Dear Colleagues, the 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will be held online from September 16 to 18 due to the uncertainty regarding future travel and physical meeting restrictions caused by the Corona virus outbreak. Nevertheless, 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. The contest has two parts: the Live Challenge and the Creative Topics. 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 number of crossings in a straight-line upward drawing on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw the graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. This year, remote participation will be possible for both categories! The live challenge will take place on September 15, 2020, 09:00 PDT To solve the instances and submit your solutions, you are provided with a dedicated tool: https://graphdrawingcontest.appspot.com/tool.jsp For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2020/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. Hrafnkels Saga: This is an Icelandic saga which tells of struggles between chieftains and farmers in the east of Iceland in the 10th century. The provided Hrafnkel Saga Network models relationships between the actants of the saga. This graph consists of 43 vertices and 117 edges. 2. K-Pop: K-pop, short for Korean pop, is an umbrella term for popular music originating from South Korea. The provided K-pop network models relations between Korean artists, bands (groups), and management & recording companies (labels). This is a larger graph with 4675 vertices and 5094 edges. 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: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=gdc2020 For more details, visit http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2020/topics.html Submission deadline: September 08 (23:59 PDT) 3) Awards Due to the Corona crisis and the conference being hosted completely online, this year there will unfortunately not be any monetary prizes (except eternal fame on the contest website). We are looking forward to your submissions! Best regards, the Graph Drawing Contest Committee, Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, Wouter Meulemans, and Ignaz Rutter