Tribunal submission for Positive Play?
[slayer-pantheon-rainbows] So, we all know the toxic environment of League. There's no denying it is this way, to do so is naive. However, we also know Riot has tried to combat this through the Tribunal and through giving votes at the end of a match for good behavior. SO, here's an idea: The Tribunal is used to judge and punish those who support bullying, toxic talk and just all-out lame playing. But what if people who actually take the time to say, "Hey, no need to yell at him/her, it's normal matches, let's help him/her," had a judgement? What if when someone actually says, "Hey Bot, stay closer to the tower and play defensive...all good, just try to farm what you can and I'll get down there soon," rather than, "Bot, quit feeding you noob idiots, I can't gank everywhere, do I need to hold your hand?" we could judge that and say, "Hey, good job."
I propose that either the Tribunal include player reporting for POSITIVE behavior post game or an entirely different division. I have no idea about the name, idk, the Honor Brigade? I'll leave that up to Riot. But either a separate section or including it with Tribunal reviews would be great. Being, heh, "Convicted," of good behavior should carry with it something rewarding, such as the weight of being voted, "Team Player," 20 times or something, idk, or a special little badge on your avatar showing you've recently been judged and found to be a good player. There could even be a ranking to the honor system, showing a bronze badge for recent judging, silver for getting good judgement over a span of time and gold for getting it often.
This could encourage players to start coaching with kindness, demonstrating PATIENCE, and doing what they are supposed to do in the first place: Win, or lose, as a team. I've played games where we lost, horribly, but played as a team and communicated.
One game comes to mind: Supporting each other but simply being outplayed, we knew that we had simply been outplayed, especially with a brand new player on the team (been playing a week.) However, we recognized we were likely going to lose and just took a breath, relaxed, and coached the player on how best to play their champ (They were using
and didn't realize the stun was best used in conjunction with Tibbers, as well as other strategies.) By the end of it, despite knowing they likely had cost us the match, the player felt good and had learned how to play better. Holy cow...it's like they had been playing a FUN GAME or something, who knew??
Another example: Playing supp
, we lost bot and mid was dying horribly as well. ADC
and Mid
said, "Screw it," and began to surrender...but Top
and Jungler
were doing amazing. We were 55 to 23, I think, it was bad, but Top and Jungler said, "Hey, we got this, we can pull it through." What they got in return was intentional feeding and a plethora of curses. So I abandoned my Bot and supported Top. We won. Hard carry but we won. I wish I could give those guys medals.
So, if you read all this, you yourself should get judged awesome. Riot, can we PLEASE implement this or something darn near close to it? Nothing feels better than when you know you're having an off day (we ALL have them,) and a player says, "All good, let's just have fun."