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On November 12 2013 15:19 Inschato wrote:
I appreciate the point someone made about people being more locked into their specific role. If people agree to one role (perhaps with exceptions for the plat/diamonds), that information can be used to form proper teams for more organized matches. That's not to say permanent teams but rather we can actually pick a team that has one of each role in it instead of the current method of first to join the lobby which often results in people not playing the role they actually play. I don't really have much faith in ability to properly organize something like this though. A few people would have to step and actually dedicate their time and effort to it (since it goes beyond just saying tl1/1 and "lol teams are balanced (jk jk) go go")... I'm certainly not the one to do that since I've only shown up a handful of times, don't really communicate very well, and don't have the time to spare consistently...... some publicly accessible information might be useful, like a google spreadsheet of people's preferred roles and skill level so that anyone can properly balance teams instead of just the few people in the know.

Also not sure how well the channel name for a day thing is really working out, it might be better to go back to specific times and perhaps not every day, to give it more focused time slots. But now that the end of season grind is over, this particular point may be null and void.

On November 13 2013 03:01 Zdrastochye wrote:


This would work all well and good, but there's not enough of us dedicated supports to make it work. Especially higher level supports, as I think the other dedicated supports are silver-gold range (and of course myself being bronze). Others can definitely do it, but their skill level decreases moderately when playing support over their other roles (2sang pls).

On November 12 2013 06:37 DURRHURRDERP wrote:
Your perception is definitely skewed towards 5s since you have a regular group to play with, the vast majority of people don't. I wouldn't say spamming solo queue games is pointless either but again my perception is probably skewed in that area since I improved the most playing solo queue and never really played arranged 5s.

Also I think it's far easier to move from being "top solo queue player" -> "top team player" rather than the reverse (IE: Faker).

On November 12 2013 06:42 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:


well lets be real here these in houses can help someone go from gold 5 to plat 3 but they're not gonna help anyone go from diamond 3 to challenger promo to lcs recruit

solo q and team play abilities are strongly correlated and there's no magical "good team player but bad at solo q" but thats no reason to completely disregard the team aspect of it, and if we have voice chat, why wouldnt we encourage people to use it...?

On November 12 2013 15:19 Inschato wrote:
I appreciate the point someone made about people being more locked into their specific role. If people agree to one role (perhaps with exceptions for the plat/diamonds), that information can be used to form proper teams for more organized matches. That's not to say permanent teams but rather we can actually pick a team that has one of each role in it instead of the current method of first to join the lobby which often results in people not playing the role they actually play. I don't really have much faith in ability to properly organize something like this though. A few people would have to step and actually dedicate their time and effort to it (since it goes beyond just saying tl1/1 and "lol teams are balanced (jk jk) go go")... I'm certainly not the one to do that since I've only shown up a handful of times, don't really communicate very well, and don't have the time to spare consistently...... some publicly accessible information might be useful, like a google spreadsheet of people's preferred roles and skill level so that anyone can properly balance teams instead of just the few people in the know.

Also not sure how well the channel name for a day thing is really working out, it might be better to go back to specific times and perhaps not every day, to give it more focused time slots. But now that the end of season grind is over, this particular point may be null and void.

On November 13 2013 03:01 Zdrastochye wrote:


This would work all well and good, but there's not enough of us dedicated supports to make it work. Especially higher level supports, as I think the other dedicated supports are silver-gold range (and of course myself being bronze). Others can definitely do it, but their skill level decreases moderately when playing support over their other roles (2sang pls).

On November 13 2013 16:02 jaybrundage wrote:

I bet i can out support ya Z :D
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