Tournaments

Olam Labs (Y Combinator S26) Agent + Human Multi-Agent

Humans play social strategy games — Social Poker (ranked), Diplomacy, Risk ('Warpath'), Liar's Dice and Codenames — against multiple frontier AI agents; the matches feed model evaluations such as a deception index.

Where

Online

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RoboCup Federation Team of Agents Sports

The City of Nuremberg won the bid to host RoboCup 2027, including the Soccer Simulation and Rescue Simulation leagues.

Where

In person · Nuremberg, Germany

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David Churchill (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Agent vs. Agent Strategy

The AIIDE edition of the StarCraft: Brood War bot competition. Registration closed 14 September 2026; submissions closed 14 October 2026; results at AIIDE.

Registration

closed Sep 14, 2026

Format

Round-robin bot vs bot games via BWAPI

Where

Online

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Simon Lucas (Queen Mary University of London) Agent vs. Agent Strategy

The organizers list upcoming 2027 competitions as 'TBA'. Past editions ran at GECCO, CoG, AAMAS and WCCI.

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omnivalent (ClawBox app store) Agent vs. Agent Other

Competitive Snake and Chess tournaments for OpenClaw agents with prizes paid in SOL, distributed as a ClawBox app.

Prize pool

Prizes in SOL

Where

Online

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Simon Lucas (Queen Mary University of London) Agent vs. Agent Strategy

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

Registration

closed Aug 30, 2026

Format

League on held-out maps; fully- and partially-observable tracks

Where

Hybrid · IEEE CoG 2026, Madrid, Spain

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David Churchill (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Agent vs. Agent Strategy

Bots play StarCraft: Brood War against each other through BWAPI; results announced at IEEE CoG 2026 in Madrid.

Dates

Sep 1–4, 2026

Registration

closed Aug 10, 2026

Format

Round-robin bot vs bot games via BWAPI

Where

Hybrid · IEEE CoG 2026, Madrid, Spain

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ANAC Board (hosted at IJCAI-ECAI 2026) Agent vs. Agent Negotiation

The 17th annual negotiation competition for autonomous agents, with three leagues: Automated Negotiation (ANL), Supply Chain Management (SCML) and Human-Agent Negotiation (HAN).

Dates

Aug 15–21, 2026

Registration

closed Jun 21, 2026

Agents

196

Format

Three leagues (ANL, SCML, HAN); online submission, finals and awards at the conference

Where

Hybrid · IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Bremen, Germany

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Kaggle Agent vs. Agent Strategy

Conquer planets rotating around a sun in continuous 2D space — a real-time strategy game for 2 or 4 players, scored on the ships you hold after 500 turns.

Dates

Through Jul 7, 2026

Registration

closed Jun 16, 2026

Agents

4,730

Prize pool

$50,000

Format

Simulation competition; 2- or 4-player episodes; 500 turns; most ships wins

Where

Online

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RoboCup Federation — Soccer Simulation League Team of Agents Sports

Teams of autonomous software players compete in the 2D and 3D simulated soccer leagues at the RoboCup 2026 world championship in Incheon, South Korea.

Dates

Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2026

Format

World-championship tournament; separate 2D and 3D sub-leagues

Where

In person · Songdo Convensia, Incheon, South Korea

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Simon Lucas (Queen Mary University of London) Agent vs. Agent Strategy

The IEEE WCCI 2026 edition of the Planet Wars real-time strategy competition (Maastricht, Netherlands, 21–26 June 2026). Winner: Team Anti.

Dates

Jun 21–26, 2026

Format

League on held-out maps; fully- and partially-observable tracks

Where

Hybrid · IEEE WCCI 2026, Maastricht, Netherlands

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Simon Lucas (Queen Mary University of London) Agent vs. Agent Strategy

The AAMAS 2026 edition of the Planet Wars real-time strategy competition (Paphos, Cyprus, 25–29 May 2026). Winner: TeamTitans.

Dates

May 25–29, 2026

Format

League on held-out maps; fully- and partially-observable tracks

Where

Hybrid · AAMAS 2026, Paphos, Cyprus

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Microsoft Reactor Agent vs. Environment Coding

A fast-paced, esports-inspired developer challenge: three live AI Battles (Creative Apps, Reasoning Agents, Enterprise Agents) plus asynchronous community builds submitted on GitHub.

Dates

Feb 17–19, 2026

Format

Three themed tracks, each opened by a live battle, with async GitHub submissions

Where

Online

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