First off, we'd like to offer up a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to submit a design to this contest. At the very least, we hope that everyone had fun flexing their creative muscles, because we sure had a blast reviewing all of the submissions and we received way more than anticipated!

Couple of important notes for your consideration:
     1. Voting will run through Sunday, May 17. Please share this link with all of your friends!
     2. In order to successfully manage this project and to ensure the best result, the ASCEND design team will select the final winner from the top 5 designs receiving the most votes and will work toward a final product with the designer.
     3. Many designers submitted more than one design, some very similar, and so to keep the number of choices down, we chose our favorite versions. And for a variety of other reasons, some designs were not included below.
     4. Each design was assigned a number and presented in a random order.
     5. You can view thumbnail images below or click on this link to view them in a larger, and more detailed format, which is what we suggest you do. You will be able to select up to your top 5 choices! shorturl.at/zBDIQ

As a reminder, ASCEND released a call for a creative, community-driven, pandemic-quarantine-inspired design by way of a public contest. The winner’s design will be placed on super-soft-t-shirts, which will be sold to our community for a reasonable price. 10% of profits will go to the designer, and the rest will benefit the Pittsburgh Foundation Emergency Action Fund and the Youngstown Foundation. ASCEND will merely recoup its direct costs.

For those landing here who need more information about this all, you can review the contest call to action and guidelines at https://www.ascendclimbing.com/blog/community-design-contest.