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Creator Cup

Whoever tops the standings on July 31 wins $100. A new cup starts every month.

How the score works

Three things feed your score: the thumbnails you enter during the month, how strongly those entries rate against everyone else's, and how much you vote. They multiply rather than add. A pile of votes with nothing uploaded goes nowhere, and so does one great thumbnail from someone who never votes. Entries that rate well count for the most.

We don't publish the exact formula. Partly so the competition stays about making good thumbnails instead of optimizing a number, and partly because we adjust it when someone finds an angle. If the standings look close, the honest strategy is simple: upload your best work and keep voting.

Standings · July

  1. 1Bryan Oleary$10013K pts

Want in?

Sign in, upload thumbnails you made (or that ran on your own videos), and vote in the arena. That's the whole entry process. The fine print, including the originality rule and what gets you disqualified, lives on the terms page.