200 weeks. Almost five million words. Hundreds of unforgivable crimes against literature.

Pretend I wrote a big, heartfelt retrospective here. You fuckers know you've made something awesome, you don't need me to tell you that. If you're feeling nostalgic, check out the Archive's classics page for a carefully curated collection of the best/worst Thunderdome has to offer.

This week, we are going back to the simple spark of idiocy that started it all:

“Man agonizes over his potatoes.”

1000 words. No bullshit.





Ha ha just kidding it wouldn’t be Thunderdome without bullshit. In that spirit, here is a bunch of complicated and unfair bullshit and you assholes are going to sign up and enjoy every minute of it.

Everyone who signs up will receive a flashrule of some kind. Which flashrule you receive depends on the day you choose to sign up. Everyone who signs up on Monday gets one rule, everyone who signs up on Tuesday gets a different rule, etc. The flashrule will be revealed at the end of each signup day.

There will be a cap on signups. Each day is allowed a maximum of ten signups. Anyone who signs up after that gets booted over to the next day. You are welcome to use this information to fuck each other over in any way you can conceive of.

Good news! If your day reaches the ten signup limit, you get a nice or at least benign flashrule. If your day fails to reach ten signups, you will probably get a mean, bad flashrule. Other things might cause the judges to issue painful flashrules to all signups on a given day. Judge sass, bad kayfabe, whimsey...

If we hit 50+ signups by the signup deadline on Friday, everyone gets the “good” flashrule for their day.

THE WINNER(s)(???) will receive some sort of glorious prize or boon.