MARITIME CAPTURE THE FLAG

The Maritime Capture the Flag (MCTF) Competition addresses the problem of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for playing a multi-player Capture-the-Flag game within a real-time simulation of a maritime gaming environment. Participants are invited to submit software code in Python for three agents that can play the game as a team against an opponent team, while maximizing their team's score. Example code for training agents to play MCTF using the RLlib MARL library and for testing trained agent policies against baseline opponent strategies are included in the provided code repository.

Simulation
Now – Apr 26, 2026
Hardware
Apr 27 – May 8, 2026
AAMAS
May 25 – May 29, 2026

Leaderboard

🏆 Simulated Round Robin 🏆

  • 1 Fatin Ishrak Rakin
    C: 270 G: 372 X: 2280
  • 2 Sai Krishna Reddy Mareddy
    C: 260 G: 378 X: 2095
  • 3 柳 相
    C: 245 G: 460 X: 1230
  • 4 mike tran
    C: 225 G: 319 X: 1219
  • 5 Pranav Kedia
    C: 221 G: 366 X: 2326
  • 6 John Morriss
    C: 215 G: 335 X: 1686
  • 7 Liam McKane
    C: 191 G: 441 X: 1571
  • 8 Kylie Cooper
    C: 153 G: 284 X: 1037
  • 9 Magnus Amann
    C: 43 G: 258 X: 1496
  • 10 Al Faysal
    C: 0 G: 25 X: 1030
  • 11 Amatak Yvi
    C: 0 G: 19 X: 1124
  • 12 Rishal Jagtap
    C: 0 G: 3 X: 801
  • 13 Giancarlo Espiell Jaramillo
    C: 0 G: 0 X: 1092

🏆 Hardware Round Robin 🏆

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GETTING STARTED

Software Installation

Learn how to install, setup and run the test scripts in the pyquaticus environment.

Training Agents

Learn how to train your first agent team using ray[rllib].

Rules and Eligibility

By submitting an agent team to the competition you agree to the rules and have checked to make sure you are eligible to participate in the competition.

Competition History

Competition history and past entry approaches.

Submission Formatting

Learn how to format and submit your submission.

Join the Slack

Join other competitors, discuss approaches and request changes to pyquaticus.

ORGANIZATIONS

US Naval Research Laboratory

Is a scientific and engineering command dedicated to research that drives innovative advances for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps

MIT-LL

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researches and develops advanced technologies to meet critical national security needs. What sets us apart from many national R&D laboratories is an emphasis on building operational prototypes of the systems we design.

US Military Academy

To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.

MCTF PREVIOUS WINNERS

MCTF 2024

Simon Lucas

Simon Lucas

Queen Mary University of London

MCTF 2025

Timothy Flavin

Timothy Flavin

University of Tulsa

2026 Winner

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