Personal suggestion for the new champ select (Normal Mode)
NOTE: i'm not going to address the problem of ranked matches that mix solo-queue and premades. Hello everyone. I'm not a NA player, so i didn't try the new champ select. Actually, i checked it on PBE some time ago, but i don't remember it too well, it seems. Now, i see that quite a few people want the old teambuilder back. Main reason seems to be that old TB let them chose the champion they wanted to play beforehand, while the new draft mode force you to choose 2 role, or 1 role and fill, or only fill, but you can simply chose 1 role (please correct me if this is wrong). Also i see that some people complain about waiting times.
Then, how about this: until now, we had 3 normal queues. Let's change it only 2 queues, one for blind and one for draft:
1 - "New draft mode": the one they are testing right now, but you can chose even only 1 role 2 - Let's call this "New Teambuilder": similarly to the new draft mode, you chose up to 2 roles, but you don't see the enemy team until the game start, and there aren't bans. Basically it would be similar to teambuilder, but instead of choosing a champion and role, you only choose 1-2 roles beforehand. Why not simply keep teambuilder, then? Becaue i think a system when you chose 1-2 role (or fill) and then chose your champion later is better than one where you simply chose the champion beforehand. Of course, maybe from time to time someone else will want to play the same champion on another role... but it shouldn't happen that often, and i still like it more like this. It's a matter of personal preference, of course. There is alson another reason because i think this would be better: it let us remove the old blind pick completely (read next part).
The old, classic blind pick gets removed. Why is that? Because it isn't necessary anymore (keep on reading), and by doing so the new teambuilder and new draft mode would have greatly reduced waiting times. Before we couldn't do remove it: leaving teambuilder as the only blind queue would have prevented people to simply go in like "today i'll just fill" or "i'll chose my champion based on my team's composition". But with the "new teambuilder", the way i suggested it, we should be able to have only 1 queue for these kind of guys, as well as for those who already know what they want to play. Which means we don't really need to have 2 blind modes.
This way, you will be able to play the champion you want most of the time, and we reduce waiting times.
Tell me what you think about this, and what problems would be with my suggestion (i'm sure you will find something :) )