Channel
@contest
On this record: Topic · Also posting the same content · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
296,750subscribers
-1,513 since we began measuring on 5 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 100,000–316,228.
| Telegram ID | -1001038976893 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @contest |
| Description | Here we announce Telegram coding contests in Android Java, iOS Swift, JS, C/C++. Discussion: @contests |
| Created | 22 March 2016 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 22 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 17 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 22 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/contest |
Giveaways & airdrops — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 8 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 67% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026, 06:58 | 296,750 | -213 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 21:05 | 296,963 | -68 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 20:29 | 297,031 | -138 |
| 18 Aug 2026, 19:28 | 297,169 | -33 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 16:17 | 297,202 | -5 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 07:06 | 297,207 | -87 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 16:35 | 297,294 | -44 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 08:33 | 297,338 | -97 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 11:14 | 297,435 | -162 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 14:15 | 297,597 | -104 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 16:35 | 297,701 | -3 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 19:41 | 297,704 | -110 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 21:56 | 297,814 | -145 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:33 | 297,959 | -189 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:55 | 298,148 | -115 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 00:54 | 298,263 | no change |
| 5 Aug 2026, 21:26 | 298,263 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 22 December 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 37 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 16 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 22 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Digital Freedom Contest: Submissions 👏 We would like to thank each contestant for their input – you are all amazing! More than 1,000 links were submitted, already drawing over 67.2M views. That is the population of a large country – reached, thanks to you, with the idea of digital freedom. 🎬 We will open all submissions on contest.com in the coming days – watch for a separate announcement here. Judging is already u…
ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Digital Freedom Contest. Start the bot, choose “Digital Freedom Contest”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: – A link(s) to your video(s) on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat Spotlights or X. Username Verification: Remember to include your Telegram @username in the caption of your video on the external platform. If you cannot edit the caption, your Telegr…
🏆 Digital Freedom Contest: Clarifications and Submissions We are glad to provide clarifications regarding the numerous similar questions we received: Q: How many videos can be submitted? A: You can submit multiple videos across different platforms – e.g., 3 separate videos for X and 2 for TikTok – or one video for each qualifying platform (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat or X), provided each separate video gai…
🏆 Digital Freedom Contest Prize Fund: $200,000 Deadline: July 15, 23:59 Dubai time Results: August 2026 📱 Telegram is launching its most ambitious contest for content creators. The Task Create a viral video about digital freedom, post it on one of these platforms — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat Spotlights or X — and get 10,000+ authentic views. Requirements and Conditions – You must use at least some ideas…
Design Contest 2026, Round 2: Submissions Reminder: only those who secured 🥈2nd or 🥉3rd places in Round 1 will be able to submit their work. ContestBot will begin accepting your submissions during the next 24 hours – you will be able to submit your work by 23:59 Dubai Time on May 18th, 2026. Similar to Round 1, your submission must include: – A link to either a private or public channel, with all relevant media po…
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🏆 Contest for Artists: Results 😌 Our first artist contest of this scale drew hundreds of creative minds. 🤝 The review phase was intense and lengthy. We went through every submission with care and were thrilled by how many outstanding entries we found. 📬 Some artists have also been approached directly to explore further cooperation opportunities – in addition to their share of the prize fund. Meet the winners! Fu…
💎 Blockchain Contest, Round 2: Results We awarded $100,400 to the winners of TON Consensus Challenge. The core task was to find potential flaws in TON's new consensus algorithm – though participants were welcome to report any other flaws they came across. All these efforts from the contestants helped us make the algorithm flawless. 1st PLACE 🥇 Happy Turtle – $19,800 🥇 Shiny Giraffe – $18,200 🥇 Dandy Ram – $13,200…
🏆 Design Contest 2026, Round 2 Deadline: 23:59 Dubai time @ May 17, 2026 Who can participate: only those who secured 🥈2nd or 🥉3rd places in Round 1. 📱 Telegram announces an express round of the Design Contest for selected winners of our previous competition. The Task: Identify weak spots in existing features of our official apps (Android, iOS, Telegram Desktop) and propose improvements – fixing the flaws and makin…
🏆 Design Contest 2025: Results 🧠 Our most challenging Design Contest to date turned out to be a great success. This time, designers faced the complex task of crafting not just a standalone feature, but the foundation of an entirely new way to communicate on Telegram – and to manage that flow. 🌈 It was truly rewarding to come across so many gems out of 192 submissions – thank you. We spent more than a hundred hours …
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ContestBot is now ready to accept submissions for the Blockchain Contest, Round 2. Start the bot, choose “TON Consensus Challenge”, answer the bot’s questions, then send: – A ZIP archive containing a .md or .txt file with a brief summary of the issues you reported using Rapid Reports; number the issues accordingly. Note: Send your submission from exactly the same account you used to report the issues.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @contest. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 16 of 1,583,249entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 228 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it. The 24 listed below are the most frequent namers; the rest are counted above but not each listed.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s.When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 20 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 3 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Telegram Contests” (@contest), 296,750 subscribers as measured 22 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/contest.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.