Anyway back on topic. We do really need to try and keep the pub server going. Jibba's post was 100% win, and accurate. We need it to keep new players coming into the community. Some stats might help, we should look into those somehow. Keeps a pub feeling competitive, which is why people are drawn to CMM in the first place. We used to have them in CS:S, why not now?
People who play with me currently know I don't usually log on until at least 11pm eastern (due to work), and usually end up doing CMM, but this is ONLY because everyone else is. If I joined at night and all of my GC friends were in the pub, I would hop in there in a heart beat. Problem is it's always 0/0 players around that time. We just have to try and take initiative to start it up. Sometimes I do join the server at night when it's 0/0. Most of the time i can get it at around 3v3 but never any higher, so I've kinda given up. That time of night isn't great for filling a server, but keeping it full from an earlier start would be more possible with some of your guys help.