winner's system.  I am neither affiliated with nor compensated by G.R.R. Martin, HBO, the makers of the series, Peter Dinklage, or anybody else in connection with the books, shows, or merchandise.  The designs are simply fan inspired and are not intended to be official merchandise.  I am but a humble graphic designer with an Internet account, a paint program, and enough free times to poorly execute my own interpretation of a sports team set in the realm of ice and fire.  No direwolves were harmed in the making of this giveaway.  Although, one vagina wraith did get summoned, at the 11th hour, for some help in coming up with a design.  I won't say which one, but if you can find it, you've wasted a lot of time.  For those of you new to this, I tend to ramble in the fine print section just to see if people pay attention.  There's usually just rambling for rambling's sake.  Nothing to see here.  Move along.   

• Mug, Stein, or set of four shot glasses with team logo of your choice supplied by CafePress.  (Shot glasses can be same or different teams)

• Redbubble stickers showcasing all 14 teams.

Whatever your party affiliation, your convictions, or opinions, we can all agree that it is our civic duty to get out and vote. 

For us PA voters, there has been a huge deal made about Photo ID being required for voting.  In fact, the stupid ads were still be played on the air even after the Supreme Court shot down the law requiring ID.  So, in case you are still confused, I will say it one last time....

In Pennsylvania, you will be ASKED, but NOT REQUIRED to show Photo Identification at the polls, unless you are voting for the first time in a new polling place.

OK, so get out and vote.  The lines will be long, but I'd rather complain about wasting an hour of my life instead of not being able to complain about the next four years.

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been putting together a post for each team design. The first four teams got a fictional report of how their seasons were going.  That become cumbersome and I scrapped it for a straight forward approach.  So, beyond the Baratheons, Greyjoys, Starks, and Lannisters, it's more about what inspired me, the approach, obstacles, and talking points.

Included in each post is a larger version of the design and links to the stores and different products they adorn.  For now, I only have them on Redbubble and Skreened.  At Skreened, they are available as t-shirts or hoodies.  Redbubble has a wider selection including shirts, hoodies, stickers, iPhone cases and soon to be iPad cases as well. 

The giveaway will be coming shortly as I continue to gather up all the prizes for it.   Stay tuned and enjoy.

Storm’s End Baratheons	Iron Island Greyjoys	Casterly Rock Lannisters
Bear Island Mormonts	Eyrie Arryns	Winterfell Starks
Sunspear Martells	Riverrun Tullys	Valyria Targaryens
Night’s Watch Rangers	Frostfangs White Walkers	Highgarden Tyrells
Clegane’s Keep Mountain Hounds		Cape Wrath Seaworths

Continuing the Westeros League design posts with the Night's Watch Rangers.

They are the last defense against the monsters beyond the Wall.  Up at the end of the world, they are the sword in the darkness.   Over two seasons they've trained and froze and waited for the chance to keep the things that go bump in the night away from the lands to the South.  In season 2, we saw exactly what they are going to be up against as a horde of White Walkers came marching towards the gate.

OK, the Night's Watch had to be included.  But deciding how to figure this one out took some time and head scratching.  There isn't really a city associated with those at the Wall.  I couldn't decide what to even call the team.  Do I call them the Crows, because there isn't a family name associated.  Eventually, I settled on Night's Watch Rangers but still didn't have a masoct, so I went with the crows as they are sometimes called.

The immediate inspiration was The Oakland Raiders due to the difference of only two letters.  I based the overall design on the logo of the Raiders but substituted a bird for a Raider and used the Bastard Swords instead of the Cutlass.  Since there is no real house for the Wall, I went with the Raiders colors, using a small amount of red for the eyes and tongue of the crow.  The last addition was putting in the motto of "I am the sword in the darkness."

You can find the Night's Watch Rangers in my stores:

See all of the Westeros League designs at Skreened and Redbubble.

As we continue looking at the desgins of the Westeros League, we get into the real fun ones.  Up next, the Valyria Targaryens.

This was an important team to bring to life.  It is the fourth storyline that plays out across the first two seasons.  While the Baratheons fight the Baratheons/Lannisters and the Night's Watch venture North of the Wall, the Targaryens and the Dothraki make their way to the Narrow Sea and get ready to attack King's Landing.   Daenerys totes along her three dragon babies and encounters court assassins and the mysterious people of Qarth.

According to the wiki, the sigil for the Targaryens is a three headed dragon, representing the three dragons that were rode into battle by Aegon and his sisters.  Their colors are black and red. 

Now, I had a few options in the design to consider.   The ancestal home of Valyria or Dragonstone could represent the city of the team, then again, they reigned in King's Landing for 300 years.  In the end, I went with the ancestral home of Valyria.  I went with a more Dungeons and Dragons type of font for the name while the city remained a basic serif based one.  I neglected to add in the motto because I couldn't get the words to fit into the design very well.  I may go back and add it in later, perhaps.

The actual mascot was very hard to realize.  I needed to have three dragons, but joined at the neck.  I didn't want to take on trying to draw the full body of the dragon and while looking through sports logos for inspiration I came across one that struck me as pretty cool.  So, the finished dragon heads were drawn with the Denver Broncos logo in mind.