This dueling initiative is great addition, but PvP itself on K1 is fine imo when it comes to battlegrounds. I solo queue every day and I get even more pug games then those against premade on average. On the other hand, if I want to premade or semi, most of the time there are some people to fight against, especially now with these arranged "fight nights" every few days which, I hope, will become a regular thing. There's no dodging and similar things anymore and most people don't really complain, all this forum whine are people from K2. The only downside is that PvP community could use a little boost in population and couple more good players on both sides so we don't always count on just a relatively small amount of players for "serious" games. This is an issue ofc because K2 is younger realm thus more attractive to new players and some even rerolled.
P.S.: The idea that I really liked, which Sushi wrote, is adding some small amount of gold in exchange for battleground marks. It doesn't have to be some ridicilous amount of gold like on Feenix (10g per mark), but maybe 2g seems alright. That should bring whole lot more people into battlegrounds if they knew they'll get something in return (in case they don't need honor) and it could attract diehard PvPers who aren't into pve/farming, but eventually could get enough gold for mount/enchants etc. by playing battlegrounds, while boosting server's PvP at the same time..