Ideas

[eftertanke]

Is it possible (and feasible) to store demos on a centralized server, much the same way some server owners already post them to external websites? If so an option to getdemo could be added, IP address and port of the server it was recorded on, and players wouldn't lag out at the beginning of matches because multiple people download the demo. It would get sent to the central servers, and only one transfer would be required for the game server.

To illustrate:


EDIT: You could even distribute the workload to volunteers or unused servers (considering there are on average three hundred of them hehe)