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Post by Kyng of JDs on Feb 24, 2010 23:08:14 GMT -5
damn... I just realized something. Sprite got us... they really really got us. They've been planning this ish all along. Every freaking website I've been to has been talking about this contest non-stop. They have a non-stop self-propelled perpetual marketing machine pushing their product.
This is exactly what they wanted.
Well played Sprite, well played. AND THERE IT IS |
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 24, 2010 23:20:50 GMT -5
Buahhahahahahah!!! Good point. You know they were in the board room with two brothas pitching it like:
Aaaannn aaaannnd then we gonna do a step show right. Aaann we gonna get erryboday all hyped up. ya feel me. Cuz see there's only gonna be black people in the commercials. So day know what's going down! But when it's all done some Becky's is gonna win. *dude in the back yells they been practicin yo!* Aannn aannn aaannnd folks is gonna be mad yo. just cussin' and what not. *dude in the back demonstrates: yo tell em why you mad son!* Right right. So they gonna be mad yo. This ain't goind down like that.... not during Black History Month. They gonna be textin' and bloggin and shit. Even on OOA. Sprite's name is all over the place. *white folks look around in silence* That means they gonna be talking bout Sprite for months maaaaaaannnn! SPRITE!! *white folks soft clap acknowledging the good idea. Dude hops up and swings his arm all wild like* Boooyahhh!! You going down 7-Up, you going down!!! Word life son! *daps the other brotha up* I'm sayin' tho. That's what we would do *Tracy Morgan face and pose*
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Post by Kyng of JDs on Feb 24, 2010 23:26:24 GMT -5
Exalt for the foolishness
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Post by ReignMan19 on Feb 25, 2010 1:00:20 GMT -5
Sprite wrote38 minutes ago
The Sprite Step Off was initially created as a way to recognize talented college students and give out scholarships to help support their higher education. If we put on some entertaining step shows and brought people together along the way, all the better.
After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got together to do our post-competition review and found a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results. After looking at it and looking at it AGAIN, we determined there isn’t a definitive resolution.
Sprite is all about preserving the honesty and integrity of this competition. Because the scoring discrepancy can’t be resolved and due to the really tight margin between the first and second place sorors, we feel that the only right thing to do is to name both Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter & Zeta Tau Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, co-first place winners of the Sprite Step Off.
With these revised results, we’re gonna increase Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter’s scholarship prize to $100K, consistent with what Zeta Tau Alpha also got for their first prize winnings.
Thanks again to everyone who helped make The Sprite Step Off happen. And to one last stroll in the name of unity...
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Post by DamieQue™ on Feb 25, 2010 1:32:41 GMT -5
Sprite wrote38 minutes ago The Sprite Step Off was initially created as a way to recognize talented college students and give out scholarships to help support their higher education. If we put on some entertaining step shows and brought people together along the way, all the better. After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got together to do our post-competition review and found a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results. After looking at it and looking at it AGAIN, we determined there isn’t a definitive resolution. Sprite is all about preserving the honesty and integrity of this competition. Because the scoring discrepancy can’t be resolved and due to the really tight margin between the first and second place sorors, we feel that the only right thing to do is to name both Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter & Zeta Tau Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, co-first place winners of the Sprite Step Off. With these revised results, we’re gonna increase Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter’s scholarship prize to $100K, consistent with what Zeta Tau Alpha also got for their first prize winnings. Thanks again to everyone who helped make The Sprite Step Off happen. And to one last stroll in the name of unity... |
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Post by DamieQue™ on Feb 25, 2010 1:47:58 GMT -5
Buahhahahahahah!!! Good point. You know they were in the board room with two brothas pitching it like: Aaaannn aaaannnd then we gonna do a step show right. Aaann we gonna get erryboday all hyped up. ya feel me. Cuz see there's only gonna be black people in the commercials. So day know what's going down! But when it's all done some Becky's is gonna win. *dude in the back yells they been practicin yo!* Aannn aannn aaannnd folks is gonna be mad yo. just cussin' and what not. *dude in the back demonstrates: yo tell em why you mad son!* Right right. So they gonna be mad yo. This ain't goind down like that.... not during Black History Month. They gonna be textin' and bloggin and shit. Even on OOA. Sprite's name is all over the place. *white folks look around in silence* That means they gonna be talking bout Sprite for months maaaaaaannnn! SPRITE!! *white folks soft clap acknowledging the good idea. Dude hops up and swings his arm all wild like* Boooyahhh!! You going down 7-Up, you going down!!! Word life son! *daps the other brotha up* I'm sayin' tho. That's what we would do *Tracy Morgan face and pose*  |
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 25, 2010 2:03:59 GMT -5
Thanks Kyng! Preciate chu. Damie. I'm sick of you dissing me erry time I post. Don't make me grab my spoon. So much hate with this one. Sigh..  |
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Post by Prissy New Year!!! on Feb 25, 2010 6:56:44 GMT -5
Sprite wrote38 minutes ago The Sprite Step Off was initially created as a way to recognize talented college students and give out scholarships to help support their higher education. If we put on some entertaining step shows and brought people together along the way, all the better. After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got together to do our post-competition review and found a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results. After looking at it and looking at it AGAIN, we determined there isn’t a definitive resolution. Sprite is all about preserving the honesty and integrity of this competition. Because the scoring discrepancy can’t be resolved and due to the really tight margin between the first and second place sorors, we feel that the only right thing to do is to name both Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter & Zeta Tau Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, co-first place winners of the Sprite Step Off. With these revised results, we’re gonna increase Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter’s scholarship prize to $100K, consistent with what Zeta Tau Alpha also got for their first prize winnings. Thanks again to everyone who helped make The Sprite Step Off happen. And to one last stroll in the name of unity... Damie....IT HAPPENED!!!! Right, it is so ridiculous that you would think it is a joke, but it is true. Tau chapter Sorors have been given the title of co-first place winners and will also be receiving a $100,000 check. I CALL BULLshit ON THIS WHOLE THING!! BULLshit, BULLshit, BULLshit!!!!!! |
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Post by Prissy New Year!!! on Feb 25, 2010 7:05:09 GMT -5
Does anybody really want to try and convince me that the results weren't decided well before the finals in Atlanta? Anybody?? Anybody?? Before you attempt to, please read this article.... www.s2smagazine.com/node/2524If you haven’t heard by now, the sisters of Zeta Tau Alpha are the baddest steppers in the land this year.
ZTA, a White sorority, pulled off a major at the Sprite Step-Off Challenge over the weekend. The newcomers beat out Black greeks from Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma to take first place and a check for $100,000. Although stepping is largely a revered tradition among Black fraternities and sororities, it’s not like the judges just handed Zeta Tau Alpha the top prize. From their initial try-out to the finals, those girls came hard. Of course it doesn’t hurt that their stepmistress has a background in choreography.
[b“They blew us away,” said Rob Hardy, the producer of an MTV 2 series about the Step-Off. He told S2S that after seeing the sorority’s audition there was no way they couldn’t have let the ladies compete in the big show.
[/b][/i]][/color] Pay particular attention to the highlighted section. Rob Hardy is the Stomp the Yard filmmaker. Alpha's, get your lame ass frat...this ain't no movie where you write a script and insert actors to play the role as assigned. This is real life, and he just helped to legitimize the selling of yet another part of our culture. If Sprite does this again, I certainly hope the D-9 stays out of it. Let Becky and Biff step, and see what types of crowds you draw. We were pimped, plain and simple, from the leaders of our organizations, to the Coca Cola company, to the MTV producers (some of which should have known better). My Sorors were clearly robbed, but I wonder how many other sororities were pushed to the side so that ZTA could make it to the finals. A Hot Mess!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by Cambist on Feb 25, 2010 8:34:50 GMT -5
Buahhahahahahah!!! Good point. You know they were in the board room with two brothas pitching it like: Aaaannn aaaannnd then we gonna do a step show right. Aaann we gonna get erryboday all hyped up. ya feel me. Cuz see there's only gonna be black people in the commercials. So day know what's going down! But when it's all done some Becky's is gonna win. *dude in the back yells they been practicin yo!* Aannn aannn aaannnd folks is gonna be mad yo. just cussin' and what not. *dude in the back demonstrates: yo tell em why you mad son!* Right right. So they gonna be mad yo. This ain't goind down like that.... not during Black History Month. They gonna be textin' and bloggin and shit. Even on OOA. Sprite's name is all over the place. *white folks look around in silence* That means they gonna be talking bout Sprite for months maaaaaaannnn! SPRITE!! *white folks soft clap acknowledging the good idea. Dude hops up and swings his arm all wild like* Boooyahhh!! You going down 7-Up, you going down!!! Word life son! *daps the other brotha up* I'm sayin' tho. That's what we would do *Tracy Morgan face and pose* Having sat in on meeting where ideas like this are pitched....this isn't too far fetched..... Not to mention it's HELLA funny!!!!! |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 25, 2010 8:41:11 GMT -5
That article sucks, LOL. How did they beat out the fraternities when a fraternity won?
And IF if Sprite went back (it's not on the website) and made them co-first place winners then it sounds like hush money..."we'll give yall first place and a check to shut you up so you'll do this next year." On top of that fact that the glory is so after fact, LOL.
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Post by Cambist on Feb 25, 2010 8:55:39 GMT -5
That article sucks, LOL. How did they beat out the fraternities when a fraternity won? And IF if Sprite went back (it's not on the website) and made them co-first place winners then it sounds like hush money..."we'll give yall first place and a check to shut you up so you'll do this next year." On top of that fact that the glory is so after fact, LOL. I agree....I haven't seen the official release...only the one of Facebook. But if it is real...it does sound like hush/come back money. Now, i'm not saying the AKA's SHOULDN'T take the money. Hell yeah you take the money!! But it still feels a little slimy.... |
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Post by Blu on Feb 25, 2010 8:55:52 GMT -5
That article sucks, LOL. How did they beat out the fraternities when a fraternity won? And IF if Sprite went back (it's not on the website) and made them co-first place winners then it sounds like hush money..."we'll give yall first place and a check to shut you up so you'll do this next year." On top of that fact that the glory is so after fact, LOL. Apparently it was posted on the Sprite Facebook Page.. Not sure how legit it is, but they usually post updates quicker on it than the website. Here is a link. www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=66681829158&topic=14267#!/Sprite |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 25, 2010 9:07:01 GMT -5
^^^Thanks Blu. I will believe that before I believe Twitter any day.
But it still sounds like hush money, LOL.
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Post by tillions on Feb 25, 2010 9:09:44 GMT -5
Yup i saw this last night. Hmmmmmmmm Now i hope everyone has learned a lesson and we don't entertain this ish if Sprite holds another show next year.
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Post by Cambist on Feb 25, 2010 9:11:41 GMT -5
Dont worry, Till....we will. LOL!!
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Post by Alc 06 on Feb 25, 2010 9:19:36 GMT -5
I know this has been said, but with Mtv involved I'm not surprised. Drama has become their bread and butter
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 25, 2010 9:20:36 GMT -5
Yup i saw this last night. Hmmmmmmmm Now i hope everyone has learned a lesson and we don't entertain this ish if Sprite holds another show next year. Or at least take note when non-NPHC teams win (there were about 4) win during the small competitions. That should have been a red flag right there. |
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Post by peppermint on Feb 25, 2010 9:37:48 GMT -5
<--- has been lurking in the thread
<--- thinks that should one of the D9 elect to participate next year it should ensure that there is no doubt over who the winner should be. Not saying the ZTAs didn't deserve to win or co-win, but now there is an awareness of the awe factor. There has been acknowledgement (to a certain degree) that if these women stepped in long sleeves, pants and wore full masks, they could have very well been mistaken for a black organization. Sometimes as black folk you have to be twice as good, even at your own game.
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Post by tillions on Feb 25, 2010 9:38:51 GMT -5
Yup i saw this last night. Hmmmmmmmm Now i hope everyone has learned a lesson and we don't entertain this ish if Sprite holds another show next year. Or at least take note when non-NPHC teams win (there were about 4) win during the small competitions. That should have been a red flag right there. I don’t think we should compete against non-nphc teams at all. And we should stop competing in shows that aren’t sponsored by the nphc. no bueno |
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Post by Alc 06 on Feb 25, 2010 9:54:57 GMT -5
Well if there is a "scoring discrepancy", theoretically everyone can argue the scores now. Could you imagine if this had happened with the two Alpha teams?
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Post by Cambist on Feb 25, 2010 9:55:40 GMT -5
That $100,000 is going to be good bait. And if they don't get what they want, MTV and Sprite will pump up the controversy about D9's not wanting to compete and up the prize to $250,000....negros will run to the competition then....all the while looking like a crackhead selling mommas toaster.
Either compete and accept the winner or object and not compete on principle.
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Post by T-Rex91 on Feb 25, 2010 10:11:05 GMT -5
Sprite wrote38 minutes ago The Sprite Step Off was initially created as a way to recognize talented college students and give out scholarships to help support their higher education. If we put on some entertaining step shows and brought people together along the way, all the better. After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got together to do our post-competition review and found a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results. After looking at it and looking at it AGAIN, we determined there isn’t a definitive resolution. Sprite is all about preserving the honesty and integrity of this competition. Because the scoring discrepancy can’t be resolved and due to the really tight margin between the first and second place sorors, we feel that the only right thing to do is to name both Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter & Zeta Tau Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, co-first place winners of the Sprite Step Off. With these revised results, we’re gonna increase Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Tau Chapter’s scholarship prize to $100K, consistent with what Zeta Tau Alpha also got for their first prize winnings. Thanks again to everyone who helped make The Sprite Step Off happen. And to one last stroll in the name of unity... Well they smooth haven't updated their website. Still shows the AKA's as 2nd place |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 25, 2010 10:17:23 GMT -5
Or at least take note when non-NPHC teams win (there were about 4) win during the small competitions. That should have been a red flag right there. I don’t think we should compete against non-nphc teams at all. And we should stop competing in shows that aren’t sponsored by the nphc. no bueno Well as someone apart of a non NPHC sorority I don't have a problem with the different orgs stepping against each other. Besides the show wasn't called the BGLO/Black/NPHC Sprite Step Off...it was called the Sprite Step Off. They just used the advertising, shiny title and prize money to sucker folks into thinking it was all BGLOs, lol. Folks fell for it, probably assumed they would not win the national comp and then they did. *shrugs* |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 25, 2010 10:20:55 GMT -5
That $100,000 is going to be good bait. And if they don't get what they want, MTV and Sprite will pump up the controversy about D9's not wanting to compete and up the prize to $250,000....negros will run to the competition then....all the while looking like a crackhead selling mommas toaster. Either compete and accept the winner or object and not compete on principle. LOL, you already know. They may even throw in some other prize to sweeten the deal. |
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Post by ReignMan19 on Feb 25, 2010 10:33:50 GMT -5
Umm.. I got it from Facebook...  ^^^Thanks Blu. I will believe that before I believe Twitter any day. But it still sounds like hush money, LOL. |
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Post by Bunny Hop on Feb 25, 2010 10:43:34 GMT -5
Umm.. I got it from Facebook... Oh ok...I guess I should have assumed that even though you didn't post a link and you seem to be far more about Twitter than Facebook. |
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 25, 2010 10:54:08 GMT -5
That $100,000 is going to be good bait. And if they don't get what they want, MTV and Sprite will pump up the controversy about D9's not wanting to compete and up the prize to $250,000....negros will run to the competition then....all the while looking like a crackhead selling mommas toaster. Either compete and accept the winner or object and not compete on principle. If each national headquarters said hayle naw, no one is competing in the name of XYZ, there goes that theory (I do hope they do this like they did years back with that MTV thing about reality life of joining a greek org.) Once again, I need for people to understand that no one individual, or no one chapter or handful of chapters makes the decision for the group for the whole with D9 orgs. That is headquarters' job and if word comes from them that no one is competing in name of XYZ, they aren't no matter how big or tempting the prize is, period. |
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 25, 2010 10:54:54 GMT -5
Or at least take note when non-NPHC teams win (there were about 4) win during the small competitions. That should have been a red flag right there. I don’t think we should compete against non-nphc teams at all. And we should stop competing in shows that aren’t sponsored by the nphc. no bueno Or at least co-sponsored. I've felt that way for a while. |
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Post by ReignMan19 on Feb 25, 2010 11:04:09 GMT -5
I hope you roll your eyes to sleep... Umm.. I got it from Facebook... Oh ok...I guess I should have assumed that even though you didn't post a link and you seem to be far more about Twitter than Facebook. |
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