Yeah, the Map Rating Thread pretty much sums up the state of hacking these days. Coolboyman wrote a nice rant recently that got locked because nobody who read it got his point. You can find it here. It's a good read if you have time.
Besides the counting, is there a difference between TCTI and the DCC? Every time I venture into either of those threads, I see a whole slew of posts about some very exclusive topic and I leave because I can't understand any of it.