ProZ.com translation contests

Current and previous contests

	33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 434 Participants 341 Language pairs 81
	32nd Translation Contest: "Movie night"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 433 Participants 331 Language pairs 81
	31st translation contest: "A translator's life"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 802 Participants 600 Language pairs 114
	30th translation contest: "Translators translating translators"	Finals phase Deadline reached	Entries 106 Participants 91 Language pairs 39
	Mini contest 2021: "Ilustraciones"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 170 Participants 118 Language pairs 53
	28th translation contest: "CPN contest"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 124 Participants 110 Language pairs 30
	27th translation contest: "Stories about nature"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 455 Participants 406 Language pairs 77
	26 translation contest: "Game on"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 328 Participants 293 Language pairs 61
	25th translation contest: "Alien first impressions"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 535 Participants 437 Language pairs 85
	Inspired by poetry: "Ploughing mountainsides"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 372 Participants 362 Language pairs 55
	Mox presents: "The comic life of a translator"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 693 Participants 665 Language pairs 71
	Bon voyage: "Stories about travel"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 481 Participants 407 Language pairs 77
	21st translation contest: "The tides of tech"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 586 Participants 540 Language pairs 64
	Strange urgency: "The cat"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 42 Participants 35 Language pairs 11
	Benevolent deception: "The placebo button effect"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 382 Participants 330 Language pairs 57
	Translation mash-up: "Dust Bowl"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 104 Participants 96 Language pairs 42
	Homo-digital: "La sociedad transparente"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 82 Participants 76 Language pairs 23
	17th Translation Contest: "The Sounds of Silence"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 883 Participants 810 Language pairs 77
	2014 annual ProZ.com translation contest: "Celebrations"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 2,840 Participants 2,114 Language pairs 222
	Exploring the desert: "The Doomed City"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 79 Participants 78 Language pairs 18
	Sin telaraña en las pupilas: "Frases de Oliverio Girondo"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 196 Participants 136 Language pairs 20
	Poetry with a tune: "Translation of Lyrics"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 285 Participants 263 Language pairs 38
	11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 820 Participants 668 Language pairs 93
	Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 625 Participants 593 Language pairs 64
	9th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Business"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 1,163 Participants 769 Language pairs 141
	1st Annual ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Awakening"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 933 Participants 705 Language pairs 120
	7th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Sports"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 526 Participants 403 Language pairs 107
	6th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Relationships"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 591 Participants 451 Language pairs 98
	5th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Travel"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 464 Participants 358 Language pairs 67
	Fourth ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Raising children"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 518 Participants 393 Language pairs 82
	Third ProZ.com Translation Contest	Finished (View winners)	Entries 230 Participants 208 Language pairs 49
	Second ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007	Finished (View winners)	Entries 119 Participants 95 Language pairs 33
	First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007: "First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007"	Finished (View winners)	Entries 240 Participants 186 Language pairs 18

Recent discussion about ProZ.com translation contests

New translation contest	Sad This is sad to me. As a newly graduated translator, I like to participate in contests to gain experience, find my inner style, build confidence, and a name for myself, in the literary world. So, it's sad to learn that a translation contest gets tempered by the organizer itself.	Maria Laura Curzi Argentinien
New translation contest	@Daryo I've noticed too some MT entries in the last contest. Anyway, I haven't seen any actual winner for my language pair yet.	Gjorgji Apostolovski Mazedonien
New translation contest	Nothing new there ... Lingua 5B wrote: I assume it’ll turn into a post-editing or GPT clean-up contest. Nothing new there ... already happened, years ago. see I lost all interest in translation contests few years ago, when I spotted an entry - a "translation into Serbian" - that was blatantly done by someone who doesn't know the first thing about the Serbian language but used some MT instead, and nothing was done to remove it. https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=Could%20do%20all,to%20remove%20it. and If it was in the Proz contest, there is actually one fictional profile (GoTrans) that Proz uses to make MT entries (this was explained during the last Translation Day event). It's a sort of gimmick which is there since quite some time to track I suppose the progress of machine translation. https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=Could%20do%20all,to%20remove%20it. and creating fictional profiles that other contest participants have no ways of knowing are fictional ought to be against some rule - especially given that it was NEVER announced in any translation contest rule that MT posing as a fictional profile will be a participant. It didn't "let me down", I simply decided I have better use of my time than to be a free tester for MT:. https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination-page2.html#:~:text=creating%20fictional%20profiles,tester%20for%20MT.	Daryo Vereinigtes Königreich
New translation contest	good reasons Zea_Mays wrote: Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote: Zea_Mays wrote: but no thanks. For reasons. Well, you can't just say for reasons, and not mentioning the reasons. Many here know perfectly what is meant, but to get you started: https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination.html Well, these are good reasons. With my previous profile here at ProZ I was contestant in two or three contests for my language pair, and all without a winner.	Gjorgji Apostolovski Mazedonien
New translation contest	food for thought Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote: Zea_Mays wrote: but no thanks. For reasons. Well, you can't just say for reasons, and not mentioning the reasons. Many here know perfectly what is meant, but to get you started: https://www.proz.com/forum/prozcom_translation_contests/364369-non_transparent_contest_rules_and_illogical_winner_determination.html	Zea_Mays Italien

What members have said about ProZ.com translation contests

Bravo again to ProZ.com for the opportunity it provides to so many translators to have fun, work hard and do things differently and in a different spirit.

Taoufik Chaouachi

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I was just so excited about winning that I couldn't wait to display the winner’s ribbon and the certificate on my profile page!

Adele Oliveri

Italien

Thanks to all the contest organizers - it must be a mammoth task and in the end it is an enjoyable and useful process!

lundy

Frankreich