Struggling to understand where the rules and so-called "etiquette" part. From what I understand, blind pick is a less-serious version of summoner's rift where you can play entirely off-meta and it doesn't matter. That being said, the LoL community being the LoL community, they try to suck the fun out of it and force a strict meta instead.

The reason I've been playing blind lately is to get my role and my champ 100% of the time to practice and not to spend so much time just setting up games for someone to dodge over and over again. I don't have tonnes of time, and I don't want to waste that time waiting for queue pops, dodges, and then getting autofilled anyway.

My approach has been to not care about what my team says, let them know I intend to play in the top lane and let them deal with it as they wish. If someone calls top first I play with them, if someone calls top after me I'll invite them to duo top if they really want to. I seriously couldn't care, I just want to practice Fiora. Is this really against the rules as people would have me believe? I understand "refusing to play role" is a reportable option in blind pick but afaik there's no enforced roles in blind so it wouldn't lead to any punishment.