We finally finished deciding on our new staff members! It was a pretty hard process-- after all, we had 7 mod applicants and 10 deckmaker applicants to choose from! Various factors like time availability, initiative shown in application, how well instructions were followed, and deck quality were all considered.

That being said, please welcome our new mods...

Adelicya (scblakdrgon), Kiri (sal), and Lex (admiral)

And our new deckmakers...
Gigi (dialga) and Maltran (cautiousardent)

And a side note about donations: We're still pretty low on donations-- like really eerily low in comparison to past releases where we racked up nearly 200 in total almost every month. Please donate or max out your donations if you haven't already! Also, there seems to have been confusion regarding deck limits, so let me clear that up here.

I originally decided Dec/Jan donations would be cut off 70 rg, 15 pz, and 15 sp (so 100 decks in total) for this month only because I was not sure how quickly we would get new deckmakers and feared a worse case scenario where we couldn't handle the usual workload again. It's just a one-time-only precaution.

I also said that starting in February we would change the regular donation limit from 3 down to 2-- and this was because we sometimes got too many donations. Seems some players got confused and thought I meant this would start in January? It's prob my fault since I'm not very clear sometimes, so my bad! However since we are extremely low on donations now, and because we have one more deckmaker than usual, I will keep the limit 3 regular donations/month as it's always been.

The release is estimated to go up February 10th - 12th. February donations will open on February 1st and then close on February 27th -- these will go into the March release.