Melbourne will be hosting its fifth FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) off-season event in July 2026 after successful events in 2025, 2024, 2023 and 2022. We hope you can join us in the 2026 Victorian winter school holidays.

Event details

Information for New Teams

This is an Off-Season event (similar to the Duel Down Under). Teams aiming to qualify for the FRC World Championships in Houston will need to compete at the Southern Cross Regional held in March.

The MRT is free to attend for all teams thanks to our generous sponsors and volunteers who share our vision to grow the number of FRC teams and students in Australia.

NEW 2026 due to scheduling conflicts:

• • Two day event only (Friday and Saturday)
  • Early bump in and robot inspection available on Thursday afternoon

Interested in starting a new FRC team? Contact Us about starting a FRC team in Victoria.

New Updates for MRT 2026

The MRT 2026 Expression of Interest Form is now available for coaches to complete to register your teams interest to attend.

MRT 2026 Expression of interest Form

Please complete our EOI form prior to Monday 9th of May

For any questions please don't hesitate to Contact Us directly

Things to note:

• • MRT is now open to registrations from international teams and returning FRC teams
  • Second robot slots may be available for teams, subject to the number of total registrations
  • Teams can register their interest to bring a second robot via our EOI form above when registering their team

For further details please see our MRT Eligibility and Waitlist Priority document

For Teams interested in attending, please see information for teams page

Information for participating teams

For the event schedule, maps, robot delivery locations, services and accomodation - please see the information for participating teams page.

Spectators

Entrance to this event is free and open to the public. If you are interested to see what FRC is all about, then this is the event for you.

Livestream and Media:

• FIRST Australia Livestream (TBA)
• FIRST Updates Now (FUN) Livestream (TBA)
• The Blue Alliance MRT 2026 (TBA)
• MRT Facebook page

If you have any questions about attending MRT please contact us using our Teams contact page.