Dear ESR/Friends

I've been enjoying a lot of small-CA lately (mainly 1v1/2v2) and found that it's a brilliant way to sharpen combat skills and to test it versus a broad range of opponents. Over the course of months I've been able to make new friends who share my views and I would like to host a server for the coming months as a bridging period between QL and QC to keep high level practice games going.

Reason? Other servers like team prophecy 2v2 don't cut it for me, admins are nowhere to be found and lots of people complain about delayed shots or connection problems on the server and people joining that don't match other people's skill level resulting in useless arguments and wasting of time of people eager to F3.

So just to avoid the hassle for everyone I think it would be a good move to host one myself. The incentive is to make it a main server for 1v1/2v2 or 3v3 ca-games for 1900+ ELO or invite only. If it gets to be a succes I'll even think about hosting a weekly 2v2 cup with small price money for the winners to maintain a competitive atmosphere.

Do any of you guys have experience with 3rd party hosting and can anyone recommend me a good one? I would like to host a server in Amsterdam or Frankfurt and 10-12 player max slots. Also, need help, tutorial, steam friend invite, or someone who can help me through the process and/or steps into setting up the server to desired parameters, i.e: maplist, skill requirement, white/blacklist, people who don't meet ELO requirement but may join nonetheless due to invite/steam-id etc.

Contact me here, on discord (I'm in ESR channel @Alborz) or on steam: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197969795292/

Help & tips would be greatly appreciated & thanks in advance!