Gracious Professionalism is more than the sum of its parts.
Gracious: Compete with grace, Win with grace, Lose with grace.
Professionalism: Take responsibility for your actions, treat people (including customers, fellow professionals, and technicians) with respect.
GP combines and expands these, and includes several radical concepts when viewed relative to popular and corporate culture, including notably:
- Don't impede or tear down your competition -- build them up! (The 2:30 of each match excepted).
- Share your design! (You may get feedback for improvement, and someone may do your design better than you did. These are both GOOD things.)
- Don't hold other teams to your team's core values.