Habbox Competitions

Habbox Competitions
Manager:	Stealth
Operating years:	2004 - Present
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Habbox Competitions, also known as the Competitions Department, organises competitions on a rolling basis with a whole multitude of different challenges and brainteasers for Habbox users to enter. The department offers a broad range of competitions, including but not limited to graphics styled briefs, quick quizzes and story writing competitions written by the Competitions Staff and occasionally members of Department Management. A few minutes of your time can reward you with winning Habbox Forum VIP and some Forum Reputation available as prizes as well as some coins on the Habbo.com client!

The live competitions can at any time be found here.

Department Structure

Job title	Job description
(Assistant) Competitions Management	The Competitions Manager makes sure there are fun competitions to enter regularly, as well as managing the Competitions Staff and keeping them all in line. They also have the gruelling task of correcting any grammatical errors to make sure the final product is close to perfection before finally being posted to the forum for the Habbox members.
Senior Competitions Staff	Senior Competitions Staff write competitions as regular staff do, but also step in to perform feedback duties and recruitment.
Competitions Staff	Competitions Staff create fun and unique competitions that users can enter and win special Habbo(x) prizes. This process happens on a regular basis for the Habbox members to participate in for a variety of prizes.

Management

Competitions Management

Competition Managers	Start Date	End Date	Length of tenure
Stealth	10-Dec-2023	Present	Ongoing
tbl	01-Mar-2019	01-Jul-2023	1583 days (4 years, 4 months)
Stealth	22-Nov-2018	01-Mar-2019	99 days (3 months, 7 days)
YellowBelli	12-Apr-2018	26-Oct-2018	197 days (6 months, 14 days)
Sian	02-Mar-2018	02-Apr-2018	31 days (1 month, 0 days)
Jarkie	12-Dec-2017	16-Feb-2018	66 days (2 months, 4 days)
MissBabyP	28-Oct-2017	29-Nov-2017	32 days (1 month, 1 day)
dodone	10-Oct-2017	28-Oct-2017	18 days
Bolt660	28-Feb-2017	14-July-2017	134 days (4 month, 17 days)
Woutou	20-Jan-2017	28-Feb-2017	39 days (1 month, 8 days)
Catchy	21-Nov-2016	28-Dec-2016	37 days (1 month, 7 days)
Elegance	16-July-2016	14-Oct-2016	91 days (2 months, 24 days)
Dolphins	22-Sep-2015	15-July-2016	298 days (9 months, 24 days)
Samanfa	22-July-2015	22-Sep-2015	63 days (2 months, 1 day)
Inseriousity.	13-Mar-2015	13-July-2015	123 days (4 months, 1 day)
Yupt	25-June-2014	13-Mar-2015	262 days (8 months, 17 days)
Shonly	08-June-2013	23-June-2014	381 days (1 year, 16 days)
runeaddict99	15-Feb-2013	08-June-2013	114 days (3 months, 25 days)
Umbrella-	18-Sep-2012	15-Feb-2013	151 days (4 months, 29 days)
Biscuitss	19-Apr-2012	18-Sep-2012	153 days (5 months)
Inseriousity.	01-Apr-2012	19-Apr-2012	18 days (18 days)
Alex3213	10-Dec-2011	01-Apr-2012	114 days (3 months, 23 days)
Mr-Trainor	17-Oct-2011	10-Dec-2011	55 days (1 month, 24 days)
Inseriousity.	16-Aug-2009	17-Oct-2011	732 days (2 years, 2 days)
dudedanny123	03-Feb-2009	15-Aug-2009	194 days (6 months, 13 days)
H0BJ0B	24-Mar-2008	02-Feb-2009	316 days (10 months, 10 days)
Professor-Alex	24-Feb-2008	12-Mar-2008	18 days (18 days)
JoeyK.	21-Aug-2007	24-Feb-2008	188 days (6 months, 4 days)
2hd.	26-Feb-2006	19-Aug-2007	540 days (1 year, 5 months, 25 days)
Aquae	01-Nov-2005	26-Feb-2006	118 days (3 months, 26 days)
MissAlice	27-June-2004	01-Nov-2005	492 days (1 year, 4 months, 6 days)

Assistant Competitions Management

Assistant Competition Managers	Start Date	End Date	Length of Tenure
James	11-Sep-2018	07-Nov-2018	57 days (1 month, 27 days)
dodone	28-Oct-2017	07-Nov-2017	10 days (10 days)
MissBabyP	19-Oct-2017	28-Oct-2017	9 days (9 days)
cammiee.	20-Jan-2017	17-Feb-2017	28 days (28 days)
Elegance	27-Jan-2016	16-Jul-2016	171 days (5 months, 19 days)
KrushGear	22-Jul-2015	16-Aug-2015	25 days (25 days)
Shonly	29-Mar-2015	13-Jul-2015	106 days (3 months, 14 days)
Bolt660	16-Sep-2014	08-Feb-2015	145 days (4 months, 23 days)
Yupt	18-Nov-2013	12-Jun-2014	206 days (6 months, 25 days)
Intersocial	21-Jul-2013	17-Nov-2013	119 days (3 months, 27 days)
Shonly	13-Mar-2013	08-Jun-2013	87 days (2 months, 26 days)
runeaddict99	08-Nov-2012	15-Feb-2013	99 days (3 months, 7 days)
Biscuitss	18-Sep-2012	15-Nov-2012	58 days (1 month, 28 days)
1umbrella1	31-May-2012	18-Sep-2012	110 days (3 months, 18 days)
Elegance	21-Jan-2012	16-Apr-2012	86 days (2 months, 26 days)
-fire-girl-	16-Apr-2011	30-May-2011	44 days (1 month, 14 days)
Alex3213	20-May-2010	09-Apr-2011	324 days (10 months, 20 days)
Orangeesh	24-Jun-2008	14-Sep-2008	82 days (2 months, 21 days)
Professor-Alex	14-Sep-2007	12-Mar-2008	180 days (5 months, 27 days)
micky.blue.eyes	01-Jan-2007	21-Aug-2007	232 days (7 months, 20 days)
Aquae	07-Sep-2006	06-Nov-2006	60 days (1 month, 30 days)
.Lynn	14-Mar-2006	02-Sep-2006	172 days (5 months, 19 days)
2hd.	24-Dec-2005	26-Feb-2006	64 days (2 months, 2 days)
Cypher-	09-Oct-2005	02-Dec-2005	54 days (1 month, 23 days)
Spectate	14-Feb-2005	02-Jul-2005	138 days (4 months, 18 days)
Lauralol	19-Sep-2004	28-Sep-2004	10 days (10 days)
Jacko2kn3	Unknown	18-Sep-2004	Unknown

History

The Habbox Competitions Department launched in 2004, first managed by MissAlice, and has ever since played a part in letting Habbox users enjoy themselves and win prizes. The department for many years provided 2 or 3 weekly competitions for prizes which were handed out to members who won each respective competition. For many years (2004 until 2008), the department was made up of a Competitions Manager, an Assistant Manager, occasionally a Senior Competitions Staff and the rest of the department being billed as Competitions Staff. This was changed in 2008 where the Assistant Manager role was dropped in favour of Senior Competitions Staff taking on some of the administrative duties. On the 20th May 2010, the role of Senior Competitions Staff was officially defunct and was replaced once again with the Assistant Manager position. These two roles were completely identical however the Assistant Manager role meant that the person in question could be given more responsibility and access should they need it.

After some time, Habbox users found the competitions to be too long and dull, so the department was overhauled at the end of 2009, when Inseriousity. was Competitions Manager. This change meant that the competitions were made shorter and quicker to read, as well as the Terms and Conditions being in a single thread in the Competitions forum. These competitions were far more simplistic than competitions pre-2010, and competitions with a fixed answer were introduced as well, which greatly increased participation

The changes at this time also meant that more people were allowed to enter Habbox Competitions. Before 2010, Habbox Staff were only authorised to enter competitions specifically labelled for staff or during seasonal events such as Habbox Summer Spectacular. As of January 2010, this rule was lifted and all Habbox staff were then allowed to enter Habbox competitions. In a similar manner, there were previously competitions specifically for VIP members which were removed due to lack of interest.

Generally speaking, before 2010 the Competitions Department offered the prizes of Club Sofas (and between 2004-2008, other Club Shop furniture) and Forum VIP for winners. However, at the beginning of 2010, the department began to offer Forum Reputation for winners as well. In November 2010, after the fall of the value of the Club Sofa, the department began to offer Credits instead to cater for a greater proportion of Habbox.

During the 2010 Staff Awards, the Competitions Department was nominated by Habbox Staff as "Department of the Year" - an award for the department which staff felt had performed and progressed the most during that year, and went on to win the award. That year many of the Habbox users at the time complimented the revamp in the Competitions Department and the idea of the Habbox World Cup, with almost 30 teams of 3 participating along with other members who did not join a team.

The Competitions Department continues to cater for a large part of the Habbox user-base, and it only takes a few minutes to enter competitions for the most part.

Events and Quests

For a number of years, the department offered a variety of larger scale events in the form of quests and hunts which run for both short and extended periods.

2015

Name	Date	Organiser(s) of Event	Description
Habbox Pokemon	June	Shonly; Inseriousity.	Players needed to collect Pokemon and battle to level up to increase their overall HP. The highest would win.
Draw My Movie	April	Inseriousity.; Shonly; Drew	A sequel to the unique forum-based event held last year, Draw My Thing

2014

Name	Date	Organiser(s) of Event	Description
Carnival	September	Shonly; Bolt660; Yupt	An event where Carnival themed competition were released, giving people the chance to win 'tickets'. Each ticket would represent a prize and the aim was to collect 3 tickets that with the same prize in order to collect them. Multiple prizes could be won during the event as long as you had three of the same tickets in hand.
Shipwrecked	July	Shonly; Inseriousity.	A two week long event where groups of three would be stranded on a desert island and will have to complete tasks in order to survive during their time on the island. Each task will have an effect on their basic needs (health, hunger, thirst, sanity, fun, comfort) and the aim was to keep those needs as fulfilled as possible until the end of the event.
10 Years of Competitions	May	Shonly	A celebration of the 10th anniversary of the department where competitions were written under the names of past staff. Past staff also made guest appearances, including the first ever Competitions Manager, MissAlice and past dedicated staff member and the then AGM (Community), Samanfa
Draw My Thing	April	Shonly; Drew	A forum based competition ran by the Competitions Department and Graphics departments. Draw My Thing is based on the iOS game called 'Draw Something'. You can find out more information about Draw my thing by clicking here!
And the Oscar goes to...	February/March	Yupt	A forum based competition giving the users the opportunity to predict who they think will pick up awards at the Annual Academy Awards. Each correct prediction earned the user 1 week VIP.

2013

Name	Date	Organiser(s) of Event	Description
Santa's List	December 2013	Shonly; Yupt	A forum based tournament where you would earn points to progress through Santa's Christmas list from 'Naughty' to 'Nice' by doing various tasks around the forum and entering/winning competitions.
From Habbox With Love	September 2013	Shonly; lawrawrrr	A forum based competition consisting of several interconnected plots with clues leading towards the identity of an unknown killer. Mini-competitions were released alongside plots and winners gained 2 points in the Hx24 competition.
Treasure Island	August 2013	Shonly; Intersocial	An interactive in-client quest in which users had to navigate through various rooms in order to obtain a keyword at the very end of the maze. A screenshot then needed to be submitted to management and 3 users won HxSS points alongside various other prizes.
Stolen Artwork	August 2013	Shonly; Intersocial	A collaboration between the Competitions department and the Graphics department for HxSS (Habbox Summer Spectacular). Participants had to match pieces of artwork to the correct person based on 7 mini-biographies given beforehand.
The Shining	July 2013	Shonly; Intersocial	Users had to figure out answers to individual rooms (competitions) in order to help characters escape a hotel. All participants were awarded a forum award and the players that had the most correct answers won additional prizes.
Four Weddings	February 2013	Umbrella-; runeaddict99	Pairs of people applied to become couples, four of which were wed on Habbo. The people then decided which wedding was the best, based on dress, the ceremony, the after-party and the overall experience.

2012

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
Eavesdropping Elves	December 2012	Umbrella-; runeaddict99	Each day for four days clues were posted in order to find an elf. This was no ordinary elf, but an elf that had overheard reindeers planning to kidnap rudolph! They had to get a secret word from the elf each day in order to find and free rudolph and send them to HabboxComps via PM.
Habboxween 2012	October 2012	Umbrella-; Biscuitss	At the bottom of four Halloween related competitions were clues of a famous or fictional character related to Halloween where the answer had to be sent to the Competitions department's official account: HabboxComps through PM.
The Seven Seas	August 2012	Biscuitss; 1umbrella1	A variety of clues had to be found by solving other clues through both the Habbo client and Habbox Forum, making up the continents of the world.
Sticks and Stones	January 2012	Alex3213	A forum scavenger hunt where you had to use the "search function" on the forum in order to find the subsequent clues in order to build a shelter in preparation for the apocalypse.

2011

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
Return of the Witch	November 2011	Mr-Trainor	A Habbo maze which involved the participant completing puzzles in the room to advance to the next until reaching the end of the line where the magic word could stop the witch from attacking once again.
Boils and Trouble	July 2011	Inseriousity.	xxMATTGxx was covered in boils because of an evil witch and Habbox Forum members had to solve a series of puzzles in order to get him back to his normal self.
Monopoly	May 2011	Inseriousity.; -fire-girl-	After entering 2 competitions, in May 2012, that user had to PM HabboxComps and they were rewarded with a Habbox related Monopoly card. Getting a coloured set rewarded them with a prize, the prize differing dependent on rarity.
S.A.D	February 2011	Inseriousity.	A small competition which involved users being paired up with another user after filling in a survey on Valentine's Day. A competition purely for fun where Inseriousity. became Habbox Cupid for a day.
Shaken not Stirred	January 2011	Inseriousity.; Alex3213	Inseriousity. was kidnapped by Seriousity, for a month and only sent messages through Habbo videos. Seriousity, became Competitions Manager and Habbox Forum had to stop him from taking over all of Habbox and becoming the new General Manager.

2010

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
Suitcase Stress	August 2010	Inseriousity.; Alex3213	xxMATTGxx lost all of his clothes after having a holiday so Habbox users so Habbox users had to search the forum to find his items.
World Cup	June 2010	Inseriousity.; Alex3213	Members entered the World Cup in teams of 3 and for each competition, along with additional prizes, first place got three footballs for their team, second place got 2, and third place got 1. The members of the team with the most footballs got an overall prize each.
Winter Olympics	January 2010	Inseriousity.; Alex3213	Themed competitions based on Winter Olympic sports about Habbox's Winter Olympics.
Lost Managers	January 2010	Inseriousity.; Alex3213	A Habbo styled quest where Habbox had lost 5 of their managers after a New Year's Eve Party and could be found by searching the rooms in Roxy916's house for clues.

2009

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
And... FREEZE!	December 2009	Alex3213	A Habbo based event based on scenes from A Christmas Carol, where the Grinch stole all apart from 6 scenes, where users answered questions about the classic to generate a key word which brought back the play to life.
The Grinch	December 2009	Inseriousity.	The competitions in December 2009 were based on the Grinch stealing Christmas characters, so each competition was themed to a different Christmas related film.
Funfair	November 2009	Inseriousity.	All of the competitions in November 2009 had a Funfair/Circus orientation to them. This month also brought back the Free Habbox Lottery for a month, under the name of Grab a Duck.
Habbox Virus	September 2009	Inseriousity.	A nasty (fictional) virus hit Habbox and in order to make sure that everyone would stay safe, users had to use the search function in order to find specific numbered posts and their contents, containing a number and a new clue. At the end of the trail of clues, Inseriousity. had to be sent a PM with all the numbers put combined.

2006

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
Rare Rampage	March 2006	-Dannie	Using your brain and solving clues, entrants had to find the location of the Blue Amber Lamp and the Red Amber Lamp, as well as the secret word at the end of the trail.
Valentines Forum Quest	February 2006	Acquae	All the questions being to do with Valentines' Day, the participants had to use the forum to search for the clues in the form of a scavenger hunt, to unlock the secret Valentines' Forum.

2005

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
Help Find Rudolph	December 2005	Acquae	A Habbo quest where you had to solve the questions to find Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Staff Puzzle	June 2005	Janeh	A Habbo quest where the answers were themed on the Habbox staff at the time.
Safety Quiz	April 2005	Janeh	A Habbo quest based on safety questions, where you had to reach the last room.
Cluebox	March 2005	Kroziun	A murder mystery competition where you had to find clues on the client to work out who murdered the victim and how they did it. A sub-quest, Secret Sticky, was introduced when the quest proved to be too challenging.
The Name Game	February 2005	Janeh	A quest where you had to unscramble the name of famous Hobbas on Habbo UK.
The Forum Quest	January 2005	Janeh	A Habbo quest based on the Habbox Forum, similar to other quests.

2004

Name	Date	Organiser of Event	Description
Christmas Quest	December 2004	Janeh	A quest on the client where you had to answer one of the two Christmas questions in a room, where one was correct, and the other was a fake until you reached the final room.
Habbox Quest 3	November 2004	Janeh	A Habbo quest where you had to guide yourself through a set of rooms and your answer was the piece of furniture in the final room.
Habbox Quest 2	October 2004	MissAlice	A Habbo quest where you had to guide yourself through a set of rooms and your answer was the piece of furniture in the final room.
HxHD Quest	September 2004	MissAlice	A quest which involved answering several safety questions to get to the final room on the Habbo client.
Habbox Quest	August 2004	MissAlice	A Habbo quest where you had to guide yourself through a set of rooms and your answer was the piece of furniture in the final room.

Recurring Competitions

Also, in the past, there have been recurring Habbox competitions; competitions which occur on a frequent basis with a similar objective:

Name	Date	User	Description
Build Battle	13-Feb-2016 - Unknown	James	A monthly event mainly on Habbo.com where a theme is set each month and you have to build a room relating to that theme. The prizes include VIP, Credits, Raffle Tickets and Rep on the Forum.
Caption Phrase	15-Aug-2009 - 19-Dec-2013	Various	A competition on a monthly basis where participants have to write a funny caption based on the image posted.
Mission Impossible	04-Jan-2005 - 25-May-2005	Various	A competition which happened once in a while where users had to post their Habbo motto and whoever's was the funniest won. It made its reappearance in 2006 and early 2008.
Mystery Star Guest	17-Mar-2005 - 15-Oct-2005	MissAlice	A competition where MissAlice described a member of either Habbox or Habbo and users had to guess who the user was. The competition made a small reappearance in August 2010.
Room With a View	31-May-2009 - 01-Sep-2009	Various	A monthly competition in which entrants had to build a room based on a given brief.
Your Words	10-Aug-2013 - Unknown	Yupt	A competition in which Yupt provides users with members they must include in their competition alongside various items (e.g. miniature golf) and their task is to formulate the most creative story.
My Kid Could Draw That	04-Oct-2013 - 01-Mar-2014	Sloths	A competition in which entrants have to guess what the images that are drawn by Sloths are. Each week the images will be based on a different topic.
Top Twitter Trends	06-Jan-2014 - Unknown	Shonly	A competition where entrants have to change the name of a film or music band in order to fit into a certain topic (for example 'replace a word in a band's name with bacon')
Plotholes	19-Dec-2013 - 01-Apr-2014	lawrawrrr	A competition where lawrawrrr posts the plots of three different films and the entrants have to figure out what is wrong in each of them.
Graphics Competition	01-Mar-2013 - Unknown	Graphics Department	A monthly competition in which requires the entrants to design various items based on a monthly topic. Originally organised by Drew and then briefly continued by Zealoux.

The Free Weekly Habbox Lottery

The Free Weekly Habbox Lottery was a competition which ran between 6th May 2006 and 18th April 2009 on a recurring basis. Entrants had to choose a 3 digit number, where each of the digits were between 1 and 6 and on the draw date, normally Tuesday, and the number rolled would win the prize. The prize varied over the years, but a Gold Cup Trophy (from the catalogue), Club Sofas and Credits were some of the prizes available. In 2009, there was a rollover system in the sense that if no-one's number was rolled, the prize would rollover to next week and be added on.

This lottery then became a show ran by the Competitions Manager, once again, normally on a Tuesday. When Dudedanny123 hosted the Habbox Lottery, there was often a puzzle or a quiz at the beginning of the show and the winner of that would also then get a prize. This was later adapted to a "lucky spin" approach where the winner could risk their prize for a spin on the wheel and if the colour they chose was highlighted, they would win a more expensive prize. At the end of the show, the numbers were rolled and the winner would claim the prize highlighted in the thread.

In April 2009, the free lottery was closed in order to make way for the lottery where you had to pay a Club Sofa to enter. The Free Weekly Habbox Lottery made a three-week reappearance in November 2009, under the name of Grab a Duck, in line with the Funfair theme of that month.

Treasure Chest

In 2013 whilst the department was run by Shonly and Intersocial, Habbox Competitions brought out a new scheme for those who entered competitions on a regular basis to win an award each month. All entrants' names would be added to a list and the more competitions they entered, the more times they would appear on the list. Once the month ended a random number generator would determine the winner and they'd win a Forum Award, 50 reputation points and 1 months VIP on the forum.

Month of Winning	Winner
August 2013	Phil
September 2013	Inseriousity.
October 2013	IzzyUhh
November 2013	Drew
December 2013	Drake.
January 2014	TheJokerEffect
February 2014	lRhyss
March 2014	!:random!:!
April 2014	Paige.
May 2014	Pasta
June 2014	Premplus480
July 2014	bloop
August 2014	-HonorBranch
September 2014	Chloe7355
October 2014	Cassiieee
November 2014	Ms.Aquamarine
December 2014	Cassiieee
January 2015	Dolphins

Seasonal Competitions

The Competitions department have been known to collaborate with other departments when it comes to Habbox doing large events. Some of these include Habbox Summer Spectacular, Back 2 School, Habboxween, Habbox Christmas, Habbox Valentines and Easter Eggstravaganza which happen annually and other one-off events such as the Winter Olympics.

Controversy

For the whole of 2010, the Competitions department offered Forum Reputation as an additional prize. This reputation could also be converted into credits. In 2011, however, Hecktix introduced a reputation quota, only allowing a certain amount of reputation points to be given out by each department. The Competitions Manager at the time, Inseriousity., was against this strongly and argued against it saying that it was "pointless". After several months of arguments, it was removed at the end of June 2011.

Trivia

• tbl is currently the longest standing Competitions Manager at Habbox with 1583 total days in management.
• In the Habbox Virus quest, when it was planned, nvrspk4 thought that Inseriousity. had really been hacked and nearly banned the Competitions Manager at the time.
• The numbers joined together at the end of the Habbox Virus quest spelt out the word Inseriousity using the A=1, B=2... system.
• Inseriousity. and Alex3213's era of management were well known for shamelessly advertising competitions on Habbo.
• Shonly returned to the department as the Assistant Competitions Manager following her resignation from Assistant General Manager (Community).