3 Months ago Riot announced Quickplay, a new Mode that will replace Blind Pick and let you pick a Position and Champion before queueing up for a Game, skipping the Champ Select Screen entirely. Back then they said they will test it in a few Regions in the following Months but we've had no News on it so far.
When is public Testing supposed to roll out?
External link →They rolled out something on a few minor regions back in April, ran into issues with queue times being broken. Then PBE had a similar issue with queues being broken with the new TFT set.
If I had to guess, I think Quickplay is delayed because there's something messed up with queues in the backend, and they need to solve that first.
We fixed the issues with the matchmaking test within a day of launching, the results were really positive after that. We were hoping to get Quick Play out before the midyear patch but weren't quite able to finish before we had to pivot to Emerald and other ranked Split 2 stuff, so we'll be picking it back up shortly and plan to get it out later this year.
Didnt League have something like this many years ago? I remember there was a mode where u selected ur role & champion and there was a captain or something (?)
Yeah it was called Teambuilder! It had some problems we're trying to solve with Quick Play, such as being able to deny teammates and no kind of autofill mechanism.
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