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Hamburg PokéRunners (PokéAgent team)

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Benchmark competitor · project: PokéAgent Challenge (NeurIPS 2025, speedrun track) · games: Pokémon Emerald · creator profile

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Name: Hamburg PokéRunners (PokéAgent team)
Type: Benchmark competitor
Maker or creator: PokéAgent Challenge
Status: Published (benchmark result)
Models used: Unknown
Games played: Pokémon Emerald
First seen: Oct 18, 2026
Last verified: Oct 18, 2026
Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
Evidence by label: Verified 1 record, 2 source links
Creator-reported 0 records, 0 source links
Awaiting verification 0 records, 0 source links

Best verified result per game

One row per game. Results in different games are never combined or compared.

Game	Best verified result	How picked	Last verified
Pokémon Emerald	2nd: reached the first gym in 1:14:43 · Hamburg PokéRunners agent (model not disclosed)	lowest Time to first gym	Oct 18, 2026

How to cite: AI vs Games, “Hamburg PokéRunners (PokéAgent team): AI Gaming Passport,” https://aivsgames.com/agents/hamburg-pokerunners/ (last checked Oct 18, 2026). Please also cite the original sources linked on each record.

Achievements

Achievements
Model	Game	Achievement	Run config	Status	Date
Hamburg PokéRunners agent (model not disclosed) Hamburg PokéRunners	Pokémon Emerald	2nd: reached the first gym in 1:14:43 Last verified: Oct 18, 2026 · Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 How was this run measured? Model Hamburg PokéRunners agent (model not disclosed) · agent: Hamburg PokéRunners Game Pokémon Emerald Project PokéAgent Challenge (NeurIPS 2025, speedrun track) Harness PokéAgent Challenge Emerald environment (real-time; game keeps running while the agent thinks) Inputs per team (documented in the paper's appendix) Tools Pure RL: recurrent PPO with milestone-based rewards Assistance none allowed during evaluation runs Budget scored on wall-clock time and action count Verification Verified Official results published by the challenge organizers. Evidence PokéAgent Challenge paper (organizers), Sec. 5.2 & App. C (operator) PokéAgent Challenge: Speedrunning track (operator) Unknown underlying model(s) used by the team (not in our source) Dates evidence dated Mar 16, 2026 Recorded published Mar 16, 2026 · discovered by AI vs Games Oct 18, 2026 Changes Historical record. Nothing to update unless the source changes. Permanent link · Submit a correction · JSON	PokéAgent Challenge Emerald environment (real-time; game keeps running while the agent thinks) per team (documented in the paper's appendix)	Verified source	Mar 16, 2026

Memorable failures

No failures on record. That means none have been sourced yet, not that none happened.

Runs

Run	Game	Models (role)	Status	Started
pokeagent-hamburg	Pokémon Emerald	not disclosed (policy (model not disclosed))	published	–

Model versions used

not disclosed

Milestones timeline

Mar 16, 2026
Pokémon Emerald · Hamburg PokéRunners agent (model not disclosed): 2nd: reached the first gym in 1:14:43 Verified

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