With the abysmal player turnout numbers, it's time for Bethesda / id Software to take responsibility, for what many to believe is a wasteful failure, and do last-resort adapting to this RECLUSIVE competitive situation. Quake players should not continue to be eSports Recluses. The One-Champ-Ban each in duel would COMPLETELY open up the 1v1 field.
Defense of the Ancients (DotA) mod for Warcraft III; It led to a Riot spinoff, League of Legends, which the forced a counter: Dota 2. These are the most popular eSports games, highest paying games, sustained twitch audiences and each has 10 bans in pro matches. This leads to proper balance and consistent adaptation. It demands logical thought each match.
With only a few lines of code, Bethesda / id Software could implement the champ ban (or block) per player right before "your pick" "enemy pick" round.
For example:
Duel Queue finds a match;
"your ban" (or block)
"enemies ban" (or block)
Then on to the traditional "enemies pick" and "your pick" rounds
Reasons for this community conclusion: We all see that the duel mode is repetitive and is not properly maintaining high numbers of players. The normal duel consists of something like: 1: Go Clutch, Ranger. 2: Go Galena, Visor, Nyx, Sorlag, or Keel (vale) as a third pick. 3: Start the duel with Clutch or Ranger to counter. Some champs are relatively unplayable at this time, like anarki, slash, and scalebearer...but the champ ban round would allow for an increased chance that these alternate champions would be used in duel. Every duel would be different.
The main reason: It would be fun.
Since there is a cookie-cutter series of picks right now, this 1 champion ban system in the duel mode is officially proposed via this petition. I think it would change the repetitive same-pick-over-and-over-again nature of the duels. It would make the mode more dynamic, skill-based, knowledge-based, and entertaining - and the OP champs would always be in check. 2v2 would not require the ban, considering champs can change on the fly. As we all know, Clutch and Ranger are completely broken and overused right now and there should be some limiting to that. This ban round would fix that and would adapt to the winning eSports way right now - Champion Ban rounds.
Add your name to the petition to return Quake to its proper glory.
