Bovard Doerschuk-Tiberi

This technical report introduces Kaggle Game Arena, an open head-to-head evaluation platform in which ten frontier models play large-scale round-robin matches in Chess, Poker and Werewolf through a uniform text harness (900,000 poker hands, 180,000 per model), ranking them by objective outcomes such as wins, chip counts and role-level decomposition rather than subjective judgment, and reports sharp within-game stratification alongside rankings that do not agree across games.

This technical report introduces Kaggle Game Arena, an open head-to-head evaluation platform in which ten frontier models play large-scale round-robin matches in Chess, Poker and Werewolf through a uniform text harness (900,000 poker hands, 180,000 per model), ranking them by objective outcomes such as wins, chip counts and role-level decomposition rather than subjective judgment, and reports sharp within-game stratification alongside rankings that do not agree across games.