First time attending ESA at all, and I had a lot of fun throughout the event, so great job on that. The FF9 run on Stream 2 was especially a treat (I was even one of those who did the Cleyra dance). The overall ambience was also really nice, especially towards the end of the marathon with the SMB1 relay, which was incredible. I've got to meet a decent amount of people, all of them being very nice to me.

With that said, I believe the practice area and the streaming room should be separate from the main room (Stream 1), the reason being that it can get pretty noisy when a big donation is coming in and might distract those who are streaming/practicing. That might be just me, though.

There's one regret I have, though, which is more on a personal level, and it's that I didn't get to talk to certain people. I also ate lunch alone due to that. Hopefully, I can change that for the next time I go to ESA (be it Summer or Winter).

I'm sorry that adding the rule invalidated your runs. As for enforcing the rule, maybe have an FPS display somewhere on the screen (with e.g. Dxtory or even Steam's internal FPS display)? Another good indicator is when the stage clear song ends (should roughly end when or shortly after the score tally ends (i.e. when it shows the total score from remanining time and height bonus)).

In my PB, if you didn't notice, I put Steam's FPS indicator at the top left (may not be really visible, but it does show 60 FPS the vast majority of the time).

From the Steam announcement:[quote]- Added Hard stages (unlocked upon clearing normal)

• Added achievements related to Hard difficulty[/quote]

So we can now add leaderboards for the Hard Stages (which have vastly different stage layouts).

[quote]I'm not entirely sure what my refresh rate is.[/quote] Generally, you can check it in the nVidia Control Panel (Display tab) or the Catalyst Control Center.

On Windows 10, right-click the desktop, select Display properties, then click on Advanced display settings (or similar, my Windows is in French).

EDIT: Looking at both your and gamercal's runs, it seems your game runs a wee bit faster (I run at roughly the same framerate with vsync as gamercal (60 FPS)).

Right now, the rules of every category have it so that timing ends when the victory music from the final mushroom finishes playing. Wouldn't it make more sense to end the timing as soon as soon as the music starts playing (at the de facto moment when you lose control of Marisa/Alice before the credits roll)?

By the way, I'd like to propose a new rule. As the game is supposed to run at 60 FPS, runners should either turn off vsync (though it causes the game to run at roughly 58-59 FPS on my end, but that's beside the point) or turning on vsync, but the monitor has to be set to 60 Hz. Any faster frame rate (e.g. 90 or 120 FPS) should be disallowed.