Dentril's New Moon - June 2024

Hey Shotbow!
Happy almost-summer! Welcome to Dentril's New Moon of June 2024. I'm BasicAly, and I will be giving some updates about what has been going on over here at Shotbow!

Network Updates
Server Maintenance
You may have ran into some issues recently while trying to play on Shotbow as our development team has been working hard on making our servers up to date with back-end maintenance work. They have been working on overhauling internal systems to make way for infrastructure upgrades and faster development. These changes will also provide support for a better ban appeal system which will be helpful for staff and players alike.

We thank you for your patience with us during our maintenance periods. We are offering a limited time XP code for any troubles endured. You can claim code SBUPGRADES to get 2,500 Shotbow XP until June 20th.

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

Springfest Selfie Contest Results
The contest has come to a close and our winners have been given their rewards. The results were as follows:

• 1st Place: rlvae
• 2nd Place: on_gec
• 3rd Place: OptimusFelix

Event Team Recap
The Annihilation Team hosted 6 Practice Clan Wars and 1 OP Game.

Gamemode Updates
Annihilation Updates
The Annihilation Team has brought the Semi-Finals of the tournament to a close! They have now moved into the Finals round where we will get to see Rawr v2 and NyRq go head to head for the winning title!

MineZ Updates
The MineZ team released their 5.4.20 patch which brought new balance changes, bug fixes, and a few dungeon changes. You can read all of the details here in the changelog.

Shotball Updates
We had many successful playtests of our newest gamemode! We appreciate those who have came out to try it and we are listening to your feedback. The Shotball team is working on fixing bugs to improve the player experience.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
Here are the current season standings:

• _BrightDarkness_: 1128
• Cometcat13: 1121
• Acstes: 1097

Network in General
Staff updates:

• ImAbbyy was promoted to Full Admin
• OrcaHedral was promoted to MineZ Full Specialist
• SuperWolfster joined the MineZ team as Jr Specialist

Other statistics:

• There were 356 players banned in the last month
• There were 41 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 168 on May 19th
• 48,475,490 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
That wraps things up for Dentril's New Moon of June 2024. I hope you all have a happy start to summer! I have heard around that there will be some celebrations coming our way!

Best wishes,
BasicAly