Today’s Derby
Today’s derby closes in 8h 11m.
The winner gets made. One creation a day goes into production and is on sale for twenty-four hours — then never again.
The leading board is real. Today’s podiums and standings are counted and scored fresh from today’s derby, the same way tonight’s close will score them, with real artwork credited to the creators who made it. How you win and the rivers list further down are still sample: nothing on this platform counts an hourly rate or a river breakdown yet, so those numbers stay invented until they are.
Leading right now
Nothing has entered today’s derby yet. Check back once the first hat, fly or beer is made.
How today works
Getting in
Entry is automatic. Everything created inside the window is entered — there is no separate sign-up and nothing to submit. Making anything at all needs an account, so first, or look at who is already here.
Picking the winner
A vote is worth 40 points. One per person per day, counted the moment it lands — nothing on the platform counts a view. A vote is first-write-wins: your first one each day is the one that counts, and there is no changing it after.
Cast it from the entry itself: open a hat, fly or beer made today — from the gallery or a creator's own page — and vote from its own permalink.
How you win
| Signal | Points | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Vote | 40 | Somebody decided this is the one they want made — the only signal that is about the contest rather than the work. |
| Remix | 25 | Somebody spent a generation of their own on your idea. |
| Save | 8 | Somebody put it in their collection to keep. |
| View not open yet | 1 | Nothing on this platform counts a view. Reserved at its published weight for the day something does. |
And every point ages. A point is worth half what it was 12 hours after it was earned. Without that, a piece entered at seven in the morning collects for seventeen hours and one entered at six in the evening has six — the board would be a race in name and a queue in fact, decided before lunch.
Published weights are gameable, so the board ranks and a person decides. Every signal that counts today costs an account — a save, a remix — and on an invite-only platform an account is the expensive thing to fake. The top five go to a human, who picks the one that gets made.
What that means on today’s board
- The lowest bar
- The beer podium is led on 174 points — the smallest number standing on the board today.podium[].score
- The gap at the top
- @sagecaddis is 44 points clear of @tailwaterjane, with 8h 11m left. That is 2 remixes, or 6 saves.standings[0..1].score, DERBY_WEIGHTS
- Where the day is
- Madison River has 41 entries; West Branch of the Delaware has 9.rivers[].entries
- What the clock is doing
- Points halve every 12 hours, so a save earned now is worth about twice one earned this morning.DERBY_HALF_LIFE_HOURS
The board
No entries yet today.
Today so far
- 0Entries today
- 0Votes today
On sale until midnight
17 September 2026 closed with no entries. Nothing is on sale from it — every winner so far.