GRITS 2013

[ghostmachine360]

The 2013 GRITS (Georgia Robotics Invitational Tournament and Showcase) event will be happening this year! And......has moved venues! It's now on October 5th, 2013 in the Georgia World Congress Center (previous co-host to the FIRST World Championships in the great city of Atlanta). If you're interested, stay tuned!

[ttldomination]

I think there are quite a few teams in the metro Atlanta area that jumping for joy. That drive down to Warner Robbins was no joke.

Either way, glad to see something's back in Atlanta. For now, GRITS will have to do.

- Sunny G.

[Billfred]

Man, what is it with October 5? The Gamecocks will be playing at home (and most/all of the Columbia teams will be working it), and THOR is the same day (and effectively equidistant). Fortunately, the former makes the latter moot.

Hopefully we'll see some of y'all at SCRIW the week after. :)

[Kellen Hill]

Registration for GRITS opened earlier this week! Looks like there are spots for 25 teams. I know 1746 is one of them!

Who else has signed up?

Here is the link for details: http://gafirst.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=9

[FrankJ]

2974 is in despite it being a in the middle of a six day weekend for us. It is also a SAT weekend.

[JeffersonMartin]

1648 is definitely gonna be there.

[Gary Dillard]

Who else has signed up?

Here's the link to the team list

http://http://gafirst.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=33

We're considering it; it's in the middle of BEST season but at least this year it's not on the same day as the local competition.

[Kellen Hill]

Here's the link to the team list

http://http://gafirst.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=33

We're considering it; it's in the middle of BEST season but at least this year it's not on the same day as the local competition.

Looks like there's an extra "http://" in your link.

http://gafirst.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27&Itemid=33

Here is the team list so far (14 teams):

Team Number Team Name
1746 Forsyth Alliance
1127 Milton H S Lotus Robotics
1683 Northview H S Techno Titals
4566 Collins Hill H S TERAdactyles
2974 Walton H S Robotics
3581 Troupe H S SumDroids
1648 Grady H S Gearbox Gangsta's
2415 The Westminster Schools WiredCats
3959 Morgan County Al. Schools Mech Tech
4510 Dooly H S Robocats
4516 Blessed Trinity BT Bots
832 Roswell H S Oscar
4468 Fernbank Science Center Fernbank LINKS
1261 Peachtree Ridge H S RoboLions

[Kellen Hill]

Updated team list. Looks like there are only 2 spots left!


Team # Team Name
1746 Forsyth Alliance
1127 Milton H S Lotus Robotics
1683 Northview H S Techno Titals
4566 Collins Hill Robotics The TERAdactyles
2974 Walton H S Robotics
3581 Troupe H S SumDroids
1648 Grady H S Gearbox Gangsta's
2415 The Westminster Schools WiredCats
3959 Morgan County Al. Schools Mech Tech
4510 Dooly H S Robocats
4516 Blessed Trinity BT Bots
832 Roswell H S Oscar
4468 Fernbank Science Center Fernbank LINKS
1261 Peachtree Ridge H S RoboLions
4080 Team Reboot
4509 Lanier H S Mechanical Bulls
20140031 Pope H S Pope Robotics - New Rookie!
3694 North Atlanta H S WarBotz
1002 Wheeler H S Circuit Runners
1379 Norcross H S Gear Devils
4148 Future Seekers SWAGbots
1311 Kell H S Kell Robotics
2556 Niceville H S RadioActive Roaches

[Zflash]

FLASH 1319 Registered last night. We are looking forward to compete with all of our Georgia friends again.

[ttldomination]

Looks like we have a final team list.


1746 Forsyth Alliance
1127 Milton H S Lotus Robotics
1683 Northview H S Techno Titals
4566 Collins Hill Robotics The TERAdactyles
2974 Walton H S Robotics
3581 Troupe H S SumDroids
1648 Grady H S Gearbox Gangsta's
2415 The Westminster Schools WiredCats
4510 Dooly H S Robocats
4516 Blessed Trinity BT Bots
832 Roswell H S Oscar
4468 Fernbank Science Center Fernbank LINKS
1261 Peachtree Ridge H S RoboLions
4080 Team Reboot
4509 Lanier H S Mechanical Bulls
20140031 Pope H S Pope Robotics - New Rookie!
3694 North Atlanta H S WarBotz
1002 Wheeler H S Circuit Runners
1379 Norcross H S Gear Devils
4148 Future Seekers SWAGbots
1311 Kell H S Kell Robotics
2556 Niceville Fl. H S RadioActive Roaches
3318 GSMST H S RoboDragons
1319 Golden Strip Robotics, SC Team FLASH
1747 Lambert H S Longhorns
3091 100 Black Men of Atlanta

IIRC, we have a couple of floor pickup machines, a couple of high climbers, one full court machine, and cyclers in this bunch.

Dis gunna be good,
- Sunny G.

[1683cadder]

Congratulations to 3581, 1683, 4509 for winning GRITS 2013.

[ttldomination]

Congratulations to 3581, 1683, 4509 for winning GRITS 2013.

Such 3rd person.

But yes, a good set of congratulations are in order. It seems like everyone and their mentors were having problems on that day. It seems that it take a it of a skill and the right cards to win at GRITS.

It was great to see and work with a lot of you guys. It's always nice to step away from the forums and meet on the field.
- Sunny G.

[only1chip]

Sorry, a bit late in posting this, but here (http://info.automationdirect.com/education/images/GRITS_Trophies_2013.jpg) is a picture of two of the six GRITS trophies that were presented at the event.

All the pneumatic parts were donated by AutomationDirect.com (http://www.automationdirect.com/). The trophies are dynamic and grow to almost twice their starting height at the flip of the hand valve. More details in the video here. (http://bit.ly/grits-trophy)

AutomationDirect.com is planning to provide some equally unique (yet different) trophies for next year. Hope to see you at GRITS 2014!