"Back Out" vote for draft mode Solo/Duo? [Moved to correct Board]

DoorMordes·12/21/2016, 1:26:01 AM·5 votes·571 views

Twice today I've let the buzzer time out during pick mode in ranked because of two players banning allied picks or cussing eachother out for taking their pick... It was overwhelmingly evident a minute in to game making that these players were going to be toxic and lose the game for the rest of us. So in order to be a good person, I dodged; seeing as it would otherwise mess up seperate teammate's series.

Now however I have a 5, then 30 minute wait period. Which is fine, because I understood the consequences and decided to take the penalties. However, this was only 2 times that I felt it absolutely necessary to do in order to save another player's ranked gameplay experience. The amount of times I've wanted to back out of a draft pick upon seeing 2 people argue with eachother is endless.

I just wish however there was the implemented option to avoid this somehow. Atleast maybe just in the Solo/Duo queue, where it is much more applicable than Flex; seeing as Flex usually has larger team made matches - less likely to necessitate this option.

I can already understand the difficulty of a concept like a back out option in draft mode, it being abused incessantly to get better matchups. But I think you can cleverly avoid this:

My idea would be a 10/15/20 second etc interval between the BANS and PICKS where a player could initiate a "Back Out" vote, of which 3 or 4 votes were needed out of 5 to cancel the matchup. The vote would be visible to the opponent team so they knew what was going on, and initiating a vote would have a 24.00 hour cooldown time. Therefore even a Duo could only abuse it twice in a day if they were so keen on doing so. And having it only applicable BEFORE the PICKS would make it much less convenient as an abuse tool; and much more so to help avoid games with toxic players.

Because truly, toxic players ruin the game for me... and I would just like a way to avoid them as much as possible. Many immature players will even go out of their way to ruin the match instead of taking the penalty themselves and leaving. It sucks, and I'm sure it's a tough issue to counter.

I hope you consider this!

Yours Truly, A paying customer.

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