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

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

The song to inspire and motivate you to accomplish new feats on the ladder for this week is Heart of a Champion.

Raffle Winner

The winner of this weeks’ raffle was Syko, who won an Elite Membership! Congratulations; and an email has been sent out to you.

Get your replay casted!

The raffle is different for this week! If you play at least 10 games for the ladder challenge, you qualify for a chance to get your replay casted! Just tweet the replay link to @sc2replaystats with the #ladderchallenge hash tag to enter in to the raffle. One lucky winner will get their replay casted!

As a teaser; we’ve gotten two random replays casted.

Progress Update

Now let’s review everyone’s challenge progress. In total, 301 accounts participated! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.

Level Players Slackers 41 1 59 2 41 3 33 4 48 5 30 6 14 7 35

Below are the top 5 players by games played:

Players Games Revolution 162 HTOMario 152 Statix 122 JoshOohAh 100 KingSlayer 94

Men; you are true ladder heroes. Carry on!

Statistics

We tried to pull some interesting match-up winrate statistics this week.

TvP win rates based off of Widow Mine usage:

TvP Winrate 4 or less Widow Mine 47.6% 5 or more Widow Mine 50.9%

ZvP win rates based off of game length:

PvZ Winrate Less then 15 min 51.6% Longer then 15 min 46.2%

Tell us what statistics you would like to see next week!

Special Replays

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

The longest game: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/458521 this scrappy 1 hour and 30 minute Platinum TvZ ended in both players having only one base remaining, having had their orginal bases gutted by each other. The replay also qualified for the Hero Unit replay, with one siege tank earning himself 480 locust kills. Although it’s no pro-level game, it’s an amusing game to watch — especially when scumbag JensM lies about his gas count to try and trick the other player into leaving. For shame.

The chattiest game: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/459428 In this replay, JoeKickass and Heartolion (probably the two nicest players to ever meet on the ladder) show you how to have fun at Starcraft. Unconcerned with losing or winning (as demonstrated by their excessive chatter) both players treat each-other kindly even when brutally annihilating each other with seeker missiles and fungal growths. The aptly named JoeKickass even gave up his Diamond rank to play random; simply because it’s more fun. Everybody should be more like JoeKickass and Heartolion.

The hero unit game: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/452846 a Hero Colossus gains 191 kills in this back-and-forth epic PvZ — unfortunately mostly in locusts. This game keeps you guessing until the last second, as the Protoss player tries everything from Carriers to a Mothership, and the Zerg player attempts anything from Ultralisks to Mutalisks as these players desperately try to crack each other.

Let us know what stats you would like to see in future updates, and what kind of replays you would like picked out – like replay with x ability casted the most amount of times, or average game length when x number of a certain unit is built – and we will try and bring them to the next update!

Remember to check out the in-game group: starcraft://group/1/190034 and find yourself a practice buddy, or to participate in in-game evens like Replay Nights.

Keep up the good work, and get that promotion!