Ban/pick and Fearless

• The bot must have in-house matches turned on. How to open a match is in Run a match, step by step.
• Whoever starts a draft is the matchmaker who created that match, or a server admin (Who can press what · Appointing and revoking matchmakers).
• A draft can be started and played only while the match is at Recruiting, Roster pending or Lineup locked. Once it reaches In progress or ends, it cannot.
• The two captains are members on the match roster. A captain does not need to be a matchmaker.
• There are no Discord slash commands for this. The ban/pick itself is all done on the web.

• Ban Phase 1, 6 steps: alternating one at a time, starting with Team Blue
• Pick Phase 1, 6 steps: Team Blue 1 → Team Red 2 → Team Blue 2 → Team Red 1
• Ban Phase 2, 4 steps: alternating one at a time, starting with Team Red
• Pick Phase 2, 4 steps: Team Red 1 → Team Blue 2 → Team Red 1

• Each team makes 5 bans and 5 picks.
• A champion already banned or picked in this draft cannot be chosen again by either team.
• A ban can be skipped with the Skip ban button, and a skipped slot stays empty. A pick cannot be skipped.
• The order is fixed. A team that is not on turn cannot choose.

• The captain of the team on turn confirms.
• A matchmaker or admin of the server can press for either team.
• Everyone else is read-only and sees the line Spectating — read-only · live at the bottom.

• The time left counts down from the start of each turn, with Soft · no lock beside it.
• When time runs out nothing locks and nothing moves on by itself; the number just gets a minus sign. Keeping to time is up to the captains.

• “It's not that team's turn”: you pressed on a turn that had already passed because the screen was stale. The board refreshes in a moment.
• “That champion is unavailable”: the champion was already used, or is locked from an earlier set. Choose another.
• “The draft is not active”: the draft is finished or cancelled, or the match moved to a stage that no longer takes picks.
• “Couldn't load the champion list — enter a champion ID directly (e.g. Ahri)”: the champion list could not be loaded. Type the champion ID into the input box that replaces the list, then confirm.

• Champions picked in an earlier set's draft are locked in the next set. It does not matter which team picked them; both teams are locked out.
• Banned champions do not carry over. They can be banned or picked again in the next set.
• Locks add up as sets follow each other. Champions used two sets ago stay locked too.
• Only a finished draft can be continued. A draft in progress or a cancelled one adds no locks.
• There is no Soft mode, where only a team's own champions are locked, on this board.

We are preparing richer Fearless settings. They are not active yet, and there is nothing for you to do today.

• When you enter a game played outside the flow, choosing Hard or Soft in the Fearless row puts a ⛓ mark on champions from earlier sets. It is only a mark: saving is never blocked, and unlike the board it does not lock champions. Series entry such as Bo3 and Bo5, and how to enter a game, are in Confirm a result and enter records.

• Each server can have up to 3 practice sessions in progress at once. When full you see “Active practice slots are full — finish or cancel one to start another.”.
• A practice in progress with no activity for more than 48 hours is cancelled by a periodic cleanup.
• A finished or cancelled practice is deleted after 30 days. One that another practice uses as its Fearless link is kept.
• The same person can be invited up to 3 times within 60 minutes. Beyond that you see “This member has already received several practice invites in the past hour. Invite them again later, or start solo.”.

• The two captains and the server's matchmakers and admins can always open it.
• Other members can watch read-only when the Public match viewing switch in the server settings is on, and it starts on. When it is off, only members on that match's roster can additionally view it.
• A practice board can be opened only by its two captains, matchmakers and admins.
• A watching member's screen also updates the moment someone chooses. They can only watch, not press anything.

• The two captains, who started the draft, each ban and pick with who pressed it, and the times are saved.
• A draft attached to a match is not deleted automatically. The history of a cancelled draft is kept as well.
• A match draft also appears in Audit log as Draft startedDraft completedDraft cancelled entries. Practice has no audit entry.
• Nothing from a draft goes into the match result or ratings.