IAPLC & CIAC 2026 Results Hub: Your October 10 Guide

09 October 2026

Two competitions. One date. A new collection of aquascapes for the world to discover. IAPLC and CIAC have both scheduled their 2026 results announcements for Saturday, October 10. This AquaLibs guide brings together the confirmed schedule, official channels, archive galleries and reading to help you follow the day.

IAPLC & CIAC 2026 Results Hub: Your October 10 Guide

Bookmark this page, share it with your aquascaping community and use it as a starting point for exploring the creators behind the results.

Schedule checked: October 9, 2026. Edition: Before the results announcements.

Announcement schedule IAPLC 2026 CIAC 2026 Explore AquaRank Before the reveal

October 10: what is confirmed?

IAPLC has confirmed a timed broadcast. CIAC has confirmed the date on its competition schedule; that page does not specify an announcement hour. Follow each organizer’s channel for its own release.

SCHEDULED · OCTOBER 10

IAPLC 2026 results

Top 100 photographs and world rankings:
1:00 PM JST · 11:00 AM Vietnam time.

ADA has announced the reveal through its official YouTube channel, ADA VIEW. The complete ranking list is scheduled to follow the livestream on the official IAPLC website.

Watch IAPLC 2026 livestream Official IAPLC website

Read ADA’s announcement for the published schedule and release details.

SCHEDULED · OCTOBER 10

CIAC 2026 results

Results announcement:
October 10 · Hour not specified on the official schedule.

Check the CIAC competition page and CIPS news for official announcements. The CIAC 2026 awards ceremony is a separate event scheduled for November 13.

Official CIAC schedule CIPS official news

Use the organizer’s published category labels when reading each results list.

IAPLC reveal: your local time

IAPLC Top 100 reveal — all times on October 10, 2026
Location	Time
Japan (JST, UTC+9)	1:00 PM
Vietnam and Thailand (UTC+7)	11:00 AM
China and Singapore (UTC+8)	12:00 noon
UTC	4:00 AM

This time conversion applies to IAPLC’s confirmed reveal. CIAC’s announcement time remains unspecified on the schedule checked above.

Discover the career behind the result with AquaRank

A single place in a results list is one moment in a creator’s career. AquaRank connects published contest records across seasons and competitions, giving you a way to explore what came before the work that caught your attention.

Start with a familiar name, open the profile and explore another recorded season. Or use the leaderboard to discover a creator you have yet to follow. For results day, keep the contest name, year and category beside every position you compare.

Explore aquascaper careers

AquaRank is an independent AquaLibs project. Its leaderboard uses published competition records and its own documented methodology; the official organizers publish each contest’s results.

Revisit the 2025 galleries

Give the new season a visual reference point. Open the previous galleries, choose a work you remember and look again at its depth, planting and use of fish. After the 2026 photographs are released, those observations can become the starting point for a more thoughtful comparison.

Explore IAPLC 2025 Explore CIAC 2025

Look beyond the winning image. A favourite aquascape can sit much further down the list, and discovering it is part of the pleasure of results day.

Before the reveal: choose your reading route

Whether you are following a creator, a country or a design idea, these features offer a way into the archive.

Follow the IAPLC story

The 2025 season, seen through its styles
Explore last season’s Top 300 before considering what the new photographs might reveal.
Every Grand Prize winner, 2001–2025
Return to the winning works and the longer history behind the next title.
Notable names in the 2026 Top 300
Choose creators to follow when their final positions become public.
Fresh faces to follow
Broaden your watchlist beyond the most familiar names.

Explore the CIAC archive

The stories behind past champions
Meet creators whose earlier seasons offer context for another title race.
Eight works beyond the podium
Keep discovering after the first three places.
Five notable steps forward
Follow individual journeys between the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
The country map of the Top 30
Compare national representation within two published results lists.

Connect both competitions: One Aquascaper, Two Stages follows five creators through published IAPLC and CIAC records. It is an invitation to keep exploring when a familiar name appears in another contest.

Results day questions

Is the IAPLC Top 300 nominee list the final ranking?

No. ADA’s nomination announcement lists names and countries without individual positions or layout photographs. The final reveal is a separate announcement.

Will IAPLC and CIAC announce at the same hour?

Only IAPLC’s hour is confirmed in the schedules linked here. CIAC’s page gives October 10 without an hour.

Where should I check a new result?

Start with the official sources above. Use AquaLibs galleries and AquaRank profiles to explore archived works and connected careers, checking the season and category attached to each record.

Which creative journey will you follow?

A new champion will make the headlines. There will also be returning creators, unfamiliar names and aquascapes that reward a second look.

Tell us which aquascaper or country you are following, and what you hope to discover in the new layouts. Save this guide and share it with someone who will be watching the announcements with you.

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