I've seen this process too many times.
>Someone creates a surf server expecting to get players
>Server is up and buggy as fuck because there are no reliable public surf timers and creating a good surf timer requires knowledge of surf from the person making the timer
>Server is poppin for 3 days because their friends are playing on that server
>1 person dominates all the records
>There is no competition so best person quits
>Other people quit because that 1 person has all the records and there is no reason to compete for rank 2 when there is only a few other people
>People quit playing because there are other better and established surf servers with an already built community
It's the sad truth but that's just how it goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯