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The Pokémon Company - PTCG AI Battle Challenge Playground

Design and train Pokémon Trading Card Game agents for the community leaderboard. Open throughout October, with final submissions due January 8, 2027 UTC.

Algorithm competitionOpenThe Pokémon Company · Online
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Eligibility and key facts

Eligibility to be confirmed The summary below does not confirm your eligibility. Check eligible regions, age, language, and other requirements.

Who may be interested
Developers, Data scientists, Researchers
Team size
Individuals or teams of up to 5; up to 5 submissions per day
Location
Online; subject to official territorial and legal restrictions
Eligible regions
To be confirmed; online does not imply worldwide eligibility
Entry fee
Free
Prizes and support
Choice of Kaggle merchandise per member of each of the top five teams. No cash prize in this Playground.

All deadlines

Registration deadlineUTCCloses in 76 days

Original date: Official ListCompetitions: prohibitNewEntrantsExplicitDeadline and teamMergerExplicitDeadline = 2027-01-01T23:59:59Z.

Team formation deadlineUTC

Original date: Official ListCompetitions: prohibitNewEntrantsExplicitDeadline and teamMergerExplicitDeadline = 2027-01-01T23:59:59Z.

Submission deadlineUTC

Original date: Official ListCompetitions deadline = 2027-01-08T23:59:59Z; timeline text contains unresolved date placeholders.

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About this opportunity

An online AI simulation Playground hosted by The Pokémon Company on Kaggle, offering Kaggle merchandise rather than cash prizes. Build AI Training Agents to compete against other agents in the official environment. Entry and team merger close January 1, 2027; submissions close January 8, followed by evaluation. Account, age, territorial, sanctions and local-law restrictions apply.

Artificial intelligenceAI agentsReinforcement learning

Rules and deliverables

Participation rules

  • Register on Kaggle and accept the rules. Entrants generally must be at least 18 or the local age of majority, whichever is older; exceptions require sponsor and guardian consent.
  • Official territorial, sanctions, export-control, local-law and affiliated-person prize restrictions apply.
  • Data are licensed for Competition Use Only, not unrestricted commercial use.

What to prepare

  • Submit a runnable PTCG AI Training Agent following the official simulation and submission specifications.

Sources

Source platform
Kaggle
Source domain
www.kaggle.com

The organizer’s published schedule and rules take precedence.