I'm kinda bummed that none of mine made it in, but to be fair, I knew I should have made the sound waves three layers instead of only two and I guess making an upgraded version of an existing ship didn't really fly, wasn't too shocked about Bomb Shell, because I dunno what I was thinking with that paint scheme. In any case...
1st Bracket: Equalizer's Ewr and PsyCrow's Phantom
2nd Bracket: This was hard for me; because there's so many laser craft when we have a ton of options for that already in the game, ranging in effectiveness; but I'm gonna have to go with MrMeep's Vortex and Kieffer5101's Fragarach
3rd Bracket: Luke SpaceCat's Nausica XL and Salephz's Queen's Hive (I wanted to pick Saris' and Sputnik's Stygil, but I gotta be honest, it doesn't seem all that practical in combat, more like a showpiece than anything other than, plus the other choices I had falling under the same reasoning as 2nd)