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- A season of racing has come down to this.
Welcome to the 2022 AWS DeepRacer Championship Race.
My name's Ryan Myrehn.
- I'm Dani Traphagen.
- And joining us down trackside is Blaine Sundrud.
- We are so excited to be here trackside.
We can't wait to see what happens.
Ryan, let's do this.
- Let's do it indeed. Can't wait to get started.
Our final three developers, Dani,
after over 150,000 took part in the league in 2022,
down to our final three
and it is a clean sweep of the top three
for the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Institute in Taiwan.
Three students from that NYCU program
will be racing for the championship.
The first car is on the track and ready to go.
Dani, just moments away from getting started, our first run
and the race format, it's a simple one.
You've got one lap to get the job done.
- That's right. This is truly impressive stuff.
I'm excited to see how it shakes out, Ryan.
- This is AWS DeepRacer,
the world's first global autonomous racing league.
These cars have been trained
to drive themselves autonomously around this track.
We've seen extremely intense competition
over the last two days to get ourselves down
from what started as a field of 50
to our top three competitors,
and we're about to see who will leave
with the DeepRacer Cup and the $10,000 grand prize.
- All I know is it's gonna be a close call.
We've seen incredible performance today,
so who knows who's gonna take it.
- These three students know each other well.
They've been training their models together
over the past several months.
It will be ZhengYi-NYCU-CGI,
the first to take to the track.
His one lap will get underway here shortly.
This is the track record holder
on this 2022 re:Invent circuit.
And the moment we've been waiting for, the run is on.
One lap to turn the best possible lap.
This is the track record holder, ZhengYi,
and what a great start to the lap it's been, Dani.
Coming around, just a couple of corners to go.
What a debut in the championships for ZhengYi.
13.826, just fractions away from the world record.
- And the world record is 13.7. This is so close.
- And that now puts the onus on his two teammates.
Now ZhengYi is the only one of these developers
to suffer defeat through the tournament to this point.
He came through the last chance bracket.
His two teammates undefeated to this point,
but ZhengYi with a 13.826.
That's going to be a very difficult mark to break.
- [Dani] Yeah, the dedication clearly paid off in this case.
- So much dedication on the part of NYCUCGI,
the Computer Gaming Institute
from that great university in Taiwan.
This group took this so seriously
that they printed for themselves a full track
just like the one they're racing on
in order to train for this moment, and it paid off
with three racers making it through here to this stage.
Yoway set to go second.
Can he beat the time that was set a few moments ago?
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Clean start through the first sequence of corners.
Oh, but it goes off track! - No!
- That effectively dooms the run. It's a one-lap sprint.
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The time is just 18.2 seconds
and that means it's still ZhengYi's championship to lose.
- That's right.
There'll be another opportunity here in a few moments.
- We will soon see the third of our three finalists
to make it to this stage.
It will be ILI-NYCU-CGI set to go here.
Again, these three teammates
from the NYCU-CGI team.
They've been putting hours and hours of training in
on these reinforcement learning models for this moment.
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- Another clean start.
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- It's a strong run.
Is it gonna be good enough coming to the line?
Let's check the time. 13.756!
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- We have raced 160,000 developers all around the world.
This competition in 2022 has covered all of the world.
We've gone all around, come down to the best 50 racers,
and here, today, now we've got our winner.
We can't wait to hand out the trophies.
Let's go ahead and go on stage and hand out some hardware.
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- Thank you so much, Blaine.
What a fantastic way to wrap up
the 2022 DeepRacer League season.
All that we have left to do now is to hand out some hardware
and here to help with that task is Bratin Saha,
the vice president at AWS of AI and machine learning.
Without further ado, let's go ahead and welcome out
our top three starting with third place,
Yoway-NYCU-CGI.
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Yoway with a great performance in the tournament this year,
with that time of 18.240 in the finals,
he'll be taking home the championship trophy for third place
as well as $2,000.
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Finishing runner up in the league in 2022,
please welcome to the stage ZhengYi-NYCU-CGI.
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A lap time in the finals of 13.826,
ZhengYi takes home the second place trophy and $5,000.
And now the moment we've all been waiting,
for your 2022 DeepRacer League champion,
please welcome to the stage ILI-NYCU-CGI,
who clinched the championship with a new world record
of 13.756 seconds.
Let's hear it for our top three, ladies and gentlemen.
150,000 developers took part. These are the top three.
Third place Yoway-NYCU-CGI,
Second place ZhengYi-NYCU-CGI,
and your champion ILI-NYCU-CGI.
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Well, that is a wrap on the 2022 DeepRacer League season,
but the 2023 season is just around the corner.
Check out deepracerleague.com for more information.
Thank you.
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