Some of the available staff positions have been filled by community members destroyer, DrPoodle, MrDoom and last but not least rh1n0.

Just because some new staff members have been added to the team now doesn’t mean your chance of being a staff member have gone. Remember Dev positions are available too and the above four members are support members, so anyone who applied for a Dev position is in with a good chance. Also Chris has said that positions are still available in his announcement and in the IRC channel.

As to who has already been picked for a position on the dev team, we can only speculate.