1 vs 1 why people don't play often ?

guys there is a curse in the land. people are afraid of 1 vs 1. we must do something no one wants to do 1 vs 1 their afraid of losing elo of people laughing at them. lets be fair just because some people lose 1 vs 1 discourages the base of players from doing 1 vs 1 isn't something it can be fix. we need new methods to promote 1 vs 1 so players lose elo but win something else.

1. twitch the site I see there codes to players and they get stuff. lets say you give A loser 1 vs 1 one of these codes so even if he loses get cheered up. not so much downfall and then uses the codes get stuff at twitcher

2.I see there is need to make more tournaments someone besides ultragodzilla to make 1 vs 1, I mean 2 or 3 times A week to stimulate players to try and mkae players wanna try the 1 vs 1.

hmm i'm thinking of more.

nah 1v1 is the best. there are just not enough players. after a few days you have fought them all multiple times.

1v1 is either crushing (when matched up against someone you have a 3% chance of victory against) or boring (when matched against someone you have a 95% chance of victory against).

That said, when I see someone looking for a 1v1 I normally accept.

I do quite enjoy 1v1, but I'd appreciate having something like the SC2 matchmaker's ability to select up to a few maps before queuing to make them extremely unlikely to appear.

I don't particularly enjoy sea battles, and for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, I don't particularly like Shifting Sands either. Knowing that I'm not, or that I'm probably not going to play a 1v1 which would force me into these situations, would go a long way to improving the matchmaking experience from my perspective.

The other main problem as I see it is that sometimes you just get too wide of a skill gap. I don't mind playing against better players and it can be quite instructive, especially if they're helpful enough to give advice after the game, but playing against much worse players can leave me feeling pretty bad.

I don't know of an easy solution to the second problem, as it seems like can only be fixed once you have more than two people in the queue.

I am a new player and I started mostly for 1v1. I didn't even know team matches were more popular. So it is not desperate.

One problem is that most of the time when you go to the Matchmaking tab, it is written 0 players waiting. Which is true, but it doesn't mean no one will accept a 1v1 game.
I think new players don't even try to click on "Join" because they think they will never find a game. They do get game notifications but maybe they are not motivated to accept when they aren't looking themselves.

Maybe it should be made clearer that 0 player waiting does not mean that there will be no player. There is a slight chance someone connected will accept.

In fact, even if there are players waiting it is not guaranteed you will get a game "fast". Happened to wait some time even with players in queue (in the end it got accepted, but rank difference was rather large)

How about a lobby option to put yourself automatically in matchmaker when not in a game?

I beat Godde 1v1 once, at the peak

1) I prefer small teams.

2) Last couple of 1v1s I tried revealed my territorial control skills have atrophied badly (probably too many lobsterpots and too much air play in those lobsterpots). I'm not going near that queue until I'm satisfied I've re-established my grip on that part of the game. The AI is particularly good at poking anywhere and everywhere, so lately I'm practising with Circuit more.

They play teams because they like to blame their team when losing. In 1 vs 1, you don't have that!