so, pokken’s solution to group lobbies and spectating is probably one of its most detrimental missing features apart from the netcode itself. as you might have already seen, when it’s just you against one other friend, you can use the friendly matchmaking queue and share a search password with your opponent in order to guarantee that you pair up together. however, in scenarios where you want more than one player in the lobby, the best thing you can do is host a “Group” which can have up to 100 players in it. Groups are weird because they remain active until the specified end date, have an obtusely long search ID, and are usually private on top of that. in Groups, everyone plays at once and people who are waiting for a match play a CPU. you can’t manually pair people off- you just match with whoever happens to be in the Group, and you can’t always see this or tell who you’re getting paired with. you also cannot spectate or facilitate true winners stays/king of the hill-style rotations in these, making them less than ideal for, say, tournaments or large groups of friends who want to play all at once. Groups mainly serve as private matchmaking queues more than real lobbies. official online tournaments tend to work around this by either relying on the capture/stream software of one of the players involved, or by having the players submit the replay to the stream casters after the match is over. Answer from LiteTheIronMan on reddit.com