Abstract: This report describes the 28th Annual Graph Drawing Contest, held in conjunction with the 29th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD’21) in Tübingen, Germany. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the conference and thus also the contest was held in a hybrid format, with both on-site and online participants. The mission of the Graph Drawing Contest is to monitor and challenge the current state of the art in graph-drawing technology.