The assisted/unassisted thread has taken an interesting twist.
The following is purely DEVIL'S ADVOCATE on my part. Yeah, I'm on the contest
committee for
CQWW, but please ignore that (if you can). For me, the following are LOGICAL
questions
which stem from the discussion on CQ-Contest. These should not be construed as
"constructing a highway" to eliminating separate categories.
In CQWW, there are 3 power categories: QRP, LP, and HP. Verifying power is
very difficult.
Does the contest community accept that some QRP guys run LP or HP and are you
OK with that?
Does the contest community accept that some LP guys run HP are you OK with that?
Does the contest community accept that some HP guys run SHP in excess of 10KW
and are you
OK with that?
When I ask, "Are you OK with that?" what I am asking is not that they "cheat,"
but that they end
up in the results in the category they declared (for the most part)? Do you
accept that some
scores are listed in the "wrong" power category because the committee can't do
much about it?
How does this effect your view of the published scores? Do you care?
I ask the same for single/multi-op.
Does the contest community accept that some single-op entries (even "top of the
box") are
actually multi-op entries? How does this impact your view of the published
scores? Do you
"not care," or do you say, " Oh, I know that wasn't really a single op, so I'll
start looking at
the results with the 2nd place score." Etc.
And again, what about for "Assisted" - does the community accept that there are
likely entrants
in the unassisted categories that are actually using some form of assistance at
least some of the
time? How does that impact your view of the published scores?
How does any of this impact your view of contesting?
With respect to Assisted, how important is it to you that the various contest
committees
are able to (or not able to) weed out those who claim to be unassisted but
actually are
assisted?
Do you feel that there is an implied expectation that all entries which are
published in the
unassisted categories are indeed unassisted?
What are the ethical obligations of the contest committee to their entrants in
terms of
assuring "clean" categories? 100.00% clean? 75% clean? 50% clean? or "Who
cares,
it's only a hobby?"
If you were told that "Only 50% of those using assistance are found by the
contest
committee," would that change your opinion of having separate
assisted/unassisted categories?
What if you were told that "0% (yes, zero) of those in the top ten SOABHP can
be guaranteed
as NOT using any assistance, ever?" Would you still want assisted and
unassisted to be listed
as separate categories?
End of devil's advocate.
I would LOVE to see actual answers to the above questions, especially:
If you were told that "Only 50% of those using assistance are found by the
contest
committee," would that change your opinion of having separate
assisted/unassisted categories?
I say, "especially," because that is the current topic of discussion on
CQ-Contest.
de Doug KR2Q
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