Fanart events aren’t just “For-fun” events. If they do make one, it’s because the company want a quick and easy exposure because fanarts are the easiest way to get people to actually see your games.
Even smaller companies will put up 50$ worth of prize for the 3rd place. Many games I participated in gave that much. 1st Place can easily go up to 120-150$.
And here comes a much BIGGER company trying to tempt artists into helping them get exposure for a mere chance at winning 15$ for SEA players like me.
The prize is a joke. There is absolutely no temptation for the majority of the artists that actually accept commishes and make money off them to participate. Most of them would look at this and calculate the event as “Working at a 1.5 - 2$/hr rate” aka “Go draw something 10x more profitable like an OW fanart and just buy the TP yourself with better exposure as well”.