@Riot, I wish you had never stated an opinion on pick order publicly.

I honestly hope the guy who decided to make that post about pick order trumping call order lost his job or worse. He single-handedly has ruined the game for hundreds of people. Maybe I'm incredibly unlucky, but way too often people in my games on one side or the other turn super toxic because of it. Giving the unccoperative players ANY ground to stand on was silly. I have no idea what you thought would happen. I fill almost every game, so I could care less who has priority. The problem is that far too often people lock in whatever they wanted to play because "Riot said I could". The ONLY sensible statement would have been neutrality while stating that teamwork was the right way. Just now I had a game where we had 0 chance of winning because skarner flipped out when fiddle picked jungle, because they picked at the same time and fiddle had no chat(also riot's fault). Skarner didn't even hover over his champion, didn't lock in till the timer was almost up. He then proceeds to run straight down mid for 20 minutes because that silly statement made him feel justified in feeding to ruin fiddle's game and make him lose.

On a seperate but related note, behaving like that should result in an instant perma ip ban. If you really want to improve a community, you have to crack down on people like that. Going out of your way to ruin someone's experience even once should not be tolerated at all.

tldr; Riot's statement on pickorder > call order should have never happened, and has caused tons of toxicity.