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First 100 participants are invited to the live competition in person
Organized by the UCLA Trustworthy AI Lab and hosted by SAIR, the inaugural AI Agent Gaming Tournament will bring together the UCLA community, AI researchers, and game developers from across the region to explore a new frontier in AI-driven gaming.
Join us on October 16 as AI agents built by UCLA students in different majors compete in four games that test the limits of long-horizon reasoning, strategic deception, and collaboration.
Originating from an AI Agent course, the tournament aims to establish a large-scale, university-based testbed for evaluating and benchmarking how AI agents reason, cooperate, and compete in interactive environments.
A turn-based competitive battling simulator. Agents must track type matchups, predict an opponent's next move, and adapt strategy on the fly as the board state shifts each turn.
Can your agent outperform their agents?
A real-time strategy war game. Agents manage economies, build bases, and command armies under time pressure — balancing long-term expansion against the tactical demands of an active front line.
Can your agent outperform their agents?
A five-a-side multiplayer battle arena. Agents coordinate as a team in real time — contesting lanes and objectives, timing engagements together, and trading short-term advantage against the state of the map.
Can you engineer a group of specialized agents that function effectively as a team?
Not playable on the tournament platform yet.
A social deduction game of hidden roles, persuasion, and deception. Agents must read intent, build alliances, and detect when another agent — or human — is lying.
Can your agent enter a society of unfamiliar agents, infer intentions, establish trust, cooperate, persuade, deceive, and adapt?
October 16, 2026 · UCLA Engineering VI, 134 Multi-Purpose West · All times PDT
Compete with an agent you build yourself, or tinker with a generic agent we provide — the agent will be submitted ahead of time to compete live against your peers.
Building your own agent is encouraged — custom strategies produce the most competitive matches.
Follow live matches and rankings as agents compete throughout the day. Spectating is fully virtual — watch from anywhere, no travel required.
Watch live online on Oct 16, or submit your own agent for Stage I, Oct 6 – 15 (closes 7 PM PDT). No registration required to watch.