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| GrooveStats is a web site dedicated to tracking scores for
In the Groove, and Pump It Up Pro, dance simulation games. |
| Primary features |
 Public online score submission |
| Automated score entry via USB flash drive data |
| Player vs Player comparison charts |
| Global and Regional rankings |
| Not a member? Register now! |
| February 8th, 2010 - Downloading simfiles |
Tournament simfiles can now be downloaded from the rules page (there is a link in the navigation bar). Each simfile can be downloaded
individually, or all of the simfiles can be downloaded at once. If anyone notices any problems, please e-mail me to report them.
Voters: Expect an e-mail in the next day or so from an @groovestats.com address detailing the voting process and the specific songs you're voting on. Thanks again for your help!
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| February 2nd, 2010 - Entry has ended! |
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Entry to the tournament has officially ended. In the coming days, we will have a download page up and running so that the voters (and anyone else) can
download the simfiles (all at once and/or individually).
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| February 1st, 2010 - One day left |
We have come to the conclusion that it would be best if entrants participated in voting.
In the future this may be required of entrants, but since we didn't decide on this issue until recently it won't be forced. If you are an entrant and you are willing to vote,
please e-mail me.
On a similar note, I'd like to thank everybody who stepped up and volunteered to vote! The simfiles will become available for download later this week.
Entry to the tournament will be closed TOMORROW (February 2nd) at 4:00 PM EST.
I have compiled a list of the songs which were entered in the tournament, it is in the first table on the rules page.
(It will appear in a more organized format after we've arranged everything.)
*NOTE* As long as the name of your simfile appears on the list, it is entered.
If your entry does NOT appear on the list (and you entered), then please e-mail me about it ASAP.
Don't forget that we're still accepting entries (and voters).
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| January 25th, 2010 - Tournament Update |
We’ve received a lot of fun looking simfiles so far, and we’re hoping for a lot more!
Entry to the tournament will be closed about one week from today on February 2nd at 4:00 PM EST.
After the entry period has ended, we will place the entries in the pools. The amount of time that will take will depend on the number of entries, but it shouldn’t take too long. After which voting will commence…
Which brings me to my next point. Unfortunately, only about five people have signed up to vote insofar. I was worried this would happen, and I understand why some people may be wary to volunteer, however I would really appreciate it if more people could sign up. We will do our best to make sure that it’s not too much commitment, and if you want to specify an approximate amount of voting you would be willing to perform (i.e. 3 songs per week, 6 songs per week, etcetera) then that would be fine. The same applies if you can’t vote for a certain week(s), just specify it in your sign up e-mail or an e-mail later on.
I’d also like to mention that starting today the blog will be updated at least once a week. In the blog I’ll be writing about possible future plans (for the tournament and other aspects of the site). I’ll also go into more detail regarding reasoning and justification behind many of our actions, and if you have some input, we’d love to hear it in a comment!
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| December 23rd, 2009 - Simfile tournament entry begins! |
The simfile tournament is finally about to begin! Entries will be accepted up until January 15th, and the tournament will begin soon after the deadline. For prospective entrants AND voters (as well as any curious bystanders), please carefully read the rules
Quick info:
-Tournament entry is completely free
-Voters need to register, as well as participants
-Only one simfile will be entered per tournament
-Winners will get their simfile added to a new custom pack (more tentative details coming soon in blog) as well as trophies/ribbons on their user page. Maybe upload tokens but we are possibly phasing that system out (but not getting rid of the songs that were already uploaded that way) |
| November 9th, 2009 - A message from Tiza! |
Our beloved mod, Tiza, has generously offered his assistance with your next tournament:
"I'm proud to report that I now have a fully-automated tourney Excel sheet. All that needs to be inputted is the final seeding order and the winner of each match, and the spreadsheet auto-fills all of the brackets, the match schedule, and the final rankings when possible. In other words, anybody with a general idea of how a tournament works can now run the entire tournament off of a laptop.
I am now offering the use of this Excel 2007-format file, custom-designed for any number of tournament sizes, games, or divisions. All I ask is for you to give me a few weeks' notice and credit me in your tournament thread. 
The current file offers the following features:
-Single or double elimination NCAA-style brackets or full bracket for smaller tournaments
-Auto-sorting table for qualifying order
-Auto-filling loser's bracket
-Auto-filling match scheduler
-Score calculation for pad arbitration/recalcs
-Auto-filling final ranking page for appropriate placement (top 4 unless otherwise requested)
-Match scheduling that minimizes player waiting times"
Tiza can be reached through PMs on Rhythmatic, PMs on aaronin.jp, and/or a message right here on GrooveStats.
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| October 18th, 2009 - PIU Pro and Simfile Tournament |
Wow. I must apologize for how long this section has been down. It had to do with some tables in the database getting dropped at some point. All data from before September of last year should be restored. We are not quite sure what happened and are very sorry for the inconveniences this may have caused.
Also,
GrooveStats will be hosting a simfile tournament in the very near future! I previously referred to this tournament as an "edit tournament" but that resulted in some minor confusion. This tournament is open to any kind of simfile, regardless of whether it is an edit to an ITG/ITG2 song, or if it goes with some other song.
More information about this tournament will be posted here when everything is finalized, but preliminary discussion can be viewed in either the GrooveStats forums or on ITGFreak. We are thinking about starting the tournament so starts during winter break, however, we could start it earlier or later depending on what you think! Please post your comments and suggestions in the forums.
Thank you for your support!
-Mike
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| July 14th, 2009 - Edit Tournament? |
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Who would be interested in an edit tournament similar to the ones on ITG freak? Please discuss it on the forums [Custom Simfiles > Edit Tournament?].
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| June 22nd, 2009 - Token Issues |
There seems to be a recurring issue with the token purchasing system and we will try to straighten it out ASAP. If anyone did not receive their tokens after payment, please get in touch with me so I can rectify it! We apologize for the inconvenience.
On another note, no, we didn't forget about GrooveStats. (Far from it actually) :D We're just working on some major updates, some of which you will start to see in July! Also, please don't hesitate to contact us with any issues you have, and be sure to post any major suggestions you may want to see in the forums, or e-mail them directly to myself and Ayron.
-Mike
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| May 23rd, 2009 - Devblog! |
This morning, the server that GrooveStats is hosted on was having technical difficulties. We contacted tech support, and they resolved the issue. After that, we noticed that the GrooveStats database was completely empty. So, we restored it to a point in time yesterday. This means that any scores you uploaded yesterday may not be there, and you will need to re-upload them. Sorry for the inconvenience.
On a lighter note...
Due to the high volume of both minor and major updates to come, we feel that the news page would get too cluttered if we tried to report them all. However, we feel that as members of this website, you should be able to know what we're doing. Therefore, we have created a development blog, which is located here. We hope to see a lot of you checking it out and commenting on various developments we are working on. Those users who actively participate on the blog will also be able to test out new features before they are added to the main site.
-Mike
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| May 20th, 2009 - New Feature: Birthday replacing Age |
Hey, I'm Ayron, the other new owner of GrooveStats! For our first action, we updated GrooveStats so that you now set your birthday instead of your age, so that you don't have to constantly update your age. The old ages that people set in their profile will still work, so Mike and I ask that you please log in, and edit your profile to include your birthday. The old ages are deprecated and will probably be removed soon. There also may be a few special things that happen when it's your birthday, too. ;) If you have any issues with the new birthday system, please e-mail me at dririan@gmail.com. I'll respond as soon as possible, and help with any issues that may arise, but this system has been tested extensively by both Mike and myself before it was rolled out. Expect more new features soon!
Thanks,
--Ayron
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| May 20th, 2009 - New Owners |
Hey, I'm Mike, one of the two new owners of GrooveStats. We will now be maintaining the website, so if there are any issues please contact one of us. Also, I would like to personally thank the creator and previous owner of this website, Brandon, for all the hard work he has done for GrooveStats and the ITG community in general. Even though he's busy with a lot of other stuff, he's still improving GrooveStats, too, and is working on an exciting new addition! Thank you all for your continued support of In The Groove!
Here is our contact information if you need anything:
Mike
E-mail: MichaelASeverino@gmail.com
AIM: Rawinput2442
Ayron
E-mail: dririan@gmail.com
AIM: JTrueBASIC
Yahoo : dririan
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| March 3rd, 2009 - New Owner Found |
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An agreement has been made and it looks like GrooveStats will soon have a new dedicated owner. I will make another announcement once the details have been finalized.
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| February 22nd, 2009 - GrooveStats for Sale |
It saddens me to admit this, but I've reached a point where I have neither the time nor the desire to impement new features for GrooveStats. I realize that this is unfair to those who are still dedicated to the community and desire improvement.
So, I'm looking for someone to take over as webmaster or to buy the whole website all together. If interested in buying, you would be paying for: the domain name, all associated scripts and data, the rights to all future Ad/Upload Token revenue, and the countless hours of work put in.
If interested please contact me at the email on the bottom of the page. You should be a proficent web programmer and have a strong interest in the dance game community.
Do not worry though, all of your scores and simfiles are safe - it just might be under new, more dedicated ownership. Thanks for the support, it's been an amazing 5 years.
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| September 1st, 2008 - In The Groove Rebirth support |
Now you can track your scores for the In The Groove Rebirth community project! These scores have a totally separate section and will not affect existing rankings.
Course support for the project will be available in the near future. As always, please report any bugs you may encounter to the forums.
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| April 3rd, 2008 - Pump Pro Uploader |
The first version of the Pump Pro Uploader is complete! Check it out here. There's still a lot of work to be done on this. But I need to make sure score uploading works properly before improving it.
Please report any bugs in this thread.
A huge thanks goes out to Gemi and Srandista for supplying me with the stats files!
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| March 4th, 2008 - Update |
- Added more rankings to the In the Groove Ranking Page
- Added "Compare Scores" link in the profile page.
- Changed the Custom Song Ranking to only incorporate files with a feedback rating greater than 3.75
- Fixed a bug which prevented uploading USB stats when using an apostrophe in the displayname
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| February 21st, 2008 - Major Bug Fix |
There was a bug where editing your profile would set your password to a blank string. Those who've been affected by this bug have had their passwords changed for security and should use
this link to recover it.
Sorry for for the inconvenience! Use the message boards if you're still having trouble logging in.
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| February 19th, 2008 - Update |
- Added "No Bar" support. Members can now classify themselves as an "Always Bar" player, "Sometimes Bar" player, or "Strictly No Bar" player. Individual scores can also be tagged as "No Bar".
- Separated the "Password" field from the Edit Profile section onto a separate page.
- Fixed a bug which prevented 14 and 15 block Pump Pro songs to be displayed in the profile section.
Coming Soon:
- A new message board just for GrooveStats!
- Customizable picture stats for message board signatures
- Ranking Page Fix
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| February 3rd, 2008 - Site back to normal (minus Ranking page) |
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I had to disable the ranking page in order for the site to run smoothly again. I'm currently working on a fix but at least you can enter and view scores again.
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| January 31st, 2008 - More Database Problems =( |
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The scores table for the database has gotten so huge (over 500,000 entries!) that it's starting to cause problems. I'm doing the best I can to get it fixed in a timely fashion. Hang tight.
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| January 23rd, 2008 - ITGFreak domain change |
ITGFreak can now be accessed from http://rhythmatic.net/
Spread the word.
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| January 20th, 2008 - Major Update! |
- Basic Pump it Up Pro support added (Submit/View song scores, ranking, chart data)
- "Default Game" field added to profile. (So exlusive Pump Pro players don't have to deal with In the Groove songs)
Other Pump features will be added in the near future.
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| January 19th, 2008 - GrooveStats is back |
Sorry for the week long downtime but I had to make some important changes to the database. Also, the ranking page now only updates once a day.
Pump Pro support will be up tomorrow!
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| November 25th, 2007 - 2008 ITG US Open Announced |
A national tournament featuring a $1000 top prize will be held in southern California in the Summer of 2008!
More info at: http://usopen.omiid.com/
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| November 14th, 2007 - Pump on GrooveStats?! |
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Coming Soon... Support for Pump It Up: Pro
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| October 30th, 2007 - Tourney Announcement! |
A huge tournament with THOUSANDS of dollars to be given away as prizes in scheduled to take place near Salt Lake City, UT in early June. They have large sponsorship, and are looking for a bunch of out of state players to go humble the Utah players.
Here's the link for the actual site.
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| October 29th, 2007 - For my GOOD FRIEND Andrew |
He made it to #6 on Xbox Live rankings for Guitar Hero 3, a remarkable feat! Feel free to message him (AIM: Johan Mcdougal) to congratulate him.
He is the coolest! Also Happy Birthday to him!
(remind me to never make bets involving GS news posts :p )
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| September 6th, 2007 - Groovemania 2 Announcement |
I was asked to post the following information about a huge ITG tournament in Canada:
GROOVEMANIA 2
ADMISSION: $15.00
DATE: SATURDAY JANUARY 26th 2008 AT: 12:22 PM
LOCATION: AMUSEMENTS 222 LAVAL ( MONTREAL REGION , QC )
IN ASSOCIATION WITH:
RgCanada www.RGcanada.com
Groovestats 2.0 www.groovestats.com
Check out RGcanada for more information!
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| February 11th, 2007 - Minor Update |
- The rating system for custom songs for has been modified to more accurately reflect the quality of the simfile.
- The custom songs trial period is officially over.
- Slovakia is now on the region list.
Expect other minor updates later this week.
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| December 24th, 2006 - New Pricing Options for Upload Tokens! |
Members can now purchase upload tokens at the following prices:
- 1 Token for $5.00 USD
- 3 Tokens for $10.00 USD
- 5 Tokens for $15.00 USD
The new options should be more reasonable for people wanting to upload multiple files.
Buying many tokens at once will also help reduce PayPal's transaction fees.
Happy Holidays!
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| December 23rd, 2006 - Custom Songs Section Updated |
- Custom Ranking page added.
- Members can now edit custom song data (such as the banner file, song length, etc.)
- "BPM" field added
- "Couple" option added to list of modes
- "Most Popular Songs" list added.
- Search filter added
- Fixed a bug which prevented members from uploading simfiles and banners due to invalid file types.
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| December 10th, 2006 - Trial Extended |
| I'm still in the process of fixing bugs and adding new features to the custom song section.
So to be fair, all members will still be able to upload one simfile for free until the end of the year.
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| December 6th, 2006 - Custom Songs Added! |
As most of you know, The R21 patch of In the Groove allows players to load flash drive simfiles at the arcade. The new Custom Songs
section keeps track of high scores for these simfiles (as well as official song edits). Members can submit simfiles to the website by purchasing Upload Tokens.
Free trial until Sunday, December 10th!
Everyone will be able to submit one simfile free of charge until Sunday Dec. 10th.
Please submit any bug reports, suggestions, and/or comments to this thread on the forums. Thank you. =)
Custom Song rankings coming soon...
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| July 22th, 2006 - Region Changes |
- California is now two regions: California (North) and California (South)
- The Aberdeenshire region is now Scotland.
California players will need to respecify their regions.
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| July 18th, 2006 - Region Rankings Implemented! |
- Added a Region Ranking page! Check it out here!
Note: California will soon be split up into North and South California regions.
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| July 11th, 2006 - Compare Scores Revisited |
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- Added Marathon and Survival Compare Scores pages as well as more filter options for these pages.
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| July 6th, 2006 - Challenge Notes Implemented! |
- Members can now add notes in response to the challenges that they receive. Notes are displayed directly underneath the text of the challenge.
Go to the "Challenges" section of your profile and click "Modify" on any challenge for which you wish to add notes.
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| July 3rd, 2006 - Update |
- Members can now mark any home version score as a "Controller" score.
Controller scores have a controller icon ( ) next to it.
- Members can now mark any score as a "Failing" score.
Failed scores are in red font throughout the site.
- Members are now directed to their profile page upon login.
- Tweaked the Upload Scores page.
- "Singles" and "Doubles" is now "Single" and "Double" for consistancy.
- Changed the default theme to Silver.
- Changed the main font for the site.
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| June 29th, 2006 - Update |
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- Members can now specify the region where they live. This information will be used for the region rankings coming soon.
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| June 1st, 2006 - Reports fixed |
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- The Report User page now includes a form to specify the reason for the report.
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| May 19th, 2006 - New Top 10 Page |
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- Added a ranking page for miscellaneous USB flash drive data. Check it out here, its pretty crazy.
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| May 10th, 2006 - New USB Stats page |
- Added a page that displays various miscellaneous stats from uploading scores. This page is under the "USB" section of a profile.
Coming Soon: Rankings for these stats
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| May 1st, 2006 - Updated Profile/Submission pages, Reset Canceled |
- Users may now sort by block rating, rank, or percentile in the "detailed" profile pages.
- The manual score submission pages now give the option to clear ALL scores.
* After seeing that there are over 86,000 validated scores.. I simply could not go through with the reset!
However, the upload bug is now fixed.
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| April 26th, 2006 - High Scores fixed! |
The High Scores section is back up with some significant improvements.
High Scores for courses will be up shortly.
I also tweaked the nav menu so it links to the Marathon (M) and Survival (S) versions of some pages.
NOTICE: All validated scores will be set to non-validated on Monday, May 1st.
Unfortunately, there is a major bug where the script validates certain scores that it should not validate.
This bug will be fixed prior to the reset.
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| April 18th, 2006 - GS 2.0! |
The new layout has finally arrived now with different color themes! Members can specify which theme to be the default while browsing the site.
Currently there are only two themes, but that number will surely increase.
Note: I am horrible with graphics so I apologize if the default theme seems rather bland...
I welcome anyone that wants make a color theme and/or graphics for the site. I'll make a thread on the forums about it.
Other Updates:
- "Sex" field added to profile page and ranking filters
- "Profile Last Updated" added to the profile page
- New "Quick Score" pages for marathon and survival courses
- Improved "Grade Summary" charts
Temporarily down for improvement:
- High Scores Page
- Report User feature
Near future updates should include:
- Challenge comments
- "Grade Summary" charts by block difficulty
- Abilty to make a private account
- Birthday field
- More themes
- USB drive stats?
-Mystik
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