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All right, so as much as we love our duels around here, it's time to organize these things so the kids aren't just butchering each other at random in the streets.

So, WELCOME TO THUNDERDOME.



Going forward I'm going to keep this thread updated with challenges and their results, themes/prompts for competitors, and the links to the actual duel stories.

I'll be laying out an explanation of the process here too so that no one has to explain it to every random noob.

THE PROCESS:

1.) When two agree to (honorable?) battle, they'll be scheduled for the first available weekend. Due to voters needing time to read and hopefully comment on all these, and Darius or someone else having to host them, we're gonna limit this to no more than two duels a week, or in other words four stories assuming everyone shows up. It'll be on a first come first serve basis, so get in line.

2.) Prompts will be given Thursday night, duels will run from Friday to 11:59 CDT Sunday night. (My time, because if we did this on Darius's time it would cut out seven hours on Sunday for most of you, and I know most of you won't be starting these until Sunday.)

3.) All stories should be 2000 words or less, and must be sent to Darius before the deadline. He'll then make a thread to post them anonymously, and voting will be open about four days--ending as the next duel starts--unless there's some exception made.

4.) All participants will be rewarded a commendation. Winners (going forward, I'm not digging up any old threads) will receive ten points. Anyone who agrees to a duel and then doesn't show up will be FINED ten points.

If for some reason you agree to a duel but then realize you won't be able to make it, then you need to inform us of what a shameful disappointment you are as soon as possible. There might still be time to bring in the designated SECRET DUELER to salvage the match.

5.) If you want to be tagged to future duel threads for voting, say so in here.

Now get out there and kill each other, for great glory or something.



DEUS VULT!



VOTE IN THE CURRENT DUELS RIGHT HERE:

(None atm)

Aww thank goodness! All those years of watching tv finally amounts to something. Antoinette, I look forward to our duel, and, as the people say, may the best man (or teenage girl) win! 

I feel like, with its date and all, the prompt of the upcoming duel has to be something bud-related.

Wait, I thought I was still in the Mean Girls thing. I didn't lose or anything, so I shouldn't be disqualified right?

Did you just forget me?

Ah, I just got a lil confused because you said their fight was a resolution.

I can just duel the winner, sure

So what is the prompt for this weekend?

That's going up this evening, they don't need FOUR days for this.

Although I perhaps should slip it to Darius a few hours early considering the time zone issue.

Huzzah! As part of an effort to make myself write and be more useful, I am extending an open challenge to any site members willing to duel me! THUNDERDOME rules should apply.

I’ll meet you in the THUNDERDOME, Peng.

You're on. How does the weekend after the 4/20 batch sound?

Works for me

Sent and I have been discussing refinements to the SECRET DUELER system. (It is, of course, a secret.)

I'm really hoping these duels can remain a regular and steady thing. It keeps people honing their writing skills and encourages forum participation. And if combined with some other minor site activity like a single featured review, due to the way commendation bonuses work out it would give newer users a way to earn an "income" of 25 points a week to help get those numbers up. (More points equals more weight to your story ratings, so it's always desireable to get them up above 500 at least.)

I would like to challenge @Abgeofriends to a duel. It's about time we saw who was the better short story writer. 

@stargirl I accept, look whose the one volunteering me without consent. Whatever show me what you've got!

@Mizal

I challenge ye, etc etc

Doing an Ebon style pre duel rant just to not show up would be too much effort

Just checking, but the story is due in an hour, not 5 minutes, right?

Yeah, you've still got time.

Awesome, thank you.

I extend an open challenge to any user who would like to duel me in the thunderdome. I would really like to test my abilities and destroy the competetion. I have some faint memories of killing some zombie guy in a duel in a past life, but since then my quill has been a little too dry for my liking.

I'll duel you if you never make another metaphor about your dick.

that wasn't a metaphor about my dick...

I accept your open challenge Ace. I've never been in a proper 1v1 writing duel though did duel a bunch of other people at once so this is semi-familiar territory. Or I'll just duel the next person who feels like it. I didn't see wizzys response lol.

Assuming Wizzy is serious I'd perfer to duel him since he is a metaphorical dick, but if he isn't (which is in character) then sure, I'll duel you.

If MrAce and Wizzy are paired up, I'll take you on Axxius.

All right, scheduling Ace vs Wizzy and Axxius vs Anthraxus


I think we're reaching the point where these are having to be scheduled so far ahead it's going to be in question whether the contestants are going to be able to say for sure whether they'll even be available then.

I'm not however going to increase the number of duels unless I see there's enough interested voters to sustain more.

Please don't comment on this post.

The list of mystery dueler candidates to keep track of them.

• @Enterpride
• @Mystic_Warrior
• @TypewriterCat 
• @ISentinelPenguinI
• @stargirl
• @Petros
• @Wizzycat
• @PerforatedPenguin
• @goodnight_a
• @Mizal
• @TheCanary
• @TrueParanormal

Edited links to the current voting threads into the OP. That will always be an easy place to find any ongoing duels, if looking down the thread list slightly is too troublesome.

Well, I don't want to be left out of the fun in Thunderdome.

So, before the schedule gets even more full, I challenge anyone else who is up for it.

Lar has spoken. I will accept your challenge.

Dont hide behind Lar and blame him when your blood colors the sand in the arena.  

Thanks Mizal, you are the most benevolent mod

I like the THUNDERDOME

@fresh_out_the_oven
@Darius_Conwright
@stargirl
@TypewriterCat

Upcoming duels post has been updated to add the prompt. May the best tween girl win!

Oh, and to be clear, I'm hosting this one since Darius is a contestant, so make sure to send the stories to me this time.

One entry already received.

Holy

I haven't even started yet. 

All stories made it in on time (barely). Threads will be up shortly.

@PerforatedPenguin vs @Petros 
@Mizal vs @Corgi213 

This time you four send all of your stories to me, the living ghost of the deceased and diseased Darius mwahaha. 

Due to the bloody nature of the tournament and the argument that serves as a precursor to these sets of duels, my chosen prompt for you four is:

Man's best friend is found slaughtered in the kitchen. Who's to blame? Any genre.

Unfortunately, Corgi and I are having to reschedule our duel after he had to work the weekend without notice in the middle of some other stuff going on.

I can throw something together for this prompt though if anyone else is up for it.

I don't really have anything going on after work on weekends, so I'll extend an open challenge to whoever wants to face me. 

Bring it on. TrueP. @TrueParanormal 

If you don't mind, I'll also host our little round this time myself. Keeps things all tidy and stuff. 

As long as its fair, I don't mind at all. Looking forward to it!

@Wizzycat vs @MrAce321
@Axxius vs @Anthraxus

Given the date, only one prompt will do.

Have fun with your Star Wars fanfic, and May the 4th be with you.

We're gonna wait till tomorrow to call the votes in this latest duel to give more people a chance to comment and vote. Then I'll likely shut the Thunderdome down a couple weeks as we've gone through most of scheduled matches, and everyone seems running low on productivity juice. (Although I know this was finals week for many. )

Whenever it opens back up I welcome another duel.

I'd love to take you up on that, Anthraxus. 

Happy to accept

How convenient! I've always wanted to duel and I love making indeterminate commitments! I'll duel whoever can generate the most heat for the matchup.

How convenient! I, too, have always wanted to duel and I fucking hate your guts. Let's go.

Most people saying this to Sent would mean it ironically, but not Cel.

Although I am unsure if Darius and I will agree to host this one, whatever the results turn out to be it would only further fuel the hair trigger Eastern European autism and rage. Which kind of defeats the THUNDERDOME's purpose of settling pointless internet disputes.

The announcement will certainly be a colorful write up, there's enough fuel for that.

You have to be breaking some kind of record for the most butthurt man to have ever lived, for reasons that utterly baffle me! Which, I suppose is suitable heat for the match. It would be less honorable than challenging one of the actually fun users for the glory of the sport, but I suppose this absurd bitterness has to be addressed somehow.

 

The catch is I only trust mizal with prompts right now because that kitchen one fucked me up.

I like Darius's prompts, unlike the man himself. Man's best friend one was amazing, I'd love something dark like that.

When the Thunderdome's sands are ready to be watered with blood once again, I'd like to challenge one Chinese "Dutch" faggot with an extreme superiority complex.

@Darius_Conwright, I'll meet you in the Thunderdome if you're enough of a man.

Don’t cut in line

All y'all are cutting is line.  

While all the lines he's cutting is coke

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug"

-Rick James

 

 

Good line

Get in line

Fuck you, I'm not waiting. I'll fight you some other day.

My desire for bloodshed must be quenched. @goodnight_a, will you face me in the Thunderdome?

If that is your desire.

I can't promise to sate your appetite. But I shall try to make it a good hunt. 

(I accept your challenge)

I’d also like to finally kick Darius’ teeth in when the THUNDERDOME reopens.

I'm down to duel anyone whenever the dome reopens

Very well, the list of people wanting to kick my smelly putrid decomposing corpse again. This is the order I'm fighting you:

1. Trueparanormal.

2. Petros

3. Typecat

I wasn't sure if he was still active, but since he is I challenge @DarkSpawn to a duel.

I wasn't sure if you were still active considering you still failed to review my story (and I can't find your post where you said you'd do it within five weeks, this site needs a forum search button, lazy devs).

Active does not generally describe Ace

That wasn't really a dig at Dark ironically enough. It's just that last I checked he hadn't logged into the site in a while and since I'm not in the discord I wasn't aware if he was even alive anymore.

Alright then

Sentinel and Celicni seem determined to duke it out, the dweebs. Are any of you others who were posturing in here awhile ago up to the challenge this weekend?

If Darius is and TPara isn’t, I am.

Fine. 

All right, the prompt is a haunted mountain.

Also, this episode of the THUNDERDOME would be amiss if it didn't pay homage to Tina Turner. So long to another icon, press F, etc. And of course I recommend a rewatch of Beyond Thunderdome to pay your respects, Aunty Entity has class and style and is one of the more complex 80s sci fi antagonists out there.

We are keeping this one up until sufficient votes roll in. Everybody wants to homoerotically flex on each other, but no one wants to read.

Although I know the summer time lull is kind of traditional.

Well, there's a desperate driving impulse that pounds inside my heart. Some of you know what I'm talking about. You feel the itch, the need. That's right, the driving need to throw chinamen headlong down flights of marble stairs. I'm feeling it again, so I thought it was time to invite Darius to a bloodletting in the THUNDERDOME again.

Then Suranna gracelessly shot herself in the foot in front of everyone, so my contending desire to kick people while they're down surfaced.

Long story short, I'm challenging Darius AND Suranna (preferably at the same time). May the best subhuman win!

There you go, I'll accept. @wizzycat

Can you come up with a theme for us?

What did Suranna do again except for not submitting a contest entry?

@wizzycat I got this.

The theme is violence and pain. If the writing does not make my bones hurt you failed. @suranna @petros @darius_conwright

bone hurting juice

Not sure how this unsanctioned THUNDERDOME match is going down. Am I giving Ford or Darius the story? Honestly, I trust them equally.

I'll give it to you this time, I trust no one

Sure. Sounds legit

I accept.

No further comment needed.

And now all these hooligans cut the padlock and started hosting their own illegal underground tourney it seems.

Inciting hoodrat activity is one of my few innate talents

I hereby announce a duel between me and @fresh_out_the_oven (warden lol). Blood shall be spilled!

Okay, I'm a little rusty at this.

Uh... the story must center around an abandoned junkyard.

I know Fresh hasn't accepted yet but she actually isn't allowed to refuse, we need to get a new duel going. Deadline is Saturday at 11:59 pm CST.

I actually have accepted

Do we vote now, or do we need to wait for the deadline?

I vote for voting now.

@Darkspawn
@MrAce321

The theme is "an impossible task".

Deadline Sunday 11:59pm CST.

Your wit is not lost on me woman.

@Abgeofriends said she would duel me. It's time to see who's the better writer after all. 

you are, congrats.

Yeah I think this is obvious, but sure, glad to see the Thunderdome back in regular use.

Challenge accepted. @stargirl

I finished, where do I post my story?

message it to Miz

You finished? I haven't even started yet. 

Well that sucks

 

At the time of that post she still had like 24 hours to write a thing that probably takes 2, turning yours in already definitely makes you the weird one.

True, but we have school so it is today or never.

Or just during class? I don't even need to think of a plot until first period tomorrow. 

You should probably be doing actual class stuff instead of CYS, then again you have like 100's in every class so I can't complain. 

Of possible historical interest, here's a thread that was sort of the prototype of the Thunderdome, and it even had an early version of Sent's backup dueler idea with Lux stepping in when one of the noobs was a filthy no show.

https://chooseyourstory.com/forums/creative-corner/message/28605

I've been itching for a duel and chances are I'll be busy next week, so I'm up for it.

Me! Me! Me! Pick me!

Me and Darius have a duel to get to, but Lux and Suranna can go first if you're looking just to host one match

@Darius_Conwright

Are you up to fighting children this week?

Although going forward if we end up with too many duelists, I'm gonna start giving preference to those who haven't gone recently over more frequent volunteers.

Fine, it's my fourth time already, it would be very sad if I were to lose again

Im also up again for whenever

I won't be available this weekend, but I'd like to challenge @corgi213 for next time.

@corgi213

Can I get a yay or nay on this? Not sure if you're still going to be busy next week.

We do need at least one pair of volunteers though.

There's other people I'd be more interested in dueling than cyclonis of all people. But I'd be down in general

 

Fair, I think I'd rather duel WizzyCat or Darkspawn for a real challenge anyway.

I'd be down! My schedule is a shitshow, but I'm not satisfied with my last story.

I just want to say how pleased I am with this topic.  I used to teach that poem all the time, but then I realized I liked it too much to teach it.

I am going to suggest we put a block on these contest entries, just for Gower, so he doesn't have to see what happens to it...

@Yummyfood
@mrcrimsonclean

Write about a crucial moment of backroom diplomacy.

2000 word maximum, due Monday at midnight CDT.

That's a pretty cool prompt. Julian Asange would be a happy man. 

Honestly I'm quite liking how my Thunderdome entry is coming along, people might be pleasantly surprised (hopefully). Even if yummy doesn't show up id still want it posted. 

Looking forward to it. It's definitely a prompt that could go in a lot of directions.

@Darius_Conwright
@benholman44

You both have expressed interest in a Thunderdome challenge against each other but both have a habit of becoming elusive. How's this weekend sound? I'll give the prompt out on the evening of the 11th (Friday) and you'll have until Monday evening to complete your stories.

Sounds good!

Deal!

Darius_Conwright
@benholman44

Your prompt::

The protagonist makes an unexpected arrival on a strange island.


Usual rules, should be a 2000 word maximum, send it to me for reposting for the vote. Due Monday night at 11:58PM CDT.

In accordance with rule number five, I would like to request that I be tagged in all future duel threads in which I am not an active participant. 

Just wanted to say that both entrants got their stories in, it's me that's running late.

I'll just put these up Friday morning and run the voting through the week if needed, people may be doing things tonight and then we have the deadline for Sherb's contest that might keep people from fully participating in this.

Ford votes for story b