3 to 2 Surrender

Ive been playing league for about a year now. While i know its not as much as most people, i feel like ive experienced quite a bit of what the game has to offer. The system being mainly based around individual characters makes league of legends a fun experience. Well, most of the time.

Too often recently people just pick champions that win. These players go on youtube and watch these tier list videos describing the best champions for each roles and they just play those champions. Last patch it was irelia top. This one is ashe. I sometimes feel like not everyone enjoys playing these champions, but winning games.

Because of this, even casual league matches are overly competitive and filled with people that think every situation can be turned around because "the pros did it."

I guess ill just cut to the point and say that i just got out of another match that i lost today. Losing wasnt the problem. The problem was that the match went on 40 minutes. I put up the surrender vote because we hadnt taken a single tower and they already had an inhib along with i think a 20 kill advantage. It was completely one sided. I put up the surrender vote at 20.

Me (top), our mid, and our jg agreed to the vote. More than half the team. Did the match end? Of course not. League has it set so you need 4 people to accept a surrender. The problem is that out of all the matches ive attempted surrender, most of them end in a lose. But not before i waited about twice as long for them to take our nexus.

So us 3 vote to surrender. Clearly a one sided match. We would have lost soon had the enemy team just pushed (but why would they when they can get more kills and whatever) and most of the team was done. But every single time, the bot lane votes no. Why? Because people, generally speaking, duo queue for bot lane so they dont get stuck with randoms. So one friend decides they're having fun. So they tell the other not to surrender. Now the other three people are stuck in a game they dont want to be in because 1 or 2 people want to.

Thats not it though. Because those two didnt surrender and me teamates new that, they just attacked them in chat. This caused them to be muted. So now almost any hope of winning that game is gone because the teams divided and more than half the team doesnt want to play.

People have a way of following their idols. I hear it all the time in league. "Oh faker did this so i can" or "thats not what mad life builds on yas". But most frustratingly of all, people recall events of pros winning losing games. They think "oh if clg can do it we can". Im just going to be blunt and say that out of all the time we failed a surrender vote, i have won enough of them to count on my hands. Most of the time this whole idea of coming back (depending on champions of course) is just a pipe dream.

I know the post was long and slightly unorganized. So

TL;DR I think the surrender vote should be 3 to 2. It doesnt feel fair or fun to be stuck in a game that more than half the team doesnt want to be in just because bot lane does. Please consider this. I really have so much more to say about this but ill just cut it off here.