It seems that not all of the voters have submitted their votes yet… I was worried this would happen since there was so much time between when signups started and the actual voting periods. We’ll figure something out though.

The first round of voting is going to end in about a week. The majority of voters have already cast their votes, and in a week, hopefully everyone will have cast them.  Also,  an exciting new project is on its way…

A lot of people seem to be focusing on more stamina/footspeed oriented songs. This point was brought up in a thread over on aaronin.jp. It was requested that we start ranking a stamina pack. The Cosmic Pope is in the process of putting together a bunch of charts (with various authors, not just Dragonforce [but don't worry there should be some DF]), I believe the difficulties range from 13-16, which he has deemed “ITG: Extended Difficulties.” It, like Rebirth, will not affect ITG1/2 ranking.

The framework for future tournaments has now been laid. Basically, everything will be automated. Here are the basics: Before the tournament I’ll give every user the ability to upload one chart. This chart will be listed in a table on a tournament page (which will be ready in a few days). Songs will be automatically broken into pools. Come voting time, everybody will have the ability to vote for each pool one time. (Meaning that somebody could vote for every song if they wanted to.)