The third week is over for the 2014 season 2 ranked 1v1 ladder challenge!

If you are new to the ladder challenge, learn more here.

This week’s epic music Falling Skies — may you crush many foes while listening to this song.

Raffle Winner

The winner of this weeks’ raffle was Seydoux – his replay has been chosen to be casted! You can view the casted replay below.



Next week’s raffle — Grandmaster coaching!

For next weeks raffle, if you play 20 games you are eligible to be chosen for 1 hour of Grandmaster level coaching! Your coach will depend on your race; so you’ll be sure to get the best experience possible.

Clan Challenge Update

Don’t forget — the ladder challenge also has a clans listing! Over 200 clans are participating in the ladder challenge; some clans with over 40 members participating. For the most part The Art of Warfare has been dominating, but recently IXL has been threatening their position. Each of these clans have over 900 games played — and the next closest clan is in the 400 range! Here are the top 10 clans:

Clan Total Players Total Games TAW 47 992 IXL 30 952 SFP 16 482 VortX 7 455 TrG 25 447

If you are in an active clan; try getting your clan leadership to encourage clan participation in the challenge so that your clan can make top 10!

Progress Update

Now let’s review everyone’s challenge progress. In total, 274 accounts participated! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.

Challenge Level Players this week Total games Slackers 39 101 1 50 337 2 46 543 3 28 469 4 38 883 5 32 1081 6 8 362 7 33 2593

Below are the top 5 players by games played:

Player Games Hayek 205 HTOMario 148 Dheinzen 143 ChanKiM 131 FlubZ 112

As always, Heyek and Mario dominate the list.

Statistics

Per request of delta4zero and fapy on reddit, we pulled some units built statistics.

499,590 Zerglings

267,403 Marines

58,001 Zealots

Were produced this week!

Additionally, we pulled some map win-rate statistics to see which maps favored a race strongly in one match-up:

Matchup Map Winrate PvZ Overgrowth 57% ZvT King Sejong Station 57.1% PvT Habitation Station 53.2%

Let us know what statistics you would like to see in the next update!

Special Replays

This week, we pulled the longest replay, the replay with the most chat, and a replay with a hero unit.

Hero Unit Games:

JFDeimosMX had the misfortune to face both of this weeks hero units in two separate games. A Marine with 30 kills: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/475536 and a Siege Tank with 53 (no locusts): http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/462785

Game one posed a small problem: How do you find the Marine with the most kills when at any given point in the replay, 50+ are on the map and marching to their death? In fact, how does a Marine get 30 kills? Most were lucky to get three before meeting their death.

But eventually I found him.

It was too late to save him — but this brave little Marine won him the game.

While game two was wild and wonky; the achievements of a single tank weren’t as impressive — and they didn’t win him the game.

You know you’ve won a game well when there is none of the enemy color left on the mini-map. Not a scrap.

Chattiest Replay

Tired of chattiest replay being two polite, low-level players discussing strategy? Never fear! This week, we have WarTankPrime begging for a win: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/476640

Although I don’t want to be harsh on the players, between WarTankPrime’s defeatist attitude (I think he gave up 6 times or more?) and Swarms clan tag and decal, this game is incredibly classy.

With an hour left on the replay, WarTankPrime asks Swarm to give him the game because he “has to go.”

But like a cat playing with it’s food, Swarm refuses to give him the win — or kill him. As long as WarTankPrime has mining he insists he still has a chance to win — and he wont let WarTankPrime stop trying.

So he lets him live, but occasionally sends a single Ultralisk or Broodlord just to reset his already painstakingly slow process.

As a result; this replay was a close contender for longest replay. Although you can’t truely appreciate the hilarity of the replay without watching it, I can understand if you wouldn’t want to watch all two hours of it so I compiled an album of some of my favorite moments. You can also read the chat log on the replay page.

But alas, after all of his tormenting and teasing — Swarm still didn’t let him have the game; ending it by building a Ghost after Neural Parasiting an SCV to Nuke his last building dead.

Last but not least. .

Longest Replay: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/463342 (01:43:37) A tear entered my eye when I saw Kumavilo again. What’s the villain up to this time? Oh; thats right — the same thing.

Most Marines Built: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/484463 (687) Two Silvers earn the “most marines built” position? Silver players are a lot better at macro since I was Silver!

Most Zerglings Built: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/475109 (1278) Enough said: http://i.imgur.com/xM0NYQG.jpg

Thanks for reading this week’s ladder challenge update! If you have any suggestions; let me know. Make sure to tell all of your friends about the challenge, and good luck!