12-12-2011, 04:41 AM
Over at champ select. Its ALWAYS over at champ select.
I don't care how many mistakes are made, or how dominant the matchups are in a draft game where we should be able to try to not get countered as hard as we may get, the constant theme of *Shaco goes for level 1 gank top lane but fails to achieve anything* "Yeah, that sets the tone of the game, 19 more minutes to go" in the most defeated tone possible gets really old. Even if we continue beyond 20 minutes, we spend more time bitching about how "it was over 20 minutes ago, you disagree? Yeah, that's what I thought" and making damned sure we bring ourselves down by ensuring that it WILL be a loss. We (collectively) start playing a lot looser because "Why bother, we already lost, just waiting for the other guys to stop blocking the surrender vote when they finally realize", which gives MORE to the other team, which even FURTHER reinforces the "Its so obvious we lose" mentality.
I don't care how many mistakes are made, or how dominant the matchups are in a draft game where we should be able to try to not get countered as hard as we may get, the constant theme of *Shaco goes for level 1 gank top lane but fails to achieve anything* "Yeah, that sets the tone of the game, 19 more minutes to go" in the most defeated tone possible gets really old. Even if we continue beyond 20 minutes, we spend more time bitching about how "it was over 20 minutes ago, you disagree? Yeah, that's what I thought" and making damned sure we bring ourselves down by ensuring that it WILL be a loss. We (collectively) start playing a lot looser because "Why bother, we already lost, just waiting for the other guys to stop blocking the surrender vote when they finally realize", which gives MORE to the other team, which even FURTHER reinforces the "Its so obvious we lose" mentality.

