Areea51 might be semi big but it's very open... Not too many rooms or alleys or whatever like Cathedral which in size might be a bit smaller but it takes longer to find someone

Dat is very true...

It's interesting to hear about Gamesmajor, for me it was one of the worst servers, people teamkilling newbies, no grenades either, either they had to stand at the back or get shot by their own team, it was insane.

I've noticed on some servers, admins/mods try to override the mapvote rather than just wait a couple of minutes for more players to join. This is sad to watch, that a player votes a map and then gets either a mapchange, or regular players whining about the map, rather than playing. I'm so much a fan of rotation these days...