Idea For a New Ranked Queue, "Club Wars"

DrCabes·4/15/2016, 1:59:11 PM·2 votes·361 views

Ok, first off no, this queue is not supposed to accurately reflect individual skill. Odds are solo queue is best at that but that's not what this queue is for. This queue is for taking everything people don't like about dynamic queue and just rolling with it. I know this is a fairly long post, but please do read all of it.

What I mean is that people don't like the idea of your rank being based off of your friends skill, but what if there was a queue that was meant to do something similar to this as a separate rank from solo? Riot recently added clubs to the game and I myself at least, joined a club with my friends for the tag and proceeded to never use any of the clubs functionalities, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case for a lot of people, so why not add some purpose to it. Riot could add a queue that I'd call, "Club Wars", into the game that would be nearly the same as dynamic queue but centered around clubs. There would be overall club ranks along with ranks for individuals in the club.

Here I'll go into more detail. First I'll address the club ranks. Club ranks would be determined by earning points through players of that club winning games in the "club wars" queue. Essentially players could play solo and earn points for their club, or play in groups and all earn points for all their clubs at the same time, the focus is around the club rank, not individual. Basically your club achieves higher ranks though being active and I think Riot would love that. As for individual ranks, this can be determined by how active you are for your club/clubs. Being a diamond individual in club wars doesn't mean you're an excellent individual at the game, but rather you earn a high amount of points for your club. I don't know any specific numbers that would make sense for exact ranks but it's the idea that's important. Matchmaking would be based off the overall party's mmr. I know that matchmaking like this won't be perfect but I don't expect this to be as competitive as say, solo queue, so a bit more mismatch is acceptable here i think.

What gave me the idea for this was Riots post addressing dynamic queue yesterday. They talked about wanting to support a queue more focused on other aspects of the game aside from raw skill and I think this fits the bill perfectly for that. In my dream world, this would replace dynamic queue and then solo queue would be added.

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Bergk4/15/2016, 2:04:59 PM1 votes

"club wars" .... aka Ranked Teams