I'm glad you did (but I wouldn't have finished if you hadn't).

More people learning & having fun is better. IMO people only complain about the extended deadline because of its effect on the rankings.

The scoring system was an interesting addition over CTF2, but it also created these complaints and silliness like people submitting the same code repeatedly to get the best score possible.

It may have been better to only tell players what broad percentile group they're in. There would still be an incentive to write faster code, without the frustration of being edged out of position #20 because someone else's submission was (arbitrarily) scored a few points higher.