Telegram Contests

2021-03-12 16:22:36 The First Round of the Animated Sticker Contest starts now. Dates: 11 Mar - 26 Mar (23:59 Dubai time) Prizes in the first round: A contract to finish each winning sticker pack at $200 per sticker, invitation to Round 2. The goal in this round is to create… Open / Comment

2021-03-12 16:06:09 The First Round of the Animated Sticker Contest starts now.

Dates: 11 Mar - 26 Mar (23:59 Dubai time)
Prizes in the first round: A contract to finish each winning sticker pack with at $200 per sticker, invitation to Round 2.
Prize fund for all stages: $50,000+

The goal in this round is to create two sticker packs with at least 3 animated stickers in each:

• At least one of your sticker packs must use people as characters.
• All stickers inside one pack must feature the same character.
• Each Sticker inside your packs must express an emotion.
• When choosing emotions for your stickers, start with these: .
• You may submit more than three stickers in each pack.
• You may not submit more than two packs.
• Your Animated Stickers must follow these specifications: https://contest.com/docs/animated_stickers

You will submit links to your sticker packs to @ContestBot. Submissions will become available closer to the deadline.

Winners in this round will get the opportunity to join Telegram’s pool of animated sticker artists and to participate in the next round of the contest.

Winners will also be offered to complete their winning sticker packs (to reach 15 stickers per pack) and receive a reward of $200 per sticker in a completed pack.

Good luck! Open / Comment

2021-03-11 22:02:39 The Animated Sticker Contest begins tomorrow.

The task for the first round will be to create two sticker packs with at least 3 animated stickers in each. No sounds will be required at this stage.

All details will be published in this channel. Open / Comment

2021-03-05 22:32:37 Mockups for the WatchOS Contest 2021 (sketch) Open / Comment

2021-03-05 22:32:30 The Second Round of the iOS Contest 2021 starts now.

Prize fund: $52,000.
Deadline: 23:59 on March, 21 (Dubai time).
Who can participate: Everyone. You are welcome to join even if you didn't take part in the previous round.

The task is to create a standalone Telegram app for WatchOS 6+ in Swift without using third-party UI frameworks. The app should support:

- Logging in via QR Code with support for accounts protected by a 2-Step Verfication password.
- Viewing the chat list.
- Opening chats with users, groups, channels.
- Viewing messages in chats, including text messages and all types of attachments: photos, videos, files, voice and video messages, locations, contacts, static and animated stickers, polls and quizzes.
- Sending messages via voice message and text, as well as sending current location, stickers, emoji or canned text.
- Sending new messages to existing chats, by replying to notifications, and via the 'New Message' button in the chat list.
- Swiping right in the chat list to open Settings.
- Accessing the Archive and Saved Messages.
- Changing Notification settings.
- Changing Data settings.
- Terminating sessions from the Devices menu.

Your app should run on WatchOS 6 and above. The design implementation should be identical to the mockups attached below (Sketch, PNG).

You are welcome to view the API docs and inspect the source code of Telegram for iOS. The main criteria for us to identify the winners will be the speed and stability of the apps – as well as attention to detail.

We understand that you may not be able to suport all the features on our list before the deadline. During evaluation we will note the number of features implemented flawlessly. The largest prizes will be awarded to contestants who implemented the largest number of features without major issues.

Note that the list of features above is sorted by their relative importance. Open / Comment

2021-03-01 14:14:23 A new round of the iOS Сontest starts this Friday.

Prize fund: $52,000.

Deadline: 23:59 on March, 21 (Dubai time).

Task: Build a standalone WatchOS app for Telegram.

Who can take part: Everyone. However, participants of the first round will have an advantage due to familiarity with the source code of Telegram for iOS.

Details and mockups will be announced on March, 5 (Dubai time). Open / Comment

2021-03-01 14:14:04 We are now ready to announce the results of the iOS Animation Contest.

While evaluating the submissions, we focused on the following aspects:
- The number of implemented animations.
- How close animations were to the mockups provided.
- How smooth they ran both on newer and older devices.

Additionally, we took into account whether the implemented changes broke any of the existing features of the app.

Meet the winners:

1st PLACE – $10,000
Fluffy Ram

2nd PLACE – $6,000
Huge Kiwi
Hip Hyena
Bright Mink

3rd PLACE – $5,000
Fairy Turtle
Large Bass

4th PLACE – $2,000
Hardy Goose
Stylish Piranha
Calm Mink
Able Mammoth
Young Deer
Chic Elk

Honorable mention – $1,000
Merry Lemur
Perfect Wasp

You can find detailed comments from our judges on the Contest Platform.

Check out the post below for information on the next stage of this contest. Open / Comment

2021-02-15 13:08:12 We received 36 submissions for the Android Contest and 62 submissions for the
Data Clustering Contest.

Submissions for the Android contest are already available on contest.com:
https://contest.com/android2021-r1

We request all Android contestants to add a comment to their submission with a list of fixes and improvements they implemented (including links to the relevant commits).

Submissions for the data clustering contest will become available soon. Open / Comment

2021-02-14 14:04:31 Contestants are now welcome to submit their apps to @ContestBot.

Android Contest: choose '2021 Android Contest', then upload your APK and add a link to your code in a public repository on GitHub. (After all submissions are published on contest.com, we will ask you to add a comment to your submission with a list of fixes/improvements and relevant commits.)

Data Clustering Contest: choose '2021 Data Clustering Contest', then upload your archive.

The deadline for both contests is 23:59 today (Dubai Time). Open / Comment

2021-02-12 20:38:29 A fourth test data set has been added for the Data Clustering Contest:
https://contest.com/docs/dc2021-r1#source-data Open / Comment