First off, welcome! I’m Fascist Flakes, or as others call me just Flakes (or *edited* to some xD :>), and I myself am an admin for the server as well as a student here on campus at WCU. Good to see you bypassed the garbage known as 1.6, CS went from good to worse moving from 1.5 to 1.6, but Source picked it back up. 1.5 was the *edited* though.
As per your loading question, some people load the maps faster than others. For some reason a lot of people don’t load fast whether they are on campus with our server, sitting right next to the server, or whether they’re from Slovenia. Typically sending client data, retrieving server info, etc hangs people for a few more longer seconds than others. Faster and newer computers tend to load the maps faster, especially those with faster memory, processor, etc.
Hope that helps 
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