woah woah woah a loL-discussion, time to jump in for me
1.Magma-Chamber
I think this map is announced since i play LoL, and thats since Season 1.
At first it was ment to be a 5v5 map with longer lanes, different monsters and buffs as well as a special teleporatation system.
As lazy as Riot is, the map never came out.
Now when it came to the All-Star votings for the european team, it was a head to head race between Wickd and Soaz for the toplane position.
They decided to make a best of 5 1on1 top lane, the winner would get the spot.
Soaz came out on top, winning 3:2 with a (imo lame) nunu pick ( imo lame cause nunu is a champ for 1on1, but u cant realy play him competitive in a 5v5 matchup on toplane) in the last match.
This 1on1 had such a big succes, over 140k people were watching Wickd's stream, the largest number of people watchign a stream from a private person.
Even Riot was exited about that, in the next couple of days and weeks, more and more information about the new 1v1/2v2 magma chamber map was given to the community.
As it seems like atm, the map will probalby released on the normal servers with the beginning of Season4.
Apart from that we can see it in action at the All-Star playoffs this weekend as the pros will battle each other there.
Here some more in detailed information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyUsCyfUF3Y -> 1v1 wickd soaz
http://na.lolesports.com/season3/allstar...ma-chamber -> infromation about magma chamber from RIOT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G1GQgrnSV8 -> new magma chamber gameplay, tested by some famous NA pro-players
2. Ranked play on LoL
ha, classic discussion here

well there are tons of videos and thoughts about ranked play of Lol out here, i cant go over all of them but i will tell you sth which helped myself to improve and raise some elo.
Once i also thought, omg my teammates are so bad, im in elo hell ( it was bronze at these days, divisions didnt exist^^).
So what to do to get out of "elo-hell"?
well, at first u gotta remember, elo-hell doesnt exist. It's just a dumb mindset a lot of players got when they cant gain elo, or nowadays League-points.
The thing is, u gotta focus on your own game. You don't play solo queue to improve your team, you play solo queue to improve yourself. That means u just dont always have to think, oh gawd, my team faked up so hard, botlane feeding, jungler doesnt gank, supp sux. You have to think about your personal gameplay in a match. What could You have made better in this situation, what could have you done on your own to change the outcome of this game.
I tell u one thing, the moment you stop complaining about your team and the outcome of a game, and start just concentrating on improving your own gameplay, u start enjoying rankeds and you will get up in the ladder automaticly, trust me
EDIT: holy moly dont tell me u cant carry with supports like tresh, bc or sona, cause its easily possible dude