OH BOY STORY TIME!
Here we go.
Back in the day, when I was Lavacano of the Duckpond, dinosaurs roamed the earth and Michael Jackson was still in the Jackson 5, I found an old copy of Halo floating around. Installed it on my (then horrible) computer, fired it up, played the campaign for a while, then poked multiplayer.
For a while I was on CV8 (which is a no weapons, only hogs server), which had no admins wandering in at any time. This upset me, so I started wandering around for somewhere managed (though I still play on CV8 for lulz). I saw a bunch of racing servers and thought "Hey! I like racing!". I hopped around all the servers (AR, JR, BFM, db), and found BFM was a personal favorite by terms of environment in a public server.