34 projects will compete for the Grand Prix of the fifth season of the All-Russian sports project contest "You're in the game"

The fifth season of the All-Russian sports project competition "You're in the game", which is held with the support of the Russian Ministry of Sports under the state program "Sport of Russia", is approaching its climax. On May 12, the expert council announced the 34 best projects that reached the finals. Their authors will have access to a special educational accelerator, which will be held from May 13 to 20 and will help participants improve their presentation skills. This knowledge will be useful to them in the defense of projects before the expert council from May 21 to 23, according to the results of which the winners in the nominations of the competition and the winner of the Grand Prix will be announced at the award ceremony.

Five finalist projects are presented in the categories "Starting Point", "Scale", "Children in Sports", "Limitless opportunities" and "Transformation in Sports", three in the special partner categories "Media", "Sports Tourism" and "Corporate Sports". The leading regions in terms of the number of projects included in the finals were Moscow (seven projects), Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Murmansk Regions and the Republic of Karelia— with two finalists each.

The main task of "You're in the game" is to find and celebrate bright and useful sports initiatives that help involve Russians in an active and healthy lifestyle. The winners in each of the main categories of the competition will receive 300 thousand rubles for the development of their projects, and the best project of the season will receive a Grand Prix of 1 million rubles. The award ceremony will be held in Moscow in June.

Applications for participation in the fifth season of the All-Russian sports project competition "You're in the Game" were accepted from November 28, 2024 to March 31, 2025. This year, a record number of applications were received from all regions of Russia — 5,582. The most popular sports areas are football, fitness, running, volleyball, gymnastics and military-applied sports sections.

The leaders in the number of participants were Moscow (315), Krasnodar Krai (287), the Republic of Tatarstan (240) and St. Petersburg (224). The Sverdlovsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov and Chelyabinsk regions were also among the most active, with representatives submitting more than 100 applications each.

The most popular of the main nominations of the competition this time was the "Starting Point" (1400 applications), which was not much ahead of the "Children in Sports" direction (1363). This is followed by "Scale" (1,046), "Limitless Possibilities" (583) and "Transformation in Sports" (450). Sports Tourism has traditionally become the leader in the nominations from the contest's partners (340 applications), Corporate Sports is in second place (233), and Media is in third (167).

The expert council of "You're in the game" in the fifth season includes: Olympic champion in speed skating Svetlana Zhurova, five—time Olympic champion in synchronized swimming, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Sports of the Kaliningrad Region Natalia Ishchenko, Secretary General of the Russian Paralympic Committee Andrey Strokin, President of the Kontinental Hockey League Alexey Morozov, world and European champion in figure skating Ilya Averbukh, Honored Journalist of Russia Dmitry Guberniev and other reputable representatives of the sports field.