[favre49]

To be honest, TCO being discontinued isn't that big a deal IMO. Maybe I'd feel different if I was a top competitor. However as someone middle of the road, competing is an atrocious experience.

The web portal is awful and barely works. The desktop client looks like it's from the 2000s and also barely works. To my knowledge the system had weird constraints about input size, and instead of reading from stdin like every other serious website they have the weird "write it in a class with this method signature" format.

Personally, the problem quality didn't compare to websites like Atcoder and most Codeforces contests, and i feel like most people (me included) don't enjoy the "hack phase" format. Maybe if i could bring myself to actually compete more often, my mind would change on these things.