Small/medium/large team rooms - how to create own?

I very much enjoyed when we had small medium and large team rooms as a standard, and as far as i recall think it worked (apart from the juggler at that time...).

Why not make:
large team room (e.g. 10v10 max)
medium team room (e.g. 5v5 max)
small team room (e.g. 3v3 max)

people entering the room above the limit can only spec?

Measnwhile: Is there currently an option to create such a room by mayself? Can I limit the number of players in an own room? I thought this option was there, but now i can't find it any longer. Where do i have to look?

quote: Measnwhile: Is there currently an option to create such a room by mayself?

1) you can go into a room and type !lock
then no other players can join until you type !unlock
Ofc stupid to use since not even specs can join etc.

2) With a lobby that has a "host" button you can open your own room, in the host-window there are options for max players etc.
Should work in springlobby and TASClient. (not zkl last time i tried)
Use [x]relayhost option so that other players will be able to connect.
(Retry until you get a relayhost that is not in australia)
Sometimes relayhosts are down and then it simply does not work.

3) I think you can also send !spawn command to autohosts or something?
But idk how that works and if/how you can set options like playerlimit.

tl;dr
it sucks

There is also the option of running your own autohosts with whatever settings you want.
Though that requires a server and you must know how it works.
Maybe we could ask the admins of some BA host if they can also host a 3v3 zK one?
Not sure if it would work with elo, but who cares.

I have started "small teams" room with max 6 players on knorke's suggestion. It has no automation so dont forget to balance before start.

Also teams hosts are now set to auto split at 22 people, so more smaller rooms should now be more common.

thx licho

With 20, the low skill people tried hard to join higher skill game and didnt start the game at all (tried about 3 times in a row).
With 22, the lower skill game has 6v6 and higher 5v5

Here is knorke's explanation why smaller rooms are needed

what.....