They started to award more participants as much as possible and giving the free bonus is their way to appreciate the luck and real participants. There’s a lot of artist who skip the recent contest, I guess its because of the theme or maybe they there are just busy. Well, there’s a new art contest and I expect to see more participants this time as the theme is not that hard.
Some popular artists did not join recent contests does not mean Roobet contests become less attractive with them.
They have many activities in life and sometimes they don't have time to visit the forum or don't have time to create arts for joining recent art contests. They even have time but simply are lack of ideas to join. Many reasons and I can not step in shoes of artists to say why they did not participate in recent contests hosted by Roobet team and Hhampuz.