A board per theme
Name the board after the theme, "Inktober week 2" or "Draw your OC as a villain", and run as many contests side by side as your server likes.
Leaderboard type · Image Rating
The Discord Art Contest Bot
Members submit their artwork with one button, your server or a panel of judges rates every piece from 1 to 10, and the gallery in your channel ranks them live until the podium.
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Scoreboards runs art contests inside your Discord server from start to finish: one button to submit a piece, a star menu to rate it, a gallery that ranks the entries by their average, and a season that freezes the result and posts the winners. No spreadsheets, no reaction counting, no screenshots of the final standings.
The basics
How an art contest works on Discord
You create an Image Rating leaderboard for the contest and post it in a channel. Every member who wants to take part presses Submit image, names the piece and attaches it, and the entry appears in the board's gallery.
Everyone else rates the entries from 1 to 10 stars, or only the members you make judges. The board ranks the pieces by their average rating and shows how many votes each has, so a small piece of brilliance is not buried under a crowd favourite.
When the deadline comes you close submissions, end the season, and the board freezes with its averages final and posts a podium of the top three. The next round starts on a fresh board.
Cast a vote
Rate either entry from 1 to 10 stars. The board sorts by the average, and each member's vote counts once: vote again and it replaces the first.
Ranked by average
Place 1
Night Ferry
by juno.art
6votes
8.50
average
Not rated
Place 2
Paper Sun
by Oskar
26votes
8.38
average
Not rated
Night Ferry ranks first on 6 votes, ahead of Paper Sun on 26. The board sorts by the average, not by how many votes an entry has.
The board sorts on the average to two decimals. The gallery in Discord prints it to one, as ★ 8.5.
Features
What the art contest bot does for you
Community vote or a jury
By default every member's vote counts. Pick a judges role in the dashboard and only those members can rate, while everyone can still submit.
Blind voting
Hide the ratings while the contest runs: averages, ranks and who drew each piece stay hidden until you reveal them, so votes go to the art and not to the artist.
A gallery in your channel
The board shows every piece with its picture beside its rank, title, artist, average and vote count, eight to a page, and updates as the votes come in.
Rate every piece, privately
Rate entries walks a member through the pieces they have not rated yet, one at a time, starting at a random one so no entry is always seen first.
Fair by design
Each member has one vote per piece. Turn self-voting off, cap entries per artist, and check every vote in the dashboard's Vote Log, which you can export to CSV.
A podium at the end
End the season and the board freezes with its averages final, reveals a blind vote, and posts the top three. The weekly recap shows the leading piece's picture while the contest runs.
Want the full mechanics and best-practice tips? Read the step-by-step guide to running an art contest →
From theme to winner
An art contest in four steps
Everything happens in Discord: entries come in through the board's own button, votes through a star menu, and the result is posted by the bot. Members can also submit and rate from the board's web page.
- 01
Announce the theme
Create the board, name it after the theme and post the rules: what to draw, the deadline, and how many pieces each artist may enter.
- 02
Artists submit
Submit image on the board takes the title and the picture in one form. With approval on, a moderator checks each piece before it goes live.
- 03
The server votes
Members, or your judges, rate each piece from 1 to 10 stars. A vote can be changed but never doubled, and the gallery reorders as averages move.
- 04
Reveal the winners
Close submissions, end the season and the board freezes with the podium posted. Start the next theme on a fresh board.
Averages, not vote counts
A piece wins on how highly it is rated, not on how many friends its artist has. The vote count sits beside every average so you can see how well supported it is.
Judges when it matters
For a prize contest, give the vote to a judges role. For a casual weekly challenge, let the whole server decide. The scoring is the same average either way.
Built to run every month
Each round is its own season. Past rounds stay frozen with their podium, so your server keeps a record of every winner.
In Discord
Every entry is a message, every vote a menu
With a log channel, every entry is posted there with a star menu under it. Rate entries on the board takes members through the ones they have not rated yet, privately.
An entry's own message
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Submitted by
@mira_k
Leaderboard
Minimal Poster Contest
Rating
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Glasshouse
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Contests
Pick your kind of contest
Use cases
Art contests servers run with it
Drawing and painting challenges
A theme a week or a month, traditional or digital, with the community picking its favourites.
Digital art competitions
Illustration, concept art and character design, with a judges role for contests that have a prize.
Fan art contests
Fan art of your game, stream or community mascot, with the winning piece in the weekly recap.
Pixel art and sprite jams
Small canvases, tight deadlines and lots of entries, with a cap on entries per artist.
Build and screenshot contests
Minecraft builds, interior designs, photo-mode shots: any visual creation members can screenshot.
Avatar, banner and emoji contests
Members design the server icon, banner or a new emoji, and the server votes on the one it will use.
Quick start
Start an art contest in two minutes
- 1
Add Scoreboards to your server
Invite the bot to your Discord server. It takes a few seconds.
Add to Discord - 2
Run /leaderboard create
Name the board after your theme and pick Image Rating. Choose a log channel too if you want each piece posted with its own star menu and the option to approve pieces before they go live.
- 3
Post the rules and the first piece
Tell the server the theme and the deadline, then press Submit image on the board to post an example. Members rate from the menu under each piece or with Rate entries on the board.
- 4
Fine-tune it in the dashboard
Judges, blind voting, approval, entry limits, a season end time and the board's web page are all in the dashboard.
Open the dashboard
FAQ
Discord art contest FAQ
How do I run an art contest on Discord?
Add Scoreboards to your server, run /leaderboard create, name the board after your theme and pick Image Rating. Members submit their artwork with the board's Submit image button and rate the entries from 1 to 10 stars. When the deadline passes, turn off Accepting Submissions in the dashboard and end the season: the board freezes and posts a podium of the top three.
Can only judges vote?
Yes. Pick the role that may vote in the dashboard: only members with that role can rate, in Discord and on the website, and everyone can still submit. Submitting can be limited to one role the same way. Admins need the role too, and with no role picked everyone can vote again.
Can I hide who made each piece while people vote?
Yes. Turn on Hide Ratings (Blind Voting): the averages, the ranking and who sent each entry are hidden in Discord and on the website, and the gallery lists the pieces in the order they came in. Turn it off, or end the season, to reveal the results.
How do I stop people voting for their own art or spamming entries?
Turn off Allow Self-Voting and nobody can rate their own piece. Set Max Submissions to cap entries per artist; pieces waiting for approval count towards it. The Vote Log in the dashboard lists every vote with who cast it, lets you remove any vote and exports to CSV.
How is the winner decided?
By the average rating. The board sorts the pieces by their average, highest first, with each one's vote count beside it. There is no minimum number of votes, so give everyone time to rate before you call it, or have every judge rate every piece.
How do I end the contest and announce the winners?
Turn off Accepting Submissions to stop new entries while voting stays open. Then end the season from the dashboard, or schedule its end time in advance: the board freezes with its averages final, a blind vote is revealed, and the podium is posted. The next season starts on a fresh board.
Can I run a contest every week or month?
Yes. Each round is a season: end one and the next starts on a fresh board, while the finished round stays frozen with its podium. You can also run several themed boards at the same time.
Can people see the art outside Discord?
Signed-in members of your server can open every piece full size on the board's web page, rate it there and browse the gallery. Visitors from outside the server see the ranking but never the pictures.
More leaderboard types
Pick the format that fits your server
Every Scoreboards leaderboard lives in Discord and on the web, and one server can run as many as it likes.
Your next art contest, run by the bot.
Submissions, voting, judges and a podium, all inside your Discord server.
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