Suggestion to fix Blind Pick's main problem: "Who called ___ first?"
Let's face it. Tons of region servers had their Normal Draft removed due to lack of players compared to NA or EU, so they had to resort to Blind Pick where there's always high chance of people instalocking without calling their roles first, or those who connected to chat late and has no chance of getting the role he desires.
So I've come up with a suggestion. Here's a picture for simple reference:
Typically speaking, when players manages to enter into Champion Select, they will have to quickly select their desired role by clicking the lane box. Another thing to note that selecting champions will be disabled until the player selects one of the five roles given. Even if the guy last-selected the unintended role, he can always ask around for a swap, similar to how Ranked Draft works. After the selection is finished, the layout in Champion Select will be similar to Ranked Draft, such as the arrangement of Top-Jungle-Mid-Bottom-Support except having Banning Phase.
This way, it can totally replace the "calling out roles in chatbox" so players will not have to face against these obstacles:
#Copy-pasting the chatbox to prove him calling the role first.
Always this one guy who seriously wanted his Yasuo top lane crap & posted the whole chatbox to his fellow teammates just to prove him right.
#Players who didn't get to connect chatbox early, resulting in losing their intended role.
As mentioned above. Even if the players have excellent connection in playing a certain match, connecting to the chatbox can be a different matter.
#Instalockers
Note again that players will not be able to select the champions, as they have to select a role first. Similar to Ranked Draft, players who're not obeying their own respective roles will be punished (eg. a player instalocking support & forcefully goes jungle Lee Sin despite other players selecting it first).
So let me know what do you guys think of this. I'm still thinking whether the placements of the roles should either always be this proper, or randomize to prevent M1 spammers after match is found.
