BanglaTech Competitions — Overview and Getting Started — BanglaTech

What are BanglaTech Competitions?

BanglaTech competitions are public events that anyone can host or join. They have a public landing page with description, dates, participant list, live leaderboard, and a shareable invite link. Three types cover different use cases:

Quiz Competition — one-shot, auto-graded. Best for school exams, knowledge contests, onboarding quizzes.
Story Competition — blind-judged writing contest with human judges. Best for creative writing contests, essay competitions, journalism prizes.
Game Challenge — recurring daily/weekly/monthly leaderboard on top of one of 6 mini-games. Best for community engagement, long-running "contest of the week" events.

Which Type Should You Pick?

🏆 Quiz Competition

Choose this if you have a set of questions (MCQ, multi-answer, fill-in-the-blank) and you want instant, auto-graded results with a live leaderboard. No waiting for judges, no subjective scoring.

Effort: Low — create a quiz once, link it to a competition, activate.
Scoring: Fully automatic based on correct answers + optional negative marking.
Leaderboard: Updates in real time as students submit.

→ Full Quiz Competition Tutorial

📖 Story Competition

Choose this for writing contests — short stories, essays, poetry, articles. Students write their entries in BanglaTech's rich editor, submit as a tagged blog post, and a panel of judges privately scores each one. Winners are revealed on a scheduled date.

Effort: Medium — requires human judges and score coordination.
Scoring: Judges score 0–100 with optional feedback. Multiple judges' scores are averaged.
Privacy: Students can't read each other's stories before the reveal date — keeps judging fair and prevents copying.

→ Full Story Competition Tutorial

🎮 Game Challenge

Choose this for ongoing community engagement. Pick one of 6 mini-games (Speed Math, Word Battle, Reaction, Memory Rain, Pattern Recognition, Code Output), set a frequency (daily/weekly/monthly), and the leaderboard resets automatically every cycle. Perfect for "daily brain warmup" style contests.

Effort: Very low — no content to create; the game is already built. Just configure and go.
Scoring: Automatic game scoring fed into per-cycle leaderboards.
Leaderboard: Resets every day / week / month for a fresh chance at #1.

→ Full Game Challenge Tutorial

Features Common to All Types

Public or group-scoped visibility — host publicly on /competitions or privately inside a specific group
Shareable invite link + QR code — auto-generated for every competition
Participant management — admins can see every participant, their scores, and submission times
Organization branding — set the hosting organization name shown on the competition card
Rich description editor — use the same TipTap editor as blog posts for rules, prizes, and contact info (supports math, code, images)
Draft / Live / Ended lifecycle — create in draft, go live when ready, end when time's up

Advanced Features (Dedicated Tutorials Coming Soon)

These features work across all competition types and will get their own specialized tutorials:

💰 Paid Competitions

Set an entry fee in BDT, accept bKash payments, and require admin approval before students can participate. Useful for funded writing contests and revenue-sharing quiz events.

🎓 Certificates

Auto-generate PDF certificates for top-3 winners with the competition name, student name, rank, and host organization. Students download from their profile after the competition ends.

🏅 Achievement Badges

Award manual or automatic badges to participants — "First Place Winner", "Top 10 Finisher", "Perfect Score", and so on. Badges show up on student profiles and in group activity feeds.

Quick Start

Decide which type fits your use case (see the three sections above)
Click the link to the specialized tutorial for that type
Follow the walkthrough with real screenshots — takes about 7–10 minutes to read
Create your first competition and share the invite link

Happy hosting!