A serious question to riot.

Just played a game in team builder where one player died, and left. Then another player waited until the 10 minute mark and said "well he's not coming back so i'm gone". The second player then left.

That made the game a 3 v 5. Before the 20 minute mark.

I avidly play ranked and while some efforts have certainly been well appreciated (there is less toxic behavior). The leaving situation has not improved.

The question I want answered by a riot member is this.

A professional league of legends teams player had "connectivity" issues and although the team in question wanted to continue to play the game 4 v 5 to just have a chance at advancing, they were denied this opportunity because of this rule:

9.3.2 Player Pause. Players may only pause a match immediately following any of the events described below, but must signal an LCS official immediately after the pause and identify the reason. Acceptable reasons include: 9.3.2.1 An Unintentional Disconnection 9.3.2.2 A hardware or software malfunction (e.g. monitor power or peripheral disability or game glitch) 9.3.2.3 Physical interference with a player (e.g., fan gank or broken chair) Player illness, injury, or disability is not an acceptable reason for a player pause. In such a situation, the team must alert an LCS official, who may in his/her sole discretion, grant a pause in order to evaluate the identified player to determine whether player is ready, willing, and able to continue playing within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the LCS official, but not to exceed a few minutes. If the LCS official determines that the identified player is not able to continue playing within such reasonable period of time, then the identified player’s team shall forfeit the game unless an LCS official, in his/her discretion, determines that the game is subject to an Awarded Game Victory (see Section 9.5).

If "in the fairness of competitive play" you must have a full 5 man team to "compete" in a game. Why is it that in the competitive version of the game "ranked" if a player disconnects I have no option of pausing the game at that point, and determining victory based on the merits at that point of the game?

It seems super hypocritical to tell professional league of legends teams that they can't 4 v 5, when on a daily basis i'm forced to.