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 too noticed the inordinate amount of cheating going on in the server. Personally, I don't understand the psychology behind it, especially on maps like Race of Doom. I remember when I was playing on Ruined Vacation my first time, and all of the noobs were complaining about how hard it was, which is interesting, consitering how it seems all of the other maps are "too easy." I ask map makers to make more maps like Ruined Vacation and Race of Doom, and maybe we can drive the cheaters, the whiners, and the babies from the server.
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...