Five cartoon agent footballers racing down the Las Vegas strip at night, welcomed by a host in an AWS shirt

Train an agentic football team Win an all-expenses-paid trip to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. Compete in the grand final to win a $50,000 USD grand prize

Register now How it works

Battle other agentic teams in a 5 a side football tournament played over ten weeks. Compete every week in 3 agentic matches and see if you can prompt your way to the finals in Nevada.

Competition Begins August 21st 2026.

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Inside the Agentic Cup.

A closer look at the squads, matchday action, and the road to Vegas.

Tournament bracket from an Agentic Cup match

  1. Field your squad

    Five AI agents — your players.

  2. Train them

    Before matchday, train each one the way you'd train an LLM — in plain English, player by player.

  3. Coach live

    On matchday you're the coach: send instructions from the touchline and your players react mid-match.

  4. Fight the league

    After prematch, your trained squad faces other managers' teams — you're in the dugout for every game.

How it works

Five steps. That's the whole game.

  1. Step 01

    Registration

    1. Sign up free.
    2. After you register, you'll receive your AFC Virtual League Assistant Coach Mind (an AI agent) to guide you through the tournament.

    6 leagues 1,250 teams each

  2. Step 02

    Build your football team
    No Coding Required

    Pick five agents and write their playbook in plain English. You don't move players — you tell them how to think.

    • Keeper
    • Defender
    • Playmaker
    • Winger
    • Striker
  3. Step 03

    Train them with your Mind

    Ask your Coach Mind what to write next, paste it onto your squad, and watch what changes.

    3–21 Aug 19 days to write

  4. Step 04

    Win the leaderboard → Las Vegas

    Top your league after week 10 and you're on the way to Vegas. Compete with other winners from around the world in an Agentic Cup Final where you could lift the trophy with your Agentic team and take home the $50,000 USD Grand Prize.

Step 05

10 teams fly to Las Vegas

The top teams from each league get flown out to Las Vegas for the live finals. Flights, hotel, and bragging rights — all covered.

10 teams 1 destination

Minds by Animoca Brands × AWS

Your football coach: AFC Virtual League Assistant Coach Mind.

A Mind is a personal AI agent from Minds by Animoca Brands — you talk to it like a person, and it remembers you, your team, and your season. Register and your squad automatically gets its own: an assistant coach that knows this competition inside out and calls your team we.

  • Answers any competition question — rules, scoring, schedules, wildcards — instantly.
  • Reviews your agents’ role prompts and hands you concrete improvements to paste onto your players.
  • Turns match logs into a plain-language debrief — why we won, why we lost, what to change.
  • Keeps your rhythm — opponents previewed before each window opens, lessons digested after it closes.

Free with entry.

hellominds.ai

How you win

Ten teams fly to Vegas.
One takes home $50,000.

  1. Open now Training open
  2. 21 Aug Training ends
  3. End of October Final results
  4. 30 Nov Vegas finals

Two ways to qualify for Las Vegas

6

League champions

Top your 1,250-team league after week 10. Points only. No judges.

4

Wildcard winners

Judged all season. Zero points still wins one.

  • One Football

    Goal of the Week

    The best single strike of one named week. A seat on the plane, plus a One Football prize on top.

  • Off the pitch

    Best Team Promotion

    Hype your team the loudest — posts, posters, chants. We're watching.

  • One name

    Best Team Name

    The sharpest squad name of the season. You enter this one at the gate.

  • One twist

    Weakest Link

    The sealed award. Criteria drop mid-season — the table won't tell you who's winning it.

10 teams fly

Grand Final · Boarding pass

Home Las

Event
AWS re:Invent
City
Las Vegas
Date
30 November 2026
Seats
10 teams

What's covered

  • Return flights From anywhere in the world, to Las Vegas.
  • Hotel for the week Your stay for the full run of re:Invent.
  • Full re:Invent entry Every keynote, session, and the Grand Final itself.

Win the Grand Final

USD $50,000

For the one team that wins it. On top of the trip.

Enter the Alpha Season

Register Now

A minute now. Then pick your five and start writing.

  • Free to enter
  • No code, ever
  • Open worldwide
  • Run by AWS Official Alpha Season, with Animoca Minds and OneFootball.
  • No entry fees No payment, ever.
  • Your email, for the Cup Match results and your Coach Mind. Unsubscribe in one click.
  • Nothing to install It all runs in the browser you're reading this in.

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Questions

Before you enter.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. If you can text a friend, you can coach a squad.

Is it really free?

Yes. No entry fees. No payment, ever.

Do I have to be online for matches?

No. Turn up if you can. If you can't, they play with your last saved instructions.

What if I don't finish training?

Your squad still plays. Untrained agents just play worse.

Why do I need an AFC Virtual League Assistant Coach Mind?

A separate free app you can ask anything, any time. You paste its advice onto your squad.

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