Hooray for pregame chat...again =/

We have most everything worked out.  Except our second pick hasn't spoken up.  He grabs Lissandra, still refusing to speak in chat.  Another player is planning on taking mid, but the other team first picked his mid so he declares a pref for top.  Then our player takes Liss and he says "well now that's out too".  We try to clarify with the Lissandra player if he's playing top or mid, but he doesn't respond in chat.  Hooray.

So it's his pick now and we're asking him what he's going to take.  He says he'll do ADC but he's garbage.  So the other player picking switches to ADC, tells him to take Mid and he'll be ADC.  Meanwhile he chooses ADC as well, Caitlyn and Draven.

So...

Our Team:

Braum Support, Lissandra Top, Caitlyn Mid, Draven ADC, Maokai Jungle

Their Team:

Heimerdinger Mid, Taric Support, Warwick Jungle, Yasuo Top, Miss Fortune ADC

Why are all my ranked games like this?

Very quickly it's clear that his self assessment is right.  He comes bot with me as Draven while Caitlyn takes mid.  Quickly MF and Taric have us pinned to our turret and we stay there.  She opens up an early lead of 2x the CS and keeps it for much of the game.

Lissandra only communicates with us once, to complain when Mao doesn't abandon mid lane to Heim to come save her lane when she's losing her tower.  He's covering mid while Caitlyn's dead.

Despite everything...Caitlyn and Maokai are cleaning up.  Hard.  They're driving Heimer out of lane, forcing WW to spend a lot of time there and Mao's solo'ing WW like it's nothing.  I run in and help them defend Dragon at one point, picking up Taric, Heim and WW for no losses on our part.

I wish I had recorded the game because suddenly we're winning.

Eventually we start getting inhibitors and soon it's all over.  I went 1/0/20, getting in on 21 of the 32 kills.  Maokai picks up 12 kills, Caitlyn 10 and Draven even picks up 6 with a triple kill making up part of it.

Of course once we're done we see that Heimer dropped somewhere toward the end.  I'm not sure it cost them the game, but it does deflate the victory a little.

8th Placement Match: Win