Telegram Contests

2022-02-02 23:36:48 Design Competition, Round 2: Results

We are pleased to recognize the progress many designers achieved in the Second Round.

This round required designers to take on a different platform, and they delivered – bringing modern and fresh concepts to transform @unigram for Windows 11.

In total, 22 out of 23 participants have earned a prize. Unfortunately, we could not award Groovy Mink's entry due to it having an insufficient number of screens. Thanks to everyone for participating in the contest – and congratulations to the winners!

1st PLACE – $3,500
Sunny Swan
Mighty Unicorn
Happy Squid

2nd PLACE – $2,000
Groovy Ladybird
Cute Lemur
Busy Phoenix
Clever Cow
Groovy Fox
Hardy Bull
Mad Spider

3rd PLACE – $1,500
Swift Shark
Crazy Peacock
Keen Pony
Grim Shark
Dreamy Leopard
Sexy Leopard
Tactful Turkey
Night Gnat

4th PLACE – $1,000
Holy Eagle
Fit Wolf
Stone Swallow
Tanned Cat Open / Comment

2022-01-24 16:27:06 Design Competition, Round 2: Submissions

We received 23 submissions for the Second Round of the Design Competition.

Everyone is welcome to check out the designs on contest.com while our judges evaluate the results:
https://contest.com/win11-design

We ask each participant to add a comment to their submission with a brief explanation of the structure of their archive, how it is intended to be viewed, as well as of anything else that might need an explanation. Good luck! Open / Comment

2022-01-22 14:14:11 Participants in Round 2 of the Design Competition can now submit their designs to @ContestBot as a ZIP archive (choose Designers Contest).

Please start uploading your file in advance so that there is enough time to complete the process. You can resubmit your file at any time before the deadline. Open / Comment

2021-12-30 17:43:19 We invite all 30 winners of the design contest to take part in the second stage of the competition – to design the main screens of a native Telegram app for Windows 11.

Prize fund: 40,000 USD
Deadline: January 22, 2022 @ 23:00 Dubai Time
Who can take part: All 30 winners of the first stage
Announcement of results: January 30, 2022
Goal: Design main screens for the Windows 11 native Telegram app in accordance with the newest guidelines of Windows 11 and using the latest approaches of that platform (e.g. blurred backgrounds). The mockups and functionality shown should also be consistent with the Telegram apps on other platforms.

The screens that are necessary to design:

- Chat list with all types of chats shown (channels, groups, secret chats, bots)
- Chats with all types of messages shown (voice and video messages, videos, photos, polls, documents)
- The UI to send files/media and add captions to them.
- The UI to record voice and video messages.
- Voice/Video chats and 1-to-1 calls
- Main settings and Chat settings

To check out what a native Windows Telegram app looks like, you can try Unigram @unigramappx. It is possible that the best design solutions will be implemented into Unigram. To check the functionality of Telegram desktop apps, please refer to https://desktop.telegram.org Open / Comment

2021-12-30 17:43:18 Android Design Competition 2021: Results

We are happy that 47 designers from all over the world chose to participate in the
Android Design Competition.

Unfortunately, none of the design concepts met the ideal submission criteria required for 1st Place.

Each of the 2nd Place entries would require a substantial amount of work and considerable polishing to make the submission suitable for use in future Android Developer contests.

Even though no submission could be awarded 1st Place, we decided to increase the prize fund by another $18,000 to properly reward all the efforts that went into this content.

Congratulations to the winners!

2nd PLACE – $2,500
Grim Shark
Clever Cow
Happy Squid
Mighty Unicorn
Tactful Turkey
Keen Pony
Busy Phoenix
Eager Jackal

3rd PLACE – $2,000
Crazy Peacock
Tall Mantis
Kind Parrot
Dreamy Leopard
Mad Spider
Cute Lemur

4th PLACE – $1,000
Huge Puffin
Groovy Ladybird
Swift Shark
Little Otter
Groovy Fox
Fit Wolf
Stone Ant
Holy Eagle
Night Gnat
Groovy Mink
Savvy Swan
Stone Swallow
Hardy Bull
Sunny Swan
Sexy Leopard
Tanned Cat

All the above winners also get the opportunity to prove their skill in the second stage of the design contest, which ends on January 22, 2022. Open / Comment

2021-12-26 10:00:54 GIF Contest, Round 2: Community Evaluation

As our judges continue evaluating submissions, we have selected some of you to join our effort based on how well you did in our previous task.

Those who were selected have received a notification from @ContestRatingBot.

A most deserved thank you goes out to everyone who completed the task!

If you completed the task but were not selected, don’t worry: we still could use your help.

Starting on December 27th, the bot will let everyone rate an additional 1000 gifs, and will continue adding more gifs at regular intervals as we process everything. Those who successfully rate gifs according to our guidelines might still be chosen as paid helpers.

Expect to see updated guidelines in the bot, along with new examples. Open / Comment

2021-12-20 23:17:16 GIF Contest, Round 2: Evaluation Telegram judges have completed the initial evaluation phase for Round 2 of the GIF Contest. While they continue evaluating reaction videos, we invite everyone to help them. Community Evaluation Phase 1: Image Quality @ContestRatingBot… Open / Comment

2021-12-17 16:48:46 GIF Contest, Round 2: Evaluation

Telegram judges have completed the initial evaluation phase for Round 2 of the GIF Contest. While they continue evaluating reaction videos, we invite everyone to help them.

Community Evaluation
Phase 1: Image Quality

@ContestRatingBot will let you rate the image quality of the first 920 reaction videos. If you successfully complete this task before 23:59 Dubai time on December 20, we may invite you to process more reaction videos for monetary compensation.

We collected some examples of good and bad quality reaction videos in this channel. Please study them and the judging criteria carefully before you begin sorting.

What happens then?

Success in this task will depend on how close your ratings are to the verdicts carried out by Telegram Judges. Those with the best results will be invited to participate in a paid task to process more reaction videos.

Once Phase 1 is over, submissions with acceptable image quality will be evaluated in Phase 2: Relevance to determine whether they are expressive enough and relevant for their chosen emoji.

Good luck! Open / Comment

2021-11-18 18:17:40 All reaction videos submitted for the GIF Contest, Round 2 are now available on contest.com:
https://contest.com/gif2021-r2

We invite all participants to add a comment to their submissions with any details about their work they’d like to share with our judges.

Everyone is also welcome to leave their feedback on the submissions – our judges may take it into account when assigning awards (ratings on the platform will not affect the results).

Stay tuned for more news about the evaluation of the GIF contest. Open / Comment

2021-11-12 00:10:30 Sticker App Contest: Results

After hundreds of hours of testing, we are ready to announce the results of the Sticker App Contest.

Although we’ve discovered a dozen nice apps among the 79 submissions, none of those can be considered a perfect Sticker App before addressing the issues we've mentioned in our reviews for each app.

Evaluation criteria
In our evaluation, a solid sticker app is an app that allows:
• Exporting whole packs, not just individual stickers.
• Has zero major crashes.
• Supports local caching.
• Provides an option to keep several sets and edit stickers or reassign emoji after publishing.
• Offers more than a basic editor for imported images.

Contest highlights
Humble Antelope came close to achieving all of the above with their TStick app on both Android and iOS.

Fluffy Giraffe on Android and Jolly Croc on iOS went for a creative approach and submitted advanced editors for animated stickers. (Unfortunately, both these apps require significant polishing before they are ready for large-scale use).

We'd also like to commend contestants who focused on user experience – adding intro screens, onboarding messages and useful tooltips, like Huge Shark and others.

Some of the other ideas we liked: Fairy Zebra's meme face swap tool and Subtle Phoenix's tool to export drawings as animated stickers (unfortunately, this app doesn't support sticker sets and only allows exporting a single sticker).

Rewards
We’re rewarding all contest entries that allowed users to create some stickers and export them to Telegram. We hope that these contestants will be able to use the prize money to further improve their apps. In total, 57 of 79 submissions have qualified for prizes. Certain submissions received penalties due to issues, like prominent crashes.

1st PLACE – $2,000
3 submissions (3 Android + 1 iOS app)

2nd PLACE – $1,500
11 submissions (5 Android + 6 iOS apps)

3rd PLACE – $750
25 submissions (12 Android + 14 iOS apps)

4th PLACE – $500
18 submissions (14 Android + 8 iOS apps)

You can find the final results and prize breakdowns, together with detailed comments and penalties from our judges on the Contest Platform.

What's next?
Participants of this contest retain all rights to the apps they created, and are welcome to launch them as independent startups — as well as potentially monetize them. However, we recommend fixing the issues identified by our judges first.

Anyone can use our platform for third-party apps to help users create stickers for Telegram (check out the documentation here).

We're planning to announce other similar contests in the future. Stay tuned! Open / Comment