The sixth 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!
Listen to Dark Energy to fuel your laddering for this week’s update!
Raffle Winner
Congratulations, Shy! You win a month of Elite Membership!
Next week’s raffle: GM coaching!
For next weeks raffle, if you play 20 games you are eligible to be chosen for coaching from a Grandmaster player! The coach will vary depending on what race the winner plays.
Clan Challenge Update
Check out the clans listing — below are the top 5 clans who have been competing vigorously all season!
Clan | Participants | Games |
|---|---|---|
| TAW | 64 | 2177 |
| IXL | 47 | 2077 |
| TrG | 34 | 771 |
| ConFed | 37 | 684 |
| TAGG | 30 | 682 |
Remember, the top clan at the end of the challenge gets 3 months of Elite Membership for up to 50 clan members!
Progress Update
For our usual participation update, 290 accounts participated and 7618 games were played this week! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.
Challenge Level | Players (This week) | Games (This week) |
|---|---|---|
| Slackers! | 40 | 106 |
| 1 | 40 | 268 |
| 2 | 48 | 560 |
| 3 | 32 | 539 |
| 4 | 39 | 934 |
| 5 | 30 | 1022 |
| 6 | 20 | 888 |
| 7 | 41 | 3301 |
Below are the top 5 players by games played this week:
Rank | Name | Games |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BucketHeaD | 165 |
| 2 | Crabalanche | 149 |
| 3 | ChanKiM | 143 |
| 4 | Glave | 117 |
| 5 | AyakuraMei | 113 |
Additionally, below are the top 5 players by games played for all of this challenge. Whoever has the most games at the end of the season wins lifetime Elite Membership!
Name | Games |
|---|---|
| ChanKiM | 729 |
| Glave | 581 |
| HTOMario | 571 |
| LuckyLlama | 568 |
| Istian | 555 |
Statistics
Now for the statistics! Tired of getting mass Roach every time, this week we pulled Supply stats for each race. The rewards for highest supply at 12 minutes go to:
Protoss: caseeker with 134
Zerg: TeaComposite with 191! (Guess what he built!)
Terran: Zero with 145
Additionally, we pulled statistics for Average Income Rate per Game, by league. Check it out!
League | Average Income per Game |
|---|---|
| Bronze | 690 |
| Silver | 794 |
| Gold | 1026 |
| Platinum | 1140 |
| Diamond | 1190 |
| Masters | 1194 |
| Grandmasters | 1209 |
Interestingly, there stops being a very big difference between leagues after Gold!
Special Replays
Special replays are back again! If you have a replay of your own that you think is special and you’d like it featured here, tweet it to @sc2replaystats on twitter!
Hero Unit
I went through 5 replays to find the best hero unit, because I didn’t just want the unit with the most kills — I wanted a true hero unit. Unlike many of the other candidates who got their kills by luck or chance and died as quickly as they became heroes, this hero Colossi earned his stripes by being in the thick of the battle from the beginning to the very,very end: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/559342
Not only that, but he may have won the Protoss player RedSpy the game. RedSpy was in a losing position against waves of Hydra/Ling from multiple directions, and after losing his third and his main, needed every unit to do the most it could for him to win — and that’s exactly what this hero Colossus did.
Mass Widow Mine?
We searched for the highest number of Widow Mines built in a single game, and found this master level TvZ http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/536816 with 128 Widow Mines built! The Terran player didn’t make as many Widow Mines as I would have liked, but it was still a fun Masters-level TvZ. He lost his third twice early in the game and was constantly stuck on a lower economy, but he kept fighting bank with fantastic pushes with 30 Widow Mines, like this one:
A few Widow Mine shots later, the Terran wins this fight!
Chattiest Replay
Chattiest replay is always something different. After finding out the first one was largely in Vietnamese, we got this one: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/553207
The early-game friendly banter turned sour at the end when the losing player, Spirit, echoed a common Protoss complaint: Hydralisks and their “infinite dps” are overpowered. Because of them, “this game just isn’t fun”!
Thanks for participating in the ladder challenge! Let us know here or on reddit what you’d like to see in the ladder challenge next week.
Good luck, and go crush those nasty Zergs, cheesing Protosses, and and viscous Terrans!