The first 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 Blackheart.

Raffle Winner

The winner of this weeks’ raffle was RatzBarcode, who won an Elite Membership! Congratulations; and an email has been sent out to you. Once again, if you play at least 20 games this week you will be eligible to participate in a raffle for Elite Membership!

New feature: Clan Listings

Before we get into the statistics, we’ve made a minor addition to the challenge this week. A clan page is now available, showing how many total games each clan has played for the challenge across all members. The clan with the highest number of games at the end of the season will win elite membership for every participating clan member!

Progress Update

Now let’s review everyone’s challenge progress. In total, 305 accounts participated! Below is a list of how many people completed each level of the challenge.

Level Players Slackers 28 1 46 2 38 3 27 4 58 5 37 6 16 7 55

An impressive 55 people played over 50 games this week! Below are the top 5 players by games played:

Players Games Statix 150 Hayek 138 Revolution 131 HTOMario 122 LuckyLlama 107

Men; you are true ladder heroes. Carry on!

Statistics

Now for some statistics about the new map pool, with Overgrowth being a favorite and Alterzim being disliked:

Map Games Played Overgrowth 1856 King Sejong Station 1583 Merry Go Round 1515 Habitation Station 1413 Waystation 1301 Frost 1044 Alterzim Stronghold 453

And match-up win-rates, showing PvT finally evening out and a slight Zerg advantage for the other match-ups:

Matchup Winrate Protoss vs Terran 50.5% Protoss vs Zerg 48.9% Terran vs Zerg 47.3%

Special Replays

We’ve pulled the shortest replay, longest replay, and replay with the most chat for your enjoyment!

The shortest game was keule vs lepsky — two Zergs demonstrate the frightening rush distance of close spawns on Waystation in this 3:30 minute game.

The chattiest game was Gratitude vs IrathilTV — the two players discuss the merits of Swarmhost aggression and the ins and outs of TvZ for 20 minutes, barely paying attention to the game at hand.

The longest game. The longest game was Kumavilo vs IAMKOREAN at an hour and 30 minutes. Unsurprisingly, this TvZ was set on cross-spawns Alterzim. Kumavilo opened with 3 cc, and shortly demonstrated that his mission was to build no units aside from Ravens. I won’t spoil the game, but 957 point defense drones were cast. This game was a masterpiece, yet a tragedy. It was the goldiest of gold league replays and it showed the ultimate depravity of mankind; yet also it’s biggest triumph. I highly recommend you watch it if you enjoy gold level turtle-fests, you have far, far, far too much time on your hands, or you have trouble falling to sleep at night. This replay genuinely disgusted me, and for that I give it a 10/10 rating!

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!