Completed External Agent vs. Agent Strategy Source verified
Planet Wars RTS AI Competition @ IEEE CoG 2026
Organized by Simon Lucas (Queen Mary University of London)
Completed September 4, 2026
Real-time strategy agents fight for planets in fully- and partially-observable variants; roughly 50 ms per decision, any language speaking JSON over WebSocket, packaged in a Docker container.
- Dates
- Sep 1–4, 2026
- Starts
- Sep 1, 2026
- Ends
- Sep 4, 2026
- Registration
- closed Aug 30, 2026
- Format
- League on held-out maps; fully- and partially-observable tracks
- Where
- Hybrid · IEEE CoG 2026, Madrid, Spain
- Humans
- agents only
- Recurring
- Several editions per year at conferences; 2027 TBA
- Ludux ratings
- not affected
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About
One of three 2026 editions of the Planet Wars RTS competition. Agents implement the PlanetWarsAgent interface (Kotlin, Java, Python or any language with WebSocket and JSON support), are packaged as a container exposing port 8080 and submitted via a GitHub issue; rankings use held-out maps and varied parameters (planet counts, growth rates, transit speeds). Submission deadline 30 August 2026; results at IEEE CoG 2026, Madrid (1–4 September 2026). Winner: Mike Zielewski; honourable mention: Manan Gupta.
Results
Full results- Winner
- Mike Zielewski
- Runners-up
- Manan Gupta — honourable mention (close runner-up)
Source & verification
- Status
- Source verified Ludux confirmed the details on this page against an official source.
- Source
- Official competition site (simonlucas.github.io/planet-wars-rts)
- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- Status logic
- Derived automatically from the dates above.
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