Qdtrms

[Matt Leung-Harrison @RiotPhroxzon]

Losers queue doesn't exist

We're not intentionally putting bad players on your team to make you lose more.

(Even if we assumed that premise, wouldn't we want to give you good players so you stop losing?)

For ranked, we match you on your rating and that's all. If you've won a lot and start losing, it's because you're playing against better players and aren't at that level anymore. It's not because we matched you with all the inters and put all the smurfs on the enemy team.

For 99.9% of people reading this, even if you think you're "playing perfectly" and post a good KDA screenshot with the rest of your team "inting", I promise you that if a good player reviews your games there's 100's of things that you could have done differently that could've changed the trajectory of the game.

Sure there are games where your teammates play poorly, that's just the nature of a 5v5 game. In the long run, you're the only common factor and the only one responsible for your rating is you. If you took an "unwinnable" game and replayed it with any Challenger in your spot, it would probably result in a win.

A good non-giving up attitude (see the top post on front page reddit rn), a growth mindset, investing in a good coach/asking reputable people for advice will help make your relationship with League a lot better. There are 5 potential giver-upperers on the enemy team and only 4 on yours. Don't make it 5.

I mainly wanted to make this post because in the process of helping people debug their accounts, there's so many people who legitimately believe we're putting them in loser's queue that it's driving me crazy.

Some observations from coaching over the last 12 years:
1. Most players play too conservatively with a lead. Playing on the edge to draw pressure & waste the jungler's time, while not throwing is extremely impactful.
- Playing for KDA, so you can post a screenshot of "doing well" while your team feeds so you feel better is not going to help you get better.
2. Review every death. 95% of deaths are avoidable until you hit very high ranks. Find the root cause of why you're dying; are you managing the wave incorrectly and not getting a ward out for a common gank timing, are you overcommitting to fights when they're respawning, are you flipping it to crash a sidelane when an objective is spawning.
3. Play to your win condition, while identifying & disrupting theirs. Find which lanes are volatile and most likely to carry the game from either side and prioritize your resources there. If your top lane is some swingy matchup and you get them ahead, they're gonna create so much pressure for you that the game becomes very easy to navigate.

[⊹ @DEAADSEAA]

Looking at your homie’s girl like this is crazy

[NFL @NFL]

Football. Weather. Rules. ❄️

10 years ago, the @Eagles and @Lions played in one of the most epic snow storms you'll see on the field.

[Rami Jarrah @RamiJarrah]

The moment Aljazeera Journalist Momen Al-Sharafi breaks the news that his entire family of 21 members were just killed in an Israeli Airstrike in #Gaza.

The look he gives as he is no longer able to talk, is heartbreaking.

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

CTV producer gone rogue? This will turn your hair grey (and only then will they fire you)

[YamatoCannon 🇵🇸 @YamatoMebdi]

I plead to the international community to intervene and stop the ongoing bombing, the ethnic cleansing and the genocide of the palestinian people. The complete disregard for palestinian life and the indiscriminate bombing of children, civilians, medical staff and journalists is abundantly clear in the actions taken and the language spoken publically.

The ongoing rethoric that dehumanizes and justifies the killing of palestinians, that tries to vilify peaceful protests calling for peace and a ceasefire and to twist the words of the oppressed is a tactic we have seen far too often in history and it is playing out infront of our eyes in real time. I fear that the widespread racism and xenophobia that will take place due to this will last generations.

The death toll is already at a number that is incomprehendible. Someones daughter, someones mother, somones uncle, someones brother, on paper just a statistic, we read a casualty number in the thousands and it doesn't make sense to us, but in reality each and every one of them had loved ones, a deep impact on those around them and a story of hopes and dreams.

I do not think enough people put themselves in the situation of palestinians. Empathy has been replaced with an urge to find reasons as to why palestinians deserve to die.

I call for a ceasefire because I want the murder to stop, for the wounded to receieve help, to stop the starvation and the oncoming disease, to stop the build up of even more life lasting trauma that will echo in generations, to free all of the hostages, to free those who are under administrative detention with 0 evidence of wrong doing and to stop the destruction of everything in Gaza.

May ALL war criminals on both sides be tried in international courts, stop the injustice and bring equal rights to EVERYONE so a process of healing can begin.

This is not a war of religion, to make it so is intentional to create a stronger divide of us against them. Ethnic and religious groups are not a monolith and to claim that they are is in fact racist. I condemn all forms of anti-semitism and racism, any calls for genocide or the deaths of innocents.

My grandfather told me our family history of how we were displaced from Nazareth during the Nakba in 1948, with the promise that they could come back, with family members murdered infront of them, they fled to Syria and stayed at the border of Palestine. He told me how his family helped the refugees from the 2nd World War and how all people lived together in harmony, where the focus was on what brought them together and not what seperated them. My grandfather is not with us (peace be upon him) but he never lost hope of what was, and what can still be. I carry my palestinian blood and I will also never lose hope over what can be.

I stand with my brothers and sisters who want peace and justice for all. Call for ceasefire now rather then a useless statement of regret a couple of years down the line when the blood of innocents have been soaked into the soil.

#CeasefireNOW

[Timothy Ray Brandon @TBrandon84]

0-16
2 HOF retired early
1 playoff win in 60+ years
Never played in a SB
Matt Millen
The best QB we ever had left and won a SB his 1st year away
HC took the wind after winning the OT coin toss
Fans across ALL sports...you can't beat the Detroit Lions and it's not even close

[Qdtrms @zxj4477]

@OnFireSemmler Good. Take their advice and stop breathing nobody wants you here

[$𝔩𝔞𝔭☃️ @slvppy]

dj khaled ain’t even understand one single word and still gave props 💀

[FNATIC Boaster @OfficialBoaster]

He's having a rough day..

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

The Detroit Lions are 8-2 for the first time since the 1960s.

[redveil @redveil]

most important part of my set yesterday. watch 🇵🇸

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Mixing colors

[📹 safespacestudios]

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Seiji Tsukimoto is an artist who blends pop-up book and kirie techniques to create greeting cards and designs encapsulated within spherical frames without use of any glue

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 A doctor in Gaza tries to calm down a child shaking from fear due to Israeli airstrikes.

[G2 Asyc 🇦🇷 @AsycLoL]

I just watched the swiss stage teaser I swear riot hired god himself for the production this year

LIKE WHATTTT

[뽀 @s2FAKER]

"골든 로드, 저희가 막겠습니다"

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
#Faker #T1WIN #Worlds2023