PLEASE do not bring bureaucracies and lawyers into contesting; if you do, it
will take several years to get the results of a contest, if ever!
73 ES CUL
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John Klim
N3KHK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Thompson K5ZD" <k5zd@charter.net>
To: "'CQ-Contest'" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Cc: "'K0HB'" <K0HB@ARRL.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] New Universal Contest Rule XXII
> During my ethics presentation at CTU in Dayton, I specifically made the
> opposite point.
>
> Contest sponsors have deliberately chosen to keep rules relatively simple.
> Perhaps to follow historical precedent or keep the text to something that
> will fit in a magazine. To fully cover every situation, our rules would
> look like Formula 1 car racing or top level sail boat racing and be
> hundreds
> of pages long.
>
> We would then need judges, a commissioner, and an organization to manage
> the
> rules (not to mention more lawyers). We don't have a big TV contract or
> big
> $$ sponsors, so contesting remains largely an honor sport.
>
> This means participants have to consider two elements when making a
> decision
> about whether an action is permitted or not. 1) Is it in the rules?
> These
> are the "easy" ones. 2) Is there an accepted norm that deals with the
> issue? This is what keeps the cq-contest reflector humming.
>
> The challenge for contesting is that the accepted norms vary from one
> culture to another, from one local group to another, and they change over
> time! Many times they are passed through word of mouth. Remember the
> game
> of telephone where you give a sentence to one person and then see the
> final
> result after it has been through many retellings?
>
> At CTU, I suggested norms in contesting have 3 main objectives:
> * Just because its not specified in the written rules doesn't mean you can
> do it!
> * Keep the contest on the radio and within the contest period
> * Don't give or take unfair advantage
>
> I am sure Hans was speaking tongue in cheek, but I really would prefer to
> continue enjoying a competition where people are following the rules and
> not
> always trying to find the outside of the envelope.
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0HB
>> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 2:39 PM
>> To: CQ-Contest
>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] New Universal Contest Rule XXII
>>
>> In order to lower the noise level about "recommendation"
>> versus "rule" in our discussions here, all contest sponsors
>> should agree with the following Universal Rule to be
>> implicitly appended to their rule announcements.
>>
>> "Rule XXII: Everything not specifically prohibited is mandatory."
>>
>> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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