PRIZES

Participation Prizes (300) Top 300 Skills

(Awarded to any eligible skill that did not win a higher prize, one per submitter, one per published submission. Limit to 300) 

  • United States winners • $50 USD delivered via Amazon.com digital gift card
  • International winners • $50 USD transferred via PayPal

Grand Prize (1)

(Selected from one of the finalists)

  • USD $20,000
  • Featured in the final announcement Alexa developer blog post
  • Chance for an interview on Alexa Chief Evangelist Dave Isbitski’s podcast
  • Alexa Skills Challenge Trophy

Finalist Prizes (10)

(Awarded to any eligible skill that fits the category) 

  • USD $5,000
  • Featured in the final announcement Alexa developer blog post
  • Chance for an interview on Alexa Chief Evangelist Dave Isbitski’s podcast

Bonus Prizes (8)

(Awarded to any eligible skill that fits the category) 

  • Best Food and Drink Skill: Build a skill to help customers select food, such as a meal planning for a special diet, a sandwich ordering, or a mixology skill.
  • Best Travel and Transportation Skill: Build a skill to help customers plan a trip including help with reservations and tickets. For example, plan a camping trip complete with campsite and a rental car reservations, or help find local public transportation options.
  • Best Productivity Skill: Help customers find, set, and modify appointments, activities, or tasks. For example, a skill that can help plan weekend activities by browsing local events and venues and adding them to the customer’s calendar.
  • Best Education & Reference Skill: Build a skill to help customers use voice with learning applications. For example, navigate and visualize datasets available through public APIs, like CDC data, NOAA weather data, or NASA space data.
  • Best Game Skill: Build a game skill (such as an escape room) that lets customers explore and solve puzzles through a conversation.
  • Best Wildcard Skill: help customers do something outside of these categories. There are so many public APIs to choose from!
  • Best Alexa Conversations Audio Skill: build a skill with a rich audio soundscape using the APL for audio (beta) feature to manage and mix audio files. For example, hear a rainstorm in the background of a weather skill or add exciting sound effects to a game
  • Best Alexa Conversations Visual Skill: Build a skill optimized for devices with screens using the Alexa Presentation Language feature. For example, integrate touch into a game, display touchable charts and graphs, or browse a film archive.

(Awarded to any eligible skill that fits the category, do not need to be finalists) 

  • USD $2,000
  • Featured in the final announcement Alexa developer blog post
  • Chance for an interview on Alexa Chief Evangelist Dave Isbitski’s podcast

 

IMPORTANT NOTE ON MULTIPLE PRIZE ELIGIBILITY:

  • The Grand Prize winner may not win a Bonus Prize.
  • A skill that is NOT the Grand Prize winner may be eligible to win up to one Bonus Prize AND up to one Finalist Prize
  • A Finalist Prize winner may also win a Bonus Prize. A Bonus Prize may be awarded to a Skill that is not a Finalist Prize winner.
  • Each Maker is limited to receiving one Participation Prize, regardless of the number of eligible Skills entered by the Maker. Participation Prizes will NOT be awarded to any Skill that also won a Bonus Prize, Finalist Prize, or Grand Prize.