Hackathon Challenge by AWS and Riot Games for League of Legends [Prizes Worth ₹40 Lakhs]: Submit by Oct 23

Join this exciting opportunity by Amazon Web Services and Riot Games to create a novel global power ranking system for League of Legends, Riot Game’s flagship game. Checkout the details of this amazing opportunity below!

Riot Games is an American video game developer and publisher based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, Riot Games is best known for its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game League of Legends (LoL). LoL is the most popular PC game in the world, with over 150 million active players. The game has been praised for its gameplay, graphics, and esports scene. Riot Games has also released several other games, including Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Valorant. Riot Games is known for its commitment to player experience. The company has a team of game designers and developers who are constantly working to improve the game. Riot Games also hosts several esports tournaments for LoL, which have a combined prize pool of over $100 million. Riot Games is also committed to improving the player experience and supporting the esports scene.

The hackathon challenge by Amazon Web Services and Riot Games is to create a novel global power ranking system for League of Legends, Riot Game’s flagship game. League of Legends is a multiplayer online battle arena game by Riot Games where two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat. Since its release in 2009, League of Legends has become one of the world’s largest esports. Riot Games operates 9 regional leagues internationally with those regions having their own official ranking systems. This opportunity is to use official League of Legends Esports data to create a method for ranking LoL Esports pro teams globally. Will your method be able to predict the next world champion?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the tools to do just that. From Machine Learning to Databases, Analytics, and more, AWS has a number of services that can help you build the best method for LoL Esports Global Power Rankings whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or machine learning enthusiast. Will your method be able to predict the next world champion!

What to build
Build a working method (API, notebook, working web application) for a League of Legends Global Power Ranking system using the esports data provided by Riot Games and at least one AWS service. The working method must provide the following outputs:

1st Prize

2nd Prize

3rd Prize

Interested candidates can apply online via this link.