Music City BEST Team Results at 2018 South BEST

Four Music City BEST Teams advanced to the 2018 South BEST at Auburn University on December 1 & 2.  The competition held a wildcard tournament called the Regional Invitational Tournament (RIT) for the second year.  Five teams advanced from this competition to then compete in the South BEST Regional Tournament. A total of 58 teams competed in the South BEST robotic seeding rounds, with 14 advancing on to the semifinals.  37 teams competed for the top honor - the BEST award. 

The Music City BEST team results from this competition are:

• Stewart Creek Middle School placed 11th in the BEST award
• Stewart Creek Middle School finished 6th in the seeding rounds and advanced to the semifinals
• DART finished 15th in the seeding rounds
• Merrol Hyde Magnet School made it into the top 5 of the Regional Invitational Tournament which advanced them to join the South BEST tournament.  They finished 27th in the seeding rounds.
• Smyrna finished 32nd in the seeding rounds

Congratulations to all the teams for their commitment and hard work!  This was a challenging game this year and each team showed how creativity and engineering skills work together to create exciting robots.