[Draft Pick] Should Two Simultaneously Pick, or Take Turns?

Deep Terror Nami··4 votes·475 views

Taking turns to pick is supposed to make it fair and enable discussion and counter-picking while maintaining pick-order, but having only the first and last picks pick by themselves gives people more opportunities to ignore pick order and lock in what the person above them called. My experience is that insta-lock trolls ignoring pick order happen more often when they are given the opportunity to take a role from someone above them because they pick simultaneously (as opposed to picking something already taken).

I'm not worried about it since I'll concede my role to troll assholes so we can just continue the game, but I'm curious; why not make every pick go one at a time? (but pick order still being red-blue-blue-red-red-blue-blue-red-red-blue)

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Potato Doc1 votes

Note you have it wrong, it starts blue As for your proposal just no. While a problem occurs every once in a while once you get past gold V, its hardly a problem. You are trying to fix something that works 95% of the time. Dont fix what aint broken.

Even if you did change the order i guarantee you this problem would still occur. You are trying to fix a symptom but not the actual cause. Therefore it will not work

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Ok, I didn't have the color right.

You said it works 95% of the time; why is it a problem to make it closer to 100%?

And, you guarantee it would still happen? My proposal is targeting people that ignore pick order only because they have the chance to cut in front of the person ahead of them. The situation I am speaking of couldn't possibly occur if you remove that opportunity. Only the ones who can't possibly be avoided no matter what is changed will do it, so obviously I'm not talking about them.

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