Don't Queue up if you Don't Think you can end before you have to go

For some reason, I still see people do this. We're winning, stomping, crushing the enemy team into the dust, and then one of our teammates says "I gtg" and goes AFK.

Now this post will probably be dripping with salt because this exact thing just happened to me, but I still want to make it to get my point across.

I always give myself an hour before I go into a game. If I know I'm gonna have to do something, that something is minimum an hour away. I won't play a game after 5:00, or if it will be after around 5:40 after the game is most likely to end if I queue up. Why? Well, because I've made this mistake before and had to go AFK before a game was over. And I learned from that.

So, what happened in this game specifically? I'm playing Ryze mid vs. a Zed.

About 29 minutes in, a surrender vote is thrown. I vote no, this game is a pretty decent stomp, and everyone else on the team votes yes because this Lux had to go. Honestly, we probably could've won without her. They had a Yasuo top lane, a Nidalee jungle, Zed mid, Jhin/Fiddlesticks support. I actually just did look this up on match history, the final scores were: Riven 16/4/1, Poppy 4/3/6, me (Ryze) 7/6/5, Vayne 3/11/5, and Lux 8/8/8. Not that much of a stomp with the feeding Vayne, but Riven was incredibly fed and could easily have carried that, even 4v5, and we were consistently winning teamfights. We had their middle inhib taken, bot inhib exposed, and top at the inhib turret. They were at our mid and top inhib turrets and bot the inhib open, but it was still very much so in our favor. However, a surrender vote is thrown and it passes because Lux has to go.

And this is why you shouldn't queue up when you know that something may come up within the next hour that would force you to leave. No "I'll just play a quick one," you have no idea how that game is going to go. I've had games as short as 15 minutes and as long as 75 minutes. Always leave yourself an hour of time between when you potentially have to go for something and when you queue up, and no "It's 4:59 and I have to go at 6, that gives me an hour to play," it's a trap because that game might wind up being more than an hour long, or it could be extremely short and you go into another one (have done this one myself).

PS when I did my mess ups, nobody surrendered the game when I threw surrender votes because I had to go, even when we were getting stomped. I just kinda had to leave and take the potential low priority queue or stay until either we win or dad cut my internet off. 3 years ago, I was doing this a lot (I was homeschooling, you probably would've done the same) and I got my account status extremely poor, with 20 minute low priority queues all the time. Just a week ago, I saw it pop up again "Your account status has improved," so that shows you how long it takes low priority queue times to fully decay when you get it that bad. (By the way, for those who don't know, low priority queues are when you have to wait some time before you can queue up. Unlike the dodge penalty, they last 5 games and have to be served in queue; you can't just abandon the queue while you're waiting for the time to tick by, you just have to sit there. I played Hearthstone on my phone while I waited and just didn't care enough).