League of Legends

[Ashe]

Something I find odd is that we still have practice games in the game. There's no living soul there's going to use them now that normal does not record losses but merely have an incredibly bad imitation of the rating system.

Wrong. For example, redditers like to run tournaments where they can arrange a specific 5v5, something you can't do if it randomly matches you. Lots of other people like to get games where its 5 friends vs 5 friends. A lot of my co-workers just started playing and I could easily see them doing something like what they do with Counterstrike, having captains draft pick five man teams and then playing 5v5 games for best of three once a week for some fun. This can only be done with Practice games.

I've been waiting for those to come back up so that I can help them out a bit more without them getting paired against a team of smurfs that absolutely demolish them on accounts that have 6 games played total, 6 wins, level 10 or whatever, and manage to use /taunt every single time they kill someone.