Welcome to Dentril's New Moon of April 2024! Hope you are all doing well and enjoying this lovely time of year. I'm BasicAly, and I will be telling you all the latest news about what's been going on here at Shotbow. Gather around, maybe grab a snack, and let's dive into it: Network Updates Team Applications Ever wanted to join the Shotbow Staff Team? The following teams are accepting applications: Development Team Annihilation Administrative Team MineZ Administrative Team Warband and Wasted: Control Staff Team Localization Team Build Team Spring Festival 2024 Our Spring Festival is still in full swing! Here's a list of some important information about our Festival: Network-wide 2x XP Multiplier until the end of April! An exciting new Lobby that includes an Egg-Hunt! A new Spring Festival Ticket Bundle in our store that includes Gold Rank, Unpainted Easter Eggs (Exclusive Trail), Suspicious Easter Eggs (Exclusive Trail), Easter Balloon Set (Exclusive Balloons) and 25k Shotbow XP. An Easter Selfie Contest that can win you a rank and/or XP! Testing of our newest Gamemode coming to shotbow called Shotball! Read all about our Spring Festival in the original post here. Event Team Recap Last month, our Event Team had hosted some awesome events! For MineZ, they hosted: MineZ Floating Island PvP, Barroom Brawl PVP, Helia Sewers Hide and Seek, and an Axis Mundi Wave Event. For Annihilation, they organized: 2 1v1v1v1 OP Games, 1 Sandbox Game, 23 Friendly and Practice Clan Wars, a "No Way Back" Event, and 2 Meadow Madness events. For Warband, they hosted: "Bless You" Event For Smash, they hosted: Easter Bash Event For GG, they hosted: Blossom Brawl Event Gamemode Updates Annihilation Updates The Annihilation Team has introduced a new gamemode with their newest update. "Duel Mode" is a 1v1 style gamemode where two teams go head-on in an action-packed battle! You can read all about this new mode here. The Annihilation Tournament has also continued this past month. The Annihilation Tournament Groupstage had finished in March and will continue into the quarter finals through April! You can watch some of the tournament matches on our YouTube channel to get caught up on the current standings! Click here for the original post to see more information about the Tournament! MineZ Updates The MineZ Team released their April Fools update that brought many interesting features for Survivors to check out! From Chaos Blocks and strange creatures to difficult Head Hunts, this update surely was a wild one! Make sure to do some exploring and check out all of the new items you can find! You can read all the MineZ changes here in our changelog! Statistics SMASH Rankings Here are the current season standings: #1 - _BrightDarkness_: 1234 #2 - Cometcat13: 1180 #3 - naqare: 1164 Network in General Staff updates: lPirlo was promoted to Anni Event Team Lead ImAbbyy was promoted to Anni Event Team Co-Lead LangScott was promoted to MineZ Event Team Lead WTDpuddles was promoted to MineZ Event Team Co-Lead _BrightDarkness_ joined the SMASH Mini Admin Team Cometcat13 promoted to Full Builder Other statistics: There were 426 players banned in the last month There were 19 support tickets handled in the last month There were 44 ban appeals handled in the last month This month we achieved a peak playercount of 187 on March 31st 54,915,314 XP was earned by players this month Closing Words Thanks for reading, and I hope you are all enjoying your time on Shotbow. We look forward to bringing you new updates coming soon! Happy Spring! - BasicAly