The first week of the Season 3 ladder challenge is over. Join if you haven’t already!

If you are new to the ladder challenge, learn more here or sign up!

Raffle Winner

Congratulations, ILoveDubstep! 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

Visit the clans listing and see where your clan stands in the ladder challenge! Congratulations to Armani — with only one player they made it to the top 5!

Clan Players Games TAW 28 457 ETL 10 213 IXL 11 159 hTx 4 158 Armani 1 145

The top clan at the end of the challenge gets 3 months of Elite Membership for up to 50 clan members.

Progress Update

Here are how many players have participated for every level of the challenge. Is level 7 hard enough for you now, Gemini? (We’re considering lowering it — let us know what your thoughts are on the levels this season)

Level Players Games Slackers! 27 73 1 26 180 2 23 284 3 61 1241 4 21 761 5 31 1923 6 11 1090 7 3 512

And the top 5 players for this week are:

Name Games Naerok 176 djibutirage 176 ChanKiM 131 nightshark 125 HTOMario 116

Statistics

Fresh off a new season, we decided to take a look at what matchups the new maps are favoring.

Nimbus is favoring Terran, Catellena is great for Protoss in PvZ, Foxtrot isn’t good for Protoss and Deadwing isn’t good for Terran.

We also collected data for supply blocks for each league, to see how much better than Bronze players Master players are at avoiding supply blocks.

League Average Time Spent Supply Blocked (Per Game) Bronze 103 Silver 106 Gold 88 Platinum 89 Diamond 78 Master 73

The results surprise me — while 30 seconds is pretty long, its not as big of a difference as I expected!

Special Replays

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Chattiest Replay

Chattiest Replay this week happens to be Grandmaster Mech player Mario vs Korean pro Parting. Watch for the chat log, stay for the amazing high-level play.

Hero Units

We get to see more from HTOMario with three hero mech units!

Banshee (26 kills) http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/697396

Thor (16 kills): http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/693667

Hellion (19 Kills): http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/686624

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Base-trade Replay

This week’s base trade is a PvP: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/686272 — not surprising.

After defending an attack and losing all of the Probes in his main to an Oracle, BushiDo decides to counter-attack or die trying — only to have his main ripped apart by Zealot drops, bringing this close game down do the defense of two structures.

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Good luck on the ladder, and see you next week!

- Sc2replaystats.com staff