This is just going to end up as a re-hash of the exact same posts I’ve made (I believe the threads were removed now) before on this but just because you have a user-base and a server doesn’t mean you deserve to have a sponsorship (TeamSpeak is a business after all).
What makes you unique from every other server out there? It’s not users.
Why should TeamSpeak attempt to promote your community/org/stream? If you have nothing unique why should they? (everyone using the same public/open source plugins, bots etc doesn’t count)
Having your users spam the forums, their email and such isn’t going to help you at all… You know which communities you are.
TeamSpeak wants engagement outside of the server, on your own website, twitter etc not just on your server with a high usercount.
I will be the first to say TeamSpeak’s communication has been rocky in the past, I’ve been critical of that very publicly on the old forum and wasn’t liked due to my views on specific issues. I understand why some people don’t like me and that’s fine. But credit where credit is due, the sponsorship team has done an amazing job so far and the community management is 10x better. Feedback is taken on-board and responded to, this wasn’t happening previously.
There are a few ones that have fallen through the cracks and mislead the sponsorship team due to the badges, I will admit this and it’s a hard thing to do as there’s a few people doing this to sell these badges.
They’re a business, they cannot just give every kid with a server a free license.