Seeing as this has already been necro'd.
Fucking hell, what a sad read this thread was. There was so much hope in the community for matchmaking, so many people thinking that the game would be at least a bit more legitimised as an esport. That it might go somewhere, if not to massive heights. I say this because I was one of those people, I remember friends getting in to the beta for MM and desparately wanting my own pass to try it out. Between 0 unlock bans/class limits/forced graphics/short bo3 games, and valve not listening to the comp community, it was really no surprise that it died so fast.
That's not even mentioning the rampant cheaters/bot accounts that were everywhere in pubs.
Man, valve really fucked it all up.