Game 2 will begin as soon as the other two teams who are in your bracket finishes their game.  

The top team (Blue) hosts the game with their corresponding Division and #, so like (a27 vs a56) and make the password vg.  

Then the bottom team (Purple) joins the passworded game.  

So it's really dependent on how long it takes for either you or the opposing teams to finish their games.

If people flake out after finishing a game, the TS/Community has a tab for Ringers, which if needed takes a little bit of time to sub them in.

Because you wouldn't be able to keep welching on your "Congratulate me when I get to Gold IV!" contest?

@Danny Boy

Sounds like you've been going in the top 20% as a Platinum player.  Have you gotten any indication on the other four skill level's relative LP?  Are the B guys Gold, Silvers, or low Plats?

... in ranked 3s

I am the only one that played well that game. 

I don't know man.  I might be naive but I think you put way way too much stake into these sorta things.  Yes, if that had been an LCS game then Cow's GP mid pick would have left his team really hamstrung for taking towers and such later on.  But it wasn't, was a solo queue normal where I don't think that matters as much.  Could be wrong though. 

I know you want Cow to better understand how a pick like GP affects the rest of the team in changing the mid and late game dynamics, but that game isn't the example you want to use.  Karl was the only one in the game who was playing a strong champion, and the three other people were playing very... umm interesting champions... with... ummm... very interesting builds.  Them having a rough time in lane wasn't caused by Cow picking GP mid.

Also - I wouldn't put too much stock into me being a little salty after some pissers of games.  I, much like earth, consider gp a trash pick, mind you.  And I'm pretty sure dr cow here knows that at least I believe gp to be a trash pick - so picking him after a request for a more serious team comp is a bit trollish.  I'm pretty well over it, though. And at any rate, just salty - just a series of frustrating games running as a support.

I disagree and would have appreciated you playing a champ that might be useful in game outside of laning. I do want to clarify that this is less about you personally and more about me being frustrated.  That said...

... I believe GP is a trash champion.  He can do well vs certain match ups but you are pretty much deciding right then and there at champ select that other lanes would have to win the game. 

Pros of gp

• you get an easy laning phase. 
• He can eat an orange if he does something stupid or needs a small amount of sustain.
• He can farm pretty easily and get extra gold due to his q
• He can ult to farm a wave from a distance
• He provides a minor buff for the team
• You can build him several ways (all of which are largely useless ofc)

Cons of gp

• his ult is trash and extremely low damage
• His q is very short range.    
• He has no reliable damage (ults can actually hit no one on the enemy team or just proc a single hit and his q relies on crit chance for a boost)
• He can only hurt the enemy team with q's or autos.  Compare that to a mage with 3-4 abilities that do actual damage. 

People usually build him and play him like a retarded adc.  You build adc items on him - yet he only generally procs using his q (like a ranged aa)... except he can only do that ranged aa when cooldown is off.. so, he's essentially a complete POS adc. 

He's a garbage champion.  You play him for fun.  Not to help teams out.  That's my take anyway.  And yeah - pantheon would have been a better pick along with most other ad champions imo.  Even if you ran an adc out of mid, with out comp, that would have been substantially superior imo. 

edit - fixed my pro con list a bit

bah - I can marginalize it by saying that he can barely use the stats on static shiv and that item would be substantially better on an adc.  Anyway, be on later

Gragas support when built glass is non-viable.  People shouldn't get frustrated with their teammates picks unless they're playing something semi-viable IMO, especially when it's something like GP that at least have some strengths.

Maybe Glass Cannon Support Gragas is better in level 4 LAN games though?

As you like, thunder.  My gragas build was crap, I do enjoy playing on Lan and enjoy leveling my account as I mentioned before, and I disagree that people shouldn't get frustrated if their builds are bad with people picking crappy champs.  Anything to offer to the gp is "viable" discussion?  Sorry I still want to participate in that discussion even though my graggy build was shite. 

re: SS - I think you are missing the point I'm trying to make, hedgie.  GP has to go this rubbish build, where he can't make use of all the stats on the items he picks up - all to try to proc his q.  It's just stupid.  So he spends 2500 on ss because he was awful wave clear to get better wave clear - and that also turns into how he tries to team fight generally.  So, for 250 he gets 100 magic dmg for wave clear, 40% attack speed which is mostly useful for pushing towers, 20% crit chance + 6% ms. 

If we can't really discuss his seemingly (to me) blatant weaknesses, does anyone actually want a gp on their team?  Any of you? Oh - I hope we get a gp as he will bring quite a bit to the team? 

So, the bonus damage is nice, ofc, for 7 seconds.  Added damage is great in a team fight ofc.  Now, the damage is most useful on champs with some crit chance, so the primary beneficiaries are typically gp + the adc.  More often than not people use it to engage a fight with the minor speed boost, so some time is lost, but sure - its ok an buff at max level. 

He's got nice peel.  But its self peel and he's still generally not going to try to be a front line with his primary damage coming from q.  If he builds somewhat tanky, then that's fine, but self peel is not peeling or a stun for the team (eg less useful). 

The ult is just a 25% slow.... and its so reliable that you might only get 1 hit on an enemy champ with how it works currently.  1 hit.  The slow's in effect the entire time you are in the ult, but I just dont think its that strong. 

I still think it just comes down to him being a lane bully, having a fairly useless ability outside of lane (orange - I mean, seriously - are you going to focus gp in a team fight with your stun if you know his orange is up?  Its like stunning olaf when his ults up... kind of dumb). 

Now, if my choice is between caitlyn and gp in mid, I'd go caitlyn 100% of the time.  Why - because she can do more for the team than some bruiser GP build, or some full glass cannon GP, or some tank GP, or support GP (which sounds swell because of the passive boost, but its quite bad as well).  Knowing what GP brings and only having a choice to play an ADC or GP mid, outside of just wanting to have fun, would anyone wisely choose GP?  If so, why?

Not much to offer about GP.  Don't play him.  Can't say I enjoy having him on my team.  Can't say people have always enjoyed me being on their team.  *coughsorrytoeveryoneagainaboutsupporturgotcough*

Playing LAN games is fine.  I was playing in games with Bronze V players not too long ago so I don't judge.  I do like to point out to my pals that playing in games with terrible Brazilian players might skew what they think are effective ways to build champions when they play with/against Diamonds/Plats/Golds.

Don't be sorry that you want to participate in the Gangplank discussion, but I'd advise you try not to come across as someone who'd like people to feel bad that he was trolled by his friends champ selection while he was trolling them with his build.  

SOB sexy - i didn't try to troll anyone with my build.  I was upset over crap games and made crap decisions.  GP is still crap.  I didn't troll anyone. My impression was that cow trolled me (as I explained).

That said, please enjoy this video covering my last game of the night. The video is short, but I think anyone that follows this thread will enjoy it (youtube upload now)

http://www.twitch.tv/1pacov1/c/4625301

Yeah - but its just that you hope it does dmg on the right people.  It's pretty much like the crit or old dodge mechanic.  Might be ok, but also probably really unreliable.  His ult needs a major rework imo.  Honestly, I'd be fine with it doing flat dmg to all in its AOE.  Anything is better than "maybe I hits ya."  The thing is, his q is that "maybe" and its also his ult.  Dbl maybe baby

Also - hedgie - this should be in your library or something:

http://imgur.com/a/9Supc