2024-2025 MD High School V5RC State Championship

High Stakes

Date: 7-Mar-2025 - 8-Mar-2025 Add to Calendar
Event Code: RE-V5RC-24-8881
Program: VEX V5 Robotics Competition
Event Type: Tournament
Event Format: In-Person
Field Control System: Smart Field Control
Capacity: 56
Spots Open: 40
Event Region: Maryland
Standard Registration Opens: 21-Oct-2024 12:00 EDT
Registration Deadline: 21-Feb-2025 12:00 EST
Payment Deadline: 6-Mar-2025 12:00 EST
Price: $155.00

General Info

Welcome to the VRC High School Maryland State Championship!

Teams must qualify for the Maryland VEX State Championship by competing in a qualifying event or having a top qualifying skills score at the end of the regular season.

If your team qualifies before January, 2025, registration must be paid by January 31, 2025. If you qualify after January 1, 2025 you must pay within two weeks. Anyone not registered and paid will be removed and replaced by a team from skills.
Reminder - Friday evening - get a jump start for your team by checking in, getting inspected, and doing some of your skills attempts. Skills is open on Friday, March 7
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Check-in, Inspection, and Skills

VOLUNTEER INFO! : Coming soon

Grade Level: High School

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 7-Mar-2025 - 8-Mar-2025

Venue/Location:

Dundalk High School
1901 Delvale Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21222
United States

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Code of Conduct

The REC Foundation considers the positive, respectful, and ethical conduct of teams to be an essential component of the competition. Participants are expected to behave in a respectful and professional manner, and to operate as student-centered teams with limited adult assistance. This includes all students, teachers, coaches, mentors, parents, and spectators associated with a team.

For more details, please refer to the REC Foundation Code of Conduct and Student-Centered Policy. If you have concerns about compliance with the Code of Conduct, please speak to the Event Partner during the event.

Agenda

Tentative Agenda 2025

*SKILLS - attempts are limited to:
3 robot driver
3 autonomous

Friday, March 7
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Check-in, Inspection, and Skills

Saturday, March 8

8 Qualification matches, one division

7:00 AM Doors Open

7:00 AM - 8:15 AM Registration and Inspection

8:30 AM Opening Ceremony

Drivers meeting

9:00 AM Qualification Matches Start
9:00 AM Skills open*

12:00 -12:30 PM         Lunch break

12:30-3:20    Qualification Matches
3:20 PM                      Skills close

3:20-3:40 Alliance Selections -16 alliance captains-

3:40-4:40 Elimination Eighth, Quarter & Semi-finals (14 matches)

4:40-4:50 Awards cerermony- Skills, Judges

4:50-5:00 Tournament Final (best of 3)
5:00 - 5:30 PM Awards Ceremony

Volunteer

Please contact Patrick Dougherty if you are interested in helping out - [email protected]

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

Here is the plan for postponement due to weather date for this event.

March 9
Schedule and format would be posted after the March 2 event is postponed.

This event is subject to Baltimore County Public Schools weather policy.
If March 9th date does not work out...
In the event of cancellation, the world championship invitations will be based on VEX/Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation policy.

Refund and Payment Policies

Refunds will be considered on a case by case basis but are not guaranteed.

Full refunds minus the $5 RECF fee charged to us will only be given if requested at least three weeks prior to event.

No refunds will be given to any teams that cancel after February 19, 2020.
If the event is totally canceled, a portion of the entry fee will be refunded minus expenses of the event that cannot be recouped.

Webcast

Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8exlSbYeQRE

Judging Format

All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event. Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges.