The 2021 Urban Farming meme tournament has come to a conclusion!

Amazing memes had been sent in from all over the world, and over the course of 2 weeks they have been judged by an enthusiastic urban farming community.

The creators of all participating memes were kept anonymous until the end, so everyone could choose unbiased!

All participating heroes and memes are available at the end of this article. Yet, the question remains: How did this all come to pass?

The UF meme tournament consisted of three rounds:

=> Round 1: Via a form all participating memes were judged. The best 4 went to the next round. Round 1 had a duration of 7 days and ended Sunday evening 29th of August, 22h22 CET.

=> Round 2 aka the semifinals were held on 31st of August 2021: Everyone was able to vote in the two semi-finals via an instagram-poll. The voting happened via the 12 steps to farming instagram.

=> Round 3 aka the grand finale happened on the 2nd of September 2021. It was the ultimate showdown between the best 2 remaining memes. This was also done via an instagram-poll.

15 memes competed, but only 4 could break through to the semifinals. Around 50 people from all over the urban farming world came in and voted for their favourite memes. The top 4 can be seen on the right, click on them to see them up close.

But the fight had just started! The semifinals promised to bring some fireworks!

The semifinals were amazing. More than a 100 people descended on the 12 steps instagram stories to cast their vote. For half a day, the scores in both semifinals were SUPERclose. Yet, in the evening both matchups seemed to be decided. The results of the semi-finals can be seen on the left.

This was of course…just the beginning. Everyone had been waiting for the biggest and most important of all moments: The Grand Finale!

Sarah Janjua and Alberto Lopez from Agritecture won the 2021 Urban Farming meme tournament. Yes, the winners are actually a collaboration!!

The funny thing is that we already knew the winners before the start of the finale….because it were both their memes that were competing there. So congratulations Sarah and Alberto with such a great victory!

Of course, most of our thanks go to all participants that took their time to come up with a meme and send it in! You have all brought us a lot of great laughs and fun. We are honoured to have you!

And last but not least, also enormous thanks go to the hundreds of people who have voted in this 2021 Urban Farming Meme Tournament! You have helped make urban farming great!

(want to join the next tournament? It is planned for February 2022! So start making memes!)