Idea to increase quality of play during series promotion

Hey everyone,

I emailed a Riot employee with a suggestion (not knowing I wasn't really able to do that) and was directed here. **The TL;DR is to create a system in which people that are in their series will be matched up with other people who are also in their series to promote good play and teamwork. ** I'm just going to copy-paste my email below:

I was playing my (most recent) series to promotion to silver I just now. This is probably the 4th or 5th time I have been up for promotion to that league. As you can probably guess, I lost my promotion game again.

I have noticed something peculiar about this series promotion. It seems that every time I get into my series, something goes awfully wrong with the game - be it a feeding team (myself included), an AFK or DC'ed player, or just general bad behavior by my teammates. I understand that these things happen, that they are a part of the game, and that playing through these disadvantages is what sorts out the bad players from the good (and the good from the great, etc.). For all of the above, I mean not to complain, but rather to use a backstory to my most recent frustration.

I was playing mid as Annie. I notified my team before the game started that I was in the last game of my series, and that I would appreciate the most winning efforts they could muster. As planned, my Mordekaiser fed the enemy Riven top... and bot lane fed the enemy Vayne. I was OK with that. Feeding is a part of the game, right? It's up to the team to band together, fight through the adversity, and... apparently surrender without my consent at 20 minutes.

It isn't as though the game was COMPLETELY out of reach. Sure, it might have been a long shot. The odds were not in our favor, and most likely we would have come away with a loss. But that's the thing - there was still a chance to win. I wasn't even given a chance to carry the team to victory (or do whatever it takes to win the game). I was 7/4 at the time, and was completely capable of killing Vayne with a full combo. As you are aware, Annie can pull of 5-man stuns (all the while dealing incredible AOE burst damage) and single-handedly win team fights.

I know what you're thinking. Just another enraged League of Legends player QQ'ing about another series loss. I know that you probably get these emails all the time, and that the majority of these emails don't really have a purpose other than to rage at you guys, or complain about how the game isn't fair to them. My point is different. I have a suggestion I would like to make to perhaps prevent this sort of thing - having a team surrender a winnable match without trying during a teammate's series promotion - from happening to either me or another unfortunate player again. Is it possible to queue up players who are in their series only with other players who are in their series? If everyone on the team is in their series promotion, they will be less likely to make silly and careless mistakes (which, at this ELO, are what decides the game), both increasing the quality of play as well as decreasing the likelihood of having an unnecessary surrender (at 20 minutes!).

Best,

-PillsburyPunk