As far as I understand, the 2.2k+ Palladium that ran today was a custom room made by
johnmicheal20. Which I am all in favour of, by the way. Make whatever small teams custom rooms suit the players available on the day. Perhaps name them something a little different.
The admin team (and me in particular, since I am doing most of the button pressing) are happy to hear feedback on where the threshold for the Palladium autohost should be. There is a balance between
* if it is too high, it will rarely or never be used
* if it is too high, few people have the opportunity to use it
* if it is too low, it can potentially kill the all-welcome room
* if it is too low, the variance in skill goes up and game quality goes down
which needs to be maintained. At the moment my feeling is that the feedback pushing upwards and downwards is of about equal strength, and so the threshold is probably in a reasonable place.
(But again, remember that if you have a bunch of top-10 players who want to play a really high-level game, or a bunch of players in the 2.2k to 2.6k zone who are divided by the current threshold, the option to make a custom room is available.)
