This game feels like its devoling or something.
An entire game mode being removed, team builder being removed, que times are much longer now in draft, Summoners Rift always looking the same, no new templates for it, etc. It's getting pretty old to be honest.
About Dominion, I understand why they are removing it. They see that barely anyone plays it, but they don't really understand why. They don't promote it, they don't update it and they don't give people reasons to really play it. You have billions of dollars, why not take a risk and a gamble on seeing if players will come back to it and see if it will gain sustainable popularity? That mode is an ad infinitum. Meaning, people won't play the mode because Riot won't update it and give it some much needed love, but Riot won't update the mode because a lot of people don't play it. Circle of human annoyance.
About Summoners Rift, it's getting old. Real old. Why aren't there any templates for it? Maybe a snow map, desert map, jungle, plains (I guess that would be the current look, idk) or get creative. Maybe a template where it's in a big magic bubble, underwater, and its all blue with water ripple reflections on the ground. Have them randomly appear also frequently, just don't have the same green boring map all of the time. This is one of the reasons why I don't play the game much anymore. It's just so stale to look at now, and you've removed team builder and soon Dominion. Do you want to kill your game on purpose? Do you not care since you're already a very rich company?
Well in any case, I expect Twisted Treeline to be next, and after that, goodbye Leagues. I don't know how you'll be able to sustain the popularity of this game when you've devolved it to just SR. I miss the cool little alternate modes and such. Less options is always a shame. Ah well, that's life I guess.
I have over 900 games. Think I'll play through Diablo 2 single player with a lightning sorceress right now, for fun, and because I can.
Kudos.