[CQ-Contest] Self-spotting

[k2qmf at juno.com]

Wow Guys,

Life is too short for all this sh..
Lets just make it legal and have some FUN...

73,  Ted  K2QMF

On Sat, 31 May 2003 13:46:47 -0700 "Rick Tavan" <tavan at tibco.com> writes:
> 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. 
> >
> 
> 
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