Shotbow

Updates
Network Updates
This month, we did something special for Valentine's day -- we allowed you to send XP to each other for the first time, as a gift of a Valentine. Over the course of the 2-day event, 73,092 Valentines were sent out by Shotbow players. We also had some exclusive Valentine's cosmetics. Read our reflection on this month's event here.

Annihilation Updates
The Annihilation Spring 2018 Tournament is here! Find out more info here and find the full brackets here.

MineZ Updates
This month, the MineZ team updated Crowmure Farm. Learn more about it here! Additionally, the MineZ Changelog is now being used. We are posting all updates here as well! Check it out here.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The winter season ends soon, so be sure to climb up the leaderboards for ranked matches! Current standings are:

• 1st - _BrightDarkness_ with 1227 ELO
• 2nd - Sonicboom_ with 1187 ELO
• 3rd - JirenX with 1169 ELO

Mine Theft Auto
MTA US Leaderboards for February 2018
Combat:

• 1st - snow_M2 KDR: 91:1 (91.0)
• 2nd - KenG_ KDR: 58:1 (58.0)
• 3rd - Ultimativemaster KDR: 113:2 (56.5)

Arrests:

• 1st - Nanacoro Arrests: 52.0
• 2nd - kokoro_1867 Arrests: 41.0
• 3rd - Muhyo_OC Arrests: 39.0

Experience Gained:

• 1st - Nanacoro Experience gained: 43487.0
• 2nd - Muhyo_OC Experience gained: 37727.0
• 3rd - Ultimativemaster Experience gained: 31036.0

Minigames Won:

• 1st - Nanacoro Minigames won: 85.0
• 2nd - Ultimativemaster Minigames won: 72.0
• 3rd - AMateRASU_1207 Minigames won: 38.0

Network in General
Staff updates:

• BigGiantKing and Veghetto joined the SMASH Mini Admin team
• IvanDoomy joined the Wiki Admin team
• FireBall__, Incredible_PvP, Manaea, MuffinMinister, Nikogab22, Sareyakut, and TheFlame_YT joined the Localization team

Other statistics:

• A total of 134,750,389 XP was earned by players this month
• There were 1,234 players banned in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 728 on February 4th

Player Peak
This month, we are still up really high and close to 1,000 players online at one time. However, if we can hit over 1,000 players online at one time during the next month, we will do a Platinum rank giveaway on the Twitter!

What can I do?
Play on Shotbow, invite your friends, and invite their friends! Make friends and invite them to Shotbow! Spread the word about our amazing games, and in return we'll work as hard as we can to make your experience the best it can possibly be.

I'm your host, Mistri. Thanks for flying Shotbow!

Hello everyone!

The brackets for the Annihilation Spring 2018 Tournament have now been drawn up and are available to view online here: https://goo.gl/erSQYz

This sheet will be updated as the Tournament progresses and may be updated without notice as we balance and juggle teams.

We hope to be livestreaming as many matches as possible over on our Youtube Channel - so subscribe to be notified when the stream goes live (delay TBC).

Finally best of luck to all teams, it's been an amazing turnout and we're very excited to see how it goes!

Hello everyone! Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate it, and happy belated Valentine's Day to the rest.

Now that the Valentine's Day celebrations have come to an end, it's time for me to give the promised statistics (and for one person to be given Valenswine!)

General Statistics
All in all, Shotbow sent out 73,092 Valentines. That is a massive number.

Of those 73,902 - the ten most "loved" players received only 3,337. That said - a total of 3,082 players received Valentines.

But who gave them those Valentines? We'll see in a moment that a couple players were massively responsible - but they couldn't have done it without help - a total of 1,615 players sent Valentines. Yikes.. that's a lot of unreturned love.

Most Loved Players
10. Enif777_Xeon - 304 received
9. No3is - 310 received
7. kaitonn1207 and cola_and_soda both received 311
6. karukanfosb - 313 received
5. RoyalMilktea_ - 319 received
4. Reaper_0225 - 333 received
3. Kelestami - 351 received
2. onocyan - 364 received
1. tyem0802 - 421 received

I can definitely say that Kelestami deserved it - they sent out a lot of Valentines. I'm personally disappointed to have fallen to within the top 50 with only 194. Come on guys - doesn't the guy who put it all together deserve love too?

Now, while I didn't receive quite the amount of Valentines I was personally hoping for, we do still all need to be exceedingly thankful for the hard work of our most generous players. These players spent a hoard of XP in order to deliver Valentines. The most generous Valentine's Day player will, as stated on our Twitter, be given Valenswine - our new seasonal Valentine's pet - absolutely free.

Most Generous Players
10. kaitonn1207 - 334 sent
9. MonHunBuka - 336 sent
8. Reaper_0225 - 344 sent
7. Lubeso - 358 sent
6. RoyalMilktea_ - 380 sent
5. karukanfosb - 413 sent
4. onocyan - 447 sent
3. tyem0802 - 566 sent
2. No3is - 1349 sent
1. Kelestami - 1655 sent

Now do you see why I said Kelestami deserved it? They sent nearly 2,000 Valentines by themselves. That's crazy. They've been rewarded Valenswine for their tremendous efforts.

Thank you to everyone that participated! This plugin also marked our first real-world trial-run of a localized plugin. For those who play Minecraft in English you might not have noticed, but the /valentine command would respond in the same language as your Minecraft - as long as we supported it.

Our supported languages during this event were: English, Spanish, French, Turkish, Dutch, German, Portugese, Japanese - and a hidden language: Pirate! This wouldn't have been possible without the tremendously hard work of our Localization Team. If you found any issues with the localization, please send me a PM over the forums - or file a bug in our issue tracker.

Thanks again to everyone! Until next time!