New "SoloQueue"

I've seen quite a few different opinions about the new Queue system, and I am glad that it is making ranked more group focused. When I play the game I have more fun playing with a group of friends, so I never really got into ranked because it only allowed for me to play with one friend. I have recently (been just over 6 months) had 3 friends start playing league (it's been about 8 months), and two of them are level 30 while the other is not far behind. My biggest worry was what are we going to do when they start playing ranked? Yeah there is always team ranked, but the problem with that is it requires 5 people. We are all working and going to college, so the odds of the 4 of us + 1 being on league at the same time often is not likely. With the new Queue system I can play with all of my friends who just started playing when we are all on or some of them if the others aren't.