Pokemon TCG AI Battle Challenge Development Contest Announced
The contest applies AI to an imperfect-information card game with complex random elements, pushing beyond traditional perfect-information game AI benchmarks.
Reporting from 1 sources: Denfaminicogamer.
HEROZ, The Pokémon Company, and Matsuo Institute announced the Pokémon Trading Card Game AI Battle Challenge (PTCGABC), an AI agent development contest for Pokémon TCG battles. The first round starts June 16 on Kaggle, with a Simulation Division and a Strategy Division. The top eight teams advance to a second round in 2027, with prize money totaling $80,000 for the Strategy Division and second round.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game AI Battle Challenge (PTCGABC) pits AI agents against each other in the Pokémon TCG, a game with hidden information, thousands of card combinations, and random elements like coin tosses. The first round, starting June 16 on Kaggle, has two divisions: the Simulation Division ranks agents via automated battles on a real-time leaderboard, and the Strategy Division also judges deck originality and AI ingenuity. The top eight teams from the Strategy Division advance to a second round tournament streamed on YouTube. Prize money for the Strategy Division is $30,000 per team for first through eighth place; the second round winner gets $50,000 and the runner-up $30,000, plus Google Cloud coupons for all second-round participants.
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- Denfaminicogamer 『ポケカ』の対戦AIの強さを競う開発コンテスト「ポケカABC」が開催。第一ラウンドはKaggle上で開始