A way to merge Blind Pick with Draft while making everyone happy.

Reasons why the majority of playerbase (the kind of people who don't post here) wants Blind Pick:

• Fast queue
• Fast lobby
• Less serious than Draft or Ranked
• You can play whatever you want to if you call the role, or less "meta" fun picks in other roles

Reasons why the rest of playerbase prefers Normal Draft (here on Boards - majority):

• Bans that remove OP or anti-fun picks
• Pick order, so:
• if you're high enough in selection you can pick your role
• you can see enemy champions and counterpick

Now to solve both problems at once in regions where Normal Draft got retired, here's my concept:

#Blind Pick 2.0 (hybrid of Team Builder, kinda True Blind Pick)

• Much like in Team Builder, you pick your champion first
• However, you have to pick 5 champions for all roles. You drag&drop positions in order of preference.
• The client remembers your list, you don't have to choose 5 champions every time
• Players at low levels (below 20) only have to select 2 positions (from solo mid and side lane, without jungle)
• You also choose one ban
• This could be done after role selection - for example if I end up in top, I want to ban Darius, but if I end up in mid, I want to ban Yasuo
• We could even do one ban per role, or 3 bans upfront since most bans will repeat across players
• You end up in "champion select" with your role assigned and your preferred champion selected
• Optional: You can adjust your pick to better fit your team's composition (for example to balance magic and physical damage, or lack of CC)
• This can be removed if needed. This period of time to adjust your pick should be much shorter than current blind pick
• Optional addition from Normal Draft: After champions are locked in, you can see the picks in the opposing team to adjust summoner spells, runes and masteries.

So, the average player's experience would be:

• Set up the preference list (you only do this once if you do it properly)
• Click Play
• Get your role assigned
• 20-30 seconds to change champion if needed and choose runes/masteries
• Game starts

All while getting role preference, bans, and fast queue. Losing only on counterpicking, which regions that lost Normal Draft won't have anyway.

If done right this could please both Blind Pick and Draft Pick players at once. You can even push your OP champion through bans (the matchmaking system searches for a game where your champion won't be banned).