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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%

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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. 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. . . 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: 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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