The good news is this is basically the case in every tournament with large player pools. The blinds will catch up to most of the fields stacks and you will find yourself in 50/50 spots and someones gotta lose, sometimes its gonna be you. The difference with freerolls is your fold equity (meaning someone folding to your raise or shove) is way lower. You are going to find someone to play with you way more often which means your going to lose more often.
Freerolls are brutal and other than CC freerolls (or playing for ACR FR leaderboard) I would suggest getting out of them as soon as possible. Simply playing for .50c will increase your fold equity in those spots and you will see a difference as long as your are playing solid poker. Little wordy hold it helps.
That is exactly the point. I think, a lot of people feel, that all-in preflop poker is just "bingo". But its a natural part of tournaments, that can not be avoided. Its extremely rare, that you can win a tournament without being all in several times and having to win those situations. Tournaments involve
gambling, but that does not mean, its "bingo". The skill lie in getting it in correctly, so that you give yourself the best chance of winning.
As for freerools they are usually hyper turbos, which mean, that stacks get extremely short after a while. This is not very usefull practice for tournaments with a more reasonable structure, but there is still skill involved.
And one of the biggest mistakes, I see people make in
freerolls, is not getting it in often enough. I see people folding from BB, when 60% of their stack is in the pot already. This makes no sense at all. The rest of their stack is going in on the next hand anyway, so why not just go with the hand, they have now, so that if they win, they are sitting on a much bigger stack.
Other times people limp into the pot investing 40% of their stack, which again makes no sense. When you are this short, you just have to go with it, and if you go broke, thats fine. Then you can spend you time on something better than the freeroll. But many people dont think like that. They are desperately trying to avoid being all in and "gambling" for their tournament life.