[CQ-Contest] Self-spotting

[Rick Tavan]

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. 
>