I would just like to add that if you are last pick in ranked, you really don't get to decide the way the game is going to be played. The first 4 picks have decided for better or worse how the game is going to be played.

Your role as a last pick is to support your team by picking things that compliment their choices. This is what a team game is all about and I think a lot of people either forget or refuse to accept this fact.

Agreed, you'd need to pick one or more templates and one or more roles within each template that you're willing to play, and then the matchmaking queue would have to pick a template for the team and assign roles to each player according to what they were willing to play. Also, these preferences should be savable and nameable like mastery pages so that once you've set one up, you can reuse it infinitely.

In addition to eliminating conflicts over positioning in champ select, this would also address the problem of people disagreeing about conformance to "the meta".

Don't know if its been said yet, I'm at work and can't read everything. What if you can state the level of play you want, sort of a casual, medium, or serious type. I know for ranked it wouldn't work but normals could work

Maybe one part of the solution might just be to make this information-gathering process easier?

Instead of a groupfinder-like system where you check your prefered role and get matched according to it, have a way to set information about you before joining the queue that will be displayed in champ select (e.g. as a mouse over or in chat).

A few people in my friend list have this system where they type their 4 favourite champions into the status field, in order to inform players in their friend list (which they only know from playing LoL with them obviously) to know what they are signing up for when they invite them.

So the idea would be:

What if I could make an ordered list of my prefered roles, tick/untick the champs I love/hate playing and so on.

And when joining a queue, this has no influence on matchmaking, but in champ select it will be displayed for the other 4 guys at a glance.
(also: plz show which people are duo-queueing in ranked to their allys).

This would reduce a little bit of the information gathering overhead at the beginning of champ select.
Hell, the system could even make suggestions on team comp based on this like
"Meisterbrau is the only one who really wants to play support, why not let him?"

The problem with a WoW dungeon finder type queue is that it cements the current meta of the game and doesn't allow players to experiment.

Granted, ranked isn't the best place to experiment, but a system that permanently recognizes a meta that is completely community created and constantly changing isn't a very good thing.

Vote kick would be nice, but a "queue into your role" system would just stagnate the game.

Not at all. We are investigating a lot of potential solutions, but wanted to talk about what our thought processes on this are We agree that the current situation is sub-optimal, and don't want to let that stand. And don't want to leave you in the dark about it.

You guys are over complicating things which is good to an extent. Instead of saying "what may happen," how about you guys do it, and see the actual results. I know Pbe is alright in finding these sort of behaviors so why don't you start there. That player base is full of people from live so It can be a good sample size.

Here's a thread I made discussing the issue.

More of my previous statement is explained here.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=3220907

or think it shouldn't be that way, I've always been of the opinion first pick has just as much responsibility as 5th pick to make sure the team is well rounded.

But the way it is now I have no say if they call mid and take an assassin. I and the rest of the team just have to work around it. But at least with this there won't be arguing over who gets mid. Someone getting hurt because they didn't get what they wanted and taking it out on the other 3 people on the team.

I would say that the one big drawback to this idea as far as strategy goes. Is pick order and counter pick. But hey that might open the meta up more. More Jarvan and Wukong mid for the pick jukes.