From your posts I can come to conclusion that u have played vCoH very little or didnt at all
First of all most tournaments even in vCoH werent organized by Relic, second of all very very small fraction of players compete or even playmultiplayer but just stick to custom games and compstomps because this game is very hard for most people , it requires a great time investment for players to be average or better and most ppl who play this kind of RTS is older community who doesnt seek to compete (30-40yo)
The game is not dead at all i predict bright future, last couple of days i saw 30 players in 1v1 and about 70-80 in 2v2 which is quite alot and cant even remember vCoH having that much in a looong time
Second of all vCoH (at release and first year or two) had very bad balance compared to CoH2, btw CoH2 alrdy had 3 big patches since its release dunno what u and some ppl around here expect (patch every day?)
And lastly, i cant deny no leaderboards is bummer but even when they implement it for many players it wont matter as i stated in first part of this post
cheers
I played Coh 1 just for some weeks when it was released for ages ago, so no unfortunetly i dont have all to much experience from that scene.
Howver i been active in the Battlefield scene ( Battlefield 1942 / Vietnam / 2 / 3 etc.. ) since about 10 years back where i started to play competitive in some of the more sucesfull teams and there after been manager for some of the bigger BF2 and BF3 leagues in europe so i write what i did with my knowledge from how a scene looks like in the Battlefied.
I have unfortunetly also seen in Battlefield how big differeance it is if the developer really wants the game to get big and survive or they only want to push DLC after DLC to get some monwy.
But well thans a lot for your answer and i apriciate ur opinion and lest now hope the scene will grow