pic: Palmetto-Spirit Award

[AmyRose]

I personally thought it was a bit rude, I did take notice to the other signs that were in no way rude but I think many people just could have done without the one in question.
Congrats to team 11 on the spirit award and thier sucess throughout the event!

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

I think you guys are taking this a little too far... 1/2 the people there probably didn't even understand what "pwn3d" means, but I could see how holding a sign up saying "owned" could offend people. I interpreted it as a joke, and just as that because I know when I use "l33t", I'm not serious while doing it.

So, let's just graciously use l33t for now on

Does this mean that it's ok to have signs degrading other teams and insulting everyone in the arena so long as they're written in cuneiform? Could the Brazillian team have dirty Portugeuse words on their uniforms since 90% of the audience wouldn't know what it meant?

I don't think peoples ignorance of the insult really absolves the people responsible for it.

As is always said in the GP Award speech, being GP is about acting in a way that would make Grandma proud. If Grandma knew l33t speak, I don't think she'd approve.

[Ian W.]

I think you're worrying way too much about GP. This is a competition, there is an element of "WE WON!" in any competition. Look at any major sport, the teams play for their own team, and when they win they party, but after the cheering ends and the excitment dies down a bit, they congratulate the other team(s). That's how FIRST should be I think. People just care WAY too much about GP, to the point where it becomes pure stupidity. The idea about GP is to make sure that no team gets totally "owned." Not to make sure that everyone is all happy at the end. Making sure that everyone is happy leads to its own problems, mostly the fact that it destroys any competition.

Long story short, don't care so much about GP that it ruins all the fun, because that's what the current trend seems to be doing.

[IsabelRinging]

Did you hear our team yelling "wall hack" and "aim bot"?

[Aaron]

Every one calm down. The signs were just something we thought would be cool. There were 10 other signs in 1337 that never started a thread. So calm down and admit it was clever.

We're sorry if you are offended, we did not mean it that way. See u all at the Nationals.

[BadKarma]

i think u r all taking this way 2 far. 1337 is a slang way of typing which is normally used for immature children who sneak on their dads computer to play violent M rated games over the internet and impress their fellow immature friend. the sign was made as a joke, and we have apologized many times for it. just end the thread and realize people use 1337 to provide a sense of humor. if u really take leet so seriously i dont kno what else 2 tell ya

[Jasek8er]

Originally Posted by IsabelRinging

Did you hear our team yelling "wall hack" and "aim bot"?

Ha, didn't hear that. I did get quite a few picture requests, though. Now, what would have been really funny is if the announcer called one of our bots an aim hack. See you at the nationals, SPAM.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by IsabelRinging

Did you hear our team yelling "wall hack" and "aim bot"?

haha! counterstrike all the way!!

If I were there, I would've been yelling something old-school like "god mode." Man, Wolfenstein was such an awesome game at the time

[TheOnlyAnomaly]

LOFL
The reason that they were brought up here for the "Team Spirt Award" the annoucer talked about all the hardships the team went through and how they still were able to show "gracious professionalism" so when they walked up there with a sign that said "PWN3D" we found that quite ironic