The seventh week is over for the 2014 season 2 ranked 1v1 ladder challenge, but it’s not too late to join!
If you are new to the ladder challenge, learn more here or sign up!
Can’t Change My Past is the song of choice for ladder music this week! What do you listen to while you ladder?
Raffle Winner
Congratulations, Bosporan! You win one month of Elite Membership!
Next week’s raffle: Grandmaster Coaching
Next weeks raffle you are once again eligible for 1 month of Elite Membership if you play 20 games!
Clan Challenge Update
Visit the clans listing and see where your clan stands in the ladder challenge! This week a new clan made it to the top 5 – Allin!
Clan | Players | Games |
|---|---|---|
| IXL | 52 | 2796 |
| TAW | 74 | 2718 |
| ETL | 29 | 1074 |
| TrG | 45 | 898 |
| Allin | 27 | 864 |
The top clan at the end of the challenge gets 3 months of Elite Membership for up to 50 clan members.
Progress Update
The progress story for this week is from Nightshark, who comments:
I decided to do the ladder challenge to give myself motivation for this season. I have been in gold since June 2013 until the start of this season. Yesterday I hit diamond.
Cheers. I recommend it to everyone. There’s no magic build, race, strategy, etc that will get you where you want to be… just good old fashion practice, which the ladder challenge gives good motivation to do.
Below are the statistics for each level of participation for this week:
Level | Players | Games |
|---|---|---|
| Slackers! | 40 | 98 |
| 1 | 47 | 322 |
| 2 | 29 | 348 |
| 3 | 25 | 433 |
| 4 | 41 | 991 |
| 5 | 23 | 771 |
| 6 | 12 | 606 |
| 7 | 43 | 3074 |
And the top 5 players by games played this week:
Name | Games |
|---|---|
| iMarine | 242 |
| BucketHeaD | 191 |
| Bop | 178 |
| Glave | 167 |
| Istian | 148 |
Whoever has played the most total games at the end of the season wins lifetime Elite Membership.
Statistics
This week, we pulled statistics for the fastest third base from a Protoss and most Supply Drops and MULEs in a single game.
The fastest third base was from Burny, starting at 5:51 in a Diamond level PvZ: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/613045
Most MULEs in one game rests at 160 from Çiaus: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/608323
Greatest number of supply drops used in one game is 9 from RiceKrispies: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/619115
Special Replays
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Chattiest Replay
This week’s chattiest replay had a participant of DreamHack Open: Summer, Thalandros, telling his tales of watching Jeadong play live and talking to Nathanias! Read the chat log here: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/617832 Unfortunately for Thalandros, he was too distracted by the events around him to take the win.
Hero Units: Sentry and Reaper
Hero Reaper: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/600349
Using sick micro, this Reaper acquired countless kills.. but one problem
Roaches at your base, watcha going to do?
Hero Sentry: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/612043
First defending a Speedling all-in and then contributing to several successful attacks, this sentry gained 23 kills!
Sentries are a necessity vs Speedling all-ins. /badpun
Lowest combined supply past 20 minute mark
The goal of this statistic was to find games where players utterly gutted each other but the game kept going.
Our first replay, UncleRukus vs Jorsin, succeeds at that: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/599922
This outstanding Silver league game is beyond words, so we’ve made an image gallery to show you it instead: http://imgur.com/a/Esu5i
The second game, Rasco vs TiMaZe, is almost as good: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/617229 as two Diamond level players fight to the last structure: http://imgur.com/a/A2mvJ
That’s all for this week! Tell us what you’d like to see for next week’s update, and keep pushing yourself to reach a higher goal!
Good luck!
- Sc2replaystats.com staff