Groovestats News

Stamina RPG 9

This year's iteration of our annual online stamina event, Stamina RPG, has begun!

Stamina RPG 9 functions not only as a stand-alone competition, but also a qualifier for East Coast Stamina 13, our yearly fall tournament. It has a wide range of content and difficulties, starting from 11s and going to the peak of what players are capable of passing on foot currently; because of this, it's also a great tool for training and progression. You can submit scores automatically using ITGmania, or using SM5/Outfox and GrooveStats Launcher, along with a compatible theme (note that as Simply Love for SM5 is no longer being supported, only the ITGmania SL release has the new visual theme for SRPG9 in it-- but score submission still works on the SM5 version for the time being). Options still exist for QR submissions through compatible themes as well as manual submissions.

SRPG9 encourages personal progression and competition focusing in three different areas represented by different factions:

Stamina Nation (Marathon charts)

Footspeed Empire (Speed charts)

Democratic People's Republic of Timing (Tech/Stam-tech charts)

Many different rankings exist for metrics ranging from marathon passes, timing, footspeed, skill in particular bpms, ECS13 qualifying, total passes, and lots of others.

If you're stuck on making progress, rate mods are still a great way to improve and still get credit! Experience points are based entirely on BPM/chart structure, so even the easiest content in the event will continue to be helpful as tools to advance your skills.

There's over 500 quests to try and complete, over 500 songs, and over 170 relics to collect-- so there's lots to do.

Some lovely merch is available here-- it's a great way to support GrooveStats as well as all the stamina events hosted here:

GS / Stamina Shop

Please check out the acknowledgments on the SRPG9 site to see who else helped make all of this happen!

Stamina Jawn

This was announced previously on the Stamina Nation discord, but the website is now live, so I'm posting it about it here: I'm running the first in-person stamina event since Stamina Con at the end of this month, from May 30th to June 1st, in Pittsburgh PA.

The event is centered around meeting up to do ECS 13.5 sets. Check out the website for more details, and hope to see you there!

ITL Online 2025

"The International Timing League Online 2025 (ITL Online 2025) is an online event for StepMania that is focused on technique and timing. The event is organized by the International Timing Collective (ITC) and features charts from members in the community.

Chart difficulties start as low as ITG 7s for both Singles and Doubles, so whether you're an expert or just starting out there should be something here for everybody!

Join our Discord or follow us on Twitter @IntlTiming to connect with other entrants or for help with getting started! For more information check out our official website at itc.dance."

• ITC Discord
• @IntlTiming Twitter
• itc.dance

East Coast Stamina 13.5

Our annual team stamina tournament, East Coast Stamina 13.5, has begun! The event will run from March 4th, 2025, until the final day of submissions on June 15th, 2025.

The ECS .5 events are a showcase of new stamina content, and are a fun way to start off stamina season!

For the first time, you can compete on not only singles, but also doubles charts-- and not only ITG, but Pump as well!

Format information, downloads, acknowledgments, and other info can be found on the website for the event.

East Coast Stamina 13

East Coast Stamina 13 is underway, and the website/merchandise are up for it! Everyone who has submitted at least one score to SRPG8 is qualified to enter, with further division qualifications outlined on the SRPG8 website.

You can find credits and more info about the tournament on the site!

Stamina RPG 8

Merch is now available for SRPG8:

GS / Stamina Shop

This year's iteration of our annual stamina event, Stamina RPG, has begun!

Stamina RPG 8 functions not only as a stand-alone competition, but also a qualifier for East Coast Stamina 13, our yearly fall tournament. It has a wide range of content and difficulties, starting from 11s and going to the peak of what players are capable of passing on foot currently; because of this, it's also a great tool for training and progression. You can submit scores automatically using ITGmania, or using SM5/Outfox and GrooveStats Launcher, along with a compatible theme (note that as Simply Love for SM5 is no longer being supported, only the ITGmania SL release has the new visual theme for SRPG8 in it-- but score submission still works on the SM5 version for the time being). Options still exist for QR submissions through compatible themes as well as manual submissions.

SRPG8 encourages personal progression and competition focusing in three different areas represented by different factions:

Stamina Nation (Marathon charts)

Footspeed Empire (Speed charts)

Democratic People's Republic of Timing (Tech/Stam-tech charts)

Many different rankings exist for metrics ranging from marathon passes, timing, footspeed, skill in particular bpms, ECS13 qualifying, total passes, and lots of others.

If you're stuck on making progress, rate mods are still a great way to improve and still get credit! Experience points are based entirely on BPM/chart structure, so even the easiest content in the event will continue to be helpful as tools to advance your skills.

There's over 500 quests to try and complete, over 600 songs, and over 160 relics to collect-- so there's lots to do.

Please check out the acknowledgments on the SRPG8 site to see who else helped make all of this happen!

ITL Online 2024

"The International Timing League Online 2024 (ITL Online 2024) is an online event for StepMania that is focused on technique and timing. The event is organized by the International Timing Collective (ITC) and features charts from members in the community.

Chart difficulties start as low as ITG 7s for both Singles and Doubles, so whether you're an expert or just starting out there should be something here for everybody!

Join our Discord or follow us on Twitter @IntlTiming to connect with other entrants or for help with getting started! For more information check out our official website at itc.dance."

• ITC Discord
• @IntlTiming Twitter
• itc.dance

East Coast Stamina 12.5

Our annual team stamina tournament, East Coast Stamina 12.5, has begun! The event will run from March 2nd, 2024, until the final day of submissions on June 16th, 2024.

The ECS .5 events are a showcase of new stamina content, and are a fun way to start off stamina season!

Format information, downloads, acknowledgments, and other info can be found on the website for the event.

East Coast Stamina 12

East Coast Stamina 12 is planned to begin on October 13th, and the website/merchandise are now up for it! Everyone who has submitted at least one score to SRPG7 is qualified to enter, with further division qualifications outlined on the SRPG7 website.

You can find credits and more info about the tournament on the site!

Stamina RPG 7

Merch is now available for SRPG7! Thanks to Pluto for putting this together, along with her other artistic contributions:

GS / Stamina Shop

This year's iteration of our annual stamina event, Stamina RPG, has begun!

Stamina RPG 7 functions not only as a stand-alone competition, but also a qualifier for East Coast Stamina 12, our yearly fall tournament. It has a wide range of content and difficulties, starting from 11s and going to the peak of what players are capable of passing on foot currently; because of this, it's also a great tool for training and progression. You can submit scores automatically using ITGmania, or using SM5/Outfox and GrooveStats Launcher, along with a compatible theme. Options still exist for QR submissions through compatible themes as well as manual submissions.

The NEWEST version of ITGmania (v0.7.0 as of the start of SRPG7) is STRONGLY recommended for this event, as it includes engine fixes not available in SM5 regarding early way-offs/decents (which MUST be enabled for this event; you can read more about this in the ITGmania/Rules sections on the front page of this site).

If you can't upgrade for some reason, you should ideally be AT MINIMUM be on the versions released previously for ITL 2023:

• ITGmania v0.6.0 (with Simply Love v5.2.0 for ITGmania theme)

OR

• GrooveStats Launcher v1.5.0 (with normal non-ITGmania Simply Love v5.2.0 theme)

Automatic unlock downloads won't function properly on older versions than these due to changes to the folder structures.

Additionally, QR Submissions will no longer work for versions older than Simply Love 5.3.0 (the newest as of the start of SRPG7) for RPG submissions.

Again, if the recommended options aren't possible for your situation, you can still submit scores by hand through the website.

You can download the latest versions here:

ITGmania (comes with the latest Simply Love)

GS Launcher

Simply Love for SM5

SRPG7 encourages personal progression and competition focusing in three different areas represented by different factions:

Stamina Nation (Marathon charts)

Footspeed Empire (Speed charts)

Democratic People's Republic of Timing (Tech/Stam-tech charts)

Many different rankings exist for metrics ranging from marathon passes, timing, footspeed, skill in particular bpms, ECS12 qualifying, total passes, and lots of others.

If you're stuck on making progress, rate mods are still a great way to improve and still get credit! Experience points are based entirely on BPM/chart structure, so even the easiest content in the event will continue to be helpful as tools to advance your skills.

This year, there's just under 500 quests to try and complete-- so there's lots to do.

As always, there's other fun things to discover, too!

Please check out the acknowledgments on the SRPG7 site to see who else helped make all of this happen!

ITL Online 2023

"The International Timing League Online 2023 (ITL Online 2023) is an online event for StepMania that is focused on technique and timing. The event is organized by the International Timing Collective (ITC) and features charts from members in the community.

Chart difficulties start as low as ITG 7s, so whether you're an expert or just starting out there should be something here for everybody!

Join our Discord or follow us on Twitter @IntlTiming to connect with other entrants or for help with getting started! For more information check out our official website at itc.dance."

• ITC Discord
• @IntlTiming Twitter
• itc.dance

East Coast Stamina 11.5

Our annual team stamina tournament, East Coast Stamina 11.5, has begun! The event will run from March 1st, 2023, until the final day of submissions on May 14th, 2023.

Even if you're not interested in competing, the ECS .5 events also act as a showcase of new stamina content, so be sure to check it out!

Format information, downloads, acknowledgments, and other info can be found on the website for the event.

New tech packs:

• Bangers Only 3
• dimocracy 2021 - second term
• Kingly's Excellent Mix 4
• skittles prime
• Tak's Meta Steps (ITG)
• Valex Sims 2022

And also, some new stamina packs as well:

• Arc Stream Works
• Sefirot'S SimfileS 5
• Squirrel Metal II
• tyler.exe
• weeb.exe
• Xynn's Inferno

A new compilation called 'dimocracy Series' was also created, and both dimocracy packs were added to that.

Thanks Tommy for doing some pre-checking on the packs selected by the tech community to rank.

Reminder that February 28th, 2023 is the final day to submit scores for SRPG6. East Coast Stamina 11.5 begins the following day on March 1st!

Some new tech packs:

• Highflyer's Tech Trails 2
• Koreyja 3
• sorae's stax
• Summer Vibes Vol. 1

...and some new stamina packs:

• Feelin' Rusty 4
• Unbuild of Sharpnel
• Xynn's Mix Tapes

Also, SRPG6 has reopened for scoore submissions now that ECS11 over, and it'll remain open until 11.5 begins.

East Coast Stamina 11

East Coast Stamina 11 begins on October 7th, and the website/merchandise are now up for it! Anyone who has competed in SRPG6 is qualified to enter, with further division qualification outlined on the SRPG6 website.

Acknowledgments and more information can be found on the website itself!

Stamina RPG 6

Merch is now available for SRPG6-- thanks to Pluto for all her work on this (and on most of the art in general!):

GS / Stamina Shop

After months of work by almost 60 people, Stamina RPG 6 is here! This is a yearly event that acts as not only a qualifier for ECS, but also as its own tournament, and pretty much a game in of itself. Automated score entry/song unlock downloads are once again facilitated through the use of GrooveStats Launcher, but additionally through the brand new ITGmania, which is a replacement for SM5+GSL with lots of bug fixes and cool new features (and it's definitely the way I recommend participating in the event)!

You can download the latest versions here:

ITGmania (comes with the latest Simply Love)

GS Launcher

Simply Love for SM5

SRPG6 encourages personal progression and competition focusing in three different areas represented by different factions:

Stamina Nation (Marathon charts)

Footspeed Empire (Speed charts)

Democratic People's Republic of Timing (Tech/Stami-tech charts)

Many different rankings exist for metrics ranging from marathon passes, timing, footspeed, skill in particular bpms, ECS11 qualifying, total passes, and lots of others.

If you're stuck on making progress, rate mods are still a great way to improve and still get credit! Experience points are based entirely on BPM/chart structure, so even the easiest content in the event will continue to be helpful as tools to advance your skills.

There are more quests (many of which unlock new songs) than any previous year, totaling to almost 450!

There's lots of other stuff to discover too!

And of course, there's the lore-- watch the video Dom made if you're interested in that:

Please check out the acknowledgments on the SRPG6 site to see who else helped make all of this happen!

GrooveStats is hosting the ITL 2022 event:

"ITL ONLINE 2022 IS NOW LIVE! https://itl2022.groovestats.com/

#ITLOnline2022 is an online event for StepMania 5 ("ITG") that is focused on technique and timing. If you have a home setup, check out the event website to learn how to get started!

• GrooveStats integration for automated score submissions!
• Live global and song leaderboards!
• Featuring 300 charts from 64 commmunity stepartists!
• Difficulties range from ITG 7s to 16s

The hashes that are used with GrooveStats Launcher and QR scanning for the charts from ITG 1/2 have been updated to use the files included in r23. They were previously hashed on our end using... some other version of the files? Still not totally clear what happened there, but it's finally corrected.

Big update with some stamina content...

• bigger waves
• Hardbass Madness 2
• Kyypakkaus 2
• Saitama's Starter Weapon
• Saitama's Ultimate Weapon
• Sefirot'S SimfileS 3
• Sefirot'S SimfileS 4
• Short Snack Simfiles
• Sick Music
• The Joy Of Streaming 2
• Tuuc's Stam Snack Pack

...as well as some content requested by the tech community...

• Highflyer's Tech-nically Romantic
• Highflyer's Tech Trails
• Mojo Brojo's Nefarious Streams

...and finally, three new compilation rankings:

• Highflyer's Tech Series
• Sefirot'S SimfileS Series
• The Joy Of Streaming Series

Planning on doing another update to correct the hashing on ITG 1/2 officials to match r23 in the next day or two; was going to have that for this release, but there were a lot of issues with the files I had to manually correct in order to rank them, so it took far longer than anticipated.

Our annual stamina-oriented team tournament has launched! Anyone interested in participating should check out the site:

East Coast Stamina 10.5

Through that page, you can read about the format, grab the songpacks, and sign up to compete!

Large update for FA/tech packs:

• 7guys1pack
• Animal Crossover
• DaSquid's Easy Quads
• dimo's -V- selifmis
• dimo's -VI- selifmis
• Feraligatr Scales 3
• global namespace
• global namespace 2
• Kerpa's Simfiles Collab Pack
• Kerpa's Simfiles Playlist 2
• Loak's Inferno
• Lumi's Lighthouse
• Mojo's Bizarre Tablature
• Shpadoinkle #7
• Shpadoinkle #8
• Shpadoinkle #9
• Shpadoinkle #10
• Super Skittles Selection Turbo
• TakTek
• Valex Sims 2021

I've also added four new compilation packs:

• dimo selifmis Series
• global namespace Series
• Shpadoinkle Series
• Valex Sims 20xx Series

...and 7guys1pack was added to the 'Guys Series' compilation pack.

The previously mentioned FA/tech pack update is here, along with a few more stamina packs that were released in the interim while I was waiting on the tech list:

• Bangers Only
• Bangers Only 2
• Club Fantastic Season 2
• dimocracy
• Loodee Simfiles 2
• Postmodern Technology
• Prickly Pear's Poppin Pack
• $$ MONEY MiNiPACK $$
• selected yutsi works vol. 2
• Zaniel's Junts 2

I've also added two new compilation packs:

• Club Fantastic Series
• Bangers Only Series

I've requested and am waiting on a list of tech/FA content to be added, but in the meantime, the following packs have had rankings added to Groovestats:

• 138 Is Great
• Eurobeat Is Fantastic - Second Stage
• ExJam09 Jams 2
• fsorae's fstamina ffuckeronis
• Goreshit 2020
• itg! Rhythm is just a step away
• ITGAlex's Stamina Singles ep.1
• Lindsey Stirling
• Mango's Microrave Samplur
• selected yutsi works
• the
• The Joy of Streaming
• The Starter Pack of Stamina
• yutsi-type beats
• epic
• yutsi b-sides

Additionally, I've created the following three compilation rankings:

• Eurobeat Is Fantastic Series
• ExJam09 Jams Series
• yutsi Series

Stamina RPG 5 has ended, but with the close of the RPG comes the beginning of ECS10! The website is live now with the packs and some of the essential information, and there's more things to come (such as the theme, marathon unveiling, and actual start of the event) in the near future!

There are also new products featuring the ECS10 design in our shop, and I've added the highly requested tri-blend shirts that were missing for SRPG5 as a product option for all the different designs for that event.

Please see the page itself for detailed acknowledgments, but huge thank you to everyone who is helping me to make the event successful!

East Coast Stamina 10

GS/Stamina Shop

Stamina RPG 5

Featuring for the first time fully automated score submission and fully integrated leaderboards for each song in the theme, Stamina RPG 5 is the culmination of the efforts of over 30 people. Featuring content with difficulties ranging from the 11-block to 26s and beyond, no matter what your interests are, there's something for you here. While these events have their roots as a qualifier for the annual East Coast Stamina tournaments, they have grown to be an experience all of their own.

New versions of GS Launcher and Simply Love for SM5 dropped yesterday with bug fixes/improvements specific for SRPG5!

You can download the latest versions here:

GS Launcher

Simply Love for SM5

SRPG5 introduces a new faction system with content specific to each nation:

Stamina Nation (Marathon charts)

Footspeed Empire (Speed charts)

Democratic People's Republic of Timing (Tech/Stami-tech charts)

Choose your faction and work together as a community to unlock raid bosses and work towards personal promotions! Try to take a bigger slice of the pie than rival factions!

As always, there's also a quest system for unlocking content. This year is the biggest implementation of that ever, featuring over 300 total-- there's more than twice as many as SRPG4!

There's lots of other stuff to discover too!

Huge shoutouts to teejusb, natano and Dom who helped tremendously with the coding involved with making all of this possible (especially with the theme integration), and to Pluto who managed to come through with her great relic and logo art despite dealing with a lot of issues outside her SRPG5 work. There's too many other people to thank here, but please make sure to check out the acknowledgments on the main site!

For many years now, it's been a long term goal of mine to work to get Groovestats integrated with Stepmania. The first step towards that goal was the implementation of QR codes-- something that you only need a phone to take advantage of, with no requirements for network access or anything like that. The logical next step (which for a long time I didn't think was going to be possible on SM5, based on previous conversations) was to make automatic score submission and theme-integrated leaderboards a reality.

I'm extremely happy to announce that by using a new utility, the GS Launcher-- in conjunction with compatible themes-- those features can now be enjoyed by the entire community!

You'll need the most recent version of Simply Love for SM5 (support for Waterfall, Digital Dance, and SL Vertical coming soon!):

Simply Love (latest)

You can download the launcher here (and read instructions):

GS Launcher

It has the following features:

• Automatic score submission
• Top scores and rivals in the songwheel
• Leaderboards accessible via the menu
• SRPG integration, including auto-downloading unlocked songs
• Hidden Dogecoin miner 🐕

Please keep in mind that this is intended for pad play ONLY.

Dom has made a great video on the process of installing/configuring the launcher that you can watch here:

If you need help, you can let us know on the Groovestats Discord!

Huge thanks to Dom, Natano, and Teejusb, who have worked extremely hard over the last few months to make this possible!

It's time again for the annual ECS team tournament!

East Coast Stamina 9.5

Thanks as always to all stepartists who contributed to this event, Pluto for designing the logo, and my translators for translating the event rules!

Just a little pack update to the site:

• Club Fantastic Season 1
• Pendulum Act III

Think this is by far the largest pack update I've ever done on the site-- 20 new packs:

• Barber Cuts 2
• Bemani Beats 6
• ITGAlex's Compilation 4
• Koreyja 2
• Notice Me Benpai 2
• Skittles Selection 7
• Skittles Selection 8
• Valex Sims 2020
• BaguetteStreamz 2.5
• Bass Chasers
• Chipzanity
• Comiket 95
• DJ Myosuke
• ExJam09 Jams
• Gloryhammer
• Jayrocking
• Jimmy Jawns 4
• Noah
• Resistance Device
• Skittles Stream Collection

• Created Barber Cuts Series, added Barber Cuts and Barber Cuts 2 to it
• Created Koreyja Series, added Koreyja and Koreyja 2 to it
• Created Notice Me Benpai Series, added Notice Me Benpai and Notice Me Benpai 2 to it
• Created ITGAlex's Compilation Series, added ITGAlex's Compilation 3 and ITGAlex's Compilation 4 to it

• Added Jimmy Jawns 4 to the Jimmy Jawns Series compilation
• Added BaguetteStreamz 2.5 to the BaguetteStreamz Series compilation
• Add Bemani Beats 6 to the Bemani Beats Series compilation
• Add Skittles Selection 7 to the Skittles Selection Series compilation
• Add Skittles Selection 8 to the Skittles Selection Series compilation

Worth noting that as of posting, any folders in SM5 with .ssc files may break the QR scanner-- so you may want to clear out the .ssc from any of these packs (or just search .ssc in your Songs folder and clear them out entirely for any packs period that don't have .ssc specific features) if you want to scan scores in with your phone. You'll likely need to clean out your cache before restarting SM after doing so if you want to avoid weird issues (at least that was my experience) if you've already added some of these to your setup.

Also, for anyone who hasn't noticed, East Coast Stamina 9 is in progress-- anyone who submitted scores during Stamina RPG 4 is allowed to enter and submit their sets up until September 20th! Rules and submission information are all available on the site.

I'm very pleased to announce the start of Stamina RPG 4!

Stamina RPG 4

As usual, a ton of people contributed towards making this event possible, so thanks to everyone that worked with me on this!

In preparation for an upcoming server update, I had to make some pretty major changes to code across the GS mainsite and all the subsites for tournaments and such, so please let me know if you run into any issues.

This year's ECS team tournament has now started!

East Coast Stamina 8.5

Thanks as always to all stepartists who contributed to this event, and to Pluto for designing the logo!

I've added several new packs to Groovestats today:

• BaguetteStreamz 2
• SlowStreamz
• StreamVoltex ep.1
• StreamVoltex ep.2

I've also added 'BaguetteStreamz Series' and 'StreamVoltex Series' as combined rankings.

Now that Stamina Con is over, I've managed to get some new packs ranked on Groovestats! The following are now available for score entry:

• Content Cop - Tachyon Epsilon
• katagiri
• Petriform's Factory
• Helblinde PDTA
• Xynn's LVTS 2
• Outer Edges
• 5guys1pack
• N.E.O. SiMS 2
• Easy As Pie 6
• Valex's Magical 4-Arrow Adventure 10

On a related note, the QR codes from Simply Love 4.8.3 will no longer be supported. Make sure your version of Simply Love is at least on version 4.8.4-- the newest version (as of this writing) is available here:

Simply Love 4.8.5

Finally, I've had a store with East Coast Stamina merchandise available on it for a while, but I've added some Groovestats wares there! Please consider purchasing some gear to help support the site and all of my various projects! The link is here:

Stamina Nation @ Spreadshirt

Special thanks to dom for making a higher resolution version of the logo to use on our products!

Thanks to having quite a few people using the QR scanning capabilities of Simply Love 4.8.3, we managed to uncover some issues with that piece that have been resolve in Simply Love 4.8.4 (basically some problems with BPM precision messing things up).

It's HIGHLY recommended that you update to 4.8.4, which also has some other important bug fixes-- eventually, 4.8.3 QRs will probably not be supported, though for the time being, I'm going to be supporting both.

Thanks again to Teejusb and dbk2 for working with me on this!

With the close of ECS7.5 (results soon to be announced), I'm happy to announce the event I've been working hard on for many months:

Stamina RPG 3

A lot of people helped to make this possible. Detailed rules and thanks are given on the website for the event.

A new version of Simply Love has also been released in tandem with the event that includes support for QR codes that you can scan to automatically enter your scores to Groovestats! Works for both the main site and the RPG itself.

Thanks to Teejusb and dbk2 for collaborating with me to help make this possible!

The next team tournament in the East Coast Stamina series is now live!

East Coast Stamina 7.5

Many thanks to the many stepartists who contributed their great work for this project, and special thanks to Pluto for her hard work on the art for the event.

It all starts here.

This is the update I promised that includes Zaia's new packs as well as a lot of FA content:

• StoryTime Chapter 1
• Cirque du Miura
• Dragonforce Kaioken
• Fraxtil's Cute Charts
• Valex's Magical 4-Arrow Adventure 9
• Skittles Selection 5
• Skittles Selection 6
• Mute Sims X
• TYLR's Technical Difficulties
• Swedish Fika
• ITGAlex's Compilation 3
• Chicago Timing Authority
• Aoreo's Ariginals 3

• Skittles Series

• Cirque du Miura (Cirque Series)
• Fraxtil's Cute Charts (Fraxtil's Series)
• Valex's Magical 4-Arrow Adventure 9 (Valex Series)
• Mute Sims X (Mute Series)

That'll be the last pack update for a while. I want to personally express my gratitude to everyone that produces content for the community-- there's a lot of great material coming out these days and I hope you all know how much that work is appreciated.

Though I won't be updating ranked packs again for a bit, I will hopefully have other exciting updates soon that I hinted at in the previous post. Keep an eye out!

I've been waiting for a few additional packs to get released, but I was already working on some other stuff for the site, so I decided I'd add the most recent stamina content that has come out in the last few months:

• BangerZ 2
• French Coast Stamina 3
• Getty
• Hospitality
• ITGAlex's Stamina Safari
• Trails of Cold Stream III
• SHARPNELSTREAMZ v3 Part 2

• BangerZ Series
• SHARPNELSTREAMZ v3 Series

Trails of Cold Stream III was also added to the already existing Trails of Cold Stream Series compilation.

I'll be doing another batch of new packs in the near future-- mostly FA I imagine, but hopefully also two more stamina packs that are supposed to be out soon.

I've also added a row on the individual song rankings that displays the appropriate path for your file to be in in order for USB uploading to work. Probably should have added that years ago, but better late than never. I've also gone through and fixed every broken path I could find (quite a number have accumulated over the years), so if you still use a card, hopefully you'll find that it works better than ever!

I'm working on some pretty exciting stuff to help streamline score entry for users of the SM5 Simply Love theme with dbk2 and teejusb. Hopefully I'll have more on that in the very near future as well!

As ECS6.5 has drawn to its end, I'm pleased to announce to everyone that Stamina RPG 2 has begun! Like its predecessor, the original Stamina RPG for ECS6, Stamina RPG 2 involves playing songs from a large list that will gain you experience points and skill points. You level up as you gain EXP, and each BPM range (170s, 180s, etc.) has its own skill level that increases as you gain SP.

To try to make this event as inclusive as possible, I'm using A LOT of content in the 12-16 range that wasn't represented in the first Stamina RPG. There are also some major changes to the format and site for Stamina RPG 2, as well-- in addition to some quality of life improvements to the usability of the site for score entry, I've added a Quest Log that will give you some hints about how to unlock additional content, and there's also now a new point-type yielded for passing songs: Tournament Points. For each BPM range above 160, the three songs you've passed worth the highest TP will contribute to your TP total. This is to address complaints that a couple people had last year that qualifying for East Coast Stamina 6 was too much of a time commitment; this drastically reduces the amount of playing you have to do in order to qualify and puts the focus on the quality of the passes over the sheer volume of them.

That brings me to my next point: Stamina RPG 2 is actually a joint production between Rémi Guinier and myself that will-- beyond just being a competition in its own right-- also serve as the qualifiers for East Coast Stamina 7 and French Coast Stamina 3. Remi has prepared 16 brand new 20 minute mixes (ranging from 140 to 240 BPM, difficulties from 14 to 24) that are available as part of the initial qualifier pack. It's some of his finest work and I'm really excited to collaborate with him on this! I think we've both been working on this for over six months, and I think we've both said at separate points that it's the work we're most proud of to date.

But wait, there's more! This year, in addition to this acting as a qualifier, there are also prizes based off of the total EXP entrants gain. Here's the breakdown of how qualifying works and what those prizes are:

The 16 players WORLDWIDE who have earned the highest total TP by September 2nd at 11:59 PM EST are invited to compete in East Coast Stamina 7.

The top 12 FRENCH players and top 4 EUROPEAN players who have earned the highest total TP by July 31st at 11:59 PM CEST are invited to compete in French Coast Stamina 3.

Prizes will also be awarded to the top 4 players who have accrued the highest total EXP by September 2nd at 11:59 PM EST:

• 1st Place: $400 USD
• 2nd Place: $200 USD
• 3rd Place: $100 USD
• 4th Place: $50 USD

I encourage everyone who enjoys ITG to join in-- even if you've never been into stamina before, this could be the motivation you need to improve your game!

The following packs have been added to the Groovestats rankings:

• Scrapyard Kent
• Tachyon Zeta
• 3guys1pack
• N.E.O SiMS
• DVogans Tech Support 2
• Notice Me Benpai
• Barber Cuts
• Barely Playable
• Fraxtil's Monstercat Minipack
• Koreyja
• Holiday Hoedown
• Easy As Pie 5

Tachyon Zeta was also added to the Tachyon Series compilation ranking, and Easy As Pie was added to the Easy As Pie Series. I've also added two new compilation packs:

• Dark Psytrance Series (Cranked Pastry & Scrapyard Kent)
• Fraxtil's Series (Fraxtil's Beast Beats & Fraxtil's Monstercat Minipack

In other news, I'm happy to announce that East Coast Stamina 6.5 has started! This is a team-based fully online tournament in the same vein as ECS 4.5 and 5.5, and once again, in the interest of being as inclusive as possible, it's split into Lower (difficulty blocks 12 to 17) and Upper (difficulties from 16 to 24) divisions.

You can get more information about the tournament/sign up/download the packs here:

East Coast Stamina 6.5

--Ian