Why* are** all the** marginal** clans dying?*

[tempest]

- Regarding Mumble, dasit, there's nowhere it says you must be of the dev team to collaborate into the project. If I'm still wrong, I can assure you this is not well specified on AC sites nor perceived somehow by the community.

You're right, we should probably state that somewhere.

give prizes on (map) contests and (clans) competitions (hell, imagine an official competition with money prizes... roflmao)

I don't know, I don't feel good about such things involving money. That's my personal concerns though.

help clans

Out of the question. Can you imagine what would happen if the AC project gave money to, say, TyD? Uh-oh :D

improve servers, improve hosting, improve security, contract professional dedicated services, get static content in a GeoIP Content Delivery Network

improve servers: As someone (Flowtron?) already said, there's usually one server for every player online, and there are many high-quality ones among them.
improve hosting, improve security: Are there any problems with this site?
contract professional dedicated services: Which? For all I can tell, the tools we have are sufficient. Otherwise, we could even get free open-source project licenses for professional tools/services (e.g. Atlassian stuff)
Content Delivery Network: that would require a lot of money, and IMO CDNs are still one of the worst rip-offs in the history of the internet.

Moreover, you may realize that with a minimal organization you, and other devs, would be able to get a better management of your tasks hence a reduction of 'dead times' when you are able to develop which result on an overall improvement of the project.

I think there's still a misunderstanding here. I can't talk for others, but I personally would be so happy to have "dead times" once in a while. Just to give you an example: I'm typing this during a break in preparing some exercises for uni, which I have to hand in before midnight and which have already taken me ~15 hours and will probably take another 5. And once I'm done with that, I can start doing the next one right away.
No management can help there.