People, please understand that this game has SERIOUS networking and connection problems.  As such, it's just common sense that the greater the number of players in your game you are hosting, the greater the chance that you will hear "a player has left the game" as soon as the game starts.  Not only that, but you will sit there for ages waiting for the game to fill up in the first place, due to people having trouble connecting.

Let me try to make this as simple as possible:

1) The bigger your game, the longer you will sit waiting for the game to fill up.  These waits are already substantially long.  With a big game, the waits become huge.

2) The bigger your game, the higher the odds you will hear "a player has left the game" once the game starts.  These odds are already substantially high this will happen anyway.  With a big game, the odds approach 100%.

Therefore, FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST, will you please knock off the 8 and 10 player games?  Pretty please?  How about having a majority of people host 2v2?  And maybe a minority daring a 3v3?  Pretty please?