Wow Guys,
Life is too short for all this sh..
Lets just make it legal and have some FUN...
73, Ted K2QMF
On Sat, 31 May 2003 13:46:47 -0700 "Rick Tavan" <tavan@tibco.com> writes:
> Although I believe Walt is incorrect about the rules (Many contests
> do
> explicitly prohibit self-spotting.), his suggestion to post the
> calls of
> likely self-spotters is good. The chess community took this approach
>
> when some players figured out how to lower their ratings by
> intentionally losing games for a while in order to qualify to enter
>
> tournaments later in lower classes, winning money competing against
>
> weaker players. Organizers began publishing, alongside tournament
> results, the names of players who had experienced dramatic
> come-backs or
> who performed well above their results of the recent past. It was
> phrased as a sort of honor list. I believe some tournament
> organizers
> subsequently began restricting monetary prizes to entrants who had
> never
> received the "honor" of that list.
>
> Of course, we don't have monetary prizes in contesting yet. The only
>
> reason most of us compete in radiosport is to earn the respect of
> our
> peers. Take that away and the wallpaper and trophies shouldn't be
> worth
> cheating for.
>
> /Rick N6XI
>
> Vladimir V. Sidorov wrote:
>
> >OK, the K1TTT observation is just an observation as a matter of
> fact, as
> >there is no anti-self-spotting mechanism stated in the rules. ...
> >
> >In the meantime why not to publish the contest's resuls ALONG WITH
> the K1TTT
> >report? Without any actions taken, whatever. Just the report.
> >
>
>
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