PeakShot

SEASON 01 · NOW ANNOUNCED

Beta Season · Late Summer 2026

Eight weeks. Five Lake District fells. Four categories. Every entry shot from the same hidden zones, under the same clock, judged on the same rubric — then revealed, place by place, at an announced time.

Opens

3 Aug 2026

Monday

Closes

27 Sep 2026

Sunday

Duration

8 weeks

No time limit on any walk

Reveal

w/c 28 Sep

Judged, audited, then staged

See a gallery & winners reveal →

FOUR CATEGORIES

Pick your fights

Every Photo Zone is briefed for at least one category. One photo, one category — your call which.

Sunset

Sunset

Golden hour's last act. The fells at their most forgiving light, and the walk down in the dark to earn it.

Sunrise

Sunrise

Dawn raids rewarded. Headtorch starts, first light on the tops, and summits you'll have entirely to yourself.

Waterfalls

Waterfalls

Moving water from marked zones. Becks, forces and falls in full voice — capture the motion, on the spot.

Landscape

Landscape

The classic view, mastered. The composition everyone knows, taken better than anyone else on the hill that day.

THE SEASON LOOP

How a season works

Instant feedback while the season runs; one consistent batch re-judge when it ends; a reveal worth turning up for.

  1. 01

    Shoot on any live route

    Walk one of the five live Lake District routes. Reach a hidden Photo Zone on foot and your shot window opens: up to three frames, in-app camera only, from the exact spot every other entrant stood.

  2. 02

    Enter one category per photo

    Each zone photo can be entered into exactly one of the four categories. Pick where it fights hardest — a dawn capture might be a Sunrise contender or a Landscape banker, but never both.

  3. 03

    Scored and critiqued immediately

    The moment your entry syncs, the AI judge grades it against the zone's brief on the fixed public rubric and returns a provisional score with two or three sentences of constructive feedback. Every entrant, every entry.

  4. 04

    The season closes

    Sunday 27 September 2026. Entries lock. Eight weeks of light, weather and legwork are now a fixed field — nothing added, nothing swapped.

  5. 05

    The full re-judge

    Every entry in every category is re-judged as a single batch against the same rubric, so the final ranking is consistent from the first photo of week one to the last frame before close.

  6. 06

    The podium is audited

    Before anything is announced, a human audits every winning entry: GPS track plausibility, capture-time hashes, integrity flags. Nobody stands on the podium unchecked.

  7. 07

    The staged reveal

    At an announced time the following week, results land in sequence — third place, then second, then the winner, then the full scorecards, then People's Choice. Appointment viewing. Be there.

REVEAL ORDER

3rd place2nd placeThe winnerThe scorecardsPeople's Choice

The full results never leak out in a quiet database update. They are staged, live, at a time announced in advance — so the whole beta cohort finds out together.

THE SECOND AWARD

People's Choice

The AI picks the podium. The community picks People's Choice. Two verdicts, one field.

BLIND PAIRS

Members are shown two anonymised entries side by side and tap the stronger one. No names, no scores, no camera talk — just the photographs. An Elo-style rating orders the field as votes accumulate.

FAIR BY DESIGN

You are never shown your own entries, votes are capped at around twenty pairs a day, and galleries stay anonymised until the season closes. Ballot-stuffing has nowhere to stand.

A SEPARATE PRIZE

People's Choice sits beside the AI-judged podium, not beneath it. It is revealed last on results night — the community's own verdict on the season.

ENTRY RULES

The short version

Four rules cover most of it. The full competition rules are the binding text.

18 or over

The beta season is adults only. You confirm your date of birth at signup.

In-app captures only

No gallery uploads, ever. Frames are hashed at the moment of capture inside the shot window.

One entry per photo

Each zone photo enters one category, once. Choose deliberately.

Be in the zone

Entries must be captured on foot, GPS-verified, from inside the Photo Zone. Where the zones are stays secret — that is the game.

Read the full competition rules before you enter. Routes and safety notes live in the mountains directory.

BETA PRIZES

What winning gets you

No cash, no vouchers, no sponsored kit in the beta season — deliberately.

GLORY

Your name on the Season 1 podium — the first ever run, the one every later season gets measured against.

BADGES

Trig-point badges on your profile: category podiums, People's Choice, and the peaks you bagged earning them.

THE FOUNDERS' GALLERY

Winning photographs enter the founders' gallery — the permanent record of the members who were here first.

OPENS 3 AUGUST 2026

Money can't buy the podium. Neither can anything else.

Same zone, same shot window, same in-app camera, same rubric for everyone. The only way onto the Season 1 podium is up a fell with a phone in your pocket. HIKE · REACH · SHOOT · JUDGE

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