Single Pick Solo Q
Premise of this post: we just had a game in which one person decided to feed (gave first blood at 45 secs new world record) and another afk because of that. All because one person (the guy who ended up afking) instalocked a role.
I'd like to make a suggestion that addresses the instalocking paradigm and the people who rage over such a thing, and that is to have only a player pick at a time. The B1 - R2 - B2 - R2 - B2 - R1 rotation can remain the same, but in the instances where a side has two champion picks in a row, have each player choose their champion one at a time. Then there are no race conditions and no instalocking, although there are an additional few minutes if the time to choose champions isn't altered as well (dear god, no, save us from our short attention spans!).
There will still be trolls (trolls, Harry, trolls), and one could simply hope that the people could simply grow up (improbable), but this has the function of removing one potential aggravator. It's annoying to have to build a platform around the worst in people, but hey if a game isn't functioning as a microcosm for life in general it's doing something wrong.
Just an idea, do with it what you will.