In most of my experience on steemit, i believe if there was ever going to be an update regarding the SCA, steemitblog will share with us whether academy continues or not.

And i believe the delay is from the steemit team probably trying to restructure the SCA for a better experience, and they might as well be trying to kin on the decision making this time, we saw what happended last season's with some professor caught in the act of abusing there power , so situations like that might be the reason for the delay, but regardless i believe the Steemit team has something cooking for the Crytpo academy lover.