I'm all for your opinions, and creating this poll was a great idea.

I personally think that the public server shouldn't need to cater for "proper match practice" at all, and that the server should be open to the public at all times. Also, why do you want a 16 slot server when the match server basically has number of slots? Seems pointless to me.

It would also be EXTREMELY difficult to get a really popular 16/18 slot server. I truly believe that 24 slots is perfect, since I don't even look for servers with lower slots than that, because the great thing about 24 slots is that even when they're not full e.g.19 people on, you can still have a great game.

I know we've tried to get our servers popular with interesting map rotations, but we'd certainly be popular if we just had popular custom maps.