2018 Tournament Schedule

The tournament is taking place at Reservoir High School, 11550 Scaggsville Rd, Fulton, MD 20759.

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.  We will try to be as flexible as possible for those teams who are traveling Saturday morning and schedule their interview/inspection times later in the day.  

Our goal is to have nine qualifying matches per team.  

Saturday June 23, 2018

10:00 am Team Check In

10:15 am Field Inspection opens

10:30 am Scheduled Hardware Inspections and Judge Interviews in the pits begin 

Teams work their lunch break around their Inspection/Judging schedule

1:00 pm Drivers Meeting

1:20 pm Opening Ceremonies

We are excited to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr, Louise Prockter to Maryland to kick off the tournament on Saturday.  Dr. Prockter is the Director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas. She has been involved in robotic planetary missions throughout her career. She served as an Imaging Team associate on the Galileo and Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) missions; was a Deputy Project Scientist and Co-Investigator on the MESSENGER mission; was a Deputy Project Scientist for the Europa Clipper mission, and is currently a Co-Investigator on that mission’s camera team.  We know she is looking forward to seeing the robots built by the top notch FTC teams competing at this year’s MTI. 

1:45 pm Qualifying Matches begin

6:00 pm Qualifying Matches end for the day

6:30 pm pits close

7:00 pm Teams Game Night at USRA STEMaction Center, Columbia Maryland

Sunday June 24, 2018

7:30 am Pits Open

8:00 am Qualifying Matches resume

12:00 pm Qualifying matches end

Lunch Break

1:00 pm Alliance Selection

1:30 pm Drivers Meeting for Semi-finalist Alliance Teams

2:00 pm Semi-final Matches begin

3:00 pm Finals

3:30 pm Award Ceremonies

4:30 pm Pits Close