Breaking up a duo = fail

not announcing a duo by Ctrl-V = fail

There is no real need to change things in that you now have the power to a) announce your pairdome. b) dodge if someone is too daft to get it.

There are glaring problems with the matchmaking system not the least of which is not being able to select or de-select roles you play well or have no interest in.

Exactly. Why not let people cue in for playing a certain role and it shows what their roll is with a specific Icon. Thus making team groups based on peoples strengths, not just randomly (for instance it'll pick a jungler, top, mid, adc, and support for a team) it would probably take a bit longer to cue in, but I for one wouldn't mind.

For me, the way I see call/pick order is this:

elo hell --> everyone bickers and targets each other over call & pick
elo heaven --> all members take a few seconds to consider call or pick order; won 3 ranked in a row when I played with a 1200+ elo friend. Everyone worked together.

The mentality is different. What the pros are doing, we should follow their footsteps and advance ourselves.

Yes but so many in ELO hell are all about doing what they want, I'd much rather play with my friend as ADC and myself as Support Tank Rammus, as, that's how we've trained, and of the three ranked games we've done that we've only lost one, but I understand that's breaking away a chunk of it for himself and myself, so sometimes I will solo top or solomid but you run into alot of people constantly screaming at you if you die more than once (seriously I got a 'stop feeding' on my second death when I had four kills and an assist) it's rather.... ridiculous

The way I look at it is (Atleast when playing normal games, not high enough level for ranked just yet) i'll queue and say what roles i'm good at / wanna play. Normally it'd be jungle & support. If i'm forced into another role, not my problem if the team loses.

Hey You know this whole attitude of picking doesn't ever really change? I don't know where you guys come to the conclusion that just because you hit x elo that people will stop doing all the petty things that they do in other elos but it is a bit of a myth. In fact, I would argue that out of all the elo's the 1500's happen to be filled with the largest amount of *******s do to the sense of entitlement people feel from that gold banner.