The fifth week is over for the 2014 season 2 ranked 1v1 ladder challenge!
It’s not too late to join!
If you are new to the ladder challenge, learn more here or sign up!
Young Blood is the choice for epic motivating music today!
Raffle Winner
The winner of this weeks’ raffle is Testify! Congratulations, you’ve won coaching from Grandmaster player HTOMario.
Next week’s raffle: Elite Membership
For next weeks raffle, if you play 15 games you are eligible to be chosen for 1 month of Elite Membership!
Clan Challenge Update
Check out the clans listing and try to get your clan to participate and fight for the top spot! Below are the top 5 clans.
Clan | Players | Total Games |
|---|---|---|
| IXL | 44 | 1788 |
| TAW | 55 | 1704 |
| TAGG | 23 | 661 |
| TrG | 32 | 629 |
| SFP | 21 | 620 |
Progress Update
Now let’s review everyone’s challenge progress. In total, 255 accounts participated and 6977 games were played this week! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.
Challenge Level | Players this week | Total games |
|---|---|---|
| Slackers | 35 | 88 |
| 1 | 42 | 288 |
| 2 | 32 | 289 |
| 3 | 25 | 412 |
| 4 | 41 | 974 |
| 5 | 19 | 629 |
| 6 | 24 | 1055 |
| 7 | 35 | 2611 |
Below are the top 5 players by games played:
Player | Games |
|---|---|
| Glave | 283 |
| AyakuraMei | 264 |
| LuckyLlama | 144 |
| ChanKiM | 137 |
| Istian | 118 |
Statistics
This week we’re focusing on in-game accomplishments.
The Greed award goes to BadSag for maintaining the highest average resource collection rate this week! He mined off of 4 bases with 91 drones nearly the entire game with minimal interruption from his opponent.
The Bronze award goes to FadingLight for longest supply block this week at 290 in-game seconds.
The APM-Spam award goes to NotCreative for highest APM, averaging 314 the entire game! He spent 500 apm building his first Overlord. I can’t imagine how fast this guy goes through mice!
We also have an APM chart. Is your APM high or low for your league and race?
League | Overall APM | Terran APM | Protoss APM | Zerg APM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze | 55 | 53 | 42 | 69 |
| Silver | 71 | 71 | 61 | 83 |
| Gold | 85 | 85 | 73 | 98 |
| Platinum | 98 | 96 | 82 | 116 |
| Diamond | 124 | 125 | 107 | 141 |
| Masters | 158 | 145 | 151 | 180 |
| Grandmasters | 161 | 149 | 149 | 186 |
Special Replays
Everybody’s favorite part! Longest replay returns, but with Swarmhosts excluded. Instead of highest supply at 10 minutes, we pulled the replay for fastest max-out.
Fastest Max-out
Once again, the power of Macro is demonstrated by a Zerg going pure Roach — this time in ZvZ. True to his name, extralarge gets a massive force of Roaches, maxing out at 12:30: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/529977
Chattiest Replay
http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/512726
In an attempt to get his mind off things, ImDewey decides to do something different on the ladder. The chat starts out with:
“we should do something fun”
“yeah? im keen”
“ill let you have win”
“alright so whats the deal”
“think of something big. big fight fun”
And boy, do they have fun. They agree on the rules: no upgrades, and WoL-esque compositions: Marine/Tank/Viking vs Infestor/Brood Lord/Corruptor.
They max out — and then they go at it.
But it doesn’t stop there. Both players continue with fun and hilarious antics the whole game long.
I hope things get better for you soon, ImDewey, and props to you for the great “just-have-fun” attitude.
Thanks for reading this week’s ladder challenge update! It us know here or on reddit what statistics you’d like next time.
Now go steal those ladder points!