Thunderdome was a competition held in Let's Play Minecraft Episode 43. It was basically a series of 1-on-1 fights between each member of Achievement Hunter (minus Ryan) inside of a fenced-in area. The winner of the fight had the opportunity to select a random chest to obtain a random item that could help them win the next fight, such as a sword or armor. Some of the chests contain a gold block, which if found, the person that finds it gets to erect that gold block on their obsidian podium. The goal was to find 4 gold blocks to create a full Tower of Pimps. Ryan did not compete since he had switched the items within the chests and would have most likely known where all of the gold blocks were, therefore he decided to be the operator of the gate that allows the competitors to enter the arena