Habbox Competitions

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Habbox's Competitions department organises competitions in a monthly cycle with a whole multitude of different challenges and brainteasers for Habbox users to get their teeth sunk into, currently managed by 1umbrella1 (Sophiie) and runeaddict99. The department offers a wide range of competitions, including but not limited to: graphics styled briefs, quick quizzes and story writing competitions written by, normally, a team of 6 to 8 staff. 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 furniture on the Habbo.com client. If you want to enter the competitions, click here.

History

The Habbox Competitions Department was launched in 2004, first managed by MissAlice, and has ever since played a part in making Habbox users enjoy themselves and be rewarded with prizes. The department for many years provided 2 or 3 weekly competitions for prizes which were handed out to members who won the respective competition. Eventually, though, 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. Since this point, over 40 competitions are produced monthly by the department alone, ensuring that many entrants get a chance of winning a prize. Therefore this department is very grateful for any donations they get given because the prizes are funded solely by donations from other members.

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. 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, on the most part.

Over the past few years, this department have offered a variety of larger scale events every few months in the form of quests and hunts which run for both short and long periods.

2012

Event	Date	Manager of Event	Description
Habboxween 2012	October 2012	Sophiie; 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

Event	Date	Manager 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

Event	Date	Manager 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 3 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.

2009

Event	Date	Manager 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 in order 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.

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

• Caption Phrase (Unknown - present): A competition on a monthly basis where participants have to write a funny caption based on the image posted.
• Weekly Habbox Lottery (November 2009, 6th May 2006 - 18th April 2009): A lottery draw, often on Tuesdays, where entrants had to choose 3 numbers between 1 and 6, and whoever's number was rolled won the prize.
• Room With a View (31st May 2009 - 1st September 2009, 26th June 2004 - 30th November 2005): A monthly competition in which entrants had to build a room based on a given brief.

Management

Like all departments on Habbox, they have to be ran by someone in order to ensure that the department are producing a suitable quality of work.

Competitions Management

Name	Date
Umbrella-	18/09/2012
Biscuitss	19/04/2012
Inseriousity.	01/04/2012
Alex3213	10/12/2011
Mr-Trainor	17/10/2011
Inseriousity.	16/08/2009
dudedanny123	03/02/2009
H0BJ0B	24/03/2008
Professor-Alex	24/02/2008
JoeyK.	21/08/2007
2hd.	26/02/2006
Acquae	01/11/2005
MissAlice	27/06/2004

Assistant Competitions Management

Name	Date
runeaddict99	05/11/2012
Biscuitss	18/09/2012
1umbrella1	31/05/2012
Elegance	21/01/2012
-fire-girl-	16/04/2011
Alex3213	20/05/2010
Orangeesh	24/06/2008
Professor-Alex	14/09/2007
micky.blue.eyes	29/01/2007
Spectate	12/02/2005

Trivia

• 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 spelled out the word Inseriousity using the A=1, B=2... system.