With three weeks of competition down the leaderboard continues to be dominated by a trio of top tier bhumbas, and the battle is on for the hearts of the Battlesnake Community in the 2022 Spring League competition.
Who are the Top Tier Bhumba's of the Week?
A quick glance at the leaderboard this week shows little has changed in the top 3 positions, with Jaguar Meets Snake, Combat Reptile and Shapeshifter continuing to fight for Spring League supremacy, putting even more distance between themselves and the remaining Elite Tier Battlesnakes.
A recent game featuring Jaguar Meets Snake, Combat Reptile and Shapeshifter
Despite that distance, however, there is little doubt that the leaderboard is full of some highly competitive Battlesnakes. And so, we thought this week would be a good opportunity to take a look at a few of the talented (yet less well-known) developers and their newly minted Spring League snakes.
Meet pettso
Developer of Kakemonsteret (17th place overall in Spring League):
Games: 2,061 | Wins: 586 | Losses: 1,475 | Win Rate: 28.43%
Location: Norway 🇳🇴
Battlesnaking since: October 2021 (5 months)
Preferred Technologies:
- AWS
- Go
- Self-Hosted
Additional Battlesnakes:
Fast Fact:
- Spring League marks the first time pettso has placed in the Platinum Tier, with their previous personal best being Silver in the 2021 Fall League 🥈.
Meet freethrill
Developer of CoolerSnake! (21st place overall in Spring League):
Games: 2,107 | Wins: 598 | Losses: 1,509 | Win Rate: 28.38%
Location: Unknown 🌎
Battlesnaking since: September 2021 (6 months)
Preferred Technologies:
- GCP
- Python
Additional Battlesnakes:
Fast Fact:
- Spring League marks the first time freethrill has placed in the Platinum Tier, with their previous personal best being Bronze in the 2021 Fall League 🥉.
Meet ClarityCoders
Developer of ClarityIce (23rd place overall in Spring League):
Games: 2,050 | Wins: 573 | Losses: 1,477 | Win Rate: 27.95%
Location: USA 🇺🇸
Battlesnaking since: January 2021 (2 months)
Preferred Technologies:
- Python
Current Battlesnakes
Fast Fact:
- ClarityCoders runs a software development focused YouTube Channel, and has even featured Battlesnake in a tutorial which you can checkout below 👇
Who are the current Spring League Fan Favorites?
After a bit of back-and-forth over the past few weeks between Hovering Hobbs and BwukMaxi, a new competitor entered the mix this week, with Pea Eater making it a three way race for fan favorite and setting 17 as the number of Cheers to beat.
Will BwukMaxi be able to regain their lead, or will they and Hovering Hobbs be forced to concede to this newcomer in the Fan Favorite race?
Only YOU to help decide! Cheer for your favorite Battlesnake today!
What are some of the best Battlesnake names?
While we may never know what sets the current fan favorites apart, there is little doubt about what brings fame, fortune and popularity to many Battlesnakes during the competitive season: an amazing name!
Below are a few of our favorite names so far this season, and we can't wait to see what fun and fabulously punny names are store for the rest of 2022.
A special shoutout goes to Tiger_The_Cat, creator of Wheat Bread and four other culinarily-themed Battlesnakes who you may have seen around the competitive circuit over the past year.
"All of my battlesnakes are named after ingredients. If you put all of these ingredients together, you would get a very good sandwich."
What's happening this week in Battlesnake
While you can always stay up to date by checking out (or subscribing to) the Battlesnake Community Calendar, we wanted to be sure to give you a quick update on what is happening this week on Battlesnake.TV.
Deep Learning - Thurs, Mar 10th at 1pm PT / 4pm ET****
Join Aurora for the first ever Battlesnake 'Book Club' as she explores the book 'Thinking in Systems' by Donella H. Meadows live on Battlesnake.TV.
Casters Cup Tournament - Sat, Mar 12 at 9am PT / 12pm ET****
Its North America versus Europe this Saturday on Battlesnake.TV as the Snake Pit Live! team brings you the exciting conclusion to the 2022 Spring Caster Cup.
Check out the Tournament brackets for yourself over at play.battlesnake.com
Good Luck and Happy Battlesnaking!
As always, before we close off this update we want to thank you for reading and to wish good luck to all the Spring League competitors!
We'd also like to send a huge thank you to our amazing Community, and to our wonderful 2022 partners at RBC, New Relic, DigitalOcean and Twilio who make these competitions possible ❤️
This was an amazing year for Battlesnake with the platform growing and evolving in so many ways. We have added new game modes, changed API versions, expanded the engine and run over a dozen different virtual competitions. For December, the team focused on some of the tech debt, bugs and performance issues that came from all that new stuff. Even so, we still managed to introduce a few new improvements for everyone.
Much of the development in November was behind the scenes as we improve and refine the new features added for both the 
Check out this blog post to find out more about what was featured on the stream including:
October saw the launch of 
Presented By RBC, GitHub, and Repl.it
During 
For September we implemented more quality of life improvements for developers and started laying the groundwork for some new features coming this fall.
This summer, our goal is to make Battlesnake development more fun and exciting. To that end, we introduced some new features to give users of all skill levels more to do on