East Coast Stamina (ECS) is a high level competition centered around a
selection of some of the most difficult custom content available for In The Groove, a four-panel dance game similar
to Dance Dance Revolution.
It has been an annual tournament since September 2011, eventually becoming a
biannual event starting with ECS2.5. East Coast Stamina 10 is a remote event this year,
but it is normally a live event.
ECS10 features an upper division, mid division, and lower division; if you wish to compete,
you'll need to have participated in the Stamina RPG 5
qualifiers, which are now over. Placement into Upper Division and Mid Division is dependent upon qualifier rank.
Current event standings can be found here:
There's also a page with a schedule and links for the Twitch streams of the various competitors (unfortunately this one isn't very mobile friendly, sorry). It is not mandatory to stream your set, or to schedule your stream-- adding yourself here totally up to you:
Historically, the tournament has generally consisted of a "marathon" (a mix of songs usually
roughly an hour in length), and then a timed set where players could choose
songs from a preselected list, where the songs are assigned point values based
on their difficulty in addition to the scores the players obtain on them. ECS4.5, ECS 5.5, ECS6.5, ECS7.5, ECS8.5 and ECS9.5 have
added team play as an aspect of the format, but the mainline ECS tournaments-- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and this event, ECS10-- have all focused on each individual competing against the other entrants to achieve
the highest score possible on the marathon, and also to gain as many points as possible in the timed set.
More information on the format is available here:
If you qualified, you can enter scores any time between September 26th, 2021 and 11:59 PM EST on October 17th, 2021 (dates tentative).
Yeah, it costs a lot to run these events between paying for prizes, mailing said-prizes, paying for art, paying for music, paying for marathon syncing, paying for convention space for the live events, etc., and most of this comes out of my pocket.
If you want to help out a little, an easy way is to buy shirts (or hats, or face masks, or whatever!). You can buy merch for various ECS and SRPG events (including SRPG5 and ECS10) at the Stamina Nation spreadshirt page:
If you just want to make a direct donation, you can use this link:
I really appreciate you guys helping out!