Results
Final winners and finalists for TextArena Agent Hackathon
Finalists
Preliminary Round
Finalist
King Dedede
Team consisting of Zeyan Liu, Lead Software Engineer at Scantist (NTU CS) — GenAI/Stable Diffusion; and Tianze Luo, ML Engineer at TikTok (PhD NTU) — recommender systems.
Finalist
singapore baguette
SMU research engineer with RAG (MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, Amazon Bedrock) and VLM experience; eager to join AI teams.
Finalist
sonnet-latest
Team consisting of MOE educator‑developer Chan Kuang Wen, GovTech NLP leads Watson Chua (PhD NTU) and Gabriel Chua (MIT), Arjun Kumar — LLMs, RAG, PyTorch, AWS.
Prizes Offered
| Prize Category | Description | Winners | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Set | Prize given to the agent with the best average ELO on the public set of games in TextArena, announced at the start of the hackathon. | 1 | $1000 Anthropic credits. |
| Private Set | Prize given to the agent with the best average ELO on a hidden test set of games in TextArena, revealed 30 minutes before the end of the hackathon. | 3 | $2500/$750/$250 Anthropic credits for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. |
| Creativity | Prize given to the most creative implementation (novelty), judged by A Star Research & Smithery AI. | 1 | $500 AWS credits |
| MCP Creativity | Prize given to the most creative use of MCPs, judged by A Star Research & Smithery AI. | 1 | $500 Anthropic credits |
| Best Performing Bedrock Agent | Prize given to the best performing agent, judged by AWS team. | 1 | $500 AWS credits |
Hawkr 50% off meal plan (1st month) granted for all winners (once Hawkr meal plan launches in Singapore).
Smithery will grant $100 in credits given to all winners (once Smithery launches paid MCPs).