Patch notes out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/40gnuf/patch_61_notes_leak/

Maybe no more League Of Thunderlord's.

Lost my series... Oh well first game was close and a lot of fun. The next two were both stomps and I had to off role in both. Last game we had a blue Ez that might as well have been afk. He was either boosted or severly lagging. Hard to tell.

I feel like this was recently updated... maybe not... maybe:

lots of infos...http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/site/2016-season-update/champion-mastery.html

Mastery Chests

Earn locked Mastery Chests by performing well across a variety of champions or as part of a team. When you or someone in your premade party earns any S rank, you’ll acquire a chest. You can earn up to four chests each month, and each champion you play can earn you one chest per season.

You’ll see which champs you’re eligible for in champ select and on your champ details page.

Keys and loot in the store

To unlock your chests, you have a chance to randomly pick up a key each time you win any matchmade game and winning with friends results in finding more keys than going solo.

For those who just want to pick up content at a significant discount, we’re offering chests and keys individually in the store. All chests contain random loot worth more than the cost of the chest (well, depending on how you feel about Teemo) so you can purchase with the confidence of knowing you’re getting a good deal (but a direct purchase from the store will still be the best way to pick up specific items).

 http://s.lolstatic.com/site/2016-season-update/5194f869e9e197420fc626e1ac5bf74084cadb01/video/crafting/reroll.mp4

Watched this and tried it out in TB - was TB, but worked really well

https://www.reddit.com/r/summonerschool/comments/40m9j5/a_48_min_video_of_how_to_carry_with_shyvana/

Shy jungle VERY detailed guide by a master player.  interesting start  - you dont take red or blue, just the camps on your side, base immediately, then repeat but take blue/red.  You power level to 6 in 5 min 25 sec (game time), which is pretty quick.  

1st back you just a pink + the other half of the jungle item.  You run smite/exh.  Start game looking for ham invade - you toss our your exhaust even if its kinda smeh to try to get an enemy sum or kill as you dont need exhaust again until its back up.  Anyway, fun.  

Other stuff - so I was looking over the patch notes re: phantom dancer and I got to thinking about it.  1st - for frame of reference, challenging smite reduces the damage done to you by a champ by 20%.  Phantom dancer has a passive that causes the last person you attacked to deal 12% less damage.  That strikes me as pretty strong (the PD passive specifically, forget about the jungle item).  

So, i was like... wtf aren't people taking this on junglers or top laners that benefit from AS.  I'm not 100% certain, but I think the big failing of the item (addressed in this patch a bit) is the lack of MS when out of range.  The other passive currently gives you 12% when you are within 500 range or so, which isn't super amazing.  Item also has a 200 gold upcharge compared to the other zeal items.  

Also -RIP TB - getting my last games in tonight.

Well looks like new champ select has been pushed back to the 14th.

RIP PDT again.  Haven't played a game with him in a bit.  Fired one up w/ him last night.  He(mid) and our top lane had a bad game and PDT tilted off the planet.  Sample of a time I didn't gank for him.  Anyway, unfriended by the PDT, I skip away. - http://plays.tv/r/eyJ0eXBlIjoiZW1haWwiLCJkYXRhIjoiZW1haWxfdG9fd2Vic2l0ZSIsInVpZCI6IjkzZThjZmE3M2RkNWZhMWE5MGNmMzBlNDk0ZmIyNmEyIiwibXNnX3R5cGUiOiIiLCJ1dG1fc291cmNlIjoiZW1haWxfdmlkZW9fdXBsb2FkZWQiLCJ1dG1fbWVkaXVtIjoiZW1haWwiLCJ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ24iOiJwcm9kdWN0ZW1haWxzdjEiLCJ1dG1fYiI6IjM3Mzc3IiwiZXhwZXJpbWVudF9pZCI6IkQiLCJsaW5rX2lkIjoidmlkZW8tdGh1bWIiLCJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiOiIwLjQ5MDc1MjAwIDE0NTI2NTkxODAiLCJyYW5kIjoxNDEzOTIzNTQ2fQ%3D%3D/video/5695d14c395e6519f7

Anyway, I'm starting to feel back at home in the jungle again.  Loving playing shy.  Exhaust/challenging smite are pretty freaking awesome to have on a jungler in this meta.  Those fed guys that could kite ya?  No.  Late game vayne with full build even considered clearing a wave alone, no.  Dead.  Even that pisser kindred.  You have to alter your play style to accommodate the lack of flash, but its really not that big a deal in my experience so far anyway.  

The downside is that you generally shouldn't initiate, so its best if you have someone on the team able to do that.  I felt really good about how I was handling objective control and counter jungling.  Last game I had a pink every single time I was going for any objective and was tossing them out like candy.  I tracked the jungler extremely well and felt like i had a pretty good handle on things.  Anyway, when new champ select goes live I feel very comfortable support/jungle now - which is great as I've been trying really hard to settle into a second role for ranked.

so did they completely delay the patch then?

Oo - shen champion update news - http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/champion-update-shen

They need to just go ahead and change the name to League of Percent Health Damage and get it over with...

I quit playing Shen because his taunt is stupid...  I dashed through champions without taunting them more often than not after his taunt nerf, and even after they bumped the radius back up a little, it's still absurdly unfriendly in how it looks versus how it performs.  It's not as if a multi-target taunt was ever a problem, it's only a 1.5 second affair and there is much better CC available out there.

Jan 20th announced as the start date for the new ranked season

Poor Karl...

@Pacov

Sorry, didn't get your first message.  Yeah, a Leagueconnect guy.  Support main, old like me.

Lol that meme so good.

IS THAT A FIRST PICK SUPPORT POPPY BY FNATIC?  WHY WOULD YOU PLAY ANYTHING ELSE?

Playing anything else makes you a pansy.  That's science and that's a fact.

Tried out the new champ select this morning and I love it.  Very crisp, well designed.  I love having a ban choice as one of the last picks but I'm not sure that it makes it feel good being one of the first two players to pick.  First picks get countered and aren't able to choose a ban?  That don't seem right.  But hopefully Riot will move the ban number up to 4-5 where it should be anyway.  It'll feel better if everyone get's one ban and there are 473 champions now so it makes sense to have more bans.

Teambuilder is gone but Blind Pick is still there for those who love playing OP champions and practicing for Ranked in triple mirror match games.  New Champion Select has already been put in for Ranked and Normals.  I assume we're gonna just have our Normal MMR from what it was before from Normal Draft.

That's your local news for the day and now back to Karl for the weather...

Karl:  "It's raining Poppy's bitch!"