Room Competitions Are Changing

Room Competitions Are Changing

Room competitions have always been one of the best parts of Origins.

The late-night building sessions. The frantic furni swapping five minutes before deadline. That one perfectly placed lamp you somehow spent an hour deciding on. You know the feeling.

Over the past few months though, we’ve also seen some growing problems around how competitions are entered and judged. Fake screenshots. Rooms that didn’t really exist. Alternate accounts entering copied builds or stockpiled free furni setups purely to chase prizes. It’s not fun for the judges, and honestly, it’s not fair on the players who genuinely put the time in.

So, we’re making a few important changes.

🏛️ Habbo Club Membership Required

Going forward, official room competition entries will be limited to Habbo Club members.

This change helps us in a few different ways. Most importantly, it lets us properly embrace Creative furni within competitions without opening the floodgates to abuse through throwaway accounts and endlessly recycled free furni.@

It also helps protect the spirit of room competitions a little better. These events work best when builders are competing because they love creating rooms, not because twenty alternate accounts are trying to farm trophies.

And yes, we know this change affects some talented builders who’ve entered competitions with us in the past. We genuinely appreciate those players, and we hope many of you decide to continue building alongside us through Habbo Club.

That said, competitions aren’t the only place great rooms get noticed.

We’d still love to see incredible builds shared across the hotel, on fansites, Discord, X, Reddit, anywhere really. Some of the most memorable rooms in Origins were never competition entries at all.

🛠️ A New Submission System

We’re also changing how room submissions work.

Instead of submitting screenshots externally, all competition entries will now be submitted directly through the game client itself.

This gives us a much cleaner and fairer process overall. No more edited screenshots. No more confusion over whether a room actually exists. No more judging based on cropped images that conveniently leave half the room out.

Once submitted, your room will enter a review queue where judges can visit it directly in-game.

You’ll also be able to track the status of your submission yourself. After a judge reviews the room, the entry will move into an accepted or rejected state so there’s clearer visibility around the process.

It’s a pretty big step forward for competitions overall, and honestly, it’s something we should’ve had a long time ago.

📸 Build Because You Love Building

At the heart of all this, that’s really what we want room competitions to feel like again.

Creative. Fair. Competitive in a good way.

Not a battle against alt armies, fake screenshots, or who managed to stockpile the most free furni across ten accounts.

We think these changes help protect that. And we’re excited to see what builders create next.

Now then... who’s already sketching their next trophy room?

Harry

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