Higgsfield contests are competitions with prize pools, and they live in the Contests tab of Community. Every contest is defined by its brief and its official Rules, entries are made on Higgsfield inside a dedicated contest project, and prizes are paid in Higgsfield credits or in US dollars. This article covers how contests are organized, how entries are made and checked, and which rules apply to every contest.
How is a contest organized?
Every contest is built on two things: the brief and the Rules.
The brief is the creative task. It tells you what to make and sets the core requirements your entry has to meet, such as format or length.
The official Rules are the binding document of that specific contest. They set who can enter, what entries are checked against, how judging works, what the prizes are, and how rights work. If anything in the brief, on the website, or in an announcement says something different, go by the Rules.
Both live on the contest page: the brief, prize pool, and a short FAQ in the General tab, the full official rules in the Rules tab. The same page shows the contest’s timeline: when submissions open, when they close, and when winners are announced. The timeline on the contest page is the authoritative schedule.
What kinds of contests does Higgsfield run?
There are two recurring formats. The Weekly Challenge is a permanent cycle: a new brief with a new technical focus every week, judged by the Higgsfield team. Alongside it, Higgsfield runs larger one-off contests, such as the Action Scene Contest, the Global Film Festival, the Adathon, and the Apps Contest, each with its own format, timeline, and Rules.
Active contests sit at the top of the Contests tab, and finished ones stay below in Recent contests with their results and winning entries. New contests are also announced in Discord and on community streams.
How do I enter a contest?
The path is the same across contests:
- Open the contest page and read the brief and the Rules.
- Join the contest from its page. You’ll confirm a contact email and accept the contest’s official Rules.
- Your contest project is created in Cinema Studio: your entry lives there. Make it inside that project, within the contest window: after the contest opens and before the deadline. See How do I use Cinema Studio?
- Submit the entry from the project before the deadline shown on the contest page. The project itself walks you through the path: create your assets, collect the film, submit.
The project is more than a workspace: it’s how Higgsfield verifies that the generations behind your entry were made in it, during the contest window. Anything generated elsewhere or earlier doesn’t count toward the entry. Keep your generations and uploaded assets in the project even after submitting: if the project no longer contains the assets behind the entry, it can’t pass the check.
One more thing to know before you submit: entries appear on the contest page, and their prompts and generation history later become publicly viewable. The exact moment is set in each contest’s Rules. By entering, you publish your process as well as your result.
What rules apply to every contest?
Each contest has its own official Rules, but a few things stay the same across Higgsfield contests:
- Any registered Higgsfield account can enter, free or paid.
- Participants must be 18 or older, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction.
- Contests are open worldwide, except where the law or sanctions make participation impossible. Higgsfield employees and people involved in judging can’t enter.
- Your entry must be your own original work. Submitting someone else’s work is grounds for disqualification.
- All AI video and image generation happens on Higgsfield, inside the contest project, using any model or workflow available on the platform.
- Traditional tools such as Blender, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, or Photoshop are welcome at any stage, as long as they are not used to generate new AI imagery.
- Prohibited content rules always apply: no third-party intellectual property without authorization, no explicit or illegal content, and nothing else restricted by the contest’s Rules or Higgsfield’s Terms of Service.
- You keep the rights to your work. The license you grant Higgsfield for screening and promoting entries is set in each contest’s Rules.
Everything else, from format and audio rules to prizes and judging criteria, varies by contest and lives in that contest’s Rules.
How are winners chosen?
Judging starts with an eligibility check, before any scoring. Entries are checked against the contest’s hard requirements: length and format, the generation rules above, and rights to everything used in the entry, along with extra requirements from the brief and prohibited content. Entries that fail are marked non-eligible and are not scored at all.
Eligible entries are then judged on merit against the criteria in that contest’s Rules. Who does the judging also depends on the contest: its Rules say whether entries are reviewed by the Higgsfield team, an independent jury, or the community. Results are published on the contest page on the date shown in its timeline, and judging decisions are final.
What do winners get?
The prize pool is shown on the contest page and in its Rules. Depending on the contest, prizes are paid in Higgsfield credits or in US dollars; the Rules describe the amounts, how prizes are paid, and when. Winning also shows up on your profile: contest winners get a badge next to their name, and some contests additionally award rating points and achievements. See How do rating and achievements work?