Smart Games Competition and a Chance to Win $4000

Kaggle is pleased to open the participation for a competition; Lux AI Challenge. This is a competition where competitors design agents to tackle multi-variable optimization and resource gathering against other competitors. This is a chance to prove your success and ability to analyze your opponents and developing appropriate policies to get the upper hand.

If you win with competition, you will get one of the following:

• 1st Place: $4000
• 2nd Place: $2500
• 3rd Place: $1500
• 4th Place: $1000
• 5th Place: $1000
• Special Prizes: 
• J Ventures Innovative Strategy award: For the competitor who develops the most innovative, creative strategy and write-up.
• QuantCo Top Performance Award: For the best 10 individual and 10 teams competitors.
• Lux AI Challenge Sprint Award: For the top 2 on the leaderboard will receive the award for developing strong bots early on.

Please note: The top 8 teams who have not received competition t-shirts will get free competition t-shirts.

You must follow the following terms:

1. Each day your team is able to submit up to 5 bots to the competition. 
2. Each submission will play games against other bots on the ladder that have a similar skill rating. 
3. Every bot submitted will continue to play episodes until the end of the competition, with newer bots playing a much more frequent number of episodes.
4. Each competitor must program their own agent in their language of choice. 
5. Each turn, your agent gets 3 seconds to submit their actions, excess time is not saved across turns. 
6. In each game, you are given a pool of 60 seconds that is tapped into each time you go over a turn's 3-second limit. 
7.  On the leaderboard, only your best scoring bot will be shown, but you can track the progress of all of your submissions on your Submissions page.
8. Whereas, to be eligible for the J Ventures Innovative Strategy award:

• You must submit a document with a maximum of 3 pages in English or Chinese.
• You are free to structure your write-up. 
• Recommend sticking to 11 point font as a default.

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Evaluation Process:

Your work will be evaluated through two processes:

• Ranking System:
• After an Episode finishes, the Rating estimate for all Submissions in that Episode will update. 
• Final Evaluation:
• From December 7th to December 20th, the competition will continue to run games.
• At the conclusion of this period, the leaderboard is final and can determine the winners with the various ranking-based prizes.

About Kaggle:

Kaggle, a subsidiary of Google LLC, is an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. It got its start in 2010 by offering machine learning competitions and now also offers a public data platform, a cloud-based workbench for data science, and Artificial Intelligence education. Kaggle allows users to find and publish data sets, explore and build models in a web-based data-science environment, work with other data scientists and machine learning engineers, and enter competitions to solve data science challenges.

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