CCC Showcase - The Gauntlet Flight v.2 (Logo)

I think the idea itself is nice and has potential but there are a few things which are causing this design to not pop as well as it could.

The logo itself has appeal and it's a neat idea of a flying gauntlet to relate to a roller coaster. I like that a lot but what is hindering it is the red glow that's acting as a drop shadow. That combined with the lighting of the mesh-like background are causing the gauntlet design to be lost to the viewer's eyes. It's hard to look at the design itself with the blurry red outline because it causes it to lose clarity. On top of it being over this mesh background it overloads the eye with too much visual information that the elements of the picture get lost. In short it causes the eyes to not properly be bale to focus on specific areas and instead it gives an almost uncomfortable feel. Other than that I think the choice of text is fine but the fidelity of it may have been compromised at some point. What I mean by that is the text seems to be slightly blurry as if it was created and then scaled up while in photoshop or whichever program you may have used. Scaling up like that can cause the graphic to lose definition and become not so crisp and clear which it looks like happened here. It is also evident in the white glow around the text in some areas appears to be broken up. Also keep in mind it's possible that this was due to deviantarts decompression. When uploading images here to deviantart they tend to lose a tiny bit of their quality due to the way they're uploaded.