Musings on the new champ select

Hello. I personally think the new champion select is wonderful, but not perfect. The system is really neat when everyone understands it. Today however, I've had more games never leave champion select because other summoners are dumb as dirt. They dont know how to lock in. They select someone as their preference - and then get massively confused when the ban phase happens because they thought they already locked in their champion. Or they just never lock in either their ban, their champion, etc, and I get thrown into another lobby.

Another gripe with it is that there no longer exists a way to 100% play what you want to play. In this, new champion select, sure you can select likes say, Top/Jungle, and you will get one of those two. However, there are no promises about champion availability. While i Understand the importance of bans and pick orders in serious games, sometimes I just wanted to queue up as something specific and 100% end up playing that.

Edit: Team builder also offered a beautiful feature, intended or unintended: I could queue as Yasuo mid and keep finding another group until it had a malphite top, blitz sup, and xin jungle. Or I could start a group and keep kicking people until I acheived a comp something like that. You get the idea. If I joined a room and I saw that my botlane was Annie marksmen and eve support... well I could leave with no penalty and find a new lobby. Now, you can't.

That being said, I believe if all 10 people in the lobby understand the mechanics of the new system and aren't confused, its great. Cheers.