clearly, i've been a complete ass about this, and there's no culpability elsewhere. sorry for wanting to play this game with the rest of the community. i guess it's all my fault. sorry for complaining about it, powerjesus.
i'm sure all the extra people online for the halloween special event - you said 12 minimum, right? - weren't on there for the halloween special event, but just because they love to play TF2 constantly. i also like how you ignored my commentary about time-of-day, where i noted that there's rarely anyone online during the middle of the day, and most people play late at night. i'm sure that the six or seven people who were online with reserved slots during the day could work alongside of the ten or so minecraft players during the day, and then you just shut it down when the whole horde of TF2ers show up at night. but that's just me. i obviously don't know what i'm talking about with this stuff.
i've got a server sitting at my house, but i don't have the internet connection to make it worthwhile putting it online. too bad.