Hey Cedar,
I think its very cool to use an event that you are already familiar with--it will definitely make your final version of your website all the more insightful coming from someone that has connections to it! I already mentioned this on another classmate's prelim, but it would really be a neat feature to include an extra page dedicated to people's past experiences with the competition; where you could even include yours as well and some information about that training program potential visitors of the site might be interested to learning more about.
For the pros on your concepts, I really like how each one is laid out. I can already envision how well it will condense down when the browser window is squeezed for mobile viewing, which you have already achieved in project 02, so A+ there! I also enjoy the ice-y color schemes that you had gone with, it really pairs well with that orange sunset background on the "About" page in the first concept. But what I would suggest is just tossing in 1 or 2 more contrasting colors to highlight key parts and make them stand out, since everything is currently relying on those analogous blue hues, you know? I also really like how the logo in the second concept looks compared to the first, its very creative and immediately sells home what the website is all about to the audience. (Maybe applying a white glow behind the black ring in the logo will make it pop all the more against the background image too! P.s. really love the little man doing a flip in the logo as well
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I think that's really all I have left to say since I already like how these two concepts turned out, so I am excited to see which one you will go with for the final. Maybe another small thing I might add is just the font choices for the headlines--I think you can go bolder/use more extreme ones to match up with the intensity of this competition. But besides all that, I really do enjoy the effort and energy that I am seeing with these designs, great work!
