Hello everyone!

Good news — Russian AI Cup 2018 has started! This competition is being held seventh time, and this time we hav a sport game in football/Rocket League style. Task is simple — score more goals than your opponent!

Try yourself in creating an artificial intelligence, it's simple and fun. Go to Russian AI Cup site and enter the battle. Good luck!

This time we also allow you to try the game out by playing it it the browser  

What is it?

Russian AI Cup — annual Mail.Ru Group IT-oriented competition initiative. In this championship participants will compete writing an artificial intelligence for the game strategies. Organized by Mail.Ru Group and Codeforces.

We officially support C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Rust. But, same as previously, we are ready to support packages developed by the community. We have already added F# and Scala.

We welcome both beginners and professionals to the championship. No special skills are needed, just basic programming level is enough.

When?

• Sandbox: December 17 — January 5;
• First round: January 5 — 6;
• Second round: January 19 — 20;
• Finals: January 26.

Prizes

Best strategies that made it to the Finals and took top places, as well as best players from the Sandbox, will receive prizes. Also, all participants of Round 2 will receive a T-shirt, and all finalists — a hoodie with contest symbolics.