[2021] PBE Draft Pick has bans disabled again

Hey all! Just letting you all know that bans are back to being disabled in Draft Pick.

Summary of why it took so long to re-disable bans: In PBE patch 11.17 we enabled bans for the purposes of testing. Things got tested, and when 11.18 rolled around we performed the usual process for disabling bans. Unfortunately there were also some major changes to systems related to champ select around this time. We thought we disabled bans, but they actually remained enabled on PBE for the rest of 11.18.

When 11.19 hit PBE however there were plenty of reports about bans still being enabled. When looking into why our toggle to disable bans wasn't successful, we found that the changes to the systems around champ select also altered the process we use for making changes like ban enabling/disabling. For the majority of 11.19, there was a mix of us learning exactly how the new process should work, and being stalled by some internal tech failures.

As of this morning we had both identified the correct path for disabling bans and had operational tech. Apologies for the degraded testing experience! Even though PBE exists for catching stuff like this, it definitely hindered the testing of Vex for the first half of the PBE cycle which is definitely not ideal. Appreciate you all bearing with the PBE state until we worked stuff out on our side. 😄