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Last Day to Submit for the Brand New #NEOPETS Contest!

Heads up! Today is the final day to submit to the brand new #NEOPETS Contest. Entries are due tonight, by 11:59 PM NST.

As a reminder, a social media account is not required to participate, although the submission form does requires you to have a Google account.


The #NEOPETS Contest is a semi-revival of the defunct Random Contest—it will supposedly be held on a monthly basis, and feature a new theme each time.

This month's theme is "UsukiCon" (previously stated as "Usuki Couture", but later amended to be more broad and open-ended).

For this first contest, TNT is looking to accept digital and in-person submissions. Future contests will be digital submissions only. The in-person (physical) submission form is intended for users who create tangible artwork (e.g. fiber art, baking, woodworking, etc.) and are able to attend the "Neo York" pop-up event in late August and bring their artwork with them for display. If you cannot attend the pop-up, you should submit a photograph of your tangible art in the "digital" category.

All digital art must be submitted in the "digital" category, regardless whether or not you plan to attend the pop-up, as digital art pieces will be displayed differently than physical art pieces.

You can enter the contest by visiting the Neopets Portal Blog where you will need to fill out a Google Form.


Winners will be announced on July 31st, and receive a brand new avatar and trophy. No item prizes will be handed out at this time.

There are 34 comments below. Add yours!

Is there a chance that our works could become canon elements on the site like prior Random Contest rounds?
by 1jediboy on July 21, 2026 12:13 AM NST
Neopets is down
by rallygou on July 21, 2026 1:11 AM NST
Still down.
by burntcookies on July 21, 2026 1:49 AM NST
Neopets is still down
by dogctrl on July 21, 2026 2:03 AM NST
Yup, "scheduled maintenance", but not so scheduled we knew of it in advance.
by woodstocki on July 21, 2026 2:46 AM NST
Unable to open quest log . _.
by maninshi on July 21, 2026 2:54 AM NST
I'm looking forward to seeing everybody's art.
by peri on July 21, 2026 2:57 AM NST
Neo still down.
by crumpetcookie on July 21, 2026 3:09 AM NST
I wasn't feeling particularly inspired by this theme but I'm excited to see what the next themes will be! The trophy is adorable so I definitely want to at least try for it at some point.

Good luck to all who entered!

Just woke up and saw Neo was down, then read here it's been down for at least 2 hours? No mention of how long? o: It's always funny to me when updates like converted pages pop up out of nowhere without maintenance but then it goes down for maintenance for hours and we see no changes on our end at all.
by biediep on July 21, 2026 3:23 AM NST
I hope it’s not down for much longer, some of my fortune cookies expire soon
by flabbypotter on July 21, 2026 3:28 AM NST
Neo still down.
by barbm on July 21, 2026 3:51 AM NST
that's quite a long downtime for an unannounced "scheduled" maintenance o:
by iloveeevee on July 21, 2026 4:22 AM NST
this is lame .... lazy US peeps , rest of the world lost half day's play time where is our compensation ?
by illusion_boy on July 21, 2026 4:39 AM NST
Neo still down. Was just about to check if my NC I didn’t receive yesterday came thru yet.
by latias_latios on July 21, 2026 4:44 AM NST
*Twiddles thumbs*
I wonder what they're up to.
by biediep on July 21, 2026 4:46 AM NST
In about an hour people should be arriving at their US offices to go fix this.. I hope I can find time to play later today. My usual window has gone past hours ago, my backup window of playtime was this past half hour.
by woodstocki on July 21, 2026 4:58 AM NST
Back up for me!
by flabbypotter on July 21, 2026 5:29 AM NST
Back up for me too!! Right on bedtime too
by kellzthedwarf on July 21, 2026 5:31 AM NST
Trying to do battledome and the loading Is eternal when I click on the "Battle!" Window. Can't battledome, but everything else seems fine.

Interesting
by maninshi on July 21, 2026 5:41 AM NST
Website is back up for those wondering, but very very slow.
by duskshadowbrony on July 21, 2026 6:08 AM NST
It's back, but neopass isn't linking anything from the mobile games. And that part of the quest log is blank
by flyingchair on July 21, 2026 6:34 AM NST
Very cool although just the regular Art Gallery seems impossible to get in to for some of us so won't even be attempting this. Best of luck to everyone who takes part, that's a cool trophy.
by remy on July 21, 2026 7:03 AM NST
hi guys, sorry we didn't newspost about the downtime! to be quite honest most of our staff is US-based and were asleep, hence the lack of posting!
by noileh on July 21, 2026 8:20 AM NST JN Staff
Just now for me, battledome Is working once again.

Also, seeing how some of us had something we could "not" do Individually Is quite.... sonething o .o
by maninshi on July 21, 2026 9:10 AM NST
And seems Neopets is down atm. Just when I only need to buy one more item to finish my Daily Quests.
by pikachu315111 on July 22, 2026 8:11 AM NST
Yep, down again, or at least very slow!
by flabbypotter on July 22, 2026 8:16 AM NST
Whoops, site blew up again.
by duskshadowbrony on July 22, 2026 8:22 AM NST
Definitely down now, the Red Pteri has shown up!
by purplebin on July 22, 2026 8:23 AM NST
What's with the site instability lately?
by neolodgeism on July 22, 2026 8:23 AM NST
Site's on maintenance once again
by maninshi on July 22, 2026 8:23 AM NST
Always when I’m in the middle of something
by flabbypotter on July 22, 2026 8:50 AM NST
@neolodgeism:
Well they are updating parts of the site to be mobile friendly. Even if its just a UI & artwork update, that still involves them going into the code, the code that we've been told plenty of times in the past is more tied up than a Gordian Knot made up of kudzu vines & computer wires. So if I were to guess the recent strings of maintenance is either them checking on things that might have accidentally messed with or/and figuring out what part of the site to update next & looking through its code to plan on what to do/what can they do. Also while they're at it might as well back-up the site (because if they need to do a re-roll you'd want a most recent back-up).
by pikachu315111 on July 22, 2026 8:58 AM NST
missed my chance at this no fair
by jamie6254 on July 22, 2026 11:17 AM NST

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