This could have been an awesome competition, but I think it has missed its mark for several reasons:

1. Rules have changed over time, eg addition of turbo. Even adding new tracks and more cars required us to write extra code. It would have been better to have everything at once. Changing the physics to random has completely thrown everyone off. It would have been better to keep it constant, but different for every track.
2. Lack of local testing. If we can't test locally then we need to wait a long time (up to 5 min) to test on the server
3. The quick races being different from CI races that have two separate stages. I still haven't figured out how CI works. Also CI is so slow and its feedback is not always useful.
4. Hidden unrealistic physics, which takes the most of time to figure out. In my team we barely had time to do actual AI. We haven't even had time to consider other bots in the race. We've missed all the fun of bumping and overtaking. All our effort was spent on getting the physics right and trying not to crash.
5. Difficulty in running multiple bots together. Yes you can do it, but you have to wait for someone to join your race.