These are looking great. Can we see a few more variations and different text / text colors. This is one of our favorite designs so far. Thanks for the hard work.
I still like your design the best. I just think it is a little basic. Can you try to play with this more. #77 is the closest to what we are looking for. Would borders/outlines grays or gradients work? Shadowing
I think you'll like this, although in your last comment you didn't specify where you wanted gradients, shadows, etc. - in the type or in the symbol above. The symbol already has shadow and gradient, so in this version I made some gloss on the type.
Another one - all of these have variations in the text effects. Since the contest has only 18 hours left and I'm on GMT+2 time I won't be online when in ends, since this will be late overnight here. I hope you like the new revisions and will pick my design as the winner.