About this event
Rift Rewind Hackathon: Powered by AWS and Riot Games 🎮🤖
Theme: Build an AI-powered personalized agent for League of Legends players
🌟 About the Challenge
Step into the role of an AI solutions developer to create an intelligent coaching agent for League of Legends players. Using the League API’s end-of-game match history data, your mission is to empower players to reflect, learn, and celebrate through personalized, actionable, and shareable insights powered by AWS Generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker.
Build features like performance visualizations, playstyle trend analyses, engaging year-end summaries, social comparisons, and more—going beyond existing community tools with fresh generative AI-powered experiences.
🛠️ What to Build
- AI-powered agent that uses League Developer AI end-of-game data
- Visualize persistent player strengths and weaknesses
- Generate shareable highlights and retrospectives
- Enable social comparisons and interactive player insights
- Use AWS AI services creatively to deliver meaningful coaching tools
📝 Submission Requirements
- Public URL to your fully functioning application
- Public, open-source code repository with MIT or Apache 2.0 license
- A demo video (~3 minutes) showing your application in use (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook)
- Methodology write-up describing your approach, insights, challenges, and AWS AI tools used
- Optional AWS tagging key: rift-rewind-hackathon value: 2025)
🏆 Prizes
- 1st Place: $10,000 USD + $10,000 AWS credits + 4 tickets to League of Legends World Finals 2026 + virtual meeting with AWS and Riot leads + AWS blog feature
- 2nd Place: $7,000 USD + $7,000 AWS credits + virtual meeting + AWS blog feature
- 3rd Place: $5,000 USD + $5,000 AWS credits + virtual meeting + AWS blog feature
- Special awards such as Model Whisperer, Roast Master 3000, Hidden Gem Detector, and Chaos Engineering prizes ($1,000 USD + $2,000 AWS credits each)
👩⚖️ Judging Criteria
- Insight Quality: Relevance, clarity, and usefulness of player takeaways
- Technical Execution: Stability, structure, and quality of the build
- Creativity & UX: Polished, engaging, and user-friendly experience
- AWS Integration: Innovative use of AWS AI and generative models
- Uniqueness & Vibes: Fresh, memorable player experiences beyond typical tools
Join Rift Rewind to revolutionize how League of Legends players engage with their game data using generative AI and AWS—build smarter, fun, and insightful coaching experiences!