Ah that's a good point regarding more folks playing ranked.  We'all see how folks cope 

support now featuring my awful poppy in tribute to karls.

and im done with poppy.  RIP support pacov poppy.

So, tonight something interesting happened for me.  I actually did not give a rip what role I played.  I was happy to play w/e actually.  I think going solo and knowing i wouldn't be stuck playing in any particular role with the new champ select freed me up a bit.  That's the shit I hated about premades - taking or assuming you get a role (well that and dragging some lower elo fella into my game_).  Now if I'm just running fill, I don't really care and theres not some shitter going to demand a role.  Starting to adapt to this and slowly forgetting about teambuilder relaxation.  

Holy crap am I run a bit ragged with work lately.  Pretty exhausted.  Was nice meeting PDT junior last night.

Anyone been hearing any chatter about this season's reset?  Reddit is going a little nuts with people complaining about how low they've dropped after having decent promos.  A new friend of mine was in Plat and went 6-4 to place him in Silver.  Seems a little more drastic than last season but I'm not sure.

From what I can gather is they've done a soft reset on your MMR but a hard reset on the LP.  So you might be dropped in League level quite a bit but it should be easier to climb if you weren't boosted.

I'm expecting to be in bronze, haven't had a not shit team since.

@thunder - I think reddits being a bit tardo on ranked reset.  Most of the whining is simply from folks not understanding what is happening with the reset (OMFGBBQ I was plat and now I'm gold, etc).  There might actually be something wrong, but I feel like rito is looking into it at least.  And I tend to think its working correctly...

brad - post that name of the game you were on about please.  

Hoping for some ranked soon - soon as in whenever the new champ select is back.  I'm not doing shite before that.  

So, here's my take.  I'm 100% up for playing with any of you if you want to do some grouped ranked stuff.  And I'll actually take things quite serious and do my best.  But, I'm also very happy to go solo as I have pretty good odds of getting a role I'm good at.  Hit me up if you want to a solid support and an "interesting" something else (kind of a grab bag honestly - but I will play whatever thing the team needs in ranked anyway).  Chat me up in game once the new champ select is back.

That said, I think this new true solo queue is going to be where I super care about stats (and not that folks care, but its where I personally evaluate myself and others).  I know we have folks that can play at a diamond level in various roles and I know we have folks that are shit in X role but high elo in another (ex me).  This queue is where I will personally judge myself and others... and its actually something I'm super excited about.  And it finally gives a way to evaluate things apples to apples.  If karl hits challenger as support in this solo queue and I'm plat - my brain is like shit - I'm going to learn what the fug he's doing and try to get better because he's clearly a better support.  It's finally a better picture of elo though - so that's pretty exciting.  I hope it really becomes a thing and isnt' just riot bait.  Could be they make this dynamic queue then decide to recreate solo/duo queue fucking what I'm looking for anyway.  But as it stands, they said 1-2 weeks after ranked starts, a new solo queue will begin.  Guess we'll see

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

thx

rito says dynamic queues/new champ select likely down until next week

I can't remember if I provided a PDT update in a bit, but cow still listening to the audio pack got me thinking about it again.  So, a few weeks back pete has this game where he tilted off the planet.  Was the 1st game we'd played together in a bit.  Anyway, I didn't troll the lad all that much, but ended up becoming the focus of his rage.  Anyway, he dropped me from his pals list.

Noticing that, I sent him a PM that I think he got, but maybe not.  The PM was more or less saying hey bro - you tilted, it happens.  Sorry it was a rough game.  Don't be a pisser and lets play again sometime.

Anyway, he refriends me after a few days and apologizes and all is swell.  The other day I invite him to a game (I tend to ask you folks if you are ok with having pete with us unless I'm just goofing off with mr boaz).  He joins, goes AFK in the lobby for about 8 minutes, and I kick him to the curb.  That's my last pete interaction of late.   

I also noticed that riot just posted about reworking malzahar... which I'm sure pete will love...

Random tip I saw on reddit that i don't always think about.  Relates to jungle, and adc/support

1. If your jungler starts topside, do not go in lane ahead of your minions. This will tell away that your jungler started top, unless your jungler is a Shaco. An experience enemy jungler can use this piece of info to their advantage. Wait for the minion wave to pass you, then go in. On the other hand, if the enemy bot goes in ahead of their minions (and their jungler is not a Shaco), tell your jungler that their jungler started top. Congratulations, you just gathered the first piece of intel!

Adding to that, make note of how the enemy team moves as well and even call it out.  Bot lane it late to lane and appears with full hp - they were likely leashing - jungle is starting bot.  Bot lane appears immediately (and jung not shaco), jungler is starting top.  Share the info with team.  

Fired up 1 of my alts tonight.  Joined a reddit party channel. VERY surprizingly, got a really nice group of fellas on game 1.  Played with them for 9 games.. went 9/0.  

Crazy amts of ip tho.  I got 1k for game 1, then 4 games at 800 ip.  It had a boost from a long time back tho.  Other games were 300 ip a pop.  Only bothered because of the IP bonus.  Anyway fun stuff.  I think I have an ok adc fellas to add to our crew here and there and a really, really impressive lee sin jung.  Been a few months since I was like wow of a newcomer.  Adc guys not as good as thunder, but works ok with me.  The jung is a solid stand alone.  Good to pick him up if karls is missing.  Very interesting fella.  night all 

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1/23/2016 - the cancer jungle tristana zz portal spam game #neverforget

A game so awful people are probably still tilting now.

I hear cow finished his placements and hit plat 2 - which is pretty good.  No idea how many wins/losses that was.  I think he finished preseason D4.  

Got Plat II with a bad record 4-6. Ended diamond 4 this season was diamond III around 50 lp at my peak. Lost a promo to diamond III towards the end of the season and gave up on solo queue after that. Hoping for higher this year.