November 2021 Android Contest
Status: 🏆 Results announced
Prize fund: $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 on November, 15 (Dubai Time)
Task: Implement new features in Telegram for Android based on the mockups provided.
Conditions:
• This contest in only open for Russian-speaking developers. Nationality is not important, but you must be fluent in Russian to participate.
• Everyone is welcome to participate, even if they didn't take part in our previous contests.
• Authors of the best submissions may get a chance to join the Telegram team.
• There is the possibility of a second round open to the winners of this round.
Details:
https://tttttt.me/contest_ru/7
Status: 🏆 Results announced
Prize fund: $50,000
Deadline: 23:59 on November, 15 (Dubai Time)
Task: Implement new features in Telegram for Android based on the mockups provided.
Conditions:
• This contest in only open for Russian-speaking developers. Nationality is not important, but you must be fluent in Russian to participate.
• Everyone is welcome to participate, even if they didn't take part in our previous contests.
• Authors of the best submissions may get a chance to join the Telegram team.
• There is the possibility of a second round open to the winners of this round.
Details:
https://tttttt.me/contest_ru/7
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Призовые места в ноябрьском конкурсе для разработчиков под Android заняли 35 участников:
I место – 3 000 $
🥇Dark Swan
🥇Eager Cat
🥇Bold Wolf
II место – 2 500 $
🥈Slim Gull
🥈Hip Hyena
🥈Subtle Piranha
🥈Sturdy…
Telegram Contests
Submissions for the GIF Сontest are open until March 31, 23:59 (Dubai time). We suggest that you try submitting at least some of your reaction videos early – to make sure you've familiarized yourself with the process. Videos submitted late will not be accepted…
GIF Contest, Round 2: Submissions Open!
You can now submit your reaction videos to the GIF Contest by uploading them to one of your public channels.
Please read the full instructions before you upload anything:
https://contest.com/docs/gif-contest-submission
In addition to submitting your videos, you MUST register with @ContestBot (send /start, then choose GIF Animation Contest).
The deadline isNovember 8 November 9, 23:59 (DUBAI TIME). We recommend you to begin submitting your videos as early as possible.
Good luck!
You can now submit your reaction videos to the GIF Contest by uploading them to one of your public channels.
Please read the full instructions before you upload anything:
https://contest.com/docs/gif-contest-submission
In addition to submitting your videos, you MUST register with @ContestBot (send /start, then choose GIF Animation Contest).
The deadline is
Good luck!
GIF Contest, Round 2: Submission FAQ
Submissions for Round 2 of the GIF Сontest are open untilNovember 8 November 9, 23:59 (Dubai time).
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Warning: If you have uploaded any gifs before the announcement on Nov 7, they are not participating in the contest (unless the bot says they are).
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Instructions:
https://contest.com/docs/gif-contest-submission
If you have any questions, please check the FAQ.
A few extra tips, in case you're having any issues:
1. Prepare your videos for publication in an external video editor (it is not recommended to use the built-in Telegram media editor for this purpose).
- Aspect ratio: between 1:1 and 4:3
- No audio track! (especially important for uploading via desktop apps)
- Suggested width: 380, 640 or 848
- Suggested height: a multiple of 16 (but remember to use the correct aspect ratio!)
(Other widths/heights may also work – but if you run into problems, try the suggested ones.)
2. Once you've prepared your videos for publication, use an official app to send them to your channel.
- Send as a video (not file).
- If you use a mobile app, set the maximum quality.
- If you use iOS, disable audio before sending (tap on the speaker icon) – even if you removed the soundtrack when preparing the video for publication.
- If you use Android, don't disable audio – instead remove the soundtrack when preparing video for publication.
3. If @ContestBot tells you your videos were not accepted, you can tap the "Show videos with issues" button to get details on each problematic video.
4. If the bot tells you you haven't submitted any videos, see number 1 in this message👆.
5. Note on audio tracks:
If @ContestBot doesn’t recognize the videos, make sure that you have disabled the soundtrack completely before uploading. Your video file must have no audio channels for desktop apps to recognize them properly.
There are many ways of disabling the audio track in a video. If you’re having difficulties, we suggest googling for a solution that works best for you.
6. Note on size:
If you uploaded your videos more than a few hours ago and @ContestBot says their size is too large, try re-uploading them again.
If you tried again and it's still not working, try saving them with the standard H.264 preset: preset=medium, crf=23 — and re-upload again.
This should also help if your video gets stuck at 100% during uploading to public channels with the correct caption.
Submissions for Round 2 of the GIF Сontest are open until
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Warning: If you have uploaded any gifs before the announcement on Nov 7, they are not participating in the contest (unless the bot says they are).
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Instructions:
https://contest.com/docs/gif-contest-submission
If you have any questions, please check the FAQ.
A few extra tips, in case you're having any issues:
1. Prepare your videos for publication in an external video editor (it is not recommended to use the built-in Telegram media editor for this purpose).
- Aspect ratio: between 1:1 and 4:3
- No audio track! (especially important for uploading via desktop apps)
- Suggested width: 380, 640 or 848
- Suggested height: a multiple of 16 (but remember to use the correct aspect ratio!)
(Other widths/heights may also work – but if you run into problems, try the suggested ones.)
2. Once you've prepared your videos for publication, use an official app to send them to your channel.
- Send as a video (not file).
- If you use a mobile app, set the maximum quality.
- If you use iOS, disable audio before sending (tap on the speaker icon) – even if you removed the soundtrack when preparing the video for publication.
- If you use Android, don't disable audio – instead remove the soundtrack when preparing video for publication.
3. If @ContestBot tells you your videos were not accepted, you can tap the "Show videos with issues" button to get details on each problematic video.
4. If the bot tells you you haven't submitted any videos, see number 1 in this message👆.
5. Note on audio tracks:
If @ContestBot doesn’t recognize the videos, make sure that you have disabled the soundtrack completely before uploading. Your video file must have no audio channels for desktop apps to recognize them properly.
There are many ways of disabling the audio track in a video. If you’re having difficulties, we suggest googling for a solution that works best for you.
6. Note on size:
If you uploaded your videos more than a few hours ago and @ContestBot says their size is too large, try re-uploading them again.
If you tried again and it's still not working, try saving them with the standard H.264 preset: preset=medium, crf=23 — and re-upload again.
This should also help if your video gets stuck at 100% during uploading to public channels with the correct caption.
Given that some participants in the Second Round of the GIF Contest encountered issues with uploading their reaction videos and some uploaded them too early to be accepted, we've decided to extend submissions by one more day.
The new deadline is November 9, 23:59 (Dubai time).
If you are having any issues, please see this message for details.
The new deadline is November 9, 23:59 (Dubai time).
If you are having any issues, please see this message for details.
GIF Contest, Round 2: Submissions
We received 33,792 reaction videos from 460 participants in the Second Round of the GIF Contest.
Everybody is welcome to view the submissions using GIF search in any Telegram app:
- Open the GIF panel (a tab in the sticker panel)
- Type #reactiongif in the search box
- You can refine the search by adding one emoji after the hashtag.
Have fun while our judges evaluate the results!
We received 33,792 reaction videos from 460 participants in the Second Round of the GIF Contest.
Everybody is welcome to view the submissions using GIF search in any Telegram app:
- Open the GIF panel (a tab in the sticker panel)
- Type #reactiongif in the search box
- You can refine the search by adding one emoji after the hashtag.
Have fun while our judges evaluate the results!
🏆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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
Telegram Contests
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…
Thanks to everyone who used @ContestRatingBot to rate the quality of reaction videos.
We will reach out to those who achieved the best scores. Expect to hear from us before 23:59 Dubai time on Friday, December 24.
Everyone is welcome to keep using the bot while we finish evaluating the results. The final results of round 2 should become available in January.
We will reach out to those who achieved the best scores. Expect to hear from us before 23:59 Dubai time on Friday, December 24.
Everyone is welcome to keep using the bot while we finish evaluating the results. The final results of round 2 should become available in January.
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.
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.
Forwarded from Telegram Designers
🏆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.
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.
Forwarded from Telegram Designers
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
Forwarded from Telegram Designers
🏆 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
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
GIF Contest, Round 2: Community Evaluation
Phase 1: Image Quality
Our quality evaluation has ended! 🎉
We would like to thank everyone who contributed — together we were able to gather millions of ratings across 33,792 reaction videos in just a few weeks.
We've identified more than 8,000 high-quality reaction videos that will now be further evaluated in Phase 2.
Phase 2: Relevance
@ContestRatingBot will let you rate the relevance of the first 920 reaction videos. If you successfully complete this task before 23:59 Dubai time on February 21, we may invite you to process more reaction videos for monetary compensation.
We collected some examples 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.
Good luck!
Phase 1: Image Quality
Our quality evaluation has ended! 🎉
We would like to thank everyone who contributed — together we were able to gather millions of ratings across 33,792 reaction videos in just a few weeks.
We've identified more than 8,000 high-quality reaction videos that will now be further evaluated in Phase 2.
Phase 2: Relevance
@ContestRatingBot will let you rate the relevance of the first 920 reaction videos. If you successfully complete this task before 23:59 Dubai time on February 21, we may invite you to process more reaction videos for monetary compensation.
We collected some examples 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.
Good luck!
🏆 Telegram X Android Competition: Round 1
Prize fund for Round 1: $25,000.
Deadline: 23:59 on July 2nd (Dubai time).
Who can participate: Everyone.
Results announcement: July 12th, 2022.
The Task is to implement message reactions identical to the demo materials of
• You should use the Telegram X source code available on GitHub.
• You must avoid using an existing codebase of the same functionality from other Telegram clients.
• Final result must be submitted as a ready-to-merge pull request to the repository on the deadline date.
Your pull request should support:
1. Sending a reaction to each message type in private chats, groups, and channels. When holding down an emoji in the reactions panel, the app is expected to display a full-screen animation effect once the reaction is sent.
2. Allowing a user to set their preferred Quick Reaction in Settings.
3. Accessing the list of reacted users in groups in the following ways:
• Press and hold the specific reaction button for a quick view.
• Open the 'Reacted' list to show a multi-tab interface, with individual sections for each reaction emoji. Users should be able to switch tabs via a swipe gesture.
4. Turning message reactions on or off in group and channel management – including the ability for admins to disable and enable individual reaction emoji from the list.
5. Display an unseen reaction badge both in the chat list and inside the conversation.
Evaluation Criteria:
1. The overall code quality will be a top priority, aside from animation smoothness and overall stability. Make sure to get familiar with the project structure and guide for contributors before getting started. Reaction code should keep in mind possible future use on other screens outside of the task (i.e. placing reactions through shared media).
2. The implemented features should not impact existing functions, like causing the app to crash when interacting with other features.
3. Ensure the app is free of major glitches, interface jumps, and severe layout issues.
4. Your app should run smoothly on a wide range of devices. In the evaluation stage, we will test with several devices, including Samsung Galaxy (A51, S10, S21 Ultra), Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, and more.
5. Implementing a clearly better sticker render (i.e. less disk space usage, better FPS, less CPU usage) will be considered a major advantage, but only after completing all other parts of the task.
6. Attempts to impersonate someone else's work (i.e. submitting a copy of someone else's pull request) will lead to permanent disqualification from Telegram X contests and any potential reward systems in the future.
Submissions:
Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at the end of this round. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.
P.S. For the next stage, we expect to only invite contestants who achieve🥉3rd place or higher in this round.
Prize fund for Round 1: $25,000.
Deadline: 23:59 on July 2nd (Dubai time).
Who can participate: Everyone.
Results announcement: July 12th, 2022.
The Task is to implement message reactions identical to the demo materials of
TGX Reactions.zip attached below, including all the animations, layouts, and other visual effects:• You should use the Telegram X source code available on GitHub.
• You must avoid using an existing codebase of the same functionality from other Telegram clients.
• Final result must be submitted as a ready-to-merge pull request to the repository on the deadline date.
Your pull request should support:
1. Sending a reaction to each message type in private chats, groups, and channels. When holding down an emoji in the reactions panel, the app is expected to display a full-screen animation effect once the reaction is sent.
2. Allowing a user to set their preferred Quick Reaction in Settings.
3. Accessing the list of reacted users in groups in the following ways:
• Press and hold the specific reaction button for a quick view.
• Open the 'Reacted' list to show a multi-tab interface, with individual sections for each reaction emoji. Users should be able to switch tabs via a swipe gesture.
4. Turning message reactions on or off in group and channel management – including the ability for admins to disable and enable individual reaction emoji from the list.
5. Display an unseen reaction badge both in the chat list and inside the conversation.
Evaluation Criteria:
1. The overall code quality will be a top priority, aside from animation smoothness and overall stability. Make sure to get familiar with the project structure and guide for contributors before getting started. Reaction code should keep in mind possible future use on other screens outside of the task (i.e. placing reactions through shared media).
2. The implemented features should not impact existing functions, like causing the app to crash when interacting with other features.
3. Ensure the app is free of major glitches, interface jumps, and severe layout issues.
4. Your app should run smoothly on a wide range of devices. In the evaluation stage, we will test with several devices, including Samsung Galaxy (A51, S10, S21 Ultra), Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, and more.
5. Implementing a clearly better sticker render (i.e. less disk space usage, better FPS, less CPU usage) will be considered a major advantage, but only after completing all other parts of the task.
6. Attempts to impersonate someone else's work (i.e. submitting a copy of someone else's pull request) will lead to permanent disqualification from Telegram X contests and any potential reward systems in the future.
Submissions:
Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at the end of this round. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.
P.S. For the next stage, we expect to only invite contestants who achieve🥉3rd place or higher in this round.
Contestants are now welcome to send their submissions for the Telegram X Contest to @ContestBot.
Choose “Telegram X Android Competition”, answer the bot’s questions, then send it a link to your ready-to-merge pull request for this repository on GitHub.
Note: The name of your PR must contain #154.
Choose “Telegram X Android Competition”, answer the bot’s questions, then send it a link to your ready-to-merge pull request for this repository on GitHub.
Note: The name of your PR must contain #154.
Telegram X Android Competition: Submissions
We received 11 submissions for the Telegram X Contest.
Everyone is welcome to check out the apps on contest.com (at their own risk) while our judges evaluate the results:
https://contest.com/android-x-r1/
We received 11 submissions for the Telegram X Contest.
Everyone is welcome to check out the apps on contest.com (at their own risk) while our judges evaluate the results:
https://contest.com/android-x-r1/
🏆 GIF Contest, Round 2 Results
Announcing the results of Round 2 of the GIF Contest.
Our Judges and paid helpers made over 500,000 unique judgments and ratings to select 285 winning entries containing thousands of GIFs. To account for the great number of high-quality submissions we received, we will be distributing an additional $10,000 on top of our initial budget – for a total of $60,000.
To see some high-quality, smooth and expressive GIFs created by the contest winners, simply open the GIF search section in your Telegram app. (Android: Emoji Icon > GIF, iOS: sticker panel > GIF. You can insert an emoji in the search field.)
Results
Each submission was individually rated 1-3 by several Telegram judges, who also considered ratings submitted by paid helpers.
The rating mainly reflects image quality, the overall usability of the submissions and their relevance for the chosen emoji.
In addition, our judges considered creativity, uniqueness and style consistency. Bonus points were granted to submissions that achieved excellent quality while maintaining a small size.
Here are some notable mentions!
🎞 Iconic Movies
• Young Quokka
• Swift Eagle
🎬 Modern Movies
• Merry Lynx
• Mad Skunk
• Kind Beaver
🛸 3D Cartoons
• Fit Skunk
• Nice Ram
• Calm Dolphin
🎨 2D Cartoons
• Noble Duck
• Small Bass
• Sturdy Shark
🏅View All 285 Winners
PS. You can have more fun checking out the winners by simply playing around with the GIF search. Which one is your favorite?
We will reach out to each of the winners and paid helpers to coordinate the payment of prizes.
Announcing the results of Round 2 of the GIF Contest.
Our Judges and paid helpers made over 500,000 unique judgments and ratings to select 285 winning entries containing thousands of GIFs. To account for the great number of high-quality submissions we received, we will be distributing an additional $10,000 on top of our initial budget – for a total of $60,000.
To see some high-quality, smooth and expressive GIFs created by the contest winners, simply open the GIF search section in your Telegram app. (Android: Emoji Icon > GIF, iOS: sticker panel > GIF. You can insert an emoji in the search field.)
Results
Each submission was individually rated 1-3 by several Telegram judges, who also considered ratings submitted by paid helpers.
The rating mainly reflects image quality, the overall usability of the submissions and their relevance for the chosen emoji.
In addition, our judges considered creativity, uniqueness and style consistency. Bonus points were granted to submissions that achieved excellent quality while maintaining a small size.
Here are some notable mentions!
🎞 Iconic Movies
• Young Quokka
• Swift Eagle
🎬 Modern Movies
• Merry Lynx
• Mad Skunk
• Kind Beaver
🛸 3D Cartoons
• Fit Skunk
• Nice Ram
• Calm Dolphin
🎨 2D Cartoons
• Noble Duck
• Small Bass
• Sturdy Shark
🏅View All 285 Winners
PS. You can have more fun checking out the winners by simply playing around with the GIF search. Which one is your favorite?
We will reach out to each of the winners and paid helpers to coordinate the payment of prizes.