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.
I agree with you for when the server is playing challenge maps. However im much more of a racer than a challenge racer and would prefer to see maps with wide terrain than small stunt track for intense races. But yeah the rules have made the server much better so far...