Once again your scientific method is lacking.

The only true way to know what you play best when drunk is to play Ranked while sloshed.  25-30 Ranked games after taking shots should let you know pretty well which roles you truly excel at while inebriated. 

Science. 

Anyway, I've gotta tell you, my usual band of knuckleheads is somewhat troublesome lately.  So, I've mostly been wanting to play support lately (changes every few weeks or so, but I'm kind of into it atm).  Anyway, highly specialized folks are troubling for my goal of playing support.  I get bannick, now he can only play support or jungle (to be fair, I think he can only play support at a good level, but haven't seen him jungle well - just going by what he says).  Anyway, then I have boaz - he's been around a bit more lately.  He can play the always banned sejuani at an ok skill cap... typically out of jungle, but he'll go wherever.  So, if you want a sejuani and you got the 1 game in 99 that she wasn't banned out, grats.  Now, toss in my good buddy karl.  Karl can play w/e at a serviceable level barring adc, but prefers jungle. So, I know if I take support, then bannick will want to jungle, then blahblahblahblahbalhblahblahblahblahbalh.  BLEH

Anyway, I run the variables anytime I have this crew and I pretty much need not play support.  I can solve the boaz deal by playing blind pick I think.... not that I really want to do that.  Or team builder I suppose.  Anyway, better to have problems like that instead of having pals to play with methinks. 

Huh?  I don't understand this sentence.

Anyway, keep in mind it's not always easy for us.  You often offer to fill in games despite being the one who got the team together, so no one begrudges you staking out a role whenever you want to play something.

It's when a game goes south cause people are playing off roles and you get frustrated.  That's not ideal for me personally.

"Okay, the other team got their third Dragon, we don't have any.  Okay, they're way ahead of us on towers.  Okay we're about to lose yet another tower and I guess we're not going to get anything accomplished in return..."

I know you are trying to be constructive and helpful and get people focused on turning things around, but sometimes the things you call out are simply unavoidable when you're on the team that's losing badly.

To which I can't help but think to myself "If Pacov cares so much about winning, why didn't he let the Plat Support Main play Support?  And have our Plat Jungle Main play jungle?"

Can't you just go into a game thinking "Okay, we might lose this Normal Draft game cause we're playing off roles.  But we're going to all be getting better from playing out of our comfort zone so who cares."  Trying to adopt that would seem like the best solution to your dilemma.  

huh.. i just checked the refer a friend website.. apparently I earned the ww and the twitch skin.... I had no idea as I don't think I've ever solicited folks with my user id (eg... hurm....).  Anyway, its there.  You don't get any rewards until you go to the website and click redeem.  

If you are interested in checking on your status (eg see if you earned any rewards, google refer a friend LOL and log in.  

You only need to refer 3 friends for the ww skin and 5 for the twitch skin (must reach level 10).  I think I've already earned the max skins, but I'll post this anyway i guess...

referral link for dr pacov.. and I've earned all the crap, so this is a waste I think...

http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=4e5181c3d2eb0362444327

edit - i just checked my acct - both skins posted like 5 min after I redeemed. Anyway, check yours out and see if you qualify.  

@thunder - I thought I responded to you but apparently did not.  The short version is that I was just whinging about not being able to play support when I invited certain folks even though I wanted to play support.  For instance, if you only played support/jungle, I'd want to put you in that role.  If someone else joins that also does support and jungle, then I'm a pisser for taking either of those roles as I already have those roles filled up.  So, I can't play the role I'm interested in and I generally don't feel like telling people I won't play with them because I want to play support and you can only do that, etc.  Thank god riot has a built in Offline button.... Not a big deal at any rate, just whinging as this is more and more common with the folks I'm running w/.

All that said, I get your point re: me being negative about missed objectives, etc, and that being super fun to hear. 

Anyway, I was really surprised to see that I had gotten those skins.  If I start up another smurf acct, I'd be happy to get one of you credit.  If I remember right, you used to have to get crazy referrals to get those skins - now its like 3 and 5 people to level 10... kind of easy to do I'd think. 

take a look over here:  http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Champion_skin/Skin_themes

I'm wondering if we have enough people with enough skins to play one of these sets:

Western Theme

Other than  Graves

•  Longhorn Alistar [S|L]
•  Sheriff Caitlyn [S|L]
•  Desperada Cassiopeia [S|L]
•  Bandito Fiddlesticks [S|L]
•  Cowgirl Miss Fortune [S|L]
•  High Noon Twisted Fate [S|L]
•  High Noon Yasuo [S|L]

Just going through some of my reddit stuff I marked to check out later.  One thing I came across:  http://www.trackingthepros.com/soloq-online

Go here and you can see the top challenger players in the world, what champ they are currently playing, how far along they are in the game and spectate.  

another thing I'm liking about team builder - the swing in what you play w/ and against is kind of wild.  I get a chance to play with master/challenger level players a few times a week.  

power of evil midlane varus guide I'm reading -http://www.lolking.net/guides/341508

boaz just went on a 4 game win streak and hit gold V again.  

Ironically he fought against a sej in his last game as amumu.  The sej was mentally handicapped and his team pretty much stomped. 

grinding out levels on LAN tonight - pacov over there as well.  

Normal matchmaking on LAN for 1 game.  Let me know what strikes you.  

If you get a level 1, you also get 2 elo boosters and a diamond 5.  I mean.. what... 

I think we are getting patched this week.  ffat20 has the details

http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/58-pbe-cycle.html

of note - ryze passive remote amongst other things, "dash" in aram (think poro king summoner), Chroma packs, texture updates, new skins

New Quick cast with Indicator Keybind Options

As mentioned here, several  new individual "Quick cast with Indicator" keybind options options have been added for spells, items, summoner spells, etc. + self cast variations. While this targeting option has been in the game for a while, you can now bind individual abilities or items this way and other actions another way instead of having it be all or nothing.

For those wondering, these are the three different cast types in LoL:

• "Normal" Casting: You hit the hotkey and an targeting circle / indicator pops up. You click your target to fire.
• Quick Casting: You hit the hotkey and the spell immediately fires towards your cursor or at the target your cursor is over.
• Quick Casting with Indicator: you hit the hotkey and HOLD it. While HOLDING down the hotkey, the spell range indicator pops up. When you RELEASE the hotkey, the spell fires.

Champion mastery added but likely not enabled right away.

 mystery ward, mystery icon gifts added to store.

Blade of the Ruined King

• Now builds out of Bilgewater Cutlass + Recurve Bow instead of two Daggers.
• Total cost unchanged, Recipe price adjusted.

The Black Cleaver

• The Black Cleaver has been redesigned in today's update:

• Recipe: Phage + Kindlegem + 825 gold (3000 gold total)

• 400 HP

• 40 AD

• 20% CD

• Unique Passive - Dealing physical damage to an enemy champion Cleaves them, reducing their Armor by 5% for 6 seconds (stacks up to 6 times, up to 30%).

• Unique passive - Rage - "Dealing physical damage grants 20 movement speed for 2 seconds. Assists on Cleaved enemy champions or kills on any unit grant 60 movement speed for 2 seconds instead. This Movement Speed is halved for ranged champions (Unique Passives with the same name don't stack.)

pacov

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Normal matchmaking on LAN for 1 game.  Let me know what strikes you.  

If you get a level 1, you also get 2 elo boosters and a diamond 5.  I mean.. what... 

It's probably expecting a lot to hope that the system can accurately guess the MMR of every smurf who is stomping LAN beginners.  The KDA's of Plat V and Diamond V players who have been playing against pre-30 players is probably fairly similar, so you probably are going to face more and more good players now that you're marked as an El Smurforino.

What I think has happened is that I'm in a lower priority queue (my queue time is between 6-15 min per game..yay...).  Not sure if its NA related or pacov is a poop related.  I do tend to be grouped with NA people fairly often interestingly enough. 

I am back from my trip and pretty rusty. I felt really awkward playing league last night. Its funny how a week off can really set you back mechanically. Anyways I should be around very frequently again.

Also WFX got beat in the promotional tournament so we will have two new teams in the NA LCS for the summer split (the best challenger team gets in automatically and TDK). Hai also stepped down from being C9's mid laner. IMO this should of happened much earlier during the spring split. Hai through a lot of blame on a wrist injury in a blerb he posted. It will be interesting if C9 will stay close to the top in NA with a roster swap after being together for so long.