Hi Aegraphics, please note that the above link not only explains how helpful feedback is but also explains about ranking system. By ranking the same concept many times in the first positions you may discourage new designers to join your contest and in the end you will get less amount of entries.
I have more changes and some reverse the changes I provided before...
Here is overall feedback and suggestions for this last day of the contest.
1) We do want to use "The Palm Beaches Marathon Festival"
2) We would like to try concepts with "Marathon Festival" in a "finish line" type ribbon and some with just "Marathon Festival" at the bottom of the diamond.
3) We have an image on our current site: www.marathonpb.com, we like the dramatic curve of the coast and would like to see the insets of the design represent this curve with the palm trees along the beach.
4) The blue "sparkly" border on #75 is great!
5) No suns in the background behind the buildings.
6) Rays are good for the background, same color, different shades.
We have decided to extend the contest because we gave a lot of feedback so close to the end and would like to take more time to give feedback and give you all the opportunity to have more entries.