[CQ-Contest] THE UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT CQWW SCORING SYSTEM AND WHY IT WILL NEVER CHANGE

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THE UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT CQWW SCORING SYSTEM AND WHY IT WILL NEVER CHANGE


My best friend N6TJ proposes a scoring change for CQWW.
I started thinking why the scoring system of the CQWW does not change in =
spite of many proposals throughout the years and I NOW realized why.

Do you know who could change the scoring system of the CQWW?
- The CQ Contest Committee

What are the Islands from where you can have a very good chance of =
winning the CQWW from?
- HC8
- P4
- PJ
- 9Y
- EA8
- CT3

Who operates from those islands?
- HC8N N5KO CQWW Committee Member
- P40E CT1BOH CQWW Committee Member
- PJ1B K3EST +MM CQWW Committee Director
- 9Y4H K6NA CQWW Committee Member
- EA8EA OH2MM CQWW Committee Member
- CT3 Vacant

Sooooo....
Why would the scoring system of the CQWW change to 3 points for every =
QSO outside your country opening:
38 easy to go and winning countries in NA/Caribbean
20 easy to go with good chance of winning in Asia

I have proposed long ago a system where USA/VE and JA would become =
continents thus yielding a similar result than my friend's proposal.
But I realize 3 points for every QSO outside your country is far better =
to understand and implement.
So there you are...
If I was not operating from one of those few winning places I would vote =
for 3 points for every QSO outside your country.

;)

Vy 73
Jose
CT1BOH/P40E

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>From Ken Silverman" <K2KW at prodigy.net  Mon Aug  3 06:10:30 1998
From: Ken Silverman" <K2KW at prodigy.net (Ken Silverman)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:10:30 -0700
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Scoring Pros and Cons (was: INNOVATIVE IDEA??)
Message-ID: <003301bdbe9d$1a929980$9d959cd1 at default>


I did some additional thinking about the proposed rule change by N6TJ... and
while I personally support the change, there are some issues that will
likely be difficult to overcome.

1) I think the biggest problem is that since all EU to EU QSOs will count as
3 points,  there will be little incentive for the EUs to work anyone outside
EU, and this will be more evident on the low bands.  This is very similar to
working the JAs in the CQ WW from zones 8, 9, etc...  you know the JAs are
in there, but are often weak and hard to work, so you focus on the bigger
signals.

2)  There will be little incentive for EU to work outside EU except to work
mults, and the strong USA signals.

3)  Issue 2 could lead the CQ WW into an American "SS" like contest in EU,
since EU to EU QSOs will all count 3 points (again, little incentive to work
DX, which is a main goal of this contest).

4)  In EU, the only stations that will likely have a chance of breaking into
world competition will be the Spanish (maybe Italians) since they are the
only EU stations that will be able to work EU on 10 and 15, since most other
inter-EU QSOs will not be in skip zone on those bands.

5)  The main question is "Who will it benefit by changing the rules?"
Problem with most of us (me included!!) is not being able to understand the
global perspective of any rule change.  The only stations that the change
will make any real difference to will be the Carib stations who would have a
better chance competing against zone 9, 10, 33, 35.  But those zones will
ALWAYS be blessed.  This rule might also help the S/E Asia stations (all 10
of the active ones) since they will have more incentive to work JA.

6)  And no rule change on the table will help the JA's :(   Unfortunately,
demographics played the JA contesters a lousy hand in this contest.

While these are hardly the definitive problems with the proposed rule
change, hopefully they will get us to think more about this (and any other
rule change suggestion) from a global perspective.

While the issues raised are likely true to some degree, I still (personally)
think the rule change will encourage more people to get on the air.

What really should be done is some statistical work based on some regionally
competitive logs to see how the new rule would change anything.  Yes, I
know, that until the rules are changed we cant tell for sure... but this
would be the best way to get a feeling for the impact of the rules.  As I
mentioned in my first posting on this subject, 6Y4A would have come out the
world M/M winner with this rule change.  Can anyone else post (to the
reflector) their rough score change based on this scoring system, and how it
might have changed the outcome of the contest?

73, Kenny K2KW




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