Its not because of fear Felipe. And not because I would be watching it.
In my opinion, its not in the spirit of unassisted contesting.
I am sure that the little/medium guys don't need my score to help them
be motivated. Heck, if I am kicking butt, it might even de-motivate
them.
In any case, I don't think its enough of an advantage that I am
concerned about it if others are using it but claiming unassisted. The
fact that I am not and could win the category, throws into question the
overall value for anyone truly competing for the win.
Thanks for the comments.
Ed N1UR
-----Original Message-----
From: Felipe J Hernandez [mailto:fhdez@vox-tel.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:20 AM
To: sawyered@earthlink.net; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] FW: Getscores.org Changes/Improvements.
I think that once you find out on get scores that your rival got an
sporadic opening.. You already lost your "sporadic opportunity" on that
band.. I think like others that if you are paying too much attention to
the scores you are losing your game because you dont have a clear
strategy or goals, and you know that will never make you win.
On the other hand this tool enhances friendly competition and helps many
operators that dont have the winning setups
to engage in competition with "immediate gratification"
this is spelled fun for the little/medium guys in disadvantaged
locations that still want to have some kind of competition spirit and
isnt this what we want for the hobby?
If a top contestor doesnt want to support the scores plus breakdown
because of fear... then I think he doesnt have the winning attitude and
he probably wont win.
Felipe
NP4Z
----- Original Message -----
From: Edward <mailto:sawyered@earthlink.net>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:30 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] FW: Getscores.org Changes/Improvements.
As a multiple time winner of the USA SOAB LP categories in ARRL DX,
CQWW, and WPX contests, I personally will never connect to
Getscores.org.
I personally believe that ONE of the factors that impacted my second
place finish in 2005 of ARRL DX CW was missing a 10M E opening to EU
which WOULD NOT have been predicted in the prop sites and which would
have immediately caused me to move had I known about it.
Even the top level score would have been enough to flag me at the time
since all the 10M mults would have impacted the score to know that
"something was up" and at 15Z, there aren't too many places to look.
I don't have an issue with those that do. It's a personal decision for
me. Just, don't break out the champagne if you think you've won SOAB LP
in a major after 0000Z on Getscores. I usually play to win. Don't
always win, but you can't count me out.
Ed N1UR See ya'all in ARRL DX CW in a few weeks.
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