Telegram Contests

🏆 Android Contest, Round 1: Results The results of the Android Fixes Contest have arrived! Meet the winners: 1st PLACE – $15,000 🥇Cool Hare – 32 out of 45 correctly implemented fixes and improvements, including both personal findings and issues reported on the Bug Platform. 2nd PLACE – $10,000 🥈Gentle Otter – 23 out of 26 correctly implemented fixes. The best accepted-declined ratio overall. 3rd PLACE – $5,000 🥉Clever Wasp – 22 out of 36 correctly implemented fixes for issues reported on the Bug Platform. 🥉Sunny Ant – 15 out of 20 acceptable fixes, some of them for the media editor. 🥉Dreamy Crab – 11 out of 14 acceptable fixes in various sections of the app. 🥉Modest Dolphin – 10 of 10 acceptable improvements for the media editor. 🥉Sacred Gorilla – 6 out of 9 acceptable fixes. Honorable mentions 🎖Fit Falcon – $1,500 for a useful pack of optimizations (3 of 3). 🎖Desert Falcon – $1,500 (integrated Animations from the iOS Contest). 🎖Large Flamingo – $600 (3 out of 4). 🎖Quirky Raven – $600 (2 out of 6). 🎖Sharp Mule – $400 (2 out of 6). 🎖Mad Seal – $200 (1 out of 6). 🎖Hairy Monkey – $200 (1 out of 2). 🎖Gentle Crow – $200 (1 of 1). 🎖Earnest Kiwi – $200 (1 of 1). 🎖Fluffy Sheep – $200 (1 out of 1). 🎖Night Gnat – $200 (3 out of 3). 🎖Earnest Butterfly – $200 (1 out of 3). 🎖Fit Rhino – $200 (2 out of 7). Some of the contestants focused on the Camera 2 API/ CameraX integration, but were sadly unable to overcome performance/stability issues: 🏅Perfect Crab – $1,000. 🏅Dreamy Eagle – $1,400 (+2 accepted fixes). 🏅Fairy Zebra – $1,000. Detailed comments from our judges about each of the submissions are available on contest.com Stay tuned: The next stage of the Android contest starts tomorrow.

In case you don't know what a GIF-Style reaction video is, it's this thing 👆

🏆 GIF Contest: Round 1 Status: Evaluating results. View Submissions Dates: 17 Mar - 31 Mar (23:59 Dubai time) Prize fund in the first round: $50,000 The goal in this round is to create 5 or more GIF-style reaction videos (see example here) that express emotions similar to these emoji: 😂😘👍😨👋 😍😡🥳😳🙄 😎👎😭🥺😐 🤦🤷‍♂️😏🤔😒 Format: MP4, no sound Aspect ratio: 1:1 – 4:3 and anything in between Max. length: 5 seconds Max. size: 1 MB We will give preference to original content created by the participants themselves, but you can also use other content if this is appropriate. We will explain how to submit your reaction videos next week. Reaction videos created in this contest will be watermarked with links to the public channels of their creators – and potentially suggested to Telegram users. Winners will be able to take part in the following rounds. Good luck! 🏆

Current Contests (updated: December 2021) Results Announced 🏆 Android Contest, Round 2 (view results) 🏆 Sticker App Contest (view results) 🏆 GIF Contest, Round 1 🏆 iOS Contest, Round 3 – WatchOS 🏆 Data Clustering Contest, Round 2 🏆 Animated Sticker Contest 🏆 Aptitude Test Contest Evaluating Results 🏆 GIF Contest, Round 2 (view submissions) 🏆 Android Design Contest (view submissions)

Update on the Second Round of the iOS Contest: Given the strict deadlines, we decided to evaluate all apps supporting at least WatchOS 7. Support for WatchOS 6 will still bring you bonus points, but is no longer obligatory.

Correction: the prize is of course $200 per each sticker in a completed pack (that gets chosen as one of the winners).

Animated Sticker Contest: Round 1 Status: 🏆 Evaluating results. View Submissions 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 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! 🏆

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.

Mockups for the WatchOS Contest 2021 (sketch)

🏆 iOS Contest 2021: Round 2 Status: Round 2 ended. View Results Prize fund: $52,000. Ended: 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 7 in Swift without using third-party UI frameworks (bonus points if the app also supports WatchOS 6). 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. UPD: After the results of this round are published, we may announce further rounds with similar prize funds. The task will likely be to improve the WatchOS apps created during this round. === Contestants will be able to submit their apps to @ContestBot closer to the end of this round.

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).

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.

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.

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).

A fourth test data set has been added for the Data Clustering Contest: https://contest.com/docs/dc2021-r1#source-data

We received 81 submissions (243 Quizzes) for the Aptitude Test Contest. The next Phase will start soon. Future information for this contest will be posted to @AptitudeTestContest, so participants should subscribe there if they haven't already.

3.5 hours remain for submissions to the Aptitude Test Contest. The deadline is 2021-02-08 at 23:50:00 (Dubai time, check local time here). Contestants can submit their work to @QuizBot, using the /ContestCourse command. Full instructions here.

A third test data set has been added for the Data Clustering Contest: https://contest.com/docs/dc2021-r1#source-data

A new test data set has been added for the Data Clustering Contest: https://contest.com/docs/dc2021-r1#source-data Unlike the initial data set, the new set contains channel descriptions. Note that your algorithm must be able to produce results regardless of the presence or absenсe of this data.

We have received 19 submissions for the iOS Animation Contest. Our judges are evaluating them, stay tuned for updates.