01 / questionable brilliance
GENIUS AWARDS
For the person with a brilliant idea. Right up until they tried it.
A ceremony for the improbable
REALITY ERRORAWARDS 2026
The world messes up. We give the best mistakes awards.
Some stories are too ridiculous to make up. And yet, here we are. A whole year of questionable ideas, impossible coincidences and systems spectacularly failing in public.
We are collecting the wildest true stories of 2026 from every corner of the planet. Read them, laugh at them, comment on them and share them. Soon, you can vote for them too.
Because some stories do not deserve to be forgotten. They deserve a nomination.
The official categories
Four ways to lose control.
Every story has a place on the podium. Sometimes more than one.
02 / plan B missing
MURPHY AWARDS
When everything that could go wrong clocks in for overtime.
03 / unexpected error
SYSTEM FAILS AWARDS
Forms, procedures, rules and systems. Built to work. Determined to prove otherwise.
04 / no one was ready
CHAOS AWARDS
It starts with a tiny mishap. Five minutes later, nobody knows how we got here.
Put it on your mental calendar
THE FIRST SHOWDOWNS ARE COMING.
Soon you can pick your favourite stories and send them towards the most unlikely glory of 2026. In the meantime, explore the Stories. The world keeps supplying material.
Explore the Stories
KEEP AN EYE OUT.
THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET RIDICULOUS.