[2021] A solution to allow new players to practice AND the community to have fun, with one easy change!

I've seen the recent posts about them adding bots to new players' first ten games, and while I think it's pretty harmless, in the long run it doesn't do much. What players have been asking for for a good while is some kind of mode to practice maps and learn them better, and I think I have the solution.

Forget creating a whole new mode with a playground map, there's an easy solution sitting right here since 4.5, custom lobbies. My proposal is to simply make all custom lobby playlists have a minimum reqired player count of 1. Then anyone who wants to practice can load up any mode and practice as much as they want, however it's still random what you get, so you can't just practice the same map for 200 hours! Playlists like Main Show would still have the player do the standard 5 round games, and you'd still have to win the final of course!

Another huge benefit of this would be anyone who wants to just do silly challenges and mess around with friends can load up whatever playlist they want any time! I think this would be huge for community created events outside of simple tournaments. And again, this would be super easy to do, just changing one number, with of course the disclaimer that playlists might act a bit weird with just one player sometimes, but that's the price you pay to practice.

What do all of you think of this idea? I really would love to see them do more with custom lobbies!

Also /u/fallguysjoe /u/sootgremlin- please add the missing playlists, it's been over 5 months since Custom Lobbies launched and we still don't have Thin Ice Trials, any of the new playlists, or even Big Yeetus Tour! Thank you for reading!