I like the way you think. I'm an 1v1 player myself and I came from the WC3 TFT community and tried out SC2 and wasn't really happy with it. COH2 is way smaller, but the gameplay itself is more appealing to me. Some links I can recommend if you want to know more:
glad to see some competitive minded newcomers here. Even though the scene is more or less non-existant in COH2 (sadly). The majority of players stick to teamgames rather than playing 1v1.
The whole idea of this website was to promote the game as an esports title, and we had lots of great tourneys and events in the past, not much going on right now though. Sadly the developer itself does little to actually push competitive play.