December's Big Give: It's Back and Bigger Than Ever!
We know you want more, so our team at Topcoder is delivering for the fourth annual December’s Big Give! Just days removed from TCO21 filled with live broadcast videos, photos, and more, we are back and ready to give our members, and newbies, more Topcoder fun!
The goal of December’s Big Give is to give weekly rewards for our community members just for competing! That means by coming to Topcoder, participating in a challenge of any kind, and submitting, you’re being entered into a drawing for cash. All Topcoder challenges (including Marathon Matches and Single Round Matches) within the week count with the exception of tasks which are excluded from this contest.
Plus we have ways to earn just by submitting articles and referring friends for our freelance gigs.
DETAILS
December’s Big Give will kick off Wednesday, December 1 and every Wednesday we’ll select a winner.
Timeline:
Week 1:
December 1, 2021 at 00:00 – December 7, 2021 at 23:59
Winner announced December 8, 2021
Week 2:
December 8, 2021 at 00:00 – December 14, 2021 at 23:59
Winner announced December 15, 2021
Week 3:
December 15, 2021 at 00:00 – December 21, 2021 at 23:59
Winner announced December 22, 2021
Week 4:
December 22, 2021 at 00:00 – December 28, 2021 at 23:59
Winner announced December 29, 2021
Week 5:
December 29, 2021 at 00:00 – January 4, 2022 at 23:59
Winner announced January 5, 2022
Prizes:
- Four randomly selected challenge submitters win $50 each week.
- All first time challenge submitters win $50!
- All first time challenge submitters who joined our community and submitted a passing submission from December 1 - 31, 2021 will each earn $100.
OTHER WAYS WE’RE GIVING
Share your knowledge and write an article for our educational center, Thrive, and you can earn!
We are on the lookout for specific articles for our December's Big Give. Articles based on the following topics earn double prize!
Topics include:
- Low-Code, No-Code
- Web 3.0
- Decentralized Website Information
- NFTs
- Crypto wallets
- Cryptocurrency
- Fintech
- Next.JS
- Metaverse
Also, we are looking for some specific types of learning path articles. These ones are worth double the usual rate! $150! Check out what we want here.
To see some sample topics and view the overall process for submitting an article, please go here.
GIG WORKER REFERRALS
$1,000 cash is yours for every Topcoder member that gets hired for a gig between December 1 – 31, 2021 because of your referral. That is double the current rate - WHOA!!! See gigs to refer here.
ELIGIBILITY
In order to qualify to win a prize during December’s Big Give, you must meet the general eligibility criteria of the Topcoder Terms & Conditions.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Participate in Topcoder challenges and submit to challenges. That’s it! Find all our competitions here.
Refer friends to our freelance gigs with your custom link.
Looking forward to seeing you rock December at Topcoder. See winners and updates here.
Comments
Hey, are there any topics on UI/UX Design that we can write on Thrive?
Always! Any topic for design is appreciated. I also know that we can use learning paths for design. The other topics can have design aspects as well!
Where can we see the winner list of weekly winners that gets released on wednesday?
Please, avoid writing about basics of design or what we already had article in the past (check Thrive before you start writing). Possible design topics include but not limited to:
Hey kiril i wrote a article on Nov 2nd 2021 which is still in ready for review then how come december articles would be considered for the december big give ,if they dont even get attended in december ?
Hii there is no activity on the gitlab.com/topcoder-thrive/article-submit/-/issues previously moderater used to handle the articles on the daily basis but from past few months there is hardly any activity, once or twice a week. There are about 40+ ready for review articels and many unattended, a writer need motivation for writing but this approach doesn't serve any. If you can please state the reason for such approach.
We got a bit busy with TCO but we are workng on going through the articles and the all matter to us. Thank you!
Any article submitted during December regardless of any delay still earns extra rewards as per the promotion.
Thanks for providing this opportunity. I had a question, will we have to submit the articles for the topics mentioned above and learning path articles also at this website https://gitlab.com/topcoder-thrive/article-submit/-/issues? And should we provide some different topic tags, other than the usual ones?
Yes submit there. Use the usual tags and others based on what you write. Thanks!
Hey @kiril.kartunov @kkart i wrote a article on Nov 2nd 2021 which is still in ready for review then how come december articles would be considered for the december big give ,if they dont even get attended in december ?
Where can we see the winner list of weekly winners that gets released on wednesday?
Wednesday, December 8 winners $50 winners!
Congratulations!
See the winner reveal from Wednesday on Instagram here.
Will announce again there next week and here as well. Thanks everyone!
Wednesday, December 15 winners for week 2!
$50 to:
Congratulations!
@jmpld40 how you are selecting these 4 winners ?
A big wheel! All successful submitters from that week are added.
Wednesday, December 22 winners for week 3!
@AlbaM
@eulerscheZahl
@universo
@y.f.topcoder
$50 for each of you!
Wednesday, December 20 winners for week 4!
@SayantanDey
@ap31
@nkj_98
@highjump
$50 for each!
when will rookie srm 7 winners will be announced? its been 2 months!
Same question still the rank list havent been released and tshirts were said to be provided to top 20 rank scorers! Nothing has been posted regarding that
Wednesday, January 5 winners for week 5:
@Lina7
@viyaviya
@iaminfinite
@simonjc092
$50 for each!
Final winners for the other December prizes will be announced soon! Thanks all for your December participation and hope to see you continue being an awesome member!
First time submitters earned $50
@vasudeshwal
@my_goodness
@kerkenez
@harshitsaini15
@flaming-cl
@enigma34
@denilson.l65
@aditya.ak
@Vinida
@SashaKuharuk
@AngshumanM
@AlexandruMot
@AlbaM
@Akash007
First time submitters who joined Topcoder in December earned $100
@hrtj123
@nobagel
@striver_89
@timea
@vcdesign
@ziiqoos
Congrats!
why is my name not consider for this giveaway!!
I joined in December and even got my article published
Those winners were simply for submitting to challenges and is not related to Thrive article submissions. I apologize for that not being clear. Check the top of this thread for the details. If your submitted articles were accepted, you'll get paid.
Thank you for submitting articles and welcome to our community!
thank you @jmpld40 Looking foward in doing more challenges.
Hii there is no activity on the gitlab.com/topcoder-thrive/article-submit/-/issues previously moderater used to handle the articles on the daily basis but from past few months there is hardly any activity, once or twice a week. There are about 60+ ready for review articels and many unattended, a writer need motivation for writing but this approach doesn't serve any. If you can please state the reason for such approach.
Yeah, we'd love to know what might be causing delay in Article processing? And when can we expect the process to get back on track.
Hey @here,
Processing of the articles can take up to 6 weeks and payment comes as soon as the article is published on the website. We moderate and process articles as fast as we can however sometimes due to higher capacity, article publishing and payment can take longer. We appreciate your patience on the payment and process side and encourage you to reach out to support@topcoder.com if it has been past 6 weeks of your article submission.
Thank You!
Thank you Kiril for the information. This helps in setting expectations (I publish the articles I write on Medium after Topcoder publishes them). Now, I feel better about submitting more articles on a regular consistent basis. I consider writing articles for Thrive and Medium my self-employment job.
Hello Admins,
When we will receive the prize amount ?
Thank You
2 days!
Where can we see the winner list of weekly winners which is released on dec 8th 2022
From instagram live.
Here is the new thread for this year: https://discussions.topcoder.com/discussion/24758/2022-decembers-big-give