A series of challenges created by Replyers and open to anyone who loves technology and online competitions.
Reply Challenges are all about having fun, showing off your talent in Coding, Security, Creative and much more, to win some great prizes along the way. We are the first and only company to offer specially-designed online competitions to test all kinds of skills.

Why is Reply doing this?

Reply invests heavily in the research of talent and continual learning. The Reply Challenges fits within Reply’s vast programme of initiatives designed to promote the culture of the latest technologies, with a particular focus on the younger generations.

These Challenges are part of the Reply’s ongoing efforts to promote new ways of learning, fully digital, to young people.

We are the #1 and only company to offer specially-designed online competitions to test all kinds of skills.

Previously on Reply Challenges

2020

22TH MAY - 24TH MAY 2020

Creative challenge

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30TH mARCH - 24TH APRIL 2020

INVESTMENT

CHALLENGE

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12TH MARCH 2020

code challenge

TEEN EDITION

12TH MARCH 2020

code challenge

standard edition

2019

11th OCTOBER 2019

cyber security challenge

Capture the flag

edition

10th-12th may 2019

CREATIVE CHALLENGE

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15th march 2019

CODE CHALLENGE

STANDARD EDITION

15th march 2019

CODE CHALLENGE

TEEN EDITION

2018

5th october 2018

CYBER SECURITY

CHALLENGE

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15th march 2018

CODE CHALLENGE

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The challenge took place from May 22nd to 24th; each team had 48 hours to develop a creative concept for social media: Instagram story-telling, branded content, brand activation, service design and employer branding areas.

Five finalist teams, one for each category, were selected by an expert panel and presented their projects during the online final event on July 1st 2020, prior to the announcement of the winning team.

These are the numbers we made:

6200 REGISTRATIONS

1093 registered TEAMS

522 Total PROJECTS SUBMITTED

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The investment Challenge - in collaboration with Banca Generali and MIP (Politecnico di Milano School of Management) took place between March 30th and April24th with a first round of 2 weeks (March 30th - April 10th) from which a selection of 100 best traders compete on an online final round on April 24th.

We had 8488 registrations, 168.100 trades and 23,6 years as total time spent on BG SAXO. At the end of the challenge, 63% of players had more than 1M €!

These are the numbers we made:

8.500 Registrations

168.100 Trades

207.037 hours played

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On 12th March 2020 Reply launched the second edition of the code challenge - teen together with the standard edition. Teenagers from all over the world could use any programming languages to face five algorithmic or logical problems.

This all happened in a time span 4 hours total.

Both editions made these numbers:

20.171 REGISTRATIONS

2.862 TEAMS for the Standard Edition

1.253 TEAMS for the Teen Edition

+ 21.000 total SUBMISSIONS

Discover the problems

On 12th March 2020 Reply launched the fully digital challenge together with the teen edition. Participants from all over the world could use any programming languages to face one algorithmic or logical problem and send as many solutions they want. This all happened in a time span 4 hours total.

Both editions made these numbers:

20.171 REGISTRATIONS

2.862 TEAMS for the Standard Edition

1.253 TEAMS for the Teen Edition

+ 21.000 total SUBMISSIONS

Discover the problem

On 11th October 2019 all registered teams took on the Cyber Security Challenge in Capture the Flag (CTF) mode.

Each team had to face 5 levels for each of the 5 categories offered with Cyber Security as main theme: Coding, Web, Miscellaneous, Crypto and Binary. This all happens in a time span 24 hours total.

During this last edition we had:

6699 new REGISTRATIONS

87 different COUNTRIES

1365 registered TEAMS

6466 FLAGS submitted, of which 1003 scoring ones

Discover the problems

The challenge took place from May 10th to 12th; each team had 48 hours to develop a creative concept for social, video, branding, customer experience and employer branding areas.

Five finalist teams, one for each category, were selected by an expert panel and presented their projects during Reply Xchange 2019, prior to the announcement of the winning team.

These are the numbers we made:

3480 REGISTRATIONS

1581 PLAYERS

587 registered TEAMS

350 Total SUBMISSIONS

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On 15th March 2019 Reply launched the challenge online together with the teen edition. Participants from all over the world could use any programming languages to face one algorithmic or logical problem and send as many solutions they want. This all happened in a time span 4 hours total.

Both editions made these numbers:

15000 REGISTRATIONS

1337 TEAMS for the Standard Edition

1522 TEAMS for the Teen Edition

21000 total SUBMISSIONS

Discover the problem

On 15th March 2019 Reply launched the challenge online together with the standard edition. Teenagers from all over the world could use any programming languages to face five algorithmic or logical problems.

This all happened in a time span 4 hours total.

Both editions made these numbers:

15000 REGISTRATIONS

1337 TEAMS for the Standard Edition

1522 TEAMS for the Teen Edition

21000 total SUBMISSIONS

Discover the problems

On 5th October 2018 all registered teams took on the Cyber Security Challenge in Capture the Flag (CTF) mode.

Each team had to face 5 levels for each of the 5 categories offered with Cyber Security as main theme: Coding, Web, Miscellaneous, Crypto and Binary. This all happened in a time span 24 hours total.

For this first edition, here is the participation response:

6260 new REGISTRATIONS

61 different COUNTRIES

697 registered TEAMS

7820 FLAGS submitted, of which 962 scoring ones

Discover the problems

On 15th March 2018 a problem statement was released online and the teams, had to solve it. Each team could send more than one solution and use their favourite programming language.

This all happened in a time span 4 hours total.

These are the numbers we made:

7776 CODERS registered in the challenge

67 different COUNTRIES

1207 TEAMS

2328 SOLUTIONS submitted

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