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

It’s not too late to join!

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

Young Blood is the choice for epic motivating music today!

Raffle Winner

The winner of this weeks’ raffle is Testify! Congratulations, you’ve won coaching from Grandmaster player HTOMario.

Next week’s raffle: Elite Membership

For next weeks raffle, if you play 15 games you are eligible to be chosen for 1 month of Elite Membership!

Clan Challenge Update

Check out the clans listing and try to get your clan to participate and fight for the top spot! Below are the top 5 clans.

Clan Players Total Games IXL 44 1788 TAW 55 1704 TAGG 23 661 TrG 32 629 SFP 21 620

Progress Update

Now let’s review everyone’s challenge progress. In total, 255 accounts participated and 6977 games were played this week! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.

Challenge Level Players this week Total games Slackers 35 88 1 42 288 2 32 289 3 25 412 4 41 974 5 19 629 6 24 1055 7 35 2611

Below are the top 5 players by games played:

Player Games Glave 283 AyakuraMei 264 LuckyLlama 144 ChanKiM 137 Istian 118

Statistics

This week we’re focusing on in-game accomplishments.

The Greed award goes to BadSag for maintaining the highest average resource collection rate this week! He mined off of 4 bases with 91 drones nearly the entire game with minimal interruption from his opponent.

The Bronze award goes to FadingLight for longest supply block this week at 290 in-game seconds.

The APM-Spam award goes to NotCreative for highest APM, averaging 314 the entire game! He spent 500 apm building his first Overlord. I can’t imagine how fast this guy goes through mice!

We also have an APM chart. Is your APM high or low for your league and race?

League Overall APM Terran APM Protoss APM Zerg APM Bronze 55 53 42 69 Silver 71 71 61 83 Gold 85 85 73 98 Platinum 98 96 82 116 Diamond 124 125 107 141 Masters 158 145 151 180 Grandmasters 161 149 149 186

Special Replays

Everybody’s favorite part! Longest replay returns, but with Swarmhosts excluded. Instead of highest supply at 10 minutes, we pulled the replay for fastest max-out.

Fastest Max-out

Once again, the power of Macro is demonstrated by a Zerg going pure Roach — this time in ZvZ. True to his name, extralarge gets a massive force of Roaches, maxing out at 12:30: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/529977

Chattiest Replay

http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/512726

In an attempt to get his mind off things, ImDewey decides to do something different on the ladder. The chat starts out with:

“we should do something fun” “yeah? im keen” “ill let you have win” “alright so whats the deal” “think of something big. big fight fun”

And boy, do they have fun. They agree on the rules: no upgrades, and WoL-esque compositions: Marine/Tank/Viking vs Infestor/Brood Lord/Corruptor.

They max out — and then they go at it.

But it doesn’t stop there. Both players continue with fun and hilarious antics the whole game long.

I hope things get better for you soon, ImDewey, and props to you for the great “just-have-fun” attitude.

Thanks for reading this week’s ladder challenge update! It us know here or on reddit what statistics you’d like next time.

Now go steal those ladder points!