Well put Ward. It really is impossible to make radio contesting fair in the
sense of other sports that have balls, sticks, and a playing field. But, as
you point out, we can minimize some of the variables through regional
scoring. This is true for all contests - not just CQWW.
Since the CQWW score data is already in a database that allows selection by
category, country, continent, zone... it would probably be easy to create
regional slices as well. What regions would be "fair" for score comparison
purposes?
Randy, K5ZD
PS: http://www.becomingminimalist.com/compare-less/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Ward Silver
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 4:53 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Committee Restructured
>
> > As for CQWW, those of us here in Asia who have a perennial propagation
> > disadvantage have no chance of winning any of the big boy categories.
> Yet
> > if you look at score submissions of the last few years, you will
> observe an > upward trend. This is largely because ops are getting on
> air for fun, not > for winning. The serious efforts are largely focused
> on doing well in Asia > standings than World standings. All this with
> the current rules.
>
> And there we have most of a very workable solution - compete regionally,
> report regionally, recognize regionally. Thanks, Prasad.
>
> Trying to come up with some kind of a complex numeric way of equalizing
> out propagation and geography is simply not workable. There are too many
> dependencies over which a point system has no control. Nor can it
> respond to day-to-day propagation variations.
>
> The CQ WW committee already has its hands overly-full dealing with the
> worldwide data set - and they do a great job with that!
>
> My advice for those who care is to create regional competitions and
> reporting so that the best efforts from a particular region can be
> appropriately recognized and encouraged. The scoring data and even the
> logs are public - there is no reason this can't be done. How about the
> California Cup? The East Asia Challenge? The Black Hole Bouquet?
> Regional reporting allows stations to compete against peers - which
> causes most of the perceived unhappiness.
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
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