I haven't talked to him yet, I will tomorrow. He's pretty active in the singles competitions there, so I guess he will stay there.
But yeah, the clan league is pretty much dead and since there is no lobby, playing in a competition is more hanging out in steam chat and overcoming the server bugs than actually playing the game. It is not a community build to last.
Btw, TdC is still alive on W:R, but I will not be signing us up to any new custom competitions. It's just such a hassle. Much like ESL, but cause of the crappy servers that only seem to work properly half the time, it takes about 10 times the effort. For funners it is still nice though

But yeah, another pretty epic fail on T17's part.