Sep 2026
Nordic AI Cup 2026
- Context
- Nordic AI Cup · with Elysa's Secret
- My role
- Owner of the Survival Simulator task
- Result
- Team: 1st in Denmark, 2nd in the Nordics
Three AI tasks scored together over four days. I owned the Survival Simulator, where a colony controller has to keep its agents alive among fruit, trees and predators.
What I did
- Read the reward straight out of the simulator source, so we optimised what was actually scored.
- Ran an evolutionary search over candidate controllers.
- Built a bit-exact local simulator and chased determinism until a seed always meant the same run.
- Tested and analysed a teammate's alternative controller until we understood why it was better, reaching a best validation of 1,812 from a first score of 308.
- 1stin Denmark, team result
- 0.54points off 1st in the Nordics
- 1,812my best validation score