[psychonic]

Originally Posted by CyberStars I know that for Dota 2 (fixups) the max value for maxplayers is 10 (5 per team).

That was true about four months ago. Since then, the maximum limit on that convar was raised to the server's max of 32. However, you can still only have a maximum of 5 players on each radiant and dire. Other slots are just for spectators/broadcasters.