Toward an Intelligent HS Deck Advisor: Lessons Learned from AAIA’ 18 Data Mining Competition

We summarize AAIA'18 Data Mining Competition organized at the Knowledge Pit platform. We explain the competition's scope and outline its results. We also review several approaches to the problem of representing Hearthstone decks in a vector space. We divide such approaches into categories based on a type of the data about individual cards that they use. Finally, we outline experiments aiming to evaluate usefulness of various deck representations for the task of win-rates prediction.