Having started with QWTF, and moving onto TFC, and still regularly playing till TF2... and now playing TF2 in the region of 30hrs a week (thanks economic crisis for giving me time off) I'm 100% supporting at least a server, but a comp would be too good.
Thats the thing... don't put any of these nades or anything, last thing that needs to be done is modifying the game just for respawn, you can't use grens anywhere else on public servers except a rare couple with the mod. No leagues/comps use any kind of nade mod. And the last thing I want is some 3rd party mod messing with what really is already as plain tf2, such a terrific and extremely balanced game. I love nades, I got called GrenadyShady for a reason back in the days
and nade spam doesn't bother me, because the fact is, you would only experience it SOMEtimes and only in pubs. Clan matches (which is where its at) never has that problem.
As much as I still love TFC though, and still play it occassionally when there's a game going (so rare..
) with OzFortress or just luckily finding some players in a server. Ive moved onto TF2 and accept the way it is, as default. No nades - was spewing at the start when it came out cause I was a gren/conc fanatic. But just like when TFC came out, (I much preferred it on GoldSrc than Quake) and moved on from QWTF. Same with TF2. What I love is, it's much more team-focused, a team with a good bit of teamwork going, will rape the other team with little teamwork even though they may have some gun players, and that's why it should just be left as plain TF2, in a clan match/war setting, it's that case even more so, which is PERFECT for a LAN setting. Completely down for some of the TFC map remakes, but I must admit, I love nearly all but 1 perhaps 2 of the bundled maps, but again in a war setting, even those less liked maps, are great.
Ive also got 1 mate who plays nothing but TF2 these days, whos coming, and another possibility as long as he can install and update it again before respawn, or willing to do it while there.
I would rather it be at least 6v6 personally (8v8 would be great) but if numbers are hard to make up 5v5 would be the absolute minimum.