Runehamster: Quick question - can anyone give me specific times of the day or week that I'm likely to find events or meet-ups going on? I've gotten three or four messages now telling me that there was an event starting, and each time I left the server I was playing on or quit browsing the internet, logged into GoG's TF2 server, and found two or three people playing Payload on the same map. That really doesn't count as an event IMHO.
Things usually star around 8PM GMT and it usually starts slowly, with few players, but then stats go up. For example today we started at 7PM GMT with around 4 players and went to a full server around 8-8:30 GMT and then things went quiet at around 9:30 GMT.
Keep an eye on the server after the event starts to see how many players are there, and remember, if you don't join to increase the number of players others will think exactly the same ("oh, the server hasn't enough players on yet") and won't join and so on.
Also, these days are slower thanks to the holidays and people being away or just doing other things.
Another thing to not is that 99% of the time events are scheduled before anyone is on the server exactly to get people on and playing.