For us it is disappointing. We spend a lot of time on MathCounts. It feels like a betrayal. Of course, that is not the right kind of language to use when we discuss it with the leadership - engineering and math types respond much better to logic than to feelings. ;-) I can say that because of the number of engineers in my family....
They’re not going to do anything that outclasses their fraudulent “clown show”. Thus, Home-schoolers are out because they’d wind up winning.