Introducing Contests and Tournaments

AWS Card Clash, the free mobile-first Architecture Design Game, just got a major upgrade. New Contests and Tournaments give
 your organization powerful ways to bring learners together around shared AWS architecture challenges, visible progress, and live competition.

Turn individual practice into a shared team experience. Try
 AWS Card Clash now.

Contests - Shared Practice with a Meaningful Leaderboard

A time-boxed, AI-based challenge where every participant completes the same architecture scenarios during an event window.

Give a cohort a common challenge without requiring everyone to play at
 the same time

Learners can replay and improve their results after completing the assigned
 set

Leaderboard tracks each learner's best attempt per architecture, focused on quality over volume

Perfect for distributed teams, training cohorts, and multi-day events

Tournaments - Direct Competition for Live Moments

Player-versus-player bracket matches that create live competitive moments your community can rally around.

Flexible formats - Swiss rounds into elimination, Swiss-only,
 or elimination-only

Watch party ready - observer view hides both players' hands
 for shared viewing of semifinals and finals

Arcade Mode - bring Tournament play to dedicated event stations
 for in-person experiences

Ideal for conferences, GameDays, team offsites, and community events

Use Them Together
Run a Contest for your distributed team, then use the leaderboard to seed an elimination Tournament. The result is a progression from individual practice, to shared comparison, to live competition.

How Your Teams Can Use This

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Training Reinforcement

Run a Contest after a training event to reinforce architecture concepts through gamified practice.

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Conferences and Events

Keep attendees engaged with live Tournaments, Arcade Mode stations, and watch parties.

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Team Building

Create friendly competition across departments while building AWS architecture knowledge.

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Community Engagement

Use Contests to drive ongoing engagement in learning communities and user groups.

At a Glance

Capability

Contests

Tournaments

Format

Time-boxed, AI-based challenge

Player-versus-player bracket matches

Pacing

Asynchronous - play anytime in the window

Live - real-time head-to-head

Scoring

Best attempt per architecture on leaderboard

Win/advance through bracket rounds

Best For

Distributed teams, training follow-up

Live events, conferences, watch parties

Access

Free - AWS Skill Builder account

Free - AWS Skill Builder account

AWS Card Clash is free -
 available on iOS, Android, and web. Participants join with an AWS Skill Builder account.

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•	Training Reinforcement Run a Contest after a training event to reinforce architecture concepts through gamified practice.
•	Conferences and Events Keep attendees engaged with live Tournaments, Arcade Mode stations, and watch parties.
•	Team Building Create friendly competition across departments while building AWS architecture knowledge.
•	Community Engagement Use Contests to drive ongoing engagement in learning communities and user groups.

Capability	Contests	Tournaments
Format	Time-boxed, AI-based challenge	Player-versus-player bracket matches
Pacing	Asynchronous - play anytime in the window	Live - real-time head-to-head
Scoring	Best attempt per architecture on leaderboard	Win/advance through bracket rounds
Best For	Distributed teams, training follow-up	Live events, conferences, watch parties
Access	Free - AWS Skill Builder account	Free - AWS Skill Builder account