Architectural competitions have finally entered the life of cities. They are held both for the territory of the whole city, and for development projects and even for small locations of public spaces. Of course, the projects differ in budget and importance. But there are always three aspects in the process of creating a competition: the customer, the operator, the jury and the participant himself. Each of them has its own goals and decisions. During the discussion we will discuss the contest practice from the position of each of the parties, learn how to make the highest quality product and what it depends on. And of course we will talk about what is interesting for all young architects, namely what to pay attention to when submitting an application, what you need to do to win and how architectural competitions are organized from the inside.