New Ban Idea - Shorter Champ select
After reading the article on the new 10 ban system in professional play, i started thinking about how you could make a system for Regular play.
In the article Riot express that a 10 ban system in regular play is concerning because of time spent in champ select.
So if you want to shorten champ select and still give out more bans, why not make it so you can pick your bans before champ select. As they say in the article, you dont know the special picks of the enemy team anyways, so you are just banning what you dont want too face.
Why not then use the lobby to pick your bans as well, at the same time as you pick your role. You then get 1. and 2. priority bans, then if 2 or more have the same first priority then one of the 2. priority bans would be used.
This way you will not all ways have 10 bans, but you will all ways have banned the champ YOU dont want to play against. You could even chance it so you intent a champ pick in the lobby as well. Then just save latest intent, bans and position, so you dont have to spent time on that every game, but you only need to adjust it now and then when you want to make changes.
You will get much faster champ select, more bans, and lets face it, more FUN :D
Im not sure how you will display the bans, maybe just show them in one big row so you dont know who banned what?