Anyway, if you’re getting ready for Tuesday, don’t forget to bring your A-Game! If you weren’t at our launch or our test-run in September, you might want to have a look at the rules, and read more about our cheating policy in the games section. You can’t bribe us for the answers, but we can tell you that it is not possible to win at Chaos Thaoghaire by playing fairly, nor if you fail to use your Chaos Bucks. Remember, too, that you will be asked to gamble some of your points. This is where all your insecurities come to the fore, and probably you will be crying out of everywhere it is possible to cry from. You wanna play by the rules, you say? Fair enough. Enjoy loserdom.

Other, slightly more logistical things: if you’re down on our list on your own or as a plus-one, you don’t need to bring a team. In fact, we wouldn’t have room! But don’t worry, we put teams together when people arrive, and remember, this is Dublin — you probably already know everyone in the room anyway.

If you’ve booked as a team, we need to know numbers when you book although if someone cancels, then please let us know — we’ll be able to open up a spot on the waiting list. Oh, and make sure you’re as on time as you can possibly be. Once we close team registration, you might still be able to play (if there’s room on the other teams), but you won’t be able to play together. Can you imagine the horror!?

Please feel free to contact us if you’ve got any questions. You can use the contact form, post a comment below, or send us an email at chaosdublin at gmail dot com. Are you excited? We are frank(enstein)ly, we can’t wait to scar the pants off you. No, that’s not supposed to say ‘scare’. You scared yet?

What we’re really here to say is that we’re looking for things to give away as prizes at Chaos Thaoghaire events. We’d like the winning team to get nice prizes, of course, and we also want to be able to reward the rowdy, the inept, and the just plain confused with both edible and inedible goods. So if you’ve got a prize you want to give to some rowdy, brainy, dishonest, and badly-behaved ne’er-do-wells, we’d be so excited and so grateful that not only would we name one of our sharks after you, we would even let you provoke them a little and tell them they should just deal with it. Did you ever think that something so simple could let you get one over on sharks?

We also are happy to accept the incredible (as in ‘difficult to believe’). The good thing about us (apart from the way we’re good at keeping you safe from compound shark attacks**) is that we’re quite interested in giving away puzzling prizes. Milk, beef jerky, boxes of keyrings. An unsold box of broken china from a fete that was cancelled when the entire vestry was eaten by sharks. That stuff. The sort of thing that would give the winners some explaining to do.

As one of us was overheard saying today: “I can’t believe I ate the whole pie!”

If you’re interested in giving us things, colour us listening! Email us at chaosdublin [at] gmail [dot] com. We can’t wait to read your email. We’re just going to sit here and reload the page until it comes, in fact.

* Guarantee only applies to terrestrially-based Chaos Thaoghaire events
** Our lawyers say we need to point out that the term ‘unprovoked’ should be considered implied. If you mess with sharks and they attack you, that’s your own problem. We’ll just say we never met you.

If anyone wants to give us a bag of money so we can go to the Cryptozoology Museum in Maine, perhaps to do some Crypto-Chaos, we would not say no. No, never. Not ever.

It’s also, we learn (go poke around their awesome site so they get a nice surprise when they check their stats), 76 years ago yesterday that the first photograph of the Loch Ness Monster was taken. Not the famous one that turned out to be a hoax. A different one.

We love you, cryptozoology people. If I ever get a pet chupacabras, I promise to name it after Dr Rines. Riney, I’ll probably call it.

A question for our site visitors: who or what is your favourite cryptid? And you can’t say Harry from Harry and the Hendersons because that was just a movie. I mean, if you were gonna have to go on a monstah hunt, what kind would you chase, and if you caught it/him/her, what would you do? Don’t you dare kill it.

Here’s a refresher in case you’ve lost track of the world’s cryptids. I’d probably go after this little guy, and he’d get some serious cuddling.