User blog comment:Bachoru/Ranked games: (more than) just a fancy champion select?/@comment-3213322-20110722180417/@comment-3450702-20110723152533

On the topic of leaving them behind... how to do that if I get paired with them every single game? Leave them behind, maybe, but just because I drop lower. And the segregation: You can still play customs for the time of your ban, just not against players. The point is, permabanning leads to: A) smurfing, creating a low level account and either dominating or trolling low levels of play, neither of which is "fair" B) leaving the game, losing Riot clients. As they are neither very pleasing to Riot, this would be a different alternative to give them some, albeit limited oportunities.

And the match doesn't count was just an extreme idea I'll remove from the list. I don't see, however why the "sucker pays more ELO" would be bad, and the victorious team would get the same IP whatever their individual stats were.

Finally, the ignore list could only stop you from getting people on your team, not against you. So, if I disliked being teamed up with say, HotshotGG, I could just put him on ignore and wouldn't get paired with him. This would only be usable if a player got to high ELO without real skill/a bad play style/etc. which means he shouldn't be there anyway and therefore certainly not paired with the people who actually deserve it.