AWS DeepRacer 2022 Championships: Top 8 predictions and finalists determination

The brave thirty two souls have arrived by the AWS DeepRacer track at the Sands Expo to determine their fate in the AWS DeepRacer 2022 Championships. Have a look at what predictions were made for the outcomes and how it really materialised.

AWS DeepRacer

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Format

Tuesday was the day where top 32 racers from Monday (see Monday summary) competed in round two. Each racer had a 3 minute slot to get the best time they could get their best time and the top 3 made it into round three. The order was determined by their Monday times.

Round three was a double elimination bracket where racers had two runs each. The order of the first run was determined by the result in round two, the second run was started by the slower racer in run one. If their run was still slower than their opponents, the third run was skipped since it would not change the result.

In double elimination bracket there are two winner brackets and one last chance bracket. Those who get eliminated from the winner brackets join the last chance bracket. The three winners from the brackets go on to the final to be revealed on Wednesday morning, before Swami Sivasubramanian’s Keynote.

Predictions

I have run surveys among the finalists and the AWS crew so that they could share who they thought would make it through to top 8 of the competition.

Here are the results:

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AWS DeepRacer 2022 top 8 predictions, finalists responses on the left, Pit Crew responses on the right

Clearly, many hopes have been put on DBro’s shoulders. There were more racers on that list, including JJ, NYCU racers, Duckworth, rosscomp1, Karl-NAB and PolishThunder.

Round two

You can watch round two stream on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1665903405

Here are results from the round two:

Round three

You can watch round three stream on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/awsdeepracer

Here are the results from round three:

And here’s a tabular view of their results:

There was so much energy and enthusiasm around the track. Joy and relief was mixing with disappointment and frustration. It was a wonderful race.

Congratulations to all the racers! Be sure to return to the blog for a summary of the final and to learn who has become the new AWS DeepRacer Champion!