Results

All the results are summarized in the Graph Drawing Contest Report 2026:

Creative Topic

This year’s creative topic was the Eurovision Song Contest. We received six submissions. Click on a poster to view the full-size image.

Creative Topic submission by Charan Kumar Kharade Somoji Rao, Melanie Baur and Michael Krone
1st place Charan Kumar Kharade Somoji Rao, Melanie Baur and Michael Krone View full size · Download
Creative Topic submission by Johannes Müller, Mirza Zain Islam and Alina Huber
2nd place Johannes Müller, Mirza Zain Islam and Alina Huber View full size · Download
Creative Topic submission by Marcel Nöhre, Anurag Sharma and Gerd Stumme
3rd place Marcel Nöhre, Anurag Sharma and Gerd Stumme View full size · Download

Other submissions

Creative Topic submission by Kenneth Duff
Kenneth Duff View full size · Download
Creative Topic submission by Lin Ye
Lin Ye View full size · Download
Creative Topic submission by Simon Hagendorfer, Thea Kaufmann and Ellen Wegendt
Simon Hagendorfer, Thea Kaufmann and Ellen Wegendt View full size · Download

Live Challenge

Manual Category

  1. Timo Brand, Mirko H. Wagner and Johannes Zink (timj9x)
  2. Dominik Jilg, Marcel Nöhre and Samuel Wolf (Wait, it’s not crossing maximization?)
  3. Thomas Depian, Matthias Pfretzschner and Joseph Dorfer (DamnYellowEdges)

Automatic Category

  1. Christoph Weber (1-planar)
  2. Daniel Kohrt (Contraposto)
  3. Behzod Khakimov and Huixie Chen (Stress tested)