• Who can participate: Students and community members; teams of 1–4.

• Original work: Your final submission must be created during the competition window. You may use open-source libraries, baseline code, and workshop starters with attribution.

• Compute fairness: Pretrained weights allowed only if trained by your team during the event; public pretrained checkpoints that directly solve the task are not allowed.

• Data/Envs: Use the provided or standard public environments (e.g., Gymnasium/Retro, CarRacing-v2, Snake env). Custom reward shaping is allowed—document it.

• Collab & AI tools: You may use AI assistants for coding; you’re responsible for correctness and licenses. Cite significant code inspirations.

• Code of Conduct: Be respectful, inclusive, and honest. Harassment, plagiarism, and model tampering are prohibited. Organizers may disqualify submissions that violate rules or spirit of fair play.

• IP & Media: You own your code; by submitting, you grant AIC permission to showcase your demo (video/GIF) for non-commercial recap and promotion.

• Judging: See rubric below. Organizers’ decisions are final.

Judging Rubric (100 pts)

• Performance & Reliability (40): task completion, score, stability across seeds

• Technical Approach (25): sound algorithm choices, innovations, reward design

• Reproducibility (20): clean notebook, clear steps, pinned versions

• Clarity & Insight (15): README + video explain what worked/failed and why