ProZ.com translation contests

Current and previous contests

	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

Contest: Finals phase has been extended. We need your vote!	Thank you for your comments! Anna Byers wrote: This is my first time I am voting. I would like to recognize contestant nr 37193. I am Ukrainian translator myself and appreciate hard work of others who are in the same field. Good job and thank you. I would like to be able to participate in the contest next year. Indeed! We congratulate all participants for their valuable work and also for taking interest in the contest. You're welcome to join our next Translation Contest opening in May. We'll be emailing and announcing the starting date soon. Regards, Ana Contest Organizer Member Services ProZ.com	Ana Moirano Argentina
Discussion about 32nd Translation Contest: "Movie night" in English to Portuguese (BR) - Entry #37151	Parabéns Renato Carvalho Prezado campeão Renato, Tomo a liberdade de registrar a minha profunda admiração pela qualidade da sua tradução! Achei simplesmente incrivel e me dei conta da criatividade na qual você se apoiou para constituir o texto traduzido. Diria que a diversão do texto de partida corresponde à alegria do seu texto de chegada! Grande abraço, Martina	Martina Maigret France
Discussion about 32nd Translation Contest: "Movie night" in Norwegian to English	What a waste of time for all concerned I spent ages checking and rating all the different translations of an overly long text. What a waste of everyone's time if there is no winner. Why not ask someone who didn't enter to judge it, or award the prize on the basis of the ratings given to the finalists?	Christopher Schröder United Kingdom
32nd translation contest another disaster	Finally a contest in one of my languages, but what a waste of everyone's time entering and voting when not a single winner was chosen for translation of the Norwegian text into any language. There's simply no point in holding these contests if ProZ doesn't take effective action to get more people interested. Promote them more. Reward participation/voting with points or discounts. Make voting easier. Make the texts shorter. Get a single judge to pick a winner. If necessary, force people to vote. But please don't continue to waste people's time by making the same mistakes over and over again.	Christopher Schröder United Kingdom
Contest: Finals phase has been extended. We need your vote!	Dear all, Finals voting has been extended for ten more days in the current translation contest, Movie night. Please help to determine the winning translations by voting for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in your language pair(s). A total of 56 language pairs are currently in finals. In other pairs, not enough entries were received in order to open competition, and they have been placed in feedback mode so that the translations can be viewed and discussed. You can see the contest here: Movie night. Best regards, Ana Member services ProZ.com	Ana Moirano Argentina

What members have said about ProZ.com translation contests

I always thought of the contests to be a good chance to learn from our mistakes.

Dasa Suciu

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

Italy

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

lundy

France