Current rank: 393
Game 5: (win)

I'm going to slow down the chatter. Notable things:
ramon emilio is on my team again; he's on my ignore list. He chose Twisted Fate.

Bans are Kassadin, Morgana, Shaco, Dr. Mundo, Rammus. I guess we missed one of our bans.

Our team forms like this: Pantheon, Shyvana, TF, Malphite (me, jungle), Xin... really?
Theirs = Jax, Renekton, Tryndamere, Brand, Taric

This will not be fun.

Actually, it turned out to be fun. The other team was horrible. Final tally: 59/28/92 to 28/59/51 in 33 minutes. It was a bloody game and we came out on top acing them to our 3 or 4 deaths a few times, actually. Quite sloppy. Frozen heart for the win.

Current rank: 406
Game 6: (win)

Malphite again, support bottom.
I was last pick and gave them option of Malphite or Amumu; they wanted Malphite. Final tally: 50/48/64 v 46/51/54 and we won

Malphite - 6/3/16 (me)
Malzahar - 8/9/11
Olaf - 11/16/9 (two deaths at early jungle against minions)
Ashe - 13/13/16
Rumble - 12/7/12

Started with a Philosopher's Stone, sold it at the end for a Sunfire Cape. Picked up HOG, Merc Treads, Frozen Heart, Warmogs. Had higher end magic cape, sold it to get Hexdrinker. 133 creeps. Team was conscious of position, pings, where to go when kiting, etc. Good on getting dragon and we took it every time it was up when we had them to man disadvantage. Their Annie (jakjakzpower) disconnected; they were complaining about her trolling from the beginning.

+13 rep

Current rank: 419
Game 7

Malphite again, doing bottom with Graves.
Our Xin is jungle
We have Tryndamere and Kennen

We ended up tearing them up. 39/29/64 v 29/39/44

Pretty good game; Graves was good. I finished 3/2/14 with 92 cs.
Merc Treads, Frozen Heart, Hexdrinker, Giant's Belt (to get to Warmogs, and had money but didn't ever need to go back to shop), HOG, Phil stone. I seem to be the ONLY person warding. Yes, I'm support/tank, but the ongoing philosophy at these uber low ELO is support is only warder. So lame. I spent... 1500g on wards probably. Tryndamere dropped a few freebies from his Wriggles. Xin maybe too.

Current rank: 432
Game 8 (loss)

3 game restart from dodge (not me). I do periodically leave the queue entirely when it gets to be constant and wait 4 or 5 minutes and get a fresh batch of folks. It seems as though I get later picks (4th, 5th...) when I do that which is more conducive to which tank I should pick.

Finally started. I was... 4th pick I think.
Bunch of bans, duh.

We took Xin (jungle, first pick)
Nautilus, Teemo, Galio, Riven

They took... Graves, Veigar, Volibear, Warwick, Leona. BEEFY.

I ran mid against Veigar; starved him of CS. I got dived by their jungle once and Warwick took me out early. Riven (SOULTAKEDOWN) was a negative Nancy and couldnt' shut up. I had 9 deaths, one from turret suicide, so 8 kills to them. She said I was feeding. Final tally to our loss:

26/41/42 to 40/27/78

Oh yeah, our Nautlis DC'd at level 14, at perhaps 25 minutes. It took them another 25 minutes to finally finish us.

Galio (me) - 3/9/8 (209 CS)
Nautilus - 1/1/10
Xin Zhao - 10/15/10 (and I was feeding?)
Teemo - 4/7/8 (128 CS - sad in a 50 minute game)
Riven - 8/9/6

Veigar had 141 CS.

Current rank: 419