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

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

Listen to I Still Have a Soul to motivate you for this week’s laddering session!

Raffle Winner

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

Next week’s raffle — more GM 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. Good luck!

Clan Challenge Update

Don’t forget — the ladder challenge also has a clans listing! Countless clans compete for the top spot. If you belong to a clan; try getting them to participate so that your clan can dominate all others! Below are the top 5 clans.

Clan Total Players Total Games TAW 53 1347 IXL 37 1343 SFP 19 582 TrG 28 510 Vortx 7 488

Progress Update

Now let’s review everyone’s challenge progress. In total, 253 accounts participated and 6437 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 ChanKiM 139 BucketHeaD 119 LuckyLlama 118 Istian 101 Psycholord 101

Statistics

This week we thought we’d look at how often some more uncommon units or strategies are used.

54

Motherships built this week

109

Brood Lords built

19% of Zergs built Brood Lords in ZvP

In games over 18 minutes

On top of that, we pulled some statistics about how nice and well-mannered players participating in the ladder challenge are by analyzing the chat logs.

Percent of games with GG 54.5% Protoss GG 36% Terran GG 38% Zerg GG 38.7%

Additionally, 21 replays mentioned hacking or cheating! Sc2replaystats.com would like to encourage everyone to treat your fellow players with respect. It may not matter to you personally; but some people really value meeting friendly people on the ladder. As always, let us know what statistics you would like to see in the next update!

Special Replays

In addition to the usual chattiest replay & longest replay, we wanted to pull some replays that showed examples of good play such as recovering from bad situations and good macro.

Highest supply at 10 minutes

A barcode Zerg reaches 130 supply at 10 minutes to take the award this week: http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/494727

He hit his injects almost perfectly and overran his Protoss opponent with purely Roaches. The replay is an excellent example of winning with pure macro mechanics.

Chattiest Replay

http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/491027 – After asking his opponent what he did wrong, Psycholord then says all of his advice is wrong. Then he rants about how his opponent doesn’t use “real builds” whereas he does; and wont modify them to fit new situations.

A great example of why “real builds” aren’t the only important thing for winning in SC2.

Most workers lost by winning player

http://sc2replaystats.com/replay/495793 – Crazy takes the game despite losing 131 SCVs!

Thanks for reading this week’s ladder challenge update! If you have any suggestions; let us know.

Good luck on the ladder