User blog comment:Fedora Kid/Total Drama Wiki's Hall of Fame - Total Drama: Pahkitew Island/@comment-5931267-20140727153216/@comment-1874924-20140727180712

The problem with allowing joke nominations is that they will attract joke votes. Since we're only allowed to vote for one candidate, those joke votes will be at the expense of legitimate candidates.

Yes, a first boot can be a good game player; but for early outs, the onus is really on the nominator(s) to establish that the character was actually playing a good game. In Beardo's case, let's not forget that the stated reason for him being in the Bottom Two was that he did very little to help his team.