The main event at my high school is a basketball tournament we host every year known as LIT. It is the highlight of the year and was especially for me this year as I am a starter on the team this year! Anyways the relevance to the Giant Bomb community is that every year the tournament has a theme, and this year's theme was video games. A big part of the preparation for the tournament is decorating the gym to fit both the theme and basketball, and this is primarily done with huge painted panels that are put on the walls. I always look forward to the panels because often the chosen theme and basketball are combined in really great ways. The talent level on display is crazy and keep in mind when looking at the photos that all the art was designed and painted by high school students with very minimal teacher assistance. Plus my school is pretty small (400 ish students) and to put on a tournament at the high level of LIT each and every year is truly remarkable.
But without further preamble, here are some pictures of the decorations put up in the gym for the tournament that I think the GB folks will get a kick out of. (just to help make sense of some aspects, the tournament is known as LIT, it is the 59th annual, an my school is commonly abbreviated to LCHS or just LC, so if you see any of those in the art that is why.)
My schools mascot is a lion, hence sackboy lion. And LIT highlited in "little" to connect to the tournament. A classic atari basketball poster behind the press box. Beneath the press box is the "Snac-Man" concessions. The pac pellets are pieces of popcorn! A great mario themed one. Too bad the pipe and fire alarm get in the way. Personally a think a basketball brawl needs more Pistons and Pacers players, but it will have to. (Also not me in the picture.) I only know of this game because of it's quicklook, but apparently an artist of my school knew of it (or is maybe a giantbomber?) The yellow building thing on the right is a profile view of the gym and is a symbol of the tournament. Now here is a game I would play! Absolutely fantastic. Chilling out relaxing all cool all shooting some bball. I guess no one heard that Nintendo trademarked this phrase... You know, given Sonic's recent success this could maybe be a step in the right direction. I love how there is more than one pokemon panel. This is awesome. The second pokemon panel. Complete and total LOL at run being super effective against Shaq!!!!!!! Yoshi throwing a basketball = win. PS3 controller player SNES games = fail. A friend of mine worked on this one and it is fantastic! It is three panels making it one of the biggest in the gym, and the clever play on the BLOPS cover is awesome. My school's colours are black and gold just so you know, and the 2/10/11 refers to the day the tournament started. Just awesome. No NBA Elite 11, but there's always LIT Live 11!! This is probably my favourite even though I seemed to be the only one to find humour in that it is based on a game that never got released. The art is fantastic! Just for context. These are huge wall panels and the effort put forth into creating them was astounding. One more for context. Check the mario sidescrolling going on down on the end wall! (Also once again not me.) Well that's all I wanted to share. I have tons more pictures from the tournament of art, basketball, whatever, but these are the only ones that are relevant to the site. I hope you enjoyed them they can be seen in higher resolution on my profile.
*Note I did not paint any of these, but I did take the pictures myself.
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