I just honestly feel bad that graphic contest are doing poorly interms of number of participants joining, when we could actually have more people entering the contests if given good advertising propagandas.
Basically, we should make these contests easier to access. Players should be able to know official graal contests in-game. Sure, we have that npc in start park gates but does it really advertise the contest that much? No, it doesnt. We should add another section in the menu where players are able to see what contests are gonna be hosted, be it gfx, levelling, or anything else related.
Players should also be capable of uploading their graphics in-game so that they would be able to quickly send their graphics to the contest heads without having to trouble theirselves much more.
IMO entering contests are such a hustle cause of the amount of work you have to do just to submit your works (they're not hard to do but it's still not user friendly).
Remember when snk said that he was working on a billboard before that was supposed to display era news? We could incorporate the same idea and have it in a very noticable place in start (between tables and hospital) making it much more easier to spread knowledge about the contest.
We could also add a seperate news section for contests that would also alert players when they log in.