my guess is that the waiting for players period keeps repeating over and over

it's making the map unplayable, restarts everytime i leave spawn, sometimes it takes longer and sometimes it's as soon as i leave spawn

console output that i found interesting:

Failed to load sound "vo\null.wav", file probably missing from disk/repository
"mp_waitingforplayers_cancel" = "0"
game
- Set to 1 to end the WaitingForPlayers period.

any help?