For some belated feedback, I didn't sign up for ToT this year because of the changes to matching, though I did still pinch hit. The addition of relationship matching made me much less enthusiastic about the exchange as a whole, so the community challenge wasn't even really on my radar, though I've happily participated in the past.

I also think that the time of reveals for ToT wasn't great, given that Halloween was practically over when it happened, and would support pushing that back by several hours at least.

If ToT goes back to character only matching, I will definitely be back next year! But if it doesn't, I probably won't return. I really didn't like the addition of relationship matching, and it definitely fucked with how I looked for people to treat (/and would have negatively impacted my matchability, had I signed up, given the fandoms I normally go for).