East Coast Stamina 13 is a split-division event. Each division is split into two portions: a marathon, and a timed set (sometimes called "Raw Output") where players pick from a pre-selected list of songs. Entrants get an hour to warm up prior to both the marathon and the timed set.

You may only submit scores obtained on pad-- keyboard scores are not allowed. Bracketing/mashing during songs is strictly not allowed. Disabling Way Offs and Decents is against the rules unless done by relics (and the option is disabled in the relevant modes). No Mines and turn mods like Mirror are legal. Mods that change the type/number of arrows (such as Planted or Simple) are illegal. Rate mods below 1.0x are banned (unless enacted by a relic).

A practice scoresheet is available and is extremely useful for planning your set: ECS13 Worksheet.

You'll need to be logged into Google Drive and go to File -> Make Copy so that you can make your own edits.

For the timed set, once the player ends their warmup time, they start their set, and it continues until one of these two scenarios is met: Players start at 0 on the set timer and 15 minutes on the break timer for Lower/Mid/Upper divisions (the Speed Division however starts with 20 minutes on the break timer).

The set timer is counting up at all times, but the break timer only counts down on screens outside of gameplay (so if you're not in a song, it's counting down). Everyone's set timer functions identically, but the break timer can be impacted by the use of certain relics.

You may not fail songs over and over again to avoid spending break time. The theme will penalize your break timer if you fail out of a song before a certain amount of stream has been played, but Archi reserves the right to disqualify your set if you attempt to circumvent this by playing the minimum amount of stream needed to avoid the penalty repeatedly.

The set will not end mid-song. This means if you are playing an 8th song to try to improve your top 7 passes as the set timer passes the hour mark, your set will continue until the song ends, and you will get normal credit for that attempt.

Your final score in the tournament is simply the sum of your Marathon Points and Set Points. The details about how these are accrued is explained below.

You only get one attempt at the marathon, and one attempt at the timed set. There are only two exceptions to this:

Scoring for the timed set is a bit more complex, but the complexity is a bit deceiving. The tl;dr here is: play harder, faster, denser, longer songs and get better scores on them and you'll be more successful. Use the best relics available to you and you'll be even more successful. That's what it boils down to.

Keep in mind, also: Relics are not usable in the Speed Division.

The following isn't information necessary for competing, but if you want to put in the extra effort to learn it, you may benefit from it during your set.

There are five types of points that you gain as you pass songs, and these are summed to become your overall Set Points: As far as passing/failing goes during the timed set, you must pass in order to get full points on a song. However, if you fail, depending on the length of the song that you're playing, you can still get partial points for the song. The amount you receive for a fail is also influenced by the skill level you achieved during qualifiers at the speed tier the song belongs to. If you fail a short song in a tier you have low skill in, you're not going to get very many points.

Also note that positive relic effects (such as BP gains, break timer replenishment, etc.) do not happen unless you pass-- consumable relics (such as arrows, food, potions, etc.), however, are still used even if you fail, so be mindful of that.

You can equip any two relics you possess prior to each song (except for when relic effects state otherwise). More information on these can be found on the Relics page from the Stamina RPG qualifiers.

Only your points from the seven songs that yielded the highest total points count towards your set points. For instance, if you play an 18 and then seven 21s in your set, the 18 will stop counting once you've played the 8th song as it will no longer be in your top 7. This and some of the other portions of the ruleset are all in place to help balance between people playing long content and people playing shorter content.

In Stamina RPG, as you gain experience levels, you accrue Nature Points, which can be assigned to four different affinities: For each of these, you will gain bonus points towards your total proportionate to the song's point values for the matching attributes (very similarly to how relic bonuses work). It's calculated as follows: Some examples of this: Another way you can think of it is that having 1000 NP assigned to an affinity is equivalent to having a Lv. 5 bonus towards that affinity with a relic, and it scales linearly as you assign fewer points.

Keep in mind that if you have your NP split across multiple affinities (so maybe 300 assigned to EP and 200 assigned to DP, for instance), you get the bonuses afforded for each affinity based on the pass. Like with relics, however, you do not get bonuses from your affinities unless you pass the chart.

Affinities are not a factor in the Speed Division.