Again, you refuse to accept that it is a choice but look at where they've used it:
https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1737786479420551519
There the crop makes sense.
Here - https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2023/december/21/av-150--countdown-to-anniversary-season-begins-/ - they have it rotated and have cropped it another way that still cuts the text.
Instagram has the same one as the official site.
On linktr.ee they have a very small version of the graphic - https://linktr.ee/avfcofficial - but it's in a circle so you don't even see the bit that you're upset about.
Literally the only version that is like that is the one that is in this thread and I can't even find where that's from. So the worst case scenario is that they created a graphic and then in 1 use case it looked a bit off.
But they are completely different images, using completely different image files, at completely different sizes.
So of course there will be some cropping on those that make design sense.
They are all the same campaign, but each image used for each graphic created will be a unique file, unless, they are using the same files for multiple purposes. If that is the case, then the files need to make design sense for both uses & have the exact same file size.
The other web pages would then have different graphics that speak the same design language for continuity.
Which is why the second link you posted has the image spread fully across the page & the crop is where the page ends.
So that makes design sense.
The first link you posted is similar to the image I first quoted, but is slightly smaller from top to bottom, therefore, the crop at the top & bottom makes design sense.
I cant see the third link so I do not know what is on it.
What your links have actually done, is confirm 100% that the cropping at the top & bottom of the text on the image I quoted & the emailer are mistakes.
Nowhere else is there a hard crop in blank (or coloured) space other than on that page I quoted & the emailer I received. And as both are likely to be using the same images, that makes sense that both have the same error.
Now again, I am not angry at this, its not the end of the world, I am not attempting to be arrogant, I am not trying to be a "know it all" (because I know the square root of fuck all in general), but I am pointing out that in my experience, both designing personally for multiple formats at a time for some hard deadlines, along with working with & for some pretty big companies, that errors happen easily & often.
And everything I have seen from this campaign so far, & my experience & knowledge of the subject, leads me to be 100% sure that the issues I highlighted in the quoted image & the emailer that I have received have a cropping issue at the top & bottom of the texts where those particular images are cropped into free space (coloured) by mistake.
Its an easy mistake to make & its easy to fix. But from a professional standpoint, it stands out to me like a sore thumb & does not scream "polished" for the campaign.
And thats without my opinion on the "AV150" logo...