Each round, a set of 5 songs/charts will be randomly picked from the Kerpa's Simfile Playlist 3 folder on the cab. Each player eliminates 1 song, then plays the remaining 3 songs. Practice songs from this folder as much you can before the big day!

NOTE: Songs from Kerpa's packs are rated in the old-school DDR/ITG difficulty scale, think DDR back on the PS2.
Newer DDR games rate their songs differently, this division is levels ~5-8 in DDR's modern scale.

On the cab, old-scale songs are yellow and new-scale songs are green.

Fanatik25 and XjojoX have created an upper division pack (which can be downloaded from #content-share in the discord). These chart difficulties range from 8-10 (ITG rating) and include various tech such as footswitches, crossovers, brackets, doublesteps, etc. The notations for what tech is used in each chart is written and abbreviated in the song title (FS, XO, BR, etc). Simply Love SM5 will be used.

Just like last year, we will be using ITGmania's EX scoring method. CMOD is not permitted in this division.

At the bottom of the pack is the qualifier chart: "Coconut Mall". Each upper division participant must play and submit their score using EX scoring before the tournament begins, on either arcade or home pads. Please post your qualifier score in ⁠#stepmania-qualifier-scores in the discord so that your tournament seed can be set. You can enable EX scoring via the player options menu.

The 7-song card draw will go as such for each round:

• Higher seed decides if they want to ban first or pick P1 or P2 pad (for the sake of example, "Tav" is higher seed and will pick their pad first, and "Jay" will ban first)

• Jay bans a chart (0 charts selected, 6 remain)

• Tav bans a chart (0 charts selected, 5 remain)

• Jay protects a chart (1 chart selected, 4 remain)

• Tav protects a chart (2 charts selected, 3 remain)

• Jay bans a chart (2 charts selected, 2 remain)

• Tav bans a chart (2 charts selected, 1 remains)

• The remaining chart serves as the 3rd song. Set order would be Jay's protect, Tav's protect, and the leftover song.

In each match, players are permitted to play one song from the designated warmup pack: Idaho ITG Championship 2025 Warmups. Both players are not required to play a warmup song, so if only one player wishes to warmup, they are free to do so while the other player waits. If both players agree they do not need a warmup song, they may both choose to begin the card draw immediately and skip their warmup.