## Introduction
The night is dark and full of terrors. Two teams must fight off the darkness, collect resources, and advance through the ages. Daytime finds a desperate rush to gather the resources that can carry you through the impending night whilst growing your city. Plan and expand carefully -- any city that fails to produce enough light will be consumed by darkness.
 
**Welcome to the Lux AI Challenge Season 1!**

<img src="https://github.com/Lux-AI-Challenge/Lux-Design-2021/raw/master/assets/daynightshift.gif" width="50%" />

The Lux AI Challenge is a competition where competitors design agents to tackle a multi-variable optimization, resource gathering, and allocation problem in a 1v1 scenario against other competitors. In addition to optimization, successful agents must be capable of analyzing their opponents and developing appropriate policies to get the upper hand.
 
All code can be found at our [Github](https://github.com/Lux-AI-Challenge/Lux-Design-2021), make sure to give it a star while you are there!
 
Make sure to join our community [discord](https://discord.gg/aWJt3UAcgn) to chat, strategize, and learn with other competitors! We will be posting announcements on the Kaggle Forums and on the discord.
 
## Sponsors
We would like to thank our 3 sponsors, [QuantCo](https://quantco.com/), [J Ventures](http://thejiangmen.com), and [QAImera](https://qaimera.com) this year for allowing us to provide a prize pool and exciting opportunities to our competitors!  For more information on them, go to the [sponsors tab](https://www.kaggle.com/c/lux-ai-2021/overview/sponsors)