Why do people pick dolls? I'd be leaning towards people liking to snipe. But, for the fast rounds? Unless the CTs are letting the Ts plant, I doubt it. Yes, Ts can get to the bomb site in a flash, but CTs can be covering it just as fast, with the same races, as aco said. And given, as often as not, the bomber doesn't give the bomb to an "insta-plant" race, you sometimes have to have someone actually run it there. As for meeting the enemies quickly, with our speed races, almost every map has the ability to be fast. Most maps you can be in the enemy spawn within a few seconds. Granted, some maps take slightly longer than others, and some are just too big to do it, but for the most part, the extra second or two (over Westwood) is negligible.

Westwood is not a small map, even if it's not a large map. You may have the ability to get from spawn to spawn quickly, but the buildings add size, and with WCS, depth to the map.

"how exactly is playing Iceworld would make it any different then from playing any other map?"

Because it's forced deathmatch instead of the ability to do an objective. Without the ability to do objectives, who is in the wrong for delaying rounds, should something stupid happen? Objectives give one side the ability to end the round should they be unable to find the opponent for some reason.

If you're finding that we are making it seem like most people get their levels from objectives, either you're reading something incorrectly, or we're presenting something incorrectly. The two main ways are tomes and kills. Everyone should be able to agree on that. But, nine times out of ten, you get the money for tomes, and the kills, in the process of doing the objective.

I've played a number of Warcraft servers, both 1.6 and Source. Some have deathmatch maps, some don't. Some have uber XP, some don't. Some allow things other ban. We're not trying to be like every other server. Most server's aren't trying to be like every other server. We've never had so many races that certain races are straight up more powerful than other races, with a single exception, and eva was MEANT to be like that. Our metagame is constantly changing. Spider man was once upon a time, underplayed. Shadow hunter constantly changes from "broken" to "meh" in the eyes of the players. The only normal race that has constantly been played, and complained about, is Vaga.