This gets annoying sometimes. Is there a fix coming for this. i dont recall seeing in the new patch preview. Also why does some matches start within a 3 to 5 second setting. what if players want to leave the game and get stuck playing the next round. The only way to leave is to take a loss. is the server side doing this? I mean Admins setting it this way?

I've had a few rounds where you get no time to change anything between rounds, but once it has happened 2-3 times, it goes back to 'normal.'
The 1 second stall happens a lot of the time. Last night more often than not, to the point where players were leaving the server.

Earlier everything was starting fine for like an hour or so. Then a cheater joined and we finished the round. The cheater left after, but the server then got stuck on 1 second. I think that has something to do with it. Crytek stop these hackers! They are ruining a great game in more than 1 way!

Earlier everything was starting fine for like an hour or so. Then a cheater joined and we finished the round. The cheater left after, but the server then got stuck on 1 second. I think that has something to do with it. Crytek stop these hackers! They are ruining a great game in more than 1 way!

omg no.. Not an other jackass xD
It has nothing 2 do with the cheater.. Its the server!

The server stuck at 1 second has nothing to do with cheater/s.

If you pay attention for some games, the server normally block the countdown at 1 second when the teams aren't made. In other words, when there are 10 seconds left before a new game starts, the server try to balance/make the teams, if this doesn't happen, the server just block itself at 1 second. In the moment a new player join, the countdown starts again and normally that's enough to fix the problem.

So the main problem here is the code, software, program(call it how you like), that Crytek made and applied to their servers to balance/make the teams. Sometimes the balancing and team-making is impossible and the program is probably throwing out errors that can't be handled resulting in a server block.

Hopefully some of you understood what i mean.

The server stuck at 1 second has nothing to do with cheater/s.

If you pay attention for some games, the server normally block the countdown at 1 second when the teams aren't made. In other words, when there are 10 seconds left before a new game starts, the server try to balance/make the teams, if this doesn't happen, the server just block itself at 1 second. In the moment a new player join, the countdown starts again and normally that's enough to fix the problem.

So the main problem here is the code, software, program(call it how you like), that Crytek made and applied to their servers to balance/make the teams. Sometimes the balancing and team-making is impossible and the program is probably throwing out errors that can't be handled resulting in a server block.

Hopefully some of you understood what i mean.
This is not true. how come when players leave (because they're tired of being in a lobby) and the teams are even, it stays locked up. How come the server hangs in the lobby even if Autoassignteams is set to NO? Why does the timer re-start at 240 + seconds?
Besides, we are just pissed that this problem can't be solved, WTf cares how it happens? We just want the Sh!t fixed. We host the #1 and #2 ranked servers and admins are constantly on there starting the game, banning hackers, etc. I think we have a pretty good handle on what's going on here.
BTw, this last patch is a joke. Players still can't buy the DLC. You would think these money hungry Devs would have atleast fixed that. These days Devs just don't know how to produce a viable, solid game anymore. They can't even make auto balance work. They don't give the admins the tools to manage an admin-dependent game like this.
So please don't come here to micro anolyze someones opinion of what causes something like hanging in the server because yours is just speculation.