I just want to say that this is a really big change and I don't think we'd ever just pull the rug and make this change over night.
Once that's said, I do think our position select system is really well set up to be ported to normals. I'd love for us to find a good way to test that assumption and then make the choice based on those results. Here's some of the reasons I think we should be looking to test this:
- With a large influx of non-League players, creating guardrails early on (telling you what champs are good for your position, showing you where to go) probably makes learning the game easier if you come in as a blank slate.
- The way we designed our system as an optional stackrank, no one is forced to engage with it until they feel ready. They'd still get all the benefits to my previous point.
- It's a really jarring culture shock for non-League people to transition from normals to ranked at level 10 and I'd love to bridge that knowledge gap earlier.
- For experienced players, playing out of position isn't really as fun. I know what I like and I know what I don't like and games where I play stuff that I'm uncomfortable with don't feel good, even if it's not high stakes gameplay.
- Arguing with players in champ select and fighting to get a position sucks. It really just does.
That being said, there's a lot for us to solve in here. Queue times are obviously a different beast and we'd need to be confident that all the adjacent problems can be solved. But we're definitely thinking about this problem.
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