Things people ask

Do I need an account?

No. There are no accounts, no email and no sign-up. You can play the moment the page loads, and your champions are remembered on your own device.

Why is my favourite missing from an arena?

Because somebody had to write the list and they missed it. Several arenas are hand-written lists; the rest are produced by a rule, such as the most-voted films on TMDB. Either way a name can be added — write to contact@youchoose.it and say which arena.

Why does it not show a percentage after every vote?

Because it would be making it up. A percentage only appears once enough people have settled that exact pair. Below that you get a different true statement instead of a number rounded out of two clicks.

Can I vote more than once?

In a normal run, as often as you like — that is what builds the ranking. The duel of the day allows one vote per device per day, and each head-to-head page allows one vote per device, so a single person cannot decide either on their own.

How is the ranking calculated?

By Elo rating, the system chess uses, not by counting wins. Beating a contender rated above you moves you a lot; beating one rated below you barely moves you at all. Counting wins would simply rank whoever got drawn first.

Why can I not see the whole leaderboard?

The top ten is public. The rest opens once you have played a run in that arena — the ranking is made of votes, so it seemed fair to ask for a few.

What are the finals?

In a normal run the champion beats a chain of challengers drawn from the whole field, so first and second place almost never meet. The finals put the top ten against each other, which is the only way that order gets decided rather than inherited. They open once an arena has 100 votes.

Are the pictures real?

Yes. Every poster, sleeve and photograph is the real one, from the catalogue that holds it. Nothing on this site is a generated image of a real thing.

Is this free? Are there ads?

Free, and no ads. If that ever changes it will be said plainly rather than discovered.

A few more

Why do head-to-head pages sometimes say nothing has been settled?

Because they are published before they are interesting on purpose. A pair gets its own page from the first vote, but only enters search once it has 8 — a page reading “1 vote, 100%” wastes the click of whoever found it.

The ranking changed since yesterday. Did something break?

Almost certainly not. Ratings move with every vote, and the top moves most when a finals run happens, because that is when the leaders actually meet. A leaderboard that never changed would mean nobody was playing.

Can I suggest a whole new arena?

Yes, and the useful version of that message includes twenty or thirty names you would want in it. The mechanism takes an hour to add; deciding what belongs is the part that takes taste.

Something in a ranking is plainly wrong.

Then out-vote it. That is not a brush-off — it is the entire design. Nothing here was placed by an editor, so nothing needs one to be corrected. Pick the arena and settle it.