PRIVATE MATCH!!! (Decrease minimum players)

These servers are hosted on their servers, not locally.

Having a lot of 1 to 6 player servers could affect performance of official games, therefore it isn't really viable to mess with server resources like that.

But couldn't they have used locally hosted servers? Well, yes, but they probably have their reasons for not doing this, I'm sure they've put quite some tought into making this idea.

Also this mode was really more designed to be custom tournaments, making it more accessible for certain groups. I don't think it ever was designed for small friend groups and so forth.