We play this game for different reasons, and I am not sorry.

So, recently, I've been playing a lot of team builder during pre-season. (My computer isn't the fastest on hardware, so it's my only way to play mid/top lane.) And I just finished a few matches where I wanted to play Graves ADC. Now, I am very well aware of his weaknesses, and accepting a lobby with a Braum support didn't help. (The braum saved my ass, and is honored as hell, but his attitude toward me ruined that, I was saying how braum isn't the best complement to Graves.) Throughout the game, I'm getting behind from vayne with RFC and her Nami support +/- 4-to-5 man ganks. And I'm still keeping up on farm, and having fun catching people and going BANG! However, our comp did not help out Graves as a champion, and teamfighting just got me focused with no hard disengage since Amumu would engage and get countered.

Commense CONSTANT belittling, and hearing "worst ADC ever" etc. for the whole game. But what really got me was reading "Stay bronze kid" for a few reasons: 1: I'm not bronze, I'm mid-silver. I know about the game, but am faulty on application. I know what I SHOULD do, but it usually doesn't co-exist with what's more fun. I'm working on that, and could/would probably be in low-mid Gold if I didn't feel preseason was pointless for ranked. 2: "Stay bronze kid" is not registering as an insult to me "stay bad at the game kid" doesn't resonate with me. I'm not trying to be the next Faker, or Doublift. I'm not trying to get fame and noteriety. I'm trying to go in, press Q-R and see people disappear, laughing. There's no queues for peple like me, and people like this person is why, because they will no doubt go in like egomaniacs and stomp people who like doing silly stuff.

We have this odd mentality as a community, like we're all training for some great match. We're not professionals, and I certainly don't want to be, even if given the option. I can acknowledge this game as a sport, but it's also a game. Madden is a competitive game, but I'm still going to throw a Hail Mary on a 1st down for shiggles, especially a pickup game with other people in a casual queue. Again this is teambuilder. If I'm slacking in ranked, by all means get angry, I honestly feels it's justifiable. People play ranked to show they're better than their opponents and prove they are mightier. Team Builder was literally designed for the sake of having an easier environment to try things you may not otherwise be comfortable with.

tl;dr I play norms to do weird stuff and have fun with silly comps, don't like it? Bugger off to ranked