Dear Information Visualizers, the 30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will take (hopefully) place in Tokyo, Japan, from September 13 to 16, 2022. As has been tradition since 1994, the symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun competitive setting. Due to the uncertainty regarding future travel and physical meeting restrictions caused by the Corona virus outbreak, the contest will be either held completely online or in a hybrid format. Details of the exact format of the contest will be announced around the Graph Drawing submission deadline. The contest has two parts: the Creative Topics and the Live Challenge. 1) Live Challenge Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held the day before the symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This year, the challenge focuses on minimizing the planar polyline edge-length ratio on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw the graphs manually (manual category), or use their own customized tools (automatic category). Remote participation will be possible for both the manual and the automatic category. The live challenge will take place during the conference. To solve the instances and submit your solutions, you will be provided with a dedicated tool: https://graphdrawingcontest.appspot.com/tool.jsp Note that the target function changed slightly compared to last year, but the tool has not been updated yet for the new function. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2022/challenge.html 2) Creative Topics For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs that you may draw with full artistic freedom. 1. Opera Network The data represents a collection of opera performances that took place across Europe between 1775 and 1833. The data was extracted from the RISM database (https://opac.rism.info/main-menu-/kachelmenu/data) and was offered by Frans Wiering - professor of Utrecht University studing Musicology. There are several possibilities on how a network can be extracted from this data. We leave it to the participants to decide how and whether to model this data set as a network. 2. Aesthetic Experience Network The data set represents 8 networks that model an aesthetic experience of the viewers when observing artworks. The analyzed artworks are 8 paintings by Klee, Kandinsky, Mortensen, Miro and Winter. Each of the 14 nodes represents one of the two polarities of an aesthetic effect, and the edges are weighted by conditional dependence relations among aesthetic effects. In both cases, you may visualize the graph in any way you like. Submissions will be judged on a list of criteria that includes, but is not limited to, readability, aesthetics, novelty, and design quality. The weighting of the criteria might be different for the two graphs. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair. For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2022/topics.html Submission deadline: September 05 (23:59 PDT) 3) Awards We are hoping to be able to award a monetary prize to up to three submissions in each of the four different categories. Details will follow. We are looking forward to your submissions! Best regards, the Graph Drawing Contest Committee, Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, and Wouter Meulemans