The Bufords Kiwi Awards 2025 - The awards by Kiwis, for Kiwis have returned!

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Fallen Kiwis section added. If you know of other Kiwis who passed away in 2025, please post them in this thread.

@Relinquish if his death is confirmed, otherwise just give him the "alt+F4 in character" tribute.

 

[LarpBait]

how do i nominate @Tread Miller Best New OP with Splat Source?

 

[Hamplanet Fitness]

@Relinquish if his death is confirmed, otherwise just give him the "alt+F4 in character" tribute.

If it's confirmed, he'll be honored in the 2026 Bufords - his death would have been this year.

how do i nominate @Tread Miller Best New OP with Splat Source?

Added.

 

[LarpBait]

Best Overall Contributor

@Relinquish
(though if i could do ranked choice, i'd do @Bulgarian Lives Matter and @dcss next)

Best New OP

Coby Zachary Naughton by @Chudborean

Best Rewritten OP

SplatSource Community by @TreadMiller

Most Deserved Ban

@slungus22

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I like NaggotFigger's choices but I'll just make this one my whole ballot:

Most Deserved Ban: Vinluv Handesbukia

 

[RGK5H]

add @Lidl Drip and @Kees H to In Memoriam

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

Best Overall Contributor: @Bulgarian Lives Matter
Best New OP: Coby Zachary Naughton by @Chudborean
Best Researcher: @Relinquish (RIP)
Best Lolcow Fan Work: Write in vote for @Ozul ‘s fan art of Anisa and Ian Jomha


Most Deserved Ban: Vinluv (Get the Rope Macaulay is a close second though)

 

[Hamplanet Fitness]

add @Lidl Drip and @Kees H to In Memoriam

We don't know if those two are dead, they just stopped posting

 

[ASeabear8952]

Best Overall Contributor: @Osama Bin Laden. As I said in the pre-show thread, he single-handedly started the domino effect that led to the end of Leaping Lemur’s YouTube career, had an IBS match with him, and got cowtubers to shout us out. And special mention to @Relinquish, rest in peace man.

Best New OP: KiwiTubers by @Osama Bin Laden

Best Rewritten OP: Russell Greer by @Sexy Senior Citizen

Best Researcher: @Useful_Mistake

Best Lolcow Fanwork: Ralph Attends a Funeral by @ladmanboy

Most Deserved Ban: @Vinluv Handesbukia

 

[Spectate]

We don't know if those two are dead, they just stopped posting

@apolloday and @Second Alter Ego posted that they were going to commit suicide and stopped posting since then. Neither suicide has been confirmed however.

 

[3MMA]

• Voting for Lidl Drip’s Sam Hyde OP
• Shush for their Rekieta Body Cam parody for the media.

Only voting those categories & the poll above this year.

 

[Skitarii]

Requiescat in Potentia @Cats

Rest in piss @BrunoMattei

 

[It's All So Tiresome]

@neger psykolog for most penultimate.

 

[Folk Hero]

@Gehenna should be added to the Fallen Kiwis section, as he passed in early 2025.

 

[SHITFUCKER6969]

Best Overall Contributor

@Relinquish (RIP)

Best New OP

Kenneth Schulz by @Nigga Bullshit

Best Rewritten OP

Francis Joseph Benditt IV by @Admiral Throbnelius

Best Researcher

@Relinquish again

Best Lolcow Fan Work

Rekieta Bodycam Reenactment by @Shush

Most Deserved Ban

@slungus22

 

[Shig O'nella]

Best Overall Contributor: @Magic Pickle
(a man stands by his nominations. @Relinquish would otherwise be my vote, given the circumstances.)

Best Rewritten OP: Russhole by @Sexy Senior Citizen

Best Researcher: @Useful_Mistake

Best Lolcow Fanwork: @Shush for the bodycam reenactment.

Most Deserved Ban: @Glowie

 

[Bruno Powroznik]

Best New OP

Michael Evans by @Relinquish

Best Researcher
@Avenue

Best Lolcow Fan Work
@ladmanboy

Most Deserved Ban
Vinluv

 

[Captain Manning]

If you know of other Kiwis who passed away in 2025, please post them in this thread.

Technically, @CGoody564 passed away in January of 2025. Only noticed here three months afterwards. It was confirmed. He has the tag.

Whether you want to include him or not is up to you though. He was a Rekieta janny with only 6 posts. 4 of which were him fighting with another user he had off-site beef with. He'd only be a Kiwi in the most absolute basic sense of the term.

 

[stupid frog]

1 vote for @Shush, "Rekieta Bodycam Reenactment"

 

[my penis is on fire]

Best Overall: @Relinquish {-}7
Best New OP: Karl Jobst
Best Rewrite: Francis Joseph Benditt IV
Best Researcher: @cremechocolate
Best Fanwork: "Trick or Pepperoni"
Halal Ham Sandwich: @slungus22 (The fuck even happened to him? He was a normal poster for a while then one day randomly schiz'd out)