Ranked games changes needed!

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I had brought this up before on the forums, but recently I saw a video of Elementz expressing the same sentiment and with the new ‘Community Beta’ I felt like I should post this again in the hope that Riot may take this seriously.

At present, although the severity of the situation varies, there is no debate that ranked games do suffer with players afking, raging and intentionally trolling for whatever reason. The stand that Riot seems to have taken is – “We have a tribunal/discipline system in place, and frankly everyone is on an even playing field since it happens to all”

Ranked is meant to be the competitive scene for League of Legends, yet the level of immaturity and discourtesy allowed by Riot (yes! Allowed) reflects very poorly on the company. You wouldn’t allow C9Hai to get up and leave because he gave up first blood during an LCS game without severe consequences would you? Then why allow it in your competitive ladder?

Now I understand and appreciate you don’t want to impede on players’ rights and that most afkers, ragers, etc are good people on a bad day. But I suggest something needs to be done to correct this behaviour. My proposal is to include chat restrictions and strict bans from **ranked play only. **

**For ragers, inappropriate language and trolls (non-feeders) **

• After first offence (reports in 2 games straight or 3 out of 10) gets an automatic ban from in-game chat for 2 days/week)
• Second offence results in a 3 day ban form playing ranked games (would be peer or Riot reviewed)
• Any further reports will result in a ban from ranked for a week – 2 weeks, finally resulting in a life-time ban from ranked.

For afk, trolling, feeding, etc.

• First offence (reported 2 games straight or 3 out of 10) results in an automatic one day suspension from ranked. (Even if this is caused by bad connections or simply having bad days I believe this time will help them resolve their connection issues and/or calm down)
• Second offence results in a 3 day ban from playing ranked games (would be peer or Riot reviewed)
• Any further reports will result in a ban from ranked for a week – 2 weeks, finally resulting in a life-time ban from ranked.

**Notes: ** Ranked is a privilege, not a right. If you do not have the maturity and self-control to be polite and show human decency, you should not be allowed to play with others who do.

To be proactive, reports should be monitored. Any player reporting an excessive amount of times (this can be determined by Riot) or in a span of a month has a majority of reports not found ban-worthy, will get the 3 day suspension.

Feedback: It seems a lot of people who d/c often feel that they should still be entitled to play ranked. This shows a clear disrespect for others who value ranked more than a game type that gives you a pretty icon at the end of the season. I feel Riot should either

• a) prove that they take the ladder system seriously as some of their player base do and enforce stricter rules.

• b) or say "No our ranked is not a serious ladder, it's just for fun. If more people are interested we'll create another ladder which will follow stricter rules."