So I wanted to create a Japanese motto for our Esports team, seeing that our
entire team are all anime fans.

So what is

> Find. Attack. Exterminate.

in Japanese?

None of my friends can agree on which, 根絶します or 駆除 is the correct one, so I
would like to see if someone can come up with another word for exterminate, or
tell us which one is the correct one to use.

We want to make our motto sound ruthless, unforgiving, and utterly decisive
(which is how we play our games).
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word-choice english-to-japanese
What should "Find. Attack. Exterminate" be in Japanese?
(I don't know what an Esports team is—e-sports or just sports...?) Anyway,

I'd go with

> 捜索、攻撃、根絶。  
>  Find. Attack. Exterminate.

Since all are suru-verbs, I don't think you need any conjugations of する.

Alternatively, 捜索、攻撃、駆除 also works, but 駆除 is used for (usually animal) pests
and implies that you think of your opponents as "vermin". I think it would
portray an attitude that is even more alien to normal Japanese thinking than
捜索、攻撃、根絶 already is.
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A phrase that might read better in Japanese as more idiomatically natural is
索敵【さくてき】・殲滅【せんめつ】 "search and destroy". 索敵【さくてき】 is literally "finding the
enemy", and 殲滅【せんめつ】 is literally "killing everyone, destroying everything so
nothing/no one is left". This combines your "attack" and "exterminate" into
one word, which might not quite fit what you were looking for, but
索敵【さくてき】・殲滅【せんめつ】 appears to be the military terminology in Japanese and would
thus be more immediately understood.
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my 2 cents.

There is a famous phrase 見敵必殺.

My choice is 探知・襲撃・殲滅。
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