General Info

Venue

NJIT Wellness and Events Center

Address

104 Lock Street, Newark, New Jersey 07103, United States

Dates

September 25 – 27, 2026

Grade Level

High School

Skills Challenge

Yes

Judging Format

Remote Engineering Notebooks

Worlds Qualifying Spots

• (2) Tournament Champions
• (1) Excellence Award
• (1) Skills Champion

Registration & Logistics

Event Type

Open Tournament

Event Format

In-Person

Field Control

Smart Field Control

Capacity

100

Spots Open

0

Event Region

New Jersey

Max Registrations per Org

6

Priority Registration Opens

5-Jun-2026 12:00 EDT

Standard Registration Opens

19-Jun-2026 12:00 EDT

Registration Deadline

4-Sep-2026 23:59 EDT

Payment Deadline

1-Aug-2026 23:59 EDT

Price

$500.00

Agenda

Stream

The event will be streaming on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@robotrev or https://robotrevolution.net/tv.html https://www.youtube.com/live/o480MuR5sX4?si=7yVgxWw9M7hiCa9k

Travel Info

Flights The best airport to travel into the area is Newark International (EWR). The other New York area airports (JFK and LGA) may add significant travel time or extra ground transportation costs. Parking All passenger vehicles may be parked at the Science and Technology Parking Deck (42 Wilsey St, Newark, NJ 07103). A map has been included in the packet attached. Drop Off/Loading We have bought out parking spots on Warren Street to help facilitate the drop off and loading process for all teams. An NJIT Public Safety officer will be available to help with traffic flow in that area over the three days of competition. Please limit your time in the drop-off area to 15-30 minutes to allow other teams to have their turn in dropping off equipment and members. Please note, we have only reserved Warren Street on the side closest to the Wellness and Event Center. Address for Drop Off/Loading: 173 Warren Street Parking Following equipment drop-off, teams can park their vehicle at the Science and Technology Parking Deck. Address for Parking Deck: 42 Sylvia Jackson Wy Things to do • 10 miles or a short train ride from New York City

Judging Format

Judging will be done with Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions and In Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact. Engineering Notebooks must be submitted by 11:59PM EST on September 4th, 2026

Volunteer

Volunteers are welcome and needed. A limited number of skills fast passes will be made available for teams that provide volunteers. Here is a link to our volunteer form. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4FACAB2BA5FDCF8-63965698-highlander VEXU Teams will be allowed to run skills from the end of alliance selction until the start of elimination matches (approx 1.5 hours from 12:30PM-2:00PM) if and only if their team volunteers during the event. Volunteering during the event means that a significant number of VEXU students are taking a significant number of shifts. VEXU teams will be allowed on the practice fields after the last qualification match on Sunday. Skills runs must be arranged prior to September 6 @11:59PM EDT. Email highlanderinfo@robotrevolution.net if you are coming. Thank you in advance.

Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy

In the event of inclement weather, a decision will be made on how the competition will proceed and any changes will be communicated to teams via the main contact email address and/or via live announcment in the venue. This may include a delayed start or early end to matches on a competition day, extending or modifying hours on some days, or removal of matches from the competition schedule in order to complete the event. Every effort will be reasonably made to continue the event as planned.