[CQ-Contest] Contest Scoreboards ???

[Don Field]

Surely in almost every sport the participants know how the competition is
doing. We don't erect screens between the tracks on an athletic field, for
example! Why would contesters want to be different if they could have this
info?

Don G3XTT

On 7/12/06, David Robbins K1TTT <k1ttt at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> Try it, you may like it!  It is tremendously interesting to watch a race
> with a local competitor with a similar station, even if you know you won't
> win the world/country or whatever in your class.  Everyone sets goals for
> themselves, if that is just to beat last year's score, that's ok... but
> its
> much more fun to challenge someone you know you can compete with in real
> time!  MUCH more interesting than waiting 6 to 9 months to see where you
> fall in the world totals.  Making it interesting by letting users filter
> the
> data will be up to the 'reader' software writers... right now we are
> working
> mostly on how to  collect as much data as possible by making it easy for
> everyone to submit to the scoreboard.  My hope is that even if you don't
> want to watch the scores, that you will submit so that others can see a
> broad range of participants in many classes.
>
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> > bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Widelitz
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 23:22
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Scoreboards ???
> >
> > Yuri, K3BU makes a number of good points.
> >
> > Apart from an unusual event such as WRTC where the operators behind the
> > calls are unknown (and the operators can't see the scoreboard anyway)
> why
> > would a serious competitor want to post his score and/or see what the
> > competition is doing - for all the good reasons Yuri points out.
> >
> > Just because something can be done, doesn't make it something you
> > necessarily want to do. Some feel that way about spotting networks.
> > However,
> > spotting is a 3rd party act that a competitor has no control over.
> Posting
> > your own score in realtime IS something a competitor has control over.
> >
> > 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
> >
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