AWS and Riot Games name winner of Valorant Champions Tour Hackathon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Riot Games revealed at its AWS re:Invent conference the winners of this year’s Valorant Champions Tour Hackathon. This year, the hackathon was the Esports Manager Challenge, where participants use AWS’s generative AI and Riot’s extensive suite of esports data to build tools for esports managers to scout talent and build new strategies. According to AWS, 3,200 people participated in the challenge, with the winning teams splitting a prize pool worth $61,000.

The winners were Adrian Tan and Christina Chin, with their VCT Team Builder application. This tool uses a digital assistant with a chat interface that offers, among other things, customizable team suggestions based on player attributes and stats. The tool uses LLMs and machine learning via Amazon Bedrock to create its suggestions based on available data about players and teams, and includes “agent-specific team aggression ratings, player performance and map positional analytics.”