Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
The current graphics card i would recommend if you did not want to spend too much money is the radeon 9800 pro. I have the sapphire 9800 pro and can run the game on all high graphics. They should be around £80 - £90 now which is pretty cheap for a decent card. My advice is too stay clear of the budget nvidia cards they may have all the up to date stuff on them but are just not powerful enough to be a decent gaming graphics card.