Because I know the community will appreciate this

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.)

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.)

Haha just saw this now and I'll point it out before someone else does.  Shaq's level is indedd OVER 9000!!!!!!

That's pretty cool.

At first I was thinking "Oh, that's kind of cute."  But as I scrolled down I slowly realized the scale of it all.  Really cool stuff duder.

That's a pretty talented school.

thats really awesome stuff there. it must have taken a while to do all of those. i didn't know that nintendo copy righted "it's on like donkey kong". i thought somebody just made that up.

Wow, these are amazing. For a small school, a lot of people seem to love video games.

Awesome work by everyone involved. Also, I'd like to point out that the pipe obscuring the Mario one may be a little disappointing, but wholly appropriate.

Man, wish my school did this.

Do you think they like basketball?

hahah snac man made me lol. The Pokemans Shaq was also great. Very cool!

Holy crap, that NBA Elite panel looks fierce. Thanks for sharing these.

Holy crap that is cool!

"A wild Shaq appears!". They're all great!

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Great job to all involved!

The Donkey Kong one is one of the baddest things ever made.

That was awesome, kids in your school are really talented!

I love basketball. Great School Spirit. Video Games Represent!

As long as you guys are ACTUALLY playing a form of combat basketball, I approve.

Amazing! You have a great school!

Once you see a wild Shaq, you must throw a master ball.

Holy shit. I wish I could have went to your high school! The fact that there are this many people actually into games, and willing to represent that to the whole school through these pieces is awesome.

Sweet pics man. That LIT Live 11 pic was awesome.

Fuck. I was my school was that awesome :(

Mad awesome. Am jealous.

All that video game stuff all over your school! Are you kids crazy? Everyone in the place will be too busy raping and killing one another to even watch a dam basket ball game! I need to warn fox news about this to make sure they have cameras at the ready.

Holy balls. Are you guys like an art school or something? What gives?

Pretty amazing, and some got a few laughs out of me 8)

What an amazing collection of art for a high school project. Thanks for sharing it with us - there's some tremendously good effort going into all of that!

Those were all awesome and really good! The Paper Mario hopping on the doors was cute and the Sonic one may be a bit too believable, lol.
Makes me wonder what some of the past themes been.

Words can't describe just how awesome I think this is.

Wow, that's amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing.

Damn

That copyright infringement is also over 9000.
 
Seriously, this is totally awesome and I want some of it. I would totally buy that Snac-Man sign.

Man, your high school is intense.

Those were awesome.

Loved checking these out, thanks for sharing them.

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I reaaally like this one. The art is amazing. "

Those are pretty badass :)

You have a pretty rad school.

Thats fucking unreal.

Wow.

Wow that is awesome.

Duder, you go to an awesome school! I wish my art classes/basketball tournaments were that badass...

Very cool stuff man! 
 
You're lucky to be in a school like that :)

I wouldn't mind going on that school

Dude, those are awesome! And the sheer, raw talent displayed is remarkable, especially for a school that small - I went to a high school about the same size, so I understand. Mad props to your entire school. Clever and skillfully done.