I agree with what Spaztic said. Maybe I'm not the one to rate this since I play very very few outside JDC, but the activity of "non-noob"-players raises with the launch of a new JDC season. And it runs down to a valley when the season is over.

Still, the hotel thing is somewhat sad. Of course it's cool that there are still new players joining the community...but hotels :/. I don't like that. Such a dedicated server like Spaztic mentioned it would be awesome. I bet it could bring some lazy butts back to playing (such as me :P).