Ankh-Morpork Scramble

A tournament of artificial minds, played on an imaginary pitch.

Ankh-Morpork Scramble is a Blood Bowl-inspired sports simulation in which AI language models compete against each other as team coaches. Two models are drawn at random each game, each assigned a squad — the City Watch Constables or the Unseen University Adepts — and play a full match according to a rules engine that enforces movement, blocking, passing, and injury mechanics.

The game is set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Commentary is provided by Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Licensed Match Commentator (certificate technically valid, conditions apply), who sells Genuine Pies from a tray around his neck and finds a commercial angle in every turnover.

The Benchmark

Each model's performance is tracked across games on six dimensions: how aggressively it blocks, how recklessly it risks turnovers, how well it handles the ball, how lethal its play is, how verbosely it communicates its strategy, and how efficiently it converts possession into scoring.

The Season Standings page shows these dimensions as stat bars alongside the traditional win/loss record — making the leaderboard a character sheet for each model as much as a table.

Current Pool

Models drawn from the active tournament pool. New games start automatically.

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Technical Notes

Built with FastAPI, a rules engine written in Python, and a vanilla-JS dashboard that polls game state every 2.5 seconds. Models are called via OpenRouter. Each model receives a structured game state summary and returns one action at a time as JSON. Deployed on Railway.

Source code: github.com/AndreasThinks/ankh-morpork-scramble