[CQ-Contest] The sport of contesting?

[bob.wruble at verizon.net]

competitors not jocks!  sorta like chess players and golfers!

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From: "ken thomas" <midwestrf at hotmail.com>
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] The sport of contesting?


>
> More and more I see contesting written up as a sport. If so, are
contesters
> athletes?
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> Ken
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>From K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob at msn.com  Tue Nov  6 04:08:18 2001
From: K0HB H. Brakob" <HHBrakob at msn.com (K0HB H. Brakob)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:08:18 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] SS observations ( kinda long)
Message-ID: <005201c16678$acf79560$6ad7143f at bigguy>



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvan Katz" <jskatz at sk.sympatico.ca>
> Of course -- one way to eliminate the Sunday afternoon blues would
>be to change the rules to allow you to work a competitor once on each
band
>BUT let  the multiplier only counts once. This would allow "Joe
Tribander"
>and "Joe low band wire stringer" to have a lot more action --- day
and night!

No, I think it would have the opposite effect.  "Joe Tribander" and
his ilk would have to compete with all the big guns "times six bands".

I know, for example, that I probably can't bust the pileup for VE5ZX
or VY1JA or W0SD early in the contest, but if I wait till Sunday
sometime
(after all the "guns" have worked you) then you will be workable by
me.

But if everyone can work you on each band, then Joe Tribander will
never rise high enough in the food chain to get a shot.   And he won't
come back next year.

And for all of those who'd like to put a time limit on the contest,
here's an idea for a different kind of scoring.

Horseshoe games end at 21 points.  Time is not a parameter. Using
that model, pick some high (but achievable by a significant number)
score, say 200K points.  When the first station hits that score, the
official contest period is ended.  Of course the rest of us don't know
when that happened, so we continue until we reach the target score,
or until the time allocation (30 hours in the case of SS) ends.

The contest sponsor (they're pretty much all computerized now) then
finds the earliest "200K" log, and ranks all the rest of the logs
based on their score *at that time*.

Now we can all blissfully charge into the fray, and work all the way
to 0300Z.  Those who made their 200K can quit, and the rest of
us can continue to chug along mashing the <f1> key.

73, Hans, K0HB


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