Event Overview

Stamina RPG 8 is an online StepMania competition for the post-ITG community that, in addition to being a tournament in its own right, serves as the qualifier for ECS13. The event focuses on stamina content, but there is a large amount of footspeed and tech-oriented charts available as well. The difficulty ratings range from 11s to 29s and beyond, so Stamina RPG is a great tool for personal progression.

This event has many special features, including an unlock system where new songs are available for play both through purchase using earned currency and through the completion of quests. The RPG presents many ways to pursue goals for yourself-- and many ways to rank yourself against others.

Score Submission

To participate, you must register on GrooveStats first. Once you've done that and you've logged in on this page, you can download the songs, and then go to the Your Scores page to view your current status and enter in any new passes.

Once you're ready to start submitting scores to the RPG, you have several options available to you:

Rules

There are a few rules to note:

• Scores MUST BE OBTAINED ON A DANCE PAD. Do not submit keyboard scores or otherwise.
• WAY-OFFS AND DECENTS MUST BE ENABLED FOR ALL CHARTS, PERIOD.
• You may play with FA+ enabled, but if your theme has an FA+ mode that removes either the decent window, way-off window, or both, you cannot submit scores in that mode.
• If you are playing on the Waterfall theme, the Fault Window must be set to 'Extended'.
• Fail scores DO NOT count, regardless of how good the score is or isn't. Do not submit anything that is not a pass.
• Backing out of a song does not count as passing a song. Do not submit passes where you backed out of the song in a break/etc.
• Bracketing/mashing through stream or bursts is strictly prohibited (except when performing bracket-jumps or any related tech that necessitates it).
• You must play on the normal judge and lifebar settings for ITG (Judge and Life difficulty 4). Please ensure that you're using a theme that has accurate life mechanics (If you're using Simply Love for SM5, 'ITG' or 'Competitive' mode, depending on the version you're using, should be fine).
• Your fail mode (Advanced Options in the Operator Menu on Simply Love) must be Immediate or ImmediateContinue. Other options are not acceptable.
• No scores obtained prior to 2024-06-17 will be accepted.
• Make sure that you have screenshots of every score you manually enter (if you submit via QR scanning or auto-submit via the GS launcher, that's sufficient validation). If a pass is questioned and you can't provide a screenshot, you'll lose credit for it. I reserve the right to request video proof of play if you're not already an established player (though that would only likely happen if you manage to qualify for ECS13).
• Rate mods below 1.0x rate are not acceptable.

RPG Info

When you pass songs, you gain Experience Points (EXP). Increasing your rate mod increases the EXP yielded by the pass.

You will also gain Skill Points (SP) towards specific BPM ranges for most songs you pass (which impact ECS13 in addition to being involved in certain quests). More importantly, Tournament Points (TP, based purely off the difficulty of the pass) and Length Points (LP, based off the length and difficulty of the chart) will determine your qualifying rank for ECS13. Only your ten best passes count toward your qualifying rank for TP and only your five best passes count towards your qualifying rank for LP. Score and rate do not matter for TP or LP.

Not all songs yield TP, LP, or SP; DPRT (tech/timing faction) charts will never give you SP and therefore do not contribute towards speed tier mastery. Marathons (defined further on) also do not award any SP, but in addition to their other benefits, still seem to be related to speed tier mastery in less obvious ways. Many footspeed/beginner charts offer only reduced TP (and in some instance, no TP) relative to their block because they lack a sufficient amount of stream. Along those same lines for footspeed, charts in BPMs beyond the scope of the upcoming ECS event are worth 0 TP, LP, and SP (but they will still yield currencies, which are discussed further down). Finally, LP is ONLY yielded by marathons, which are defined for the purposes of these events as being charts that, at their base BPM, are 16 minutes in length or longer.

Allowing for rare exceptions where there are discrepancies between how SM counts length vs. how this site counts it, where there are mistakes, or where conflicting factions are involved, marathons can easily be identified in one of following ways:

• ALL Stamina Nation (SN) faction songs are marathons.
  • This means any song with an SN banner in the pack should count as a marathon.
  • It also means any faction filter on any songlist on this website should only show you marathons if you de-select the other factions.
• ONLY marathons are worth LP. If a chart is worth 0 LP, it is not a marathon.

Democratic People's Republic of Timing (DPRT) faction charts can similarly be easily identified by their banner, faction filters, and presence of various techniques like crossovers and brackets. They are often referred to as "Tech Charts" in these events.

Score factors into calculations for Gold and DPRT Accolades, discussed further down.

The Footspeed Empire (FE) faction charts aren't distinct from unaffiliated charts in any way other than BPM; anything falling into the 210-bpm tier or above that isn't a part of the DPRT faction or SN faction is considered an FE chart. They also have their own distinct filter on the site and their own banner in game.

Nature Points (or NP) also accrue as you level up. NP functions similarly to relic bonuses in the upcoming ECS event, but the difference is that it can be assigned between four different affinities of the player's choosing as a permanent bonus during your ECS13 set prior to SRPG closing. This can be done on the Settings page.

You can view the current rankings by going to the Ranking page. The Quests page will provide a log of quests that participants can undertake for rewards, and hints on how to complete them-- you may also view a list of Relics that are available as prizes for the quests. These relics will be usable in ECS13, in all divisions.

Qualifying

The point cutoffs for qualifying for East Coast Stamina 13 are listed below. The "Mandatory" cutoffs indicate the points where you are defaulted into participation in the division. The "Optional" cutoffs indicate the range where you may choose to opt into a harder division-- but if you are choosing to compete in a harder division (NOT including the Speed Division, which is separate from Lower/Mid/Upper), you must contact Archi to let him know before 2024-10-06 at 11:59 PM EST.

The Speed Division is a division you may enter in addition to Lower/Mid/Upper, based purely on your TP total. Known also as the "Footspeed Empire Martial Games", this division does not have a marathon and does not allow the usage of relics.

	Mandatory	Optional
Lower Division	< 20,000 TP+LP	N/A
Mid Division	20,000-119,999 TP+LP	10,000-19,999 TP+LP
Upper Division	>= 120,000 TP+LP	65,000-119,999 TP+LP
Speed Division	N/A	>= 65,000 TP ONLY

ALL SCORES, SHOPPING AND AFFINITY SETTINGS MUST BE ENTERED BEFORE 2024-10-06 at 11:59 PM EST!

Lore

In the world of Stamina RPG, three major countries vie for dominance and influence. Players who complete songs and quests in particular ways will be awarded Accolades. By completing quests and gaining accolades for a faction, your standing with them will increase, and special rewards will be given to those who climb the ranks.

Each faction in Stamina RPG has its own currency and shop. The Stamina Nation's Bronze Bistro accepts Bistro Bucks, which scale exponentially with the amount of stream a chart has. The primary currency of the Democratic People's Republic of Timing is Gold-- exchangeable in the Border Shop-- and you will receive that from songs you score above an 80 on (with DPRT faction songs being worth significantly more). Finally, the Footspeed Empire's Memepeace organization accepts Jej Points at its Memepeace Company Store, which you will receive for any chart you've rate modded to 240 BPM or above.

Support

Creating these events involves a lot of people, many of whom create content specifically for the RPG, and much of the work is paid. I generally shoulder the majority of these costs involved myself.

If you'd like to donate, please log in first-- there's a link that will appear below, and you'll get a special relic after making the donation!

You can also support us by purchasing ECS/SRPG/Groovestats related merchandise from our store:
GrooveStats/Stamina Nation Store

Acknowledgments

I'd like to give an extra special thanks to the following individuals who helped to make Stamina RPG 8. Everyone on this list contributed in terms of development, curation, or either created content specifically for SRPG8, contributed it at our request, or sent it to us to showcase in the event (this list does not include people who wrote content selected from publicly released packs-- those people are credited on the individual files):

--Ian