Tribe One
Oh boy, just where do I begin with this one. You should know that it's not a good sign if I say that. And I like to be the Simon Cowell of Hype Survivor, so now would be a good time to harden up that skin because it's nothing personal.
Creativity
I'm quite curious as to why you chose certain Avatars to represent certain posters. Now some I understand like Mockingbird being CC's avatar, Spider-Man being SF's avatar, the Human Torch being 'fire's, and the bird thing being Byrd Man's, but some of them I just don't understand like Rulk being C.Lee, having a Spider-Man image on the X-Men side, or Parker Wayne being Gambit.
I can't be too hard on creativity though, it's hard to be creative on a grid, it's almost impossible to think outside the box, so I guess I deserve to give some credit for not completely botching up the design of it.
And considering that this is SuperHeroHype, you also deserve some credit for using the theme of Avengers vs. X-Men, it stays in line superhero theme of the forum. I'll get back to this later.
Score: 5/10
Quality
Now this is the part where I'm going to be really, really harsh on you guys.
I'm just going to go right off the bat on what I really don't like about this banner. I absolutely hate Avengers vs. X-Men. It's an absolute train wreck of an event, and your banner is just reminding me of how much I hate it. And, the last time I checked this is Mods vs. Members, not Avengers vs. X-Men.
My hatred of the Avengers vs. X-Men theme aside, there are some other major issues with this grid. It just looks so bland. I get that you're trying to make the red vs. blue scheme work because of Mods vs. Members, but because that's how you colored the grid, you turned Jim Cheung's rather awesome artwork look incredibly boring as a result.
And the biggest problem of them all:
WHY THE HELL DID YOU GUYS DARKEN THE AVATARS?! Seriously, this thing is bland enough as it is already and you just made it even blander by muting the avatars to such a rather dull level.
At the very least, you made a competent grid. It's the least you guys can do.
Score: 4/10
Total
This banner was just all sorts of meh from me. From the lackluster theme to the rather poor and bland design of it. There are only so many words in my vocabulary to say just how dull this grid is.
Score: 9/20
Tribe Two
Now Tribe One you guys should pay attention to this because almost everything you guys did wrong, Tribe Two sorta did right.
Creativity
I just gotta say that I love this Gods vs. Mere Mortals theme you got going on. This theme you have is pretty damn creative considering the relationship between the Mods and the lowly peons that we call the members of the Hype.
And I like a lot of the Avatars that were chosen too. Unlike Team One's grid where some of the avatars are simply obvious ones, you guys though outside of the box here. You found an avatar with red glowing eyes for Showtime, just like he likes to do with most of his actual avatars. You got someone looking grim and grimmacing for Batman. An old looking dude for C.Lee, a tough looking chick for CC, an evil looking demon for Matt, and powerful looking mortals for the regular members.
I question some of the choices of the avatars. Like I think that craig's avatar would work better with Sage and why is a Poseidon like figure Spider-Fan's avatar.
Even though the theme is pretty damn creative, you guys do play it very safe with the design, but just like with the other team, I can't be too harsh on that, it's a grid.
Score: 8/10
Quality
Now this is where you guys really kick some major ass. The placement of the names of the participants is far better suited underneath the avatars than on top of them and the font is just far superior.
The whole Gods vs. Mortals theme on your grid works far better with the Mods vs. Members theme of the game than the Avengers vs. X-Men theme on the other team's banner.
But best of all, your grid is flashy. It's colorful, it's vibrant, and most of all, it's just badass. I can see the avatars very clearly. The beautiful art isn't muted by some scheme to split the tribes. I just really love the design of this.
There is one thing that Team One did better than you guys though. Their logo for Hype Survivor is better. You guys just took the logo from the actual Survivor television show. Team One on the other hand, actually made a logo and not only made a simple Survivor logo, they made this a Hype Survivor logo (although they had to ruin it with Avengers vs. X-Men in the background of that logo).
You guys made a pretty cool grid though, probably one of the best I've seen.
Score: 8/10 - if it weren't for the logo, I would have given you a 10/10.
Total
You guys kicked ass on this round by going above and beyond. I'm hoping that the other judges of this challenge have the common sense to see things the way I do.
Score: 16/20
