The eighth week of the Season 3 ladder challenge is over. Join if you haven’t already!
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Challenge Update
211 players participated, playing 5765 games!
@sc2replaystats Just won a top platinium former dia with 57% in PvT, i’m gold T with 40% in TvP 
— Val² (@RoyerValentin) August 25, 2014
As always, we’d love to hear your stories from the ladder challenge, or show your great replays off in these posts.
Level | Players | Games |
|---|---|---|
| Slackers! | 31 | 74 |
| 1 | 29 | 200 |
| 2 | 26 | 312 |
| 3 | 60 | 1278 |
| 4 | 35 | 1388 |
| 5 | 15 | 959 |
| 6 | 11 | 990 |
| 7 | 4 | 564 |
Top 5 players for this week are:
Name | Games |
|---|---|
| Aeis | 166 |
| Botiz | 138 |
| RAWD | 116 |
| Dom | 106 |
| Testify | 100 |
Congratulations Aeis on first place this week!
Name | Games |
|---|---|
| 1st: Antilchrist | 909 |
| 2nd: Testify (Up from 4th) | 806 |
| 3rd: Statix (Down from 2nd) | 806 |
| 4th: FisterRoboto (Down from Third) | 784 |
| 5th: Dom (New!) | 742 |
Statistics
EU vs NA
This week, we’re pitting EU versus NA to see which region has the best statistics!
Challenge Participation Victor: NA
Winrates Victor: NA: PvT — EU: PvZ, TvZ
APM Victories: NA: 10 — EU: 8
EU vs NA Manners
% of games with GG: 59% vs 64%
% of games with GL: 77% vs 77%
% of games with HF: 74% vs 75%
% of games with GLHF: 66% vs 69%
Featured Replays
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Chattiest Replay
My favorite chattiest replay in a long time. SoloPenguin attempts to learn Starcraft in his second-ever Starcraft game, and Howl helps him out. It’s always good to see someone helping out a new player and treating them kindly, and it’s also hilarious reading a new player’s attempt to figure everything out:
| Howl | 31:18 | do you know about baneling? |
| SoloPenguin | 31:19 | yea |
| SoloPenguin | 31:25 | no |
| SoloPenguin | 31:33 | are those suicide grunts? |
I’m definitely calling Banelings suicide grunts from now on!
| oloPenguin | 35:32 | wtf are u nuking me? LOL |
| Howl | 35:32 | yeah see how much damage they did? |
| Howl | 35:42 | if you had more they would all be dead |
| Howl | 35:46 | yeah nuke coming |
| SoloPenguin | 36:02 | ok cool |
| SoloPenguin | 36:45 | ogod with these nukes |
| Howl | 38:32 | lookout |
| Howl | 38:39 | gj |
| SoloPenguin | 39:03 | north korea plz |
| Howl | 39:12 | lol |
| SoloPenguin | 40:05 | holy shit |
Read more (or watch the replay) here: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/844381
Base Trade Madness
At 10 minutes they base-trade. The Protoss is left with an army, but no Nexus or money. The Terran is left with no army, but a Command Center.
You can do it, CC!
Commence 26 minutes of a Command Center trying to land and mine long enough for the Terran player to build some units and kill the numerous remaining Protoss buildings. Can he do it? Watch and find out! http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/838612
Hero Units
Tragic Hero: 60 Kill Immortal
Look at this picture. The base counts, the bank, the armies. Is there any way the Protoss can win this? With the help of some Hero Units, maybe. . .
Sadly, it was not meant to be. RIP Immortal.
Look at the minimap now. Heroes indeed. Sadly; this immortal died tragically.
Lazy Hero: 65 Kill Ghost
This Ghost got 65 kills by using 4 nukes.
..and each of those 4 nukes were in the exact same spot. The first time we didn’t call him lazy, just fortunate. But after nuking the exact same mineral line from the same position four times and getting tons of drone kills each time.. easiest way to become a hero ever.
Badass Hero: 63 Kill Thor
Wings of Liberty alert! This gold TvT was played on an old map you might remember: Entombed Valley. Apparently, the WoL TvT meta is now 10rax vs Mass Thor:
WoL Meta
This Thor was quite badass — he took on countless marines and held the push by himself, but on top of that, he waited to get repaired until AFTER the fight — it would be cheating to get repaired during it. He was the first Thor to pop out, and he lasted until the end, nailing countless Marine kills.
Clan Challenge Update
Every week, dozens of players battle in the Clan Challenge to represent their clan. Visit the clans listing and see how well your clan is doing! If you’re not in a clan, try contacting one of the clans on the top 5 and see if they’ll let you join!
Clan | Players | Total Games | Games This Week | Games Per Player |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAW | 65 | 2183 | 206 | 33 |
| ConFed | 62 | 934 | 103 | 15 |
| Vortx | 14 | 886 | 66 | 63 |
| FWB | 1 | 782 | 75 | 782 |
| ETL | 26 | 759 | 31 | 29 |
Raffle Winner
Every week, a random challenge participant who has played at least 20 games wins the weekly raffle!
Congratulations tell, this week’s winner! You win one month of Elite Membership!
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- Sc2replaystats.com staff
Post written by TheSkunk#386