Challenge PokéChamp on Pokémon Showdown

During NeurIPS on Dec 11th through December 15th, we will be hosting an online challenge to try to beat PokéChamp in a battle. There will be rotating methods available in the paper to challenge. A live demo will be also be available at the Language Gamification workshop on Saturday.

Follow these steps to challenge user NeurIPS2024 using the sample team:

1. Access Pokémon Showdown

   • Open your web browser and go to https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/

   

2. Set Up Your Account

   • Click "Choose name" in the top right corner
   • Select an available username of your choice

   

3. Import the Sample Team

   • Click "Teambuilder"
   • Select "Import from text or URL"
   • Copy and paste the contents of sample_team.txt into the text box
   • Choose "OU" as the format and click "Validate"

   

4. Initiate the Challenge

   • Return to the home screen
   • Click "Find a user"
   • Enter "NeurIPS2024" in the search box
   • Select "[Gen9] OU" as the format
   • Click "Challenge" to start the battle

   

Good luck with your Pokémon battle!

We will be doing a full code release at a later date post NeurIPS.

If you found this project interesting or helpful, please cite as:

@inproceedings{
karten2024pokechamp,
title={PokeChamp: an Expert-level Minimax Language Agent for Competitive Pokemon},
author={Seth Karten and Andy Luu Nguyen and Chi Jin},
booktitle={Language Gamification - NeurIPS 2024 Workshop},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=jWodMf0OvO}
}