[CQ-Contest] 1 pointers for CQWW - More data (was: A PROPOSED SOLUTION)

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:54:19PM +0000, Richard King K5NA wrote:
> 
> I took this one step further and gave each of the USA QSOs one QSO 
> point and recalculated our score. This brought our score to the 5.2M 
> point range. This was not enough for us to catch W4MYA and move up a 
> notch in the M/M scoring. Our place in the 3830 standings stayed 
> exactly the same, at 10th place.
> 
> So tell me again how getting 1 QSO point for every same country QSO 
> is going to dramatically alter the flavor of the CQWW Contest. But 
> this time try to convince me with some real data.

If USA-USA QSOs were worth one point apiece, you'd make a lot more 
than 300 USA-USA QSOs during the weekend.

-- 
Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/