
We all love competitions at Kotaku, and we’re easily the best at it, so how about we focus our mad competition skills for a good cause by raising money for Movember? We’ve created a Kotaku page for Movember so that we can all raise money as a team and, in addition, we’ve attached ourselves to Activision Australia, who have committed to adding $1000 to the team who raises the most money. Currently we’re up against The Official PlayStation Magazine Australia — come on guys, we can totally smash these guys!
All you have to do is head to our page and register for Team Kotaku. From that point, all the money you raise individually will be added to our total as a team. If we managed to beat out the other teams registered at Activision Australia’s Modern Warfare network we get to add another $1000 to that total.
And obviously, it’s for a good cause — raising vital funds for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and depression. This is our chance to do our bit together as the awesome community we are.
So, let’s do it folks! Tomorrow is the first of November. Register now, start promoting the page and getting donations, start tomorrow clean shaven and grow some incredible facial fair.
Here’s some inspiration.



I’m going to be going for a Captain Price-style number, since I’m a little bit ginger and all. I’ll post up a weekly update of my progress each Monday, and if you guys join in and send my pics of your progress, I’ll post them up as well!
Good luck folks! And don’t forget — register here, join the team and let’s get this going! Retweet this, post on your Facebook, and let’s recruit as many people as possible!
EDIT: Activision has informed us that there are some copies of Modern Warfare 3 up for grabs for those that raise the most money!


















Dr What? (dressed as a time travelling alien zombie vampire werewolf)
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:02 PMMan, I shaved my beard and left the moustache. I looked like a total pedo so I had to shave it off.
Chazz
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:04 PMPshh, we all know real men sport this moustache;
http://i43.tinypic.com/rqvv5c.jpg
oggob
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:12 PMHey, I’m John Waters, and this is… The Creep.
And don’t forget to smile!
Batguy
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:12 PMHmm, been talking about doing this for years, might this year finally be the one when I do?
Might try to emulate Mike Haggar
Mark Serrels
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:15 PMDo it!
bookiegnu
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:15 PMJoined the team. Shaved my amish beard last night to make room for the mo.
Go team Kotaku
PuppyLicks (Dressed up as a Gundam)
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:18 PMI’m in.
Just signed up now :D
PuppyLicks (Dressed up as a Gundam)
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:19 PMSo we just send the team link to people and they can donate from there yes?
Mark Serrels
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:29 PMOnce you’ve joined the team, any contributions made to your page accumulates to our grand total as well. :)
PuppyLicks (Dressed up as a Gundam)
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:30 PMSweet :D
Time to head to the shaver shop to get some moustache wax :)
bookiegnu
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:19 PMOh, and aside from raising money for great causes, in case anyone needs any more mo-tivation (sorry), raise more than $40 individually and you get free Grill’d burgers.
Cav
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:32 PMOh dear Mark… Knock back my invitation and borrow AG screenshots? Oh well, let’s just see if you can beat our Australian Gaming Community Movember Team! We have 41 members and have nearly raised $2.5k!
Morkai
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 5:33 PMThis is the team that I was talking about in my comment below…
*Waves*
Hi Cav :P
Disco
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:50 PMIm already doing this with my school clinic so im more than happy to help!
Question though- what moustache goes best with a shaved head?
Morkai
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:51 PMI’ve only just shaved off my beard this morning, and will be growing back as hideous a mo’ as I can manage, but alas, I’m already a member of a different team of gamers/writers etc.
It’s looking good though, we’ve got around 45 members and last I heard, we’d raised nearly 2500 before Movember officially started…
Tristan Damen
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1:58 PMUnfortunately, I already setup my own team (where I’m riding solo), and I don’t think I can switch.
Mark, if you know of a way, let me know and I’ll jump on board.
MrTaco
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 2:50 PMWouldn’t mind having a go at Movember. But can’t do it this year, since my friends have a wedding in two weeks and as a groomsman I have been banned from participating :(
Unicron
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 3:05 PMI just signed up Mark.
My dad is actually waiting back for test results for prostate cancer as we speak.
To say this awareness event hits home is an understatement.
Jiff
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 9:17 PMSorry to hear.. Hope your dad pulls through
Unicron
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 11:37 PMThanks Jiff. Yeah it’s pretty full on when life just grabs you in a head lock and says ‘look at this bitch, how do you like it? Deal with it.
And that’s just me, I worry what dad is going through.
GentlemanJ
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 3:06 PMUsually do this through our work team, I wonder if I can join more than one team?
Hermes and Thoth
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 3:26 PMI am unable to participate in movember because of major presentations i must give. Serious ones.
And then Ill be waiting until March and will be growing a Macho-Man Randy Savage beard for heart disease. I still can’t believe they’ve taken you Macho-Man.
The event will be called Marcho-Man. I invite all to join.
In the meantime, I will
Unicron
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 4:25 PMIf you really want this to take off Mark. Do updates for us about the numbers in the team and weekly donations updates. I’m guessing a lot of people aren’t quite sure that you can donate at any stage during the month, not just commit at the start of the month.
Anyway, good idea getting on board, this is my first PROPER Movember, so i’m glad i can help out with a website i love. Cheers.
Franz
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 5:28 PMShit, somehow I’m stuck on the australian Kotaku
Nick
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 8:28 PMWelcome to the Dark Side! We have cupcakes and T-shirts :)
Jamie Kennedy Experiment
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 7:04 PMRaise money for Movember!? I need to raise money for my video game spending in Novemeber.
Korwin
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 8:11 PMMy moustash grows in patchy and thin and makes me look like a serial child sex offender, I’ll pass on the growing of it thanks :D
Jiff
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 9:20 PMThis is all the excuse I need to grow a nice John Bonham type mo (or Lemmy as I apparently look like with a handlebar)
Not much of a charity raiser type but I’ll see what I come up with
Baron
Monday, October 31, 2011 at 9:59 PMTime to look scary again