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IAAP · Arena · week 46
Photos This Week · MINIMALISM
Every photo in the week is here. Scores and places stay hidden until voting closes - nobody can see what they are voting against.
every photo of the week · 64
IAAP · Arena
Top Voters This Week
The members whose duel votes shaped this week - and what the arena has gathered all time.
all time · votes
9,638
all time · photos
486
all time · authors
173
all time · weeks
16
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vote weight
Weeks
16
Photos
287
Winners
10
week 45 / 2026 · Daily Rituals
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week 44 / 2026 · Light And Shadow
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week 43 / 2026 · Contrast
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week 42 / 2026 · People
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week 41 / 2026 · Trees
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week 40 / 2026 · Lines
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week 39 / 2026 · Seasons
participation only
week 38 / 2026 · Landscape
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week 37 / 2026 · Texture
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week 36 / 2026 · Golden Hour
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week 35 / 2026 · Streets
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week 34 / 2026 · Water
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week 33 / 2026 · Night
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week 32 / 2026 · Home
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week 31 / 2026 · Faces
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week 30 / 2026 · Motion
participation only
Any group enters the week with up to
20
of its members' arena photos. Every point those photos win in the duels counts for the group.
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Association of Photographers Eurasia
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Mobile Photography
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Mobilens Photographers' Circle
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Nude art
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all-time top 100 authors
top voters all time
THE ARENA IN 30 SECONDS
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Every week has a theme. Members place their photos into it.
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Each photo is then shown to other members next to one other photo.
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The voter looks at the two photos and picks the one they prefer. That is a duel.
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A photo meets many photos and many voters. The more duels it wins, the higher it stands.
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At the end of the week the best photos are announced. Voting is free and open to every member, with or without a photo in the theme.
what the arena is
The arena is a weekly photo duel: photographers place photos into a weekly theme, the whole community votes, and results announce themselves.
A duel is a single head-to-head comparison between two photos, where one voter chooses one of the two photos as the preferred one. There is no bracket and no fixed opponent - each photo is shown against many different photos, judged by many different voters.
A photo's score is the sum of the duels it wins, weighted by each voter's authority. Every photo competes against the whole field, one pairing at a time.
the weekly cycle
6 themes are open for submission at once - a rolling runway of upcoming weeks.
Exactly one theme is in its 7-day voting week at any time, so there is always something to vote on.
A new theme launches every week; the oldest submission theme graduates into the voting week.
When the voting week ends, results announce automatically.
getting in
Welcome entry: every member gets one free-entry credit the first time they visit the arena.
Earn by voting: cast 10 duel votes in a calendar month and earn one free-entry credit - capped at one per month.
The monthly pass: 5 EUR / 30 days - play immediately, no vote requirement, with 2 photos included per weekly theme.
Extra slots: a theme's own cap can exceed the pass inclusion - the extra slots unlock at 10 EUR each.
Credits expire 30 days after they are granted. One credit = one photo into any one open theme.
uploading
A theme accepts uploads only while it is open for submission - once its voting week starts, it locks.
Every upload spends a free-entry credit or occupies a pass slot.
Files: jpg / jpeg / png / gif, up to 8 MB. A photo can also be picked from the member gallery.
Withdraw is possible only while the photo has met no opponent (0 wins, 0 losses). Once a vote lands, it is locked in.
voting
Duels are blind - no author name, country or honor is shown until results. It is only about the image.
Pairing is coverage-balanced: the least-seen photos that have not yet been judged (and are not owned) are served first, so every photo gets fair exposure.
Vote weight = 1 + honor + judge × 10, computed from the voter's titles and frozen on the vote.
Each voter can decide up to 100 duels per theme, never the same photo twice and never their own photos.
health & elimination
A win gives the photo the voter's weight in points and +1 win; the other photo takes +1 loss.
A photo is knocked out when it falls 5 net duels behind - the health meter on the card shows exactly how close that is.
A barely-seen photo can not be eliminated - a minimum number of duels must land first.
revival
An eliminated photo can be revived up to 3 times - the first revival costs 1 EUR, each after 2 EUR.
A free games revival credit revives at no cost.
A revived photo keeps all its points and its health meter resets - the margin is measured fresh from there.
results & laurels
Scores and places stay sealed while the week is voting. Every photo in the theme is listed, so the whole field is visible - but nothing that ranks it, so nobody votes against a photo they can see is ahead of theirs.
Standings order: points, then wins, then earliest upload. Eliminated photos are greyed, removed photos struck.
Equal points share a place: two photos on the same score are both 2nd, and the next photo is 4th. Wins and upload time order the list, they never decide the place.
A week needs enough photos and enough duels to be official - below quorum it announces as participation only, with no official winner.
Laurels: #1 winner, #2 runner-up, #3-#10 top 10 - plus the all-time top 100, resynced from cumulative points.
groups arena
A group owner or admin enters the group; up to 20 of its members' arena photos form the group collection.
Every point those photos win counts for the group; groups are ranked by the sum of their collection's points.
privacy & fair play
Photo cards carry no author names and no titles anywhere in the arena.
For an own photo, aggregate performance and the photos it met are visible - never who voted. Individual votes stay private.
Voter leaderboards are aggregate activity and vote weight - not who voted for whom.
Admins can remove a photo or void a duel; a removed photo's author is told why.