First Tournament Kickoff: Monday, July 21
👉 Check out the announcement here:
Prize Pool:🥇 over $1000 worth of prizes thanks to the support of NVIDIA with Brev!
🏆 Bonus Prizes – Brev Cloud Credits from NVIDIA:
🥇 1st Place: €150 in cash + $500 in credits
🥈 2nd Place: $250 in credits
🥉 3rd Place: $100 in credits
🖥️ What is NVIDIA Brev? 
Brev gives you instant access to GPU-powered cloud workspaces (A100s, H100s, 1TB RAM...) with zero DevOps. It’s perfect for robotics, AI training, sim2real pipelines, and tools you can run straight from your browser.
🔧 Key Features:
→ Pre-configured GPU sandboxes
→ Ready-to-launch “Launchables” (notebooks, repos, apps)
→ Built-in support for Jupyter, CUDA, Python, and GitHub
→ Just build and go →
- Supporters: NVIDIA Madison Huang, Michael "Gus" Gussert, Eric "Strainflow" Bowman, Scott "Sirens" Dempsey, Edmar Mendizabal, Robert (Rob) Murrer
- You can support me here:
📤 How to Participate:
- Join the LycheeAI Discord Server → https://discord.gg/CqV7NFHGb5
- Go to the "tournament-role" channel
- Press the 🏆 emoji and receive your role as a Challenger
- Go to the "tournament-submissions" channel
- Post a public or unlisted YouTube video (max. 60 seconds)
- Add brief text description of your project
- Up-vote projects by hitting the ⬆️ emoji (once voting has been opened)
🏆 Judging Criteria (Community Upvotes on Discord)
Votes will be cast by the LycheeAI Discord community based on the following:
- Robot Design – 3D model and overall mechanical structure
- Technical Features – originality of driving mechanism (e.g. teleop, self-driving)
- Visual Presentation – video quality and overall USD stage design
