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

Contest logo		33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground"Finished
Entries434
Participants341
Language pairs81
Contest logo		32nd Translation Contest: "Movie night"Finished
Entries433
Participants331
Language pairs81
Contest logo		31st translation contest: "A translator's life"Finished
Entries802
Participants600
Language pairs114
Contest logo		30th translation contest: "Translators translating translators"Finals phase
Entries106
Participants91
Language pairs39
Contest logo		Mini contest 2021: "Ilustraciones"Finished
Entries170
Participants118
Language pairs53
Contest logo		28th translation contest: "CPN contest"Finished
Entries124
Participants110
Language pairs30
Contest logo		27th translation contest: "Stories about nature"Finished
Entries455
Participants406
Language pairs77
Contest logo		26 translation contest: "Game on"Finished
Entries328
Participants293
Language pairs61
Contest logo		25th translation contest: "Alien first impressions"Finished
Entries535
Participants437
Language pairs85
Contest logo		Inspired by poetry: "Ploughing mountainsides"Finished
Entries372
Participants362
Language pairs55
Contest logo		Mox presents: "The comic life of a translator"Finished
Entries693
Participants665
Language pairs71
Contest logo		Bon voyage: "Stories about travel"Finished
Entries481
Participants407
Language pairs77
Contest logo		21st translation contest: "The tides of tech"Finished
Entries586
Participants540
Language pairs64
Contest logo		Strange urgency: "The cat"Finished
Entries42
Participants35
Language pairs11
Contest logo		Benevolent deception: "The placebo button effect"Finished
Entries382
Participants330
Language pairs57
Contest logo		Translation mash-up: "Dust Bowl"Finished
Entries104
Participants96
Language pairs42
Contest logo		Homo-digital: "La sociedad transparente"Finished
Entries82
Participants76
Language pairs23
Contest logo		17th Translation Contest: "The Sounds of Silence"Finished
Entries883
Participants810
Language pairs77
Contest logo		2014 annual ProZ.com translation contest: "Celebrations"Finished
Entries2,840
Participants2,114
Language pairs222
Contest logo		Exploring the desert: "The Doomed City"Finished
Entries79
Participants78
Language pairs18
Contest logo		Sin telaraña en las pupilas: "Frases de Oliverio Girondo"Finished
Entries196
Participants136
Language pairs20
Contest logo		Poetry with a tune: "Translation of Lyrics"Finished
Entries285
Participants263
Language pairs38
Contest logo		11th ProZ.com translation contest: "Contemporary society"Finished
Entries820
Participants668
Language pairs93
Contest logo		Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes"Finished
Entries625
Participants593
Language pairs64
Contest logo		9th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Business"Finished
Entries1,163
Participants769
Language pairs141
Contest logo		1st Annual ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Awakening"Finished
Entries933
Participants705
Language pairs120
Contest logo		7th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Sports"Finished
Entries526
Participants403
Language pairs107
Contest logo		6th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Relationships"Finished
Entries591
Participants451
Language pairs98
Contest logo		5th ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Travel"Finished
Entries464
Participants358
Language pairs67
Contest logo		Fourth ProZ.com Translation Contest: "Raising children"Finished
Entries518
Participants393
Language pairs82
Contest logo		Third ProZ.com Translation ContestFinished
Entries230
Participants208
Language pairs49
Contest logo		Second ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007Finished
Entries119
Participants95
Language pairs33
Contest logo		First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007: "First ProZ.com Translation Contest 2007"Finished
Entries240
Participants186
Language pairs18



Recent discussion about ProZ.com translation contests

New translation contestSad

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
Maria Laura Curzi
Arjantin
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
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Makedonya
New translation contestNothing 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
Daryo
Birleşik Krallık
New translation contestgood 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
Gjorgji Apostolovski
Makedonya
New translation contestfood 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
Zea_Mays
İtalya




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
Katar

I love the contest and I think it's an all-too-rare opportunity to get some feedback from our peers. May it continue long into the future and frequently!
patyjs
Meksika

It was fun to translate [the contest source text] because it presents a certain idea or principle in many different ways (and words) and thereby reveals whether the translator has full command of his/her target language.
Anna Haxen
Danimarka