Just made it into my Silver II promotion series. I was debating sleeping or playing it out. I decided to try and play it out. The game was fairly conservative for the most part. Neither team really knew how a teamfight would turn out. Most of the game consisted of catching players out of position. Even though we were losing by a few kills, we were actually doing okay by forcing the other team to split up by constantly split pushing, so we were winning in turrets and overall map control.

At some point, we got Baron, and we decided to group up. Unfortunately, as we tried to group up, our Zed got caught a few feet away from us and was annihilated, after which they immediately engaged (with a ton of AoE CC) and evaporated our team 4 for 0 within a matter of seconds. Just like that, game over.

Those games are just so unsatisfying. I'm okay losing a legit teamfight, but the fights like the one I just described really suck. Your team never gets a real fighting chance, and the late game death timers just finish you off.

I wanted to play another, but Riot decided to perform maintenance and disabled ranked queues. Probably a good idea. I guess I'll try to roll off a 2 game win streak later today.