Hey everyone,

I hope y'all had as much fun during the anniversary weekend as I did. The games were fun, the shenanigans were quality, and the fanart and fanfics were top notch, as always.

As I'm sure you read from the thread title, I'm here to announce the winners of the 2016 GSAR Fanart and Fanfic competition, as voted by you.

For the Fanart category,


And for the Fanfic category,


Thanks to all the entries, and we hope you'll be able to join us again next year!

It came to the staff's attention a while ago that some of our former staff still had access to and were using their admin/moderation powers. Their roles moving forward have been discussed and decided upon, so this is a just a minor PSA in case there's any confusion about their positions, especially given some of the language that was used when they retired, and the fact they still have special banners and whatnot.

Ryu Gaia and Patsy Dragon are "Staff Emeritus" - ex-staff who enjoy varying degrees of the perks and abilities of their former stations and none of the responsibilities. This means that Ignatius, Kiri, Dave, Umbra and What? should still be your first choices when looking for someone to resolve an issue.

Both Patsy and Ryu can still see and post in the Staff Forums, but they basically serve in "at-will" advisory roles, and do not get official votes in anything.

Of their own volition, neither Patsy nor Ryu have any moderation or administration powers.

If anyone has any questions not answered here, they are of course free and encouraged to ask.

- GSAR Staff

Hello GSAR!

It is with great excitement that I announce our official migration from Skype to Discord for all of our group chat purposes. Great thanks go out to Deltan and Tawny for putting forth the idea and facilitating a smooth transition to the new platform. We believe that moving to Discord will be beneficial to our community in a number of ways:

• Reduce strain on CPU.
  
• Avoid bots and hacked accounts on Skype.
  
• Regain access to group calling functionality.
  
• Consolidate all GSAR chatrooms into one common server for ease of tracking.

Many of us have started to use the new Discord server already, and it seems to be working splendidly. If you have not switched over yet, please take a moment to register here. We will be discontinuing use of the Skype chat ASAP.

Please continue to send us your feedback, and let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks, and happy posting!

-The GSAR Staff