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Note to our loyal readers: Weekly updates will be on hiatus next week.

Raffle Winner

Congratulations, dippikana! 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!

Progress Update

Congratulations BucketHeaD, the one player to reach level 7!

Level Players Games Slackers! 34 89 1 50 341 2 25 294 3 57 1150 4 35 1295 5 19 1089 6 17 1734 7 1 196

We would like to note that from now on, level 7 requires 110 games instead of 150.

Top 5 players for this week are:

Name Games BucketHeaD 169 Statix 237 iMarine 127 Dom 124 Fate 121

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!

Clan Players Games Games This Week Games Per Player TAW 47 1162 308 24 ETL 17 535 129 31 ConFed 38 425 128 11 Core 6 350 142 58 Allin 17 326 137 19

We’ve changed back to all-time instead of per week, but the top 5 all time clans will also show how many games they played this week.

Statistics

We pulled average completion time for upgrades per each league this week. Check to see how your upgrade timings compare for the average of your league!

League Average Stim Research Time Bronze 12:36 Silver 12:26 Gold 11:22 Platinum 10:59 Diamond 10:54 Masters 10:59 GM 10:26

Stim is researched a full two minutes and ten seconds faster in Grandmaster then it is in Bronze!

League Average Chitinous plating Timing Bronze 29:55 Silver 31:19 Gold 22:19 Platinum 23:23 Diamond 22:22 Masters 21:22 GM 22:05

It looks like 22 is fairly standard from gold league and onwards.

League Average Storm Timing vs Terran Bronze 20:52 Silver 19:09 Gold 17:12 Platinum 16:57 Diamond 16:11 Masters 16:12 GM 13:36

Colossi openers probably drag the average storm timing downwards, meaning the faster average for Grandmaster could simply be because more Grandmaster players open Storm first.

Special Replays

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Chattiest Replay

Chattiest replay was Fate vs ReMiix: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/735390

A snippet:

ReMiiX 03:30 you think i dont know what poland is? ReMiiX 03:40 t+t Fate 03:41 95% of americans dont :p ReMiiX 03:54 nahh we arent that bad Fate 04:00 yes u are

Read the rest here!

Hero Units

This week we have a 72 kill Void Ray and 52 kill Oracle.

I don’t know if the Zerg was a smurf trolling or someone trying out TheStaircase, but this Zerg player just sent endless waves of no-speed Zerglings at the unfortunate Protoss player. Watch the Protoss Heroes try to hold them off here: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/737345

Base-trade Replay

At the start of the game, the map looked like this:

At the end, it looked like this:

Watch the crazy game here: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/721595

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- Sc2replaystats.com staff