Case in point: playing with Olimar and Moogle yesterday. We get these two (they say they were speaking russian, but I understood spanish words...) idiots that either run from a guy that has ~100 hp left, doesn't initiate as Cho'Gath, and doesn't get any attack speed as Tristana. Olimar carried us so fucking hard, and they whine about the other team's AoE...but they did have Fiddle, Amumu, and Vlad, in their defense. What makes it even worse is that they never participated for the entire length of a fight. Usually when I teamfight, it's kill or be killed, especially when I'm Jax, like i was that game. The only time I didn't die in a fight was when I got saved by Moogle's silence, Olimar went in and raped, or I got a lucky jump out. I got a few 1v1 opportunities, and I destroyed the other guy every time (even WW, which made me very happy), but we still lost even though it was a 4v5 for at least 10 minutes.
Oh, and another game yesterday: playing with just Moogle. It was absolutely disgusting how we were winning early, and I actually had my best item build as Nasus, but we still lost. This time, it was really more of we just lost steam. I was Nasus, and Moogle was Veigar, so I know it wasn't either of us losing power (they're both great late-game heroes), but we still got beat, and what's really frustrating is when the pubs we play with decide the game is over, we lost. I've got a mental problem with giving up, I don't know if it's genetics, if I picked it up from sports, or what, but I can count on one hand all of the times I've been willing to say "let's just surrender". At the very least, the IP from playing those couple of minutes more is worth it to me.
It also appears funny to me that every time Lingie and I play with a pub in our group, no matter what, there comes a time when said pub says "we lost". We had a sweet comeback once when either all inhibitors were down, or they had both Nexus towers down, I don't remember which. It's times like those that make me feel like taunting the pub. Like starting a surrender vote as we attacked their Nexus. Which I did.
Weird, random thought: what if two teams surrender at the same time? Or one surrenders while the other's Nexus dies? Anyone wanna start a practice game and do that?