The winners of the Automatic Category of the Live are: 3rd place Team: Graphiti L. Schmitt, D. Rumpf 2nd place Team: SPEIX H. Pan, Y. Qin, K. Zheng 1st place Team: TheWorstLayoutProducers M. Greiner, A. Kuckuk, M. Bekos, M. Pfister Congratulations!!!

For the Aesthetic Experience networks there was a single submission by Axel Kuckuk, Henry Förster, Sarah Gerster from the University of Tuebingen! We congratulate them!

For the Opera Network there were 8 very high quality submissions which made it very hard to determine the winner! You can find all the posters and interactive systems here mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/cont…

The third place for the Opera Network went to Joshua Rutschmann, Marc Seelmann, Patrizia Lenhart, Tim Scholl, Mike Fu, Vincent Lafragola, Sarah Altenkrüger from the University of Tübingen! http://operanetwork.cs.uni- tuebingen.de

The second place was taken by Richard Brath from Uncharted Software. codepen.io/Rbrath/full/ZE…

The first place for the Opera Network went to Thomas Depian, Michael Huber, Wilhelm Wanecek from TU Wien! https://opera- network.netlify.app

The topic for the live challenge was Planar polyline edge-length ratio on a fixed grid. Below you can see the given drawing (ratio=22) and two best submissions, one manual (ratio=1.12) and one automatic (ratio = 1.21).

The result of the Manual category are here! The winners are: Anaïs Villedieu, Jules Wulms, Soeren Terziadis (New keyboard, who dis?) - 3rd place, Felix Klesen, Johannes Zink (kuneri nashi) - 2nd place and Fouli Argyriou, Henry Förster (M. Gronemann Memorial Team) - 1st place!

For the automatic category the winners are Andreas Krystallidis, Leonid Darovskikh, Manuel Bacher (Golden Ratio) - 3rd place, Alexander Dobler, Oliver Pilizar, Sebastian Uhl (TUW-ELR1) - 2nd place and Laurent Moalic, Dominique Schmitt, Julien Bianchetti (Omega) - 1st place!!!

This year the creative topic was the graph of board game recommendations. Check details here: mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/2023…) We got 15 wonderful submissions! We thank all the participants for the creative ideas and effort they put into this work!

The forth place is shared by the groups from yWorks, University of Tübingen and University of Konstanz. Congratulations!

The third place for the category creative topics went to Florentina Voboril, Felicia Schmidt and Viktoria Pogrzebacz from TUWien. Congratulations!

And finally, the shared first place went to Christoph Kern, Manuel Oberbacher, Horst Zahradnik (TU Wien) and André Schulz (FernUniversität in Hagen)! Congratulations!

The topic of the live challenge this year was Crossing minimum point set embedding. Check details here: mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/2023… The third place in the manual category was taken by: Alexander Dober and Jules Wulms! Congratulations!

The second place in the manual category went to (Ro)bert Ganian, (Ma)arten Löffler and (Ma)rtin Nöllenburg! Team RoMaMa! Congratulations!

And finally the first place in the manual category of the Live Challenge went to the team Hebonk: Tim Hegemann, Florentina Voboril, Johannes Zink! Congratulations!

In the automatic category of the Live Challenge the third place went to Crossing Crushers: Martin Siebenhaller and Benjamin Niedermann! Congratulations!

The second place for the Live Challenge automatic category went to Minamo: Saman Miran, Jakub Nawrocki and Hesham Morgan! Congratulations!

Finally, the first place for the Live Challenge automatic category went to OMeGA: Laurent Moalic, Dominique Schmitt and Julien Bianchetti! Congratulations!