# The Dota 2 Bot Competition

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02943 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.02943/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 27 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Mar 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [MOBA: a New Arena for Game AI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.10443/) (2017)
- [Game Data Mining Competition on Churn Prediction and Survival Analysis using Commercial Game Log Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.02301/) (2018)
- [AI Researchers, Video Games Are Your Friends!](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.01608/) (2016)
- [On the Development of Intelligent Agents for MOBA Games](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.02789/) (2017)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Reliable validation of Reinforcement Learning Benchmarks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.01075/) (2022)
- [Deep Q-Network for AI Soccer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.09491/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Multiplayer Online Battle Area (MOBA) games are a recent huge success both in the video game industry and the international eSports scene. These games encourage team coordination and cooperation, short and long-term planning, within a real-time combined action and strategy gameplay. Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence in Games research competitions offer a wide variety of challenges regarding the study and application of AI techniques to different game genres. These events are widely accepted by the AI/CI community as a sort of AI benchmarking that strongly influences many other research areas in the field. This paper presents and describes in detail the Dota 2 Bot competition and the Dota 2 AI framework that supports it. This challenge aims to join both, MOBAs and AI/CI game competitions, inviting participants to submit AI controllers for the successful MOBA textitDefense of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2) to play in 1v1 matches, which aims for fostering research on AI techniques for real-time games. The Dota 2 AI framework makes use of the actual Dota 2 game modding capabilities to enable to connect external AI controllers to actual Dota 2 game matches using the original Free-to-Play game.se of the actual Dota 2 game modding capabilities to enable to connect external AI controllers to actual Dota 2 game matches using the original Free-to-Play game.