Given 'their' perpetual dominance of the Earn Your Wings contest it is abundantly clear to me that Grandbend is actually AI and thus does not exist in the corporeal sense.

Ditto for the FT version, where it's not only the moniker that's different, it's also a different piece of code. (See Guzzoni D., Baur C., Cheyer A. 2007, 'Modeling Human-Agent Interaction with Active Ontologies')

So 'meeting' Grandbend is simply not possible.