Congrats to the 2017 Kickoff Contest Winners!
Congrats to the 2017 Kickoff Contest Winners!
It's time to announce the winners of the first DZone contributor contest of 2017. Drumroll, please…
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Join For FreeWe launched the 2017 Kickoff Contest on January 16th and got ready to read some fantastic submissions from our talented contributors. We were not disappointed!
From January 16th through February 12th, we tallied the number of pageviews received by each unique contributor. Posts to our new Security Zone counted for double the pageviews for extra excitement and motivation.
The ten contributors whose content received the most views over the full four-week period of the contest are listed below. Congrats!
| Prize | Rank | Name | Total Pageviews |
| $250 | First | Grzegorz Ziemonski | 87,256 |
| $200 | Second | Tim Spann | 69,277 |
| $150 | Third | Sumith Kumar Puri | 67,289 |
| $125 | Fourth | Dan Newton | 62,158 |
| $100 | Fifth | Niklas Wuensche | 43,501 |
| $75 | Sixth | Sibanjan Das | 32,488 |
| $50 | Seventh | Sean Toner | 31,660 |
| $50 | Eighth | Daniel Stori | 29,032 |
| $50 | Ninth | Dmitry Slepov | 27,386 |
| $50 | Tenth | Ekaterina Novoseltseva | 24,177 |
In addition to the monthly grand prizes, we also offered weekly prizes for the most pageviews received during each individual week of the contest. Each week, a second Zone (in addition to Security) counted for double the pageviews. Below are the weekly winners.
Week 1 Winners: Cloud and Security Bonus Zones
First Place: Sean Toner
Second Place: Ekaterina Novoseltseva
Third Place: Scott Willson
Fourth Place: Sibanjan Das
Week 2 Winners: IoT and Security Bonus Zones
First Place: Dan Newton
Second Place: Niklas Wuensche
Third Place: Sumith Puri
Week 3 Winners: DevOps and Security Bonus Zones
First Place: Grzegorz Ziemonski
Second Place: Dhiraj Ray
Third Place: Sumith Puri
Week 4 Winners: Big Data and Security Bonus Zones
First Place: Grzegorz Ziemonski
Second Place: Tim Spann
Third Place: Sumith Puri
Congratulations to all of the winners, and thanks to everyone who took part in the competition. More than 200 DZone contributors entered the contest, and their submissions totalled over 330 individual posts. More than 1.6 million pageviews were attributed to contest articles!
Stay tuned for our next contributor contest announcement.
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