CoG 2026
The 2026 CoG StarCraft AI Competition was held in August 2026 and was organised and run by David Churchill at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Bots played StarCraft: Brood War 1.16.1 with fog of war. In the round-robin phase each bot played each other bot on each of the 6 maps for one week, 14,425 games in total. Bots were ranked by the number of other bots they beat more than half the time, and the top two played a best-of-7 final.
Final
Pluto beat PurpleWave 4-1 and became the 2026 CoG champion.
Round robin (all 10 bots)
| Rank | Bot | Race | Games | Wins | Losses | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pluto | Random | 2,884 | 2,844 | 40 | 98.61% |
| 2 | Stardust | Protoss | 2,884 | 2,237 | 647 | 77.57% |
| 3 | BananaBrain | Protoss | 2,889 | 2,135 | 754 | 73.9% |
| 4 | PurpleWave | Protoss | 2,883 | 2,037 | 846 | 70.66% |
| 5 | Microwave | Zerg | 2,884 | 1,318 | 1,566 | 45.7% |
| 6 | McRave | Zerg | 2,889 | 1,313 | 1,576 | 45.45% |
| 7 | Steamhammer | Random | 2,883 | 1,025 | 1,858 | 35.55% |
| 8 | UAlbertaBot | Random | 2,882 | 904 | 1,978 | 31.37% |
| 9 | Venator | Protoss | 2,883 | 483 | 2,400 | 16.75% |
| 10 | InfestedArtosis | Zerg | 2,889 | 129 | 2,760 | 4.47% |
PurpleWave reached the final although Stardust and BananaBrain had higher win rates, because bots were ranked by the number of bots beaten.