I love it in a 1v1 WarGear Warfare when you get first go, start with 3/4 territories in Australia, Siam is blocked by neutral and then you get the sweet sweet "Defender looses 3, attacker looses 1" and you can imagine some poor sod at his computer halfway across the world throw his hands up in the air and swear loudly.
Yeah. That's why I don't do WW 1 v 1s.
As a newb I started to play 1 v 1 a lot, until I came from frustration to realisation that it's a crap way of playing risk with the dirty australia advantage.
Ditto
There are much better 1v1 maps on this site. The 'original' is decidedly not the 'best.'