Translation contests

ProZ.com translation contests

ProZ.com translation contests offer a fun way to take a break from your normal routine while testing and honing your skills with fellow translators.

Current and previous contests

Inspired by poetry: "Ploughing mountainsides"

Finals phase

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Entries	372
Participants	362
Language pairs	55

Mox presents: "The comic life of a translator"

Finals phase

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Entries	693
Participants	665
Language pairs	71

Bon voyage: "Stories about travel"

Finished

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Entries	481
Participants	407
Language pairs	77

21st translation contest: "The tides of tech"

Finished

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Entries	586
Participants	540
Language pairs	64

Strange urgency: "The cat"

Finished

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Entries	42
Participants	35
Language pairs	11

Benevolent deception: "The placebo button effect"

Finished

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Entries	382
Participants	330
Language pairs	57

Translation mash-up: "Dust Bowl"

Finished

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Entries	104
Participants	96
Language pairs	42

Homo-digital: "La sociedad transparente"

Finished

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Entries	82
Participants	76
Language pairs	23

17th Translation Contest: "The Sounds of Silence"

Finished

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Entries	883
Participants	810
Language pairs	77

2014 annual ProZ.com translation contest: "Celebrations"

Finished

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Entries	2,840
Participants	2,114
Language pairs	222

Exploring the desert: "The Doomed City"

Finished

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Entries	79
Participants	78
Language pairs	18

Sin telaraña en las pupilas: "Frases de Oliverio Girondo"

Finished

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Entries	196
Participants	136
Language pairs	20

Poetry with a tune: "Translation of Lyrics"

Finished

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Entries	285
Participants	263
Language pairs	38

11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society"

Finished

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Entries	820
Participants	668
Language pairs	93

Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes"

Finished

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Entries	625
Participants	593
Language pairs	64

9th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Business"

Finished

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Entries	1,163
Participants	769
Language pairs	141

1st Annual ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Awakening"

Finished

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Entries	933
Participants	705
Language pairs	120

7th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Sports"

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Entries	526
Participants	403
Language pairs	107

6th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Relationships"

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Entries	591
Participants	451
Language pairs	98

5th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Travel"

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Entries	464
Participants	358
Language pairs	67

Fourth ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Raising children"

Finished

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Entries	518
Participants	393
Language pairs	82

Third ProZ.com Translation Contest

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Entries	230
Participants	208
Language pairs	49

Second ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007

Finished

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Entries	119
Participants	95
Language pairs	33

First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007: "First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007"

Finished

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Entries	240
Participants	186
Language pairs	18

Recent discussion about ProZ.com translation contests

"The comic life of a translator" and ""Ploughing mountainsides" are now on finals	[IMG]https://cfcdn.proz.com/file_resources/other/tn_a43254932cb75851b587fd1317db3a0a_ContestsForum-finals2.png[/IMG] Hi, all ProZ.com translation contests have moved to the final round. Don't forget to vote for your favorite translation, as we are closer to determining the winners in each of the following language pairs: The comic life of a translator: English to French English to Italian English to Ukrainian English to Chinese English to Galician English to Latin English to Burmese English to Dutch English to Javanese English to Uzbek English to Maltese English to Spanish English to German English to Arabic English to Swahili English to Russian English to Polish English to Greek English to Indonesian English to Estonian English to Gujarati English to Amharic English to Japanese English to Tamil English to Czech English to Bulgarian English to Norwegian English to Tagalog English to Urdu English to Hausa English to Hungarian English to Macedonian English to Marathi English to Slovak English to Somali English to Afrikaans English to Basque English to Finnish English to Portuguese (BR) English to Serbian Ploughing mountainsides: English to Spanish English to Chinese English to Russian English to Afrikaans English to Albanian English to Arabic English to Hebrew English to Portuguese (EU) English to Turkish English to Catalan English to Dutch English to Japanese English to Romanian English to Macedonian English to Marathi English to Portuguese (BR) English to Urdu English to Amharic English to Bulgarian English to Gujarati English to Hausa English to Nepali English to Serbo-Croat English to Slovenian English to Croatian English to Haitian-Creole English to Armenian English to Azerbaijani English to Estonian English to Finnish English to Hungarian English to Igbo English to Indonesian English to Kurdish English to Malayalam English to Maltese English to Swedish English to Yoruba English to French English to Italian English to Swahili Other language pairs have been placed in feedback, as they did not receive enough votes to transition to finals. Thank you all for participating, and best of luck to all the finalists! Happy translating, Julieta	Julieta Llamazares Argentina
Extended hybrid phase for "The comic life of a transator" and "Ploughing mountainsides"	Prizes should be awarded for voting The biggest problem of the translation contests is that no one wants to take time to vote for these contests and get nothing if they are not one of the candidates. If the result of a contest is: The first place: Translator A The second place: Translator B The third place: Translator C And if a voter's result is the same, Then some KudoZ points can be awarded to the voter. If the number of voters reached 100, then the awards are multiplied by 2. If the number of voters reached 500, then the awards are multiplied by 4. If ...multiplied by 8, 16, ... No money spent. Easy and costless. But this can make the translation contests real.	Jingwu Xing China
Extended hybrid phase for "The comic life of a transator" and "Ploughing mountainsides"	Bad idea to have two contests at the same time The whole idea of Translation Contest where winners are selected by peers is an awful idea. It gets worse when there are two of these contest. Obviously no one is willing to rate the translations and you have to extend the deadline, now this is the third deadline extension. You are also not willing to spend a penny on the contest and ask some users to rate the translations. Therefore, this time we probably won't have any winners in some languages and obviously translators are not having FUN in a contest. They just spent a few minutes or even hours to translate the text and soon they will find they wasted their time. Thank you Proz for wasting our time.	Reza Hashemi
Extended hybrid phase for "The comic life of a transator" and "Ploughing mountainsides"	[IMG]https://cfcdn.proz.com/file_resources/forums/361324f32ea02925c4e46ad7f0977164_HyridPContests (2).png[/IMG] Hi, there, I wanted to let you know that the hybrid phase for "The comic life of a translator" and "Ploughing mountainsides" translation contests has been extended to allow pairs placed in qualifications to receive more ratings and choose their finalists. For "The comic life of a translator": The following language pairs remain in qualification phase. Don't forget to rate entries submitted in these language pairs so that they can move to the next round: English to Korean English to Hindi English to Albanian English to Portuguese (BR) English to Bengali English to Farsi (Persian) English to Serbian English to Malay English to Thai English to Azerbaijani English to Vietnamese English to Romanian English to Catalan English to Hebrew The following language pairs are in finals. Your vote will determine the winners: English to French English to Italian English to Ukrainian English to Chinese English to Galician English to Latin English to Burmese English to Dutch English to Javanese English to Uzbek English to Maltese English to Spanish English to German English to Arabic English to Swahili English to Russian English to Polish English to Greek English to Indonesian English to Estonian English to Gujarati English to Amharic English to Japanese English to Tamil English to Czech English to Bulgarian English to Norwegian English to Tagalog English to Urdu English to Hausa English to Hungarian English to Macedonian English to Marathi English to Slovak English to Somali English to Afrikaans English to Basque English to Finnish And, as these language pairs did not receive enough entries, they have been placed in feedback. English to Bosnian English to Armenian English to Nepali English to Creoles & Pidgins (Other) English to Kinyarwanda English to Fanti (Fante) English to Lao English to Mongolian English to Twi And in "Ploughing mountainsides": These are the language pairs that will remain in qualifications: English to French English to Hindi English to German English to Korean English to Italian English to Farsi (Persian) English to Somali English to Malay English to Serbian English to Swahili English to Tamil English to Bengal English to Vietnamese English to Ukrainian These are now in finals, ready to select a winner: English to Spanish English to Chinese English to Russian English to Afrikaans English to Albanian English to Arabic English to Hebrew English to Portuguese (EU) English to Turkish English to Catalan English to Dutch English to Japanese English to Romanian English to Macedonian English to Marathi English to Portuguese (BR) English to Urdu English to Amharic English to Bulgarian English to Gujarati English to Hausa English to Nepali English to Serbo-Croat English to Slovenian English to Croatian English to Haitian-Creole English to Armenian English to Azerbaijani English to Estonian English to Finnish English to Hungarian English to Igbo English to Indonesian English to Kurdish English to Malayalam English to Maltese English to Swedish English to Yoruba And these pairs have been placed in feedback: English to Latin English to Mongolian English to Belarusian Thanks a lot for participating! Julieta	Julieta Llamazares Argentina
"Ploughing mountainsides" has moved to hybrid phase; time to vote and rate entries	[IMG]https://cfcdn.proz.com/file_resources/forums/tn_d6f090f1f5d7ae7170de53255f1500f4_PMForosMail.png[/IMG] Hi, all The translation contest "Ploughing mountainsides" is now on hybrid phase. Language pairs placed in "extended submissions" have been given a few extra days to receive enough entries and move to the following phase; those in "qualification" need ratings to select finalists; and those in "finals" need votes to select the winner. Extended submissions: English to Hausa English to Kurdish English to Mongolian English to Slovenian English to Croatian English to Haitian-Creole English to Belarusian English to Bulgarian English to Hungarian English to Latin English to Malayalam English to Serbo-Croat Qualifications: English to French English to Hindi English to German English to Spanish English to Korean English to Italian English to Somali English to Malay English to Serbian English to Chinese English to Swahili English to Tamil English to Bengali English to Russian English to Vietnamese English to Farsi (Persian) English to Ukrainian Finals: English to Hebrew English to Portuguese (EU) English to Turkish English to Catalan English to Dutch English to Japanese English to Romanian English to Macedonian English to Marathi English to Portuguese (BR) English to Urdu English to Amharic English to Gujarati English to Nepali English to Armenian English to Azerbaijani English to Estonian English to Finnish English to Igbo English to Indonesian English to Maltese English to Swedish English to Yoruba English to Afrikaans English to Albanian English to Arabic And don't forget to participate, rate and vote entries in "The comic life of a translator" too! Only a few days left to transition to the next round. Thanks to everyone who has participated so far. Happy translating, Julieta	Julieta Llamazares Argentina