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Originally created by Rev and later continued by Dr Shipman, Count de Monet, and Doctor Know, the Bummys are a (mostly) annual celebration of the best and worst of Hobowars.

Rev: "Like most good ideas, I came up with it while I was dropping a deuce. Yeah, poopin. My wife had left her copy of People magazine in the bathroom, and feeling like I was in this one for the long haul, I needed some reading material. I started to leaf through, and it was the "Best and Worst of 2005" issue. The wheels started to turn, and once I had finished doing my business I hopped on the computer and bounced the idea off of my muse, Yuk. He immediately liked the idea, and we kicked around some ideas for categories before I headed to the F&G board to post up the first annual Bummy Award nomination thread."

2005 Bummys

This inaugural year of the Bummys was run by Rev. No specific information about this year's rules is available, however it is assumed that the rules were the same as the 2006 Bummys rules as listed below. The only information about winners was a note in the HoboWeekly stating that RP McMurphy won Hobo of the Year.

Winners

2006 Bummys

The 2006 Bummys was again run by Rev, with Dr Shipman assisting by creating a Youtube video with the results.

The Youtube video with the results can be found here: 2006 Bummys Results Video

Rules

• You may not receive votes from members of your own gang.
• You may only vote once per candidate.
• Players under 70 days old may not vote.
• Anyone found to be campaigning/paying people to vote for you will be disqualified.

Voting Statistics

• There were 492 total votes cast.
• Hobo of the Year: 54 votes. Margin of win: 2 votes
• Favorite Yearling: 50 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Favorite Newb: 44. Margin of win: 3 votes
• Best Staff Member: 42 votes. Margin of win: 13 votes
• Favorite Gang: 34 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Most Generous: 49 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Sexiest Male: 29 votes. Margin of win: 2 votes
• Sexiest Female: 64 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Most Intelligent: 36 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Funniest Hobo: 23 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Biggest Spammer: 15 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote
• Biggest Flamer: 8 votes. Margin of win: 2 votes
• Least Favorite Hobo: 44 votes. Margin of win: 1 vote

Winners

2007 Bummys

Specific information about the 2007 Bummys rules and administration is missing since the message boards were accidentally deleted sometime in 2008 and the HoboWeekly was out of commission by that time.

The 2007 Bummys was either run by Rev, with Dr Shipman assisting by creating the Youtube videos with the results, or run entirely by Dr Shipman.

The Youtube videos with the results can be found here: 2007 Bummys Results Video (Part 1 of 2) and 2007 Bummys Results Video (Part 2 of 2).

Winners

2008 Bummys

With Rev's departure from the game, the 2008 Bummys was run entirely by Dr Shipman. Of note, the 2008 Bummys began in November 2008, however, the results were not calculated and posted until February 2009, due to Dr Shipman's computer problems.

The Youtube video with the results can be found here: 2008 Bummys Results Video Message board discussion threads can be found here: The Bummys 08, Bummy Noms - CLOSED, Bummys 08 - Voting CLOSED, and The Bummys

Rules

Nomination Round

• The nomination round will last for seven days.
• You can nominate anybody you want, including yourself, in any category you want.
• You can nominate a gang member or your own gang, but you will NOT be able to vote for them.
• You can nominate one person in all categories or you can nominate two people for the same category.
• Nominations cost $100,000 per person, per category.
• You must be 100 days old or older to make nominations.
• You may not buy nominations or offer any kind of reward in exchange for nominations.

Voting Round

• The voting round will last for seven days.
• Anyone who was nominated is eligible for the voting round.
• You can vote for anybody you want, including yourself, in any category you want.
• You cannot vote for a gang member or your own gang.
• You can vote for as many people as you want in as many categories as you want, however, you can only vote once per person per category.
• Votes cost $50,000 per person per category.
• You must be 100 days old or older to vote.
• You may not buy votes or offer any kind of reward in exchange for votes.
• Any gang you have been in from the day the nomination round begins, until the day the voting round ends, will not be able to vote for you.
• You cannot arrange block voting with other gangs.

Winners

2009 Bummys

Like the 2008 Bummys, the 2009 Bummys was run entirely by Dr Shipman. The nomination and voting stages happened as planned, however, sometime after the voting stage ended, Dr Shipman disappeared and the results were never published. It was a year of great sorrow.

Message board discussion threads can be found here: Bummys 09 and http://www.hobowars.com/game/game.php?sr=410&cmd=gathering&do=vpost&post=15477804 Bummys 09 Voting]

Rules

Nomination Round

• The nomination round will last for seven days.
• You can nominate anybody you want, including yourself, in any category you want.
• You can nominate a gang member or your own gang, but you will NOT be able to vote for them.
• You can nominate one person in all categories or you can nominate two people for the same category.
• Nominations cost $100,000 per person per category.
• You must be 100 days old or older to make nominations.
• You may not buy nominations or offer any kind of reward in exchange for nominations.

Voting Round

• The voting round will last for seven days.
• Anyone who was nominated is eligible for the voting round.
• You can vote for anybody you want, including yourself, in any category you want.
• You cannot vote for a gang member or your own gang.
• You can vote for as many people as you want in as many categories as you want, however, you can only vote once per person per category.
• Votes cost $50,000 per person per category.
• You must be 100 days old or older to vote.
• You may not buy votes or offer any kind of reward in exchange for votes.
• Any gang you have been in from the day the nomination round begins, until the day the voting round ends, will not be able to vote for you.
• You cannot arrange block voting with other gangs.

2010 Bummys

With huge thanks to Cube!, 2010 brought us the first year of automated Bummys, hosted by Count de Monet.

An in-game system was created consisting of three stages: nomination stage, first voting stage, and final voting stage. This automated system allowed for direct nominating and voting and calculation of the results.

Most of the results are missing because there was no results video created for this year and no written information of the winners was recorded anywhere other than the first place winners being listed on the Bummys results page.

Of note, this was the first and only round of Bummys that allowed voting for gang mates.

Message board discussion threads can be found here: Bummies 2010?, Bummies Campaign Thread, and 2010 Bummies Complete

General Rules

• You may not campaign on the public message boards or in chat. The exception is that there will be a thread for campaign/discussion purposes on the Fun and Games Board.
• You may advertise in your name, your profile, and your signature.
• You may not pay for anyone else to nominate or vote for you or anyone else.
• You may not offer anything of value to encourage votes. This includes the promise of free rapes, either now or in the future.
• Your hobo must be 30 days or older to participate.
• Jailed and inactive accounts are eligible.
• You may vote for as many hobos as you like in each category, but not more than once for any one hobo.
• You may vote for your gang and your gangmates.
• You may vote for yourself.

Round-specific Rules and Procedures

Nomination Stage

• You may nominate anyone you wish by entering their ID number in the box provided.

First-Round Voting

• The first round is open to anyone who received a nomination during the nomination stage.
• Nominee names are listed in the order of most to least nominations received.
• Each vote will cost $25,000.
• Vote for your selections by clicking the vote link next to their name.
• The top four vote recipients in each category will advance to a final round of voting.

Final-Round Voting

• The final round is open to the top four vote recipients in each category from the first round of voting.
• Nominee names are listed in random order and change every time you open the page.
• Each vote will cost $10,000.
• Vote for your selections by clicking the vote link next to their name.
• First through fourth place winners will be chosen in each category based on the total number of votes that they receive.

Winners

2011 Bummys

There was some discussion about running the 2011 Bummys, but it never happened.

2012 Bummys

The 2012 Bummys was hosted by Doctor Know and followed much of the same rules and procedures as the 2010 Bummys. The most prominent difference was the reversion of the rule allowing us to vote for our gangs and gangmates.

Of note, the Wittiest Hobo and Most Likely to call the Whambulance categories had skewed results for the 4th place winners because the person who was previously in the running was jailed and therefore disqualified from the competition shortly before the final voting stage ended. The 5th place winners from the first round of voting took his places in these categories.

Message board discussion threads can be found here: Bummy's 2012, The Bummys!, Bummys Vote, Bummy categories, Bummys Information Thread, Bummys Campaign Thread, The Bummys..., Block Voting?, Bummys Advancement, Bummys Voting Stage, Bummys 2012 Campaigning, Bummys Final Voting Stage, and Bummys Results

General Rules

• Permanently jailed players and long-term jailed players are ineligible.
• All HoboWars staff members are eligible.
• All other players are eligible, unless an individual category states otherwise.
• Game staff gangs are ineligible; all other gangs are eligible.
• A player who breaks the rules outlined in this thread will become ineligible from all categories, with any entries for that player disqualified. Jail time might also ensue, depending on the offense.
• A player nomination that does not meet a category's criteria will become disqualified.

Player-specific Rules

• You are not allowed to pay people to nominate or vote for you or anyone else, in any form. This includes "trading" votes.
• You are not allowed to advertise your campaign on the public message boards (with the except of the Fun & Games board) or in Chat. This is mainly to prevent those two places from becoming bogged down with campaign advertisements.
• You are, however, allowed to campaign in the designated campaign thread on the General Discussion board, on the Fun & Games board, and on gang boards.
• You are allowed to advertise your campaign in your name, journals, signature, lottos, and Bummys sponsor messages.
• You are allowed to advertise other players' campaigns in your name, journal, signature, lottos, and Bummys sponsor messages.
• You are not allowed to pay other players to advertise your campaign for you.
• You are not allowed to threaten players to nominate or vote for you.
• You are not allowed to randomly solicit other players for nominations and votes. Friends and gangmates are okay, but, don't continue to solicit them if they aren't interested.

Gang-specific Rules

• A gang is allowed to hold any kind of discussion on the Bummys on their gang board.
• A gang is allowed to campaign, but, its campaign is subject to the same rules as individual player campaigns.
• A gang is allowed to determine who they do and do not support, and is free to share that information with their members either through mass mails or their gang board.
• A gang is not allowed to share who they do and do not support on the public message boards or in Chat.
• A gang is not allowed to pay anyone to nominate or vote for them or anyone else, in any form. This includes "trading" votes.
• A gang is not allowed to threaten anyone to nominate or vote for them or anyone else.

Restrictions

• You cannot nominate yourself.
• You cannot vote for yourself.
• You cannot vote for current gangmates.
• You cannot vote for recent gangmates.
• You cannot vote for a gang you are currently in.
• You cannot vote for a gang you were recently in.

Round-specific Rules and Procedures

Nomination Stage

• You may nominate anyone you wish, with the exception of those who have been excluded by the rules and restrictions above, by entering their ID number in the box provided.

First-Round Voting

• The first round is open to anyone who received a nomination during the nomination stage.
• Nominee names are listed in the order of most to least nominations received.
• Each vote will cost $25,000.
• Vote for your selections by clicking the vote link next to their name.
• The top four vote recipients in each category will advance to a final round of voting.

Final-Round Voting

• The final round is open to the top four vote recipients in each category from the first round of voting.
• Nominee names are listed in random order and change every time you open the page.
• Each vote will cost $10,000.
• Vote for your selections by clicking the vote link next to their name.
• First through fourth place winners will be chosen in each category based on the total number of votes that they receive.

Winners