The tenth 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!
Medieval Legends is this week’s laddering music. What do you listen to while you ladder?
Raffle Winner
Congratulations, Clahva! You win one month of Elite Membership!
Remember, every week you have a chance to win 1 month of Elite Membership if you play 20 games!
Clan Challenge Update
The ladder challenge isn’t just for personal motivation — each clan is competing for the top spot! Visit the clans listing and see where your clan stands in the ladder challenge!
Clan | Players | Games |
|---|---|---|
| IXL | 55 | 3084 |
| TAW | 77 | 3004 |
| Allin | 32 | 1423 |
| ETL | 33 | 1251 |
| TrG | 47 | 939 |
The top clan at the end of the challenge gets 3 months of Elite Membership for up to 50 clan members.
Progress Update
As the season nears it’s end, we’d like to remind everyone that the player who plays the most games this entire season wins lifetime Elite Membership! Here is the standings currently:
Name | Games |
|---|---|
| ChanKiM | 1063 |
| Glave | 1055 |
| BucketHeaD | 995 |
| Istian | 861 |
| HTOMario | 845 |
Our usual participation stats show that 267 players participated in the ladder challenge this week, and played 6825 games! Thats an average of 25 games a week per person — how well did you do?
Level | Players | Games |
|---|---|---|
| Slackers! | 49 | 136 |
| 1 | 38 | 248 |
| 2 | 28 | 333 |
| 3 | 22 | 374 |
| 4 | 46 | 1101 |
| 5 | 29 | 992 |
| 6 | 16 | 694 |
| 7 | 39 | 2947 |
The top 5 player for this week is missing a few of our regulars and has some new faces:
Name | Games |
|---|---|
| Burny | 149 |
| Glave | 127 |
| HTOMario | 105 |
| BucketHeaD | 104 |
| Synprime | 104 |
Statistics
This week, we pulled statistics on less usual compositions for specific match-ups.
TvP: Highest number of Widow Mines: 59 widow mines!
ZvP: Most Banelings: 219 Banelings versus Protoss!
PvT: Most Phoenix: 31 Phoenix vs Terran!
Try these unique strategies yourself, and let us know how it goes!
Special Replays
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Chattiest Replay
This week’s chattiest replay almost has it all: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/625600
☑ “SH ruin the game”
☑ Comparing someone’s mother getting cancer to a SC2 strategy
☑ “What age are you, 12?”
☑ “Can you give me the win since you used a strategy I don’t like?”
☐ Graceful acceptance of defeat
Seriously, take the time to read it!
Hero Units
Hero Ghost: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/632818
We had to choose this 48 kill Ghost.. because Nukes.
Beautiful.
A lot more Nukes were fired off this game, but this was one of the best.
As a bonus:
Hero Archon: 61 kills
Hero Dark Templar: 51 kills
Lowest combined supply past 20 minute mark
This match: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/631345 got weird when a blinkstalker allin attack hit the Terran the same time his army (including a widow mine drop) assaulted the enemy Protoss base. Both players made some odd choices — the Terran kept his buildings near his army instead of floating them to air space where they would not be able to be reached, and the Protoss didn’t build a Nexus dispite having a probe and 700 minerals. It was still a tense, close match!
At first glance you might think the Terran could have won this if he floated his Factory.
Bonus Games:
http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/630501
http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/630550
That’s all for now, but the ladder challenge is winding down with the end of the season coming soon. Make that final push towards top 8, and expect to see an extra packed post for the end-season update!
Have fun!
- Sc2replaystats.com staff