Please give back Captains Mode in ranked or unranked

[Asator1994]

We used to queue a lot of Captains Mode as a 5 stack. Queue times have been between 3 and 10 minutes. And we loved doing so.

How should you learn drafting if not in Captains Mode? I drafted several hundreds of games and am still learning something new every other draft. Captains Mode is a great way for motivated 5 stacks to train a bit for a battle cup. Like this you only have one chance to try things and if they go south you have to wait an entire week to play the next game of Captains Mode. And Captains Mode provides you a lot of things, All pick does not provide you like: No randomly picked meta heroes, the chance of absolute last pick and the chance to secure picks with bans afterwards.

It's simply fun and does not cost you anything. So please bring ist back.

Sincerely, a heartbroken Captains Mode enjoyer.

[ValveHatesDotA]

What? They removed -CM? That's ridiculous. I hate how they're not only ruining heroes, items and the map but also ruining the game modes. Ranked All Pick says Each team takes turns selecting a hero from the entire hero pool. even though this literally isn't true since 10 heroes (or HoN heroes/Champs) are automatically banned.

We all know they added bans because they can't get the balancing right. Hell, 10 bans aren't even enough, I'd gladly ban more than half the hero pool at this point.

[Asator1994]

The pressure for vast changes to the map/gameplay itself from the community has been huge. Thus I get why they implemented those changes. But getting rid of Captains Mode as a playmode for 5 stacks (totally understandable that not many want to play it in Solo Queue and therefor the total amount of games is low) really sucks.