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SUMMARY:Agentic World Cup Boston: Build AI Agents That Play Soccer
DESCRIPTION:We propose a half-day Agentic Football Cup hackathon during B
 oston AI Week 2026 — a proven\, globally-run AWS workshop (100+ events\, 
 rated 4.8/5) where participants build a squad of five autonomous AI agent
 s using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands Agents SDK\, then compet
 e in live 5v5 AI football matches on a real-time leaderboard. Participant
 s write the strategy\; their agents play the match. Five autonomous AI ag
 ents per team make decisions every two seconds — passing\, shooting\, pre
 ssing\, and defending — with no human input once the whistle blows. This 
 isn't a demo you watch\; it's a working system you build and deploy in an
  afternoon.\n\nEvery 2 seconds\, the game server emits a decision point a
 nd calls all 10 agents in parallel with the full game state. Each agent h
 as 1 second to return one of eleven structured commands:\n```\nMOVE_TO | 
 PASS | SHOOT | DRIBBLE | PRESS_BALL | MARK | INTERCEPT | TACKLE | CLEAR |
  IDLE | (GK actions)\n```\nMiss the deadline → your player IDLEs for that
  tick. The match doesn't pause. This hard latency contract mirrors real p
 roduction agentic workloads. The thing participants tune is almost never 
 the code — it's the prompt and the model choice:\n-   System prompt encod
 es team tactics ("press high\, favor through-balls\, shoot from distance"
 )\n-   Model selection balances reasoning depth vs. latency budget\n-   S
 tructured output schema bounds the action space\n\nTeams of 2–4 (form on-
 site or pre-register)    \n-   No AI/ML experience needed — the workshop 
 is designed for developers of all levels\n-   Non-technical teammates wel
 come (naming the squad\, picking formation\, trash talk)\n\nEvery team th
 at completes the workshop qualifies for the Agentic Football Cup global l
 eague. Group winners fly to Las Vegas to compete live on stage at AWS re:
 Invent. This Boston AI Week event is their qualifying round. This creates
  a unique draw: participants aren't just attending a workshop — they're e
 ntering a global competition with a trip to Vegas on the line.
LOCATION:Amazon BOS17 office building.\, 27 Melcher St\, Boston\, MA 0221
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URL:https://aiweek.boston/schedule/agentic-world-cup-boston-build-ai-agen
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