Time is wasted.

Hey, I'm Riot. No, not Rito Games. I'm Riot. I've used this screen name my entire gaming hobby and I'm not going to let some company who's game I just happened to fall in love with ruin it :)

Anyway, that's not what I'm here to talk about.

There's a huge issue in this game right now that we all can see a solution to if I can shed some it.

We come to our beloved laptop, you know, the one we bought for College but ended up dropping out because we wanted to spend more time on League so that we could possibly be the next big star in the world of eSports, right?

More like spend more time wasting time.

You start League, type in your usern4me and pas2w0rd (you know who you are), and queue up for a match. An approximate 2 minute 40 second wait. Ready check

You are now in a chat room with your full champion select team.

TheLegend28 : "autofill feelsbadman"

s2feeder : "lol you cant support gtfo why play ranked"

PeaceLove : "why can't we all just get along"

TheLegend28 : "you want support? didn't think so stfu %%%"

Rengnar : "i'll take supp"

TheLegend28 : "i cnt jg"

Rengnar : "lol wow"

A player did not lock in their pick or ban. Your group was returned to matchmaking.

Alrighty, that was bound to be a toxic match anyway...

Ready check

A player did not accept the AFK check. You are now back in a chat room with just your premade.

Ready check

A player did not accept the AFK check. You are now back in a chat room with just your premade.

Alright, I gotta go get my chicken anyway...

and I'm back. Time's up, let's do this.

Ready check

You are now in a chat room with your full champion select team.

haixc9lcs : "hey guys lets win this"

tsmwonnered : "c9 lossered"

dIGbest : "ya but we gon get it"

Riot : "team we gotta counter that yasuo pick"

Yassuo : "ite fam"

Prepare for battle

Just let the dog back in, ready to go. What? This guy is still not connected.. man, somebody didn't feed their hamsters today.

Welcome to Summoners Rift!

[10:48] PeaceLove (ALL) : "i thnk supp left"

[10:48] Riot (ALL) : "Is it TheLegend28?"

[10:49] Rengnar (ALL) : "Yeah, TheLegend28."

[10:49] Yassuo (ALL) : "k we'll report"

[10:49] PeaceLove (ALL) : "thank you so much <3"

Enemy team agreed to surrender with 3 votes for and 0 against! Enemy team agreed to surrender with 4 votes for and 0 against!

All right just report that guy there aand done, let's go ahead and start up another sesh. Hope I can get one in before work.

(I never got one in before work. Ended up just leaving and going to work for the rest of the day.)

I came back home tonight and although I did get to start a legitimate game, had to ff20 because I had somebody leave the game at 10 mins.

And now I'm here.

I spent about an hr and a half in total in the whole time I was on the game, whether it be in the PvP.net Client or the League of Legends client. This repeats itself sometimes 3 more times throughout the day, and countless times throughout the week. Lots of time wasted, it adds up, as you can imagine.

Now, instead of possibly bargaining the fact that I'm going to be wasting more time playing the game, I thought I'd take to Reddit. Here, the home of the critics, I thought I could shed some attention on this little known issue, I say 'little known' because nobody actually realizes the amount of time they waste playing the game when they could have easily played more games if the problem were to be solved.

Right, lets get to my idea. It's not a great one, mind you, I just want to get the ball rolling on possible solutions to this. Nobody likes to waste time.

What if, when you queue up, and accept the ready check, you begin loading into Summoners Rift. You're there, in Summoners Rift, but the time hasn't started yet. You're just a soul on the platform beside 4 other souls. It's a sky view of the whole arena, and then champion select begins.

Similar to what it is now, you'd see the roles of your team-mates and their desired champions.

If you want to talk to your team-mates, you'd type in the same chat there is in loaded games, except without all chat.

This way, less time is wasted and the whole thing is instead put in a 2-in-1 type deal. When champion select ends, it's more of a sleek and smooth transition as you zoom in on the platform with your champion who's being teleported down. Kind of a nice little thing I'd like to see them add.

So now, if anybody does "queue dodge", it's more of a punish rather than a loss of LP and a timeout, because they'd actually be leaving the game.

What about those that actually need to queue dodge because of a "mid or feed" troller, or some other suspicious activity?

Oh, forgot to mention one thing... in the beginning, when you queue up, and everyone's accepted the ready check, I'd like to see a 10-15 second timer where it shows every summoner on your team, not their names, just "Summoner 1", "Summoner 2", etc., and it shows their honorable rating percentage overall. How many times they've been friendly, helpful, used teamwork, and were even an honorable opponent. If it were in red, you and the rest of your team could vote to kick that person and wait for another to fill their spot. Gotta admit, this is a nice thing they already added very long ago now but it's seen very little use. It has so much potential to play a huge part in the game.

What if people just don't even use that system at all, and the person is just in red because of something that happened 2 seasons ago when people just started using it?

Then maybe it could also show their report percentage and what for.

Tell me what you guys think. I just really wanted to come out here and kind of shed some light on this issue, because I really hate wasting time, and it happens to all of us, especially those higher up where not many players can go just yet :)

--Riot