I may be mistaken but I read QMT's feedback as there werent any, or very few, LAN servers Saturday. I wouldnt know as I dont play source games anymore so I wasnt really checking the browsers. But thats a different problem than there being servers and people just not knowing about them. He seemed to be concerned that there werent that many at all.
We only brought the Killing Floor server this year and I'm pretty sure we were kicking ourselves for it. At one point someone in our group was looking for a CSGO server to play on but there wasnt one available. I had one back home that I could have fired up right away. Normally we bring a dedicataed machine for our game servers but I've been trying to sell that machine. Perhaps thats not the best idea? Though spending the $ on another seat to power it up is always what makes me think twice about brining it. The KF server was hosted in a VM on my machine and only went down a few times. Win8 with built in hyperv running a VM that auto logins and auto starts the server is tits :D
Assuming there IS a server, as pointed out, getting the staff to annouce a server has always been the best way to get a server filled. We've had great success with it in the past and our 32 man Killing Floor server this year filled right up after it was announced. In years past it was only set to 16 slots, but it always filled up so I figured 32 would be interesting to try. Boy oh boy was it ever with 700 specimen 3rd waves.
I was patiently waiting for a feedback thread, but I have some additional feedback that I'll be contacting staff in private with.