The sixth 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!

Listen to Dark Energy to fuel your laddering for this week’s update!

Raffle Winner

Congratulations, Shy! You win a month of Elite Membership!

Next week’s raffle: GM coaching!

For next weeks raffle, if you play 20 games you are eligible to be chosen for coaching from a Grandmaster player! The coach will vary depending on what race the winner plays.

Clan Challenge Update

Check out the clans listing — below are the top 5 clans who have been competing vigorously all season!

Clan Participants Games TAW 64 2177 IXL 47 2077 TrG 34 771 ConFed 37 684 TAGG 30 682

Remember, the top clan at the end of the challenge gets 3 months of Elite Membership for up to 50 clan members!

Progress Update

For our usual participation update, 290 accounts participated and 7618 games were played this week! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.

Challenge Level Players (This week) Games (This week) Slackers! 40 106 1 40 268 2 48 560 3 32 539 4 39 934 5 30 1022 6 20 888 7 41 3301

Below are the top 5 players by games played this week:

Rank Name Games 1 BucketHeaD 165 2 Crabalanche 149 3 ChanKiM 143 4 Glave 117 5 AyakuraMei 113

Additionally, below are the top 5 players by games played for all of this challenge. Whoever has the most games at the end of the season wins lifetime Elite Membership!

Name Games ChanKiM 729 Glave 581 HTOMario 571 LuckyLlama 568 Istian 555

Statistics

Now for the statistics! Tired of getting mass Roach every time, this week we pulled Supply stats for each race. The rewards for highest supply at 12 minutes go to:

Protoss: caseeker with 134

Zerg: TeaComposite with 191! (Guess what he built!)

Terran: Zero with 145

Additionally, we pulled statistics for Average Income Rate per Game, by league. Check it out!

League Average Income per Game Bronze 690 Silver 794 Gold 1026 Platinum 1140 Diamond 1190 Masters 1194 Grandmasters 1209

Interestingly, there stops being a very big difference between leagues after Gold!

Special Replays

Special replays are back again! If you have a replay of your own that you think is special and you’d like it featured here, tweet it to @sc2replaystats on twitter!

Hero Unit

I went through 5 replays to find the best hero unit, because I didn’t just want the unit with the most kills — I wanted a true hero unit. Unlike many of the other candidates who got their kills by luck or chance and died as quickly as they became heroes, this hero Colossi earned his stripes by being in the thick of the battle from the beginning to the very,very end: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/559342

Not only that, but he may have won the Protoss player RedSpy the game. RedSpy was in a losing position against waves of Hydra/Ling from multiple directions, and after losing his third and his main, needed every unit to do the most it could for him to win — and that’s exactly what this hero Colossus did.

Mass Widow Mine?

We searched for the highest number of Widow Mines built in a single game, and found this master level TvZ http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/536816 with 128 Widow Mines built! The Terran player didn’t make as many Widow Mines as I would have liked, but it was still a fun Masters-level TvZ. He lost his third twice early in the game and was constantly stuck on a lower economy, but he kept fighting bank with fantastic pushes with 30 Widow Mines, like this one:

Chattiest Replay

Chattiest replay is always something different. After finding out the first one was largely in Vietnamese, we got this one: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/553207

The early-game friendly banter turned sour at the end when the losing player, Spirit, echoed a common Protoss complaint: Hydralisks and their “infinite dps” are overpowered. Because of them, “this game just isn’t fun”!

Thanks for participating in the ladder challenge! Let us know here or on reddit what you’d like to see in the ladder challenge next week.

Good luck, and go crush those nasty Zergs, cheesing Protosses, and and viscous Terrans!