why do golds sit 20 minutes in que?

Not enough supports.

Thanks to role select every elo mid laner can enjoy challenger queues. Don't worry. Most of you guys said you can take it ;DDDDD

When every game needs a support in your elo range to start you can imagine what happens when there are 2 times as many mid/top only players

There really is no better analogy as the filling 5 different jars at different speeds that the round table video uses. One of the jars fills up and you have marbles rotting in there all alone.

That's why this role select can't possibly come with good matchmaking or fast queues which riot sacrificed both for role select this season. If riot got rid of it now though the games done, because that's the only thing most people liked about the new ranked. I myself don't care though because I am capable and willing to play any role. But competition means I should play the most impactful roles now.

If it were me I would just force everyone to play a support game every 20 games. That should be like every 2 or 3 weeks for most players? Is that really so bad? Playing support once or twice a month might even be faster than +5 or 10 minutes EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU QUEUE.

Im sitting at 7 minutes and I havnt played a single game in silver elo yet.

+1

so have some damn patience already!

When one climbs the ladder they must have patience at every step, or they shall fall back down.

Therein lies the true skill of the player.

am guessing because around 95% of the people queue for the 4 other roles and 5% queue for support. and probably half or less of those are sup mains the rest just want faster queues.