As per the Connect Live application criteria these are not the required thing to get your application approved/rejected. For all the details you can always visit to the official page of connect live.
P.S. There is no such section available in connect where you can post for these things.
Contest entries is a standard function in Lithium, the platform that Local Guides Connect is using for our Forum. This function is not actually used/implemented in Local Guides Connect. As @deepakjhic said, for the application you have only to consider what is required on the application site:
Record a 1-minute video in English.
Share a link to a new Connect post responding to this year’s application prompt.