Chapter Five: Stormblood
Four months have passed and again so much has happend in that time. Let's take a look back!

The concept of Study Groups created the possibility to organize unofficial events with like-minded people for single runs of fights. The concept was simple, a Party Finder inside the Discord server, so people can set up raids quick and easy. Soon after the introduction longer-term raid projects came up and to support the coordination of such groups, private channels were added on the Discord for each group.

Throughout the progression in Alexander Syncademy got shaped further. Especially the harder encounters such as A6S and A8S made clear that additional improvements were needed. The introduction of guides to specify strategies began to create a library of information to quickly lookup an unfamiliar encounter. The reduced mixing of group members over several days of progression and the combined usage of both progression days (Wednesday & Sunday) should improve the progression speed for the future.

The second survey confirmed the decisions made on the improvements to Syncademy and even gathered additional feedback on smaller details. As a result of that some adjustments on the Discord server structure will be made and the rotation days (Friday & Saturday) will get some additional variety with more community choice.

With the constant growth of Syncademy's community the workload also increased. A restructuring of the Faculty was needed and by adding Assistant and Volunteer roles certain responsibilities shall be divided upon more members in the future. Now the foundations have been laid for improving the organizational side of Syncademy.

The first year of Syncademy is about to reach its end and preparations for the first anniversary are currently underway. What a strange and wonderful journey this has been.

Let's celebrate this together by conquering Stormblood!