Lunar New Year 2024 ![Dragon face :dragon_face: 🐲](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f432.png)
After two weeks, The Bell Tree's Lunar New Year 2024 celebrations have come to an end! For those of you who celebrate, we hope you had a wonderful time and that you enjoyed the opportunity to share the holiday with your TBT friends. It was important to us to bring attention to a holiday we know many of our users (and staff) celebrate and we were glad to see such a positive response to the concept. For those of you who don't celebrate, we hope that you were also able to enjoy the event and that you learned more about this holiday from your fellow forum members.
Today we are announcing the winners of our Bright Beginnings, Draconic Designs, and Flicker & Fortunes events. But first let's get the boring housekeeping stuff out of the way.
Housekeeping![Broom :broom: 🧹](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9f9.png)
After our 2023 Stole-iday (winter holiday) event, we decided that we needed to re-evaluate how we award event prizes on TBT. So, after a team discussion, we decided to trial a new approach during this event. Each of our four event hosts—Chris, LadyDestani, Mairmalade, and Mistreil—selected one entry per event to award a staff favourite to. We worked together to avoid duplicates to ensure that we presented four unique winners per event. We also coordinated to ensure there were no duplicates across events. This means that it is only possible for a person to win one event and therefore there is no overlap in event winners. Let us know what you think of this new format.
As previously announced, our staff favourite winners may request the date and time changed on their animated Shooting Star collectible. You can do so using the Contact the Staff board. Please note that if you request a specific date on your collectible before it goes out, you may still initially receive the collectible without the custom time stamp. This will be manually amended later and it does not require you to make a further post.
No further prizes are coming, so please spend your Dragon Tokens as soon as possible. There is no benefit in holding onto them. We are not running a raffle nor offering a way to convert them to bells. If they are not spent by the end of Sunday March 3rd 2024 then you risk losing them altogether. We may not give any further warning before removing the Lunar New Year collectibles from the Shop.
As a reminder, The Bell Tree will be going down for maintenance on Monday March 4th 2024. This is expected to take a significant portion of the day. This maintenance is for updates and backend work, so when we come back online there won't be any noticeable changes. Feel free to come and chat in our Discord channel while the site is undergoing maintenance.
Finally, as promised, the Fortune Cookie will be made tradable shortly.![Fortune cookie :fortune_cookie: 🥠](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f960.png)
The Winners!![Sparkler :sparkler: 🎇](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f387.png)
And finally we reach the main attraction. Here are our twelve Lunar New Year 2024 winners! Each of our twelve winners will win an animated Shooting Star collectible.
Congratulations to our winners! Your prizes will go out either sometime this evening or tomorrow.![Smiling face with smiling eyes :blush: 😊](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever Lunar New Year event!![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)
![Dragon face :dragon_face: 🐲](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f432.png)
After two weeks, The Bell Tree's Lunar New Year 2024 celebrations have come to an end! For those of you who celebrate, we hope you had a wonderful time and that you enjoyed the opportunity to share the holiday with your TBT friends. It was important to us to bring attention to a holiday we know many of our users (and staff) celebrate and we were glad to see such a positive response to the concept. For those of you who don't celebrate, we hope that you were also able to enjoy the event and that you learned more about this holiday from your fellow forum members.
Today we are announcing the winners of our Bright Beginnings, Draconic Designs, and Flicker & Fortunes events. But first let's get the boring housekeeping stuff out of the way.
Housekeeping
![Broom :broom: 🧹](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9f9.png)
After our 2023 Stole-iday (winter holiday) event, we decided that we needed to re-evaluate how we award event prizes on TBT. So, after a team discussion, we decided to trial a new approach during this event. Each of our four event hosts—Chris, LadyDestani, Mairmalade, and Mistreil—selected one entry per event to award a staff favourite to. We worked together to avoid duplicates to ensure that we presented four unique winners per event. We also coordinated to ensure there were no duplicates across events. This means that it is only possible for a person to win one event and therefore there is no overlap in event winners. Let us know what you think of this new format.
As previously announced, our staff favourite winners may request the date and time changed on their animated Shooting Star collectible. You can do so using the Contact the Staff board. Please note that if you request a specific date on your collectible before it goes out, you may still initially receive the collectible without the custom time stamp. This will be manually amended later and it does not require you to make a further post.
No further prizes are coming, so please spend your Dragon Tokens as soon as possible. There is no benefit in holding onto them. We are not running a raffle nor offering a way to convert them to bells. If they are not spent by the end of Sunday March 3rd 2024 then you risk losing them altogether. We may not give any further warning before removing the Lunar New Year collectibles from the Shop.
As a reminder, The Bell Tree will be going down for maintenance on Monday March 4th 2024. This is expected to take a significant portion of the day. This maintenance is for updates and backend work, so when we come back online there won't be any noticeable changes. Feel free to come and chat in our Discord channel while the site is undergoing maintenance.
Finally, as promised, the Fortune Cookie will be made tradable shortly.
![Fortune cookie :fortune_cookie: 🥠](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f960.png)
The Winners!
![Sparkler :sparkler: 🎇](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f387.png)
And finally we reach the main attraction. Here are our twelve Lunar New Year 2024 winners! Each of our twelve winners will win an animated Shooting Star collectible.
Bright Beginnings ![Red paper lantern :izakaya_lantern: 🏮](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f3ee.png)
![Red paper lantern :izakaya_lantern: 🏮](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f3ee.png)
Aquilla | digimon |
| |
Holla | JellyLu |
Draconic Designs
![Dragon :dragon: 🐉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f409.png)
Firesquids | k o i |
Muna | wrenbow |
Flicker & Fortune
![Sparkler :sparkler: 🎇](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f387.png)
himekirako | lieryl |
Mokuren | Saylor |
Congratulations to our winners! Your prizes will go out either sometime this evening or tomorrow.
![Smiling face with smiling eyes :blush: 😊](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png)
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever Lunar New Year event!
![Party popper :tada: 🎉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f389.png)