It looks like the combined scoring in the Collegiate Championship will
be kind of closer than we had thought. We've recently calculated the
combined claimed scores (that we know about) based on the assumption that
W6YX has the highest claimed score in both CW and phone (I would be surprised,
at this point, if there were a higher score out there of which we were all
still unaware.)
My guess is that Stanford W6YX will take it, as their claimed score
gives them a combined total 5.7% higher than the next up, CalTech W6UE.
The next three in the running are very close, with U. of Arkansas W5YM just
3.7% ahead of U. of Texas N5XU, which in turn is just 1.4% ahead of N.C. State
W4ATC. To make it even more fun, Arkansas is ahead because of a fantastic
CW effort, but the CW scores last year turned out to be more volatile to
change in the log checking process. Will Arkansas's lead hold up? Will
N.C. State pull ahead with clean logs?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if after the ARRL log checking is through,
some position swapping takes place in the combined totals. (Combined totals,
to remind people, are computed as: ((CW score / highest CW score) * 1000) +
((Phone score / highest Phone score) * 1000), so the highest you
can get is 2000.) There are still a few scores we haven't heard yet,
notably Worcester Polytech W1YK, who operated both modes, and at least on
phone were heard giving out serial numbers that could make them competitive
with the top five. Combined scores are only computed for colleges that
entered both modes.
(http://www.collegiatechampionship.org/cc1999.html)
Call School CW Phone Total
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W6YX Stanford Univ. 1000 1000 2000
W6UE Caltech 935 952 1887
W5YM Univ. of Arkansas 977 567 1544
N5XU Univ. of Texas 700 788 1488
W4ATC North Carolina State U. 756 712 1468
W4AQL Georgia Tech 537 713 1250
W1AF Harvard Univ. 827 299 1126
W0EEE Univ. of Missouri-Rolla 275 667 942
WA5BU Baylor Univ. 160 235 395
W7UNR Univ. of Nevada-Reno 2 10 12
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An interesting observation about the combined scores is that it shows
that certain colleges did relatively better in phone than they did in CW or
vice versa. For positions 2 through 8 in the above summary, the relative
strength ping-pongs: phone, CW, phone, CW, phone, CW, phone.... Higher
overall phone scores are apparently not affecting the combined competition.
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