Rules
Before you come, we should also tell you this one thing. We’ve got a limited guest list and there’s usually a waiting list, so we always ask that people who have put their names on the list let us know as soon as they can if they won’t make it.
Since we’ve got a schedule, teams need to arrive on time to register and get your game packs. It’s fine if your whole team isn’t present (but we reserve the right to humiliate the tardy), but once we close team registration, if at least *someone* from your team isn’t there to start playing, any latecomers will have to split up and join teams that have room for them. You can try all you like to bribe us with Chaos Bucks, but it just won’t work.
In Chaos We Trust
What are Chaos Bucks, you ask? When you arrive, your team will be given a brown envelope full of the People’s Republic of Chaos Thaoghaire’s national currency, Chaos Bucks. Use them recklessly. Bribe your referees, to buy answers from other teams, to sweet-talk us into giving you extra time when we’re wrestling you for your answer sheets — whatever you think you can buy your way into or out of is fair game with Chaos Bucks. At the end of the night, the number of Chaos Bucks your team has will be added to your overall score as bonus points, but with one catch. So that the bribing is mostly among the teams, if we (the Chaosettes) at the end of the third round of games, have more Bucks than any of the teams, no one’s getting any bonus points. And these could make you or break you (probably break if you ask us). The winners get glory and a prize.
Our prizes are coveted, but the most coveted of all the prizes is the Chaos Thaoghaire Championship Belt, which is taken home by the winning team at our regular Champions of Chaos League events at the Odessa Club. If, however, the winning team happens to disgrace the belt, or is deemed to have brought the belt into disrepute, the team that was named First Runner-Up is free to challenge the winners’ claim to the title. This can get ugly, and that’s just the way we like it.
Also in your game packs will be the general rules listed below. Defy us at your peril.
General Rules:
- Each team should be composed of at least 3 (three), and no more than 6 players.
- At the start of the evening, designate the person with the most legible penmanship to be ‘secretary’. How can you rub your hilarious gags in people’s faces if we can’t read your writing? We try our best to decipher, but if we can’t read it, we can’t read it out.
- Games are designed to be somewhat confusing and frequently nonsensical. Pay close attention to the descriptions because we will not give points to anyone claiming to have misunderstood the assignment.
- Make sure you put your team name on every page.
- Competition and bitter rivalries are encouraged. You are requested to ‘bring your A-Game.’
- Please take any physical fights or team brawls outside, unless you are using foam bats or light sabers. Those must not be removed from the building except by the organizers, Our President For Life, or the Swiss Secret Police. Besides, we want to watch and take money for bets.
- While we do encourage you to be noisy, we do request (firmly) that people keep quiet while storytellers are speaking.
- Remember this is not a gameocracy but a gametatorship. The curator and the organisers exercise Absolute Presidential Authority as conferred upon them/us by Our President For Life when it comes to giving points, declaring winners and punishing those who disobey our polite requests. We do not make the rules, but we do need to enforce them or we will be middle management all our lives. Obey the bell. Ding! Ding! Ding! That means you.
- Good behavior will not be rewarded (except see also rule number 6), so why worry?
- No sex in the champagne room.
- Seriously.
- Storytellers are offered the choice to help judge the games or to form their own team and play along. In the event that they make up a team, their right to exercise the Absolute Presidential Authority is not conferred.
- Cheating is allowed, but getting caught cheating is prohibited. If you are caught cheating, the penalties will be severe, and possibly even more humiliating than complying with the rules. You will be asked to wear the CT version of a hairshirt, and you will need to choose a penance from the Penance Box. If you do the penance you have been assigned, your team receives an indulgence. If you do not, your team loses a number of points to be determined by vote.
- Finally, winning teams will be presented with the Champions’ Belt, and be immortalized on the Internet – yes, that Internet! You should return monthly to defend your title, and be prepared to surrender the belt in the event that a new team kicks your sorry ass(es) and emerges victorious.
