[CQ-Contest] GET SCORES or GET SERIOUS

[Jim Neiger]

Show of hands, please:  How many on this reflector got into contesting 
because of the real-time scoreboard we had at the 2002 WRTC in Finland?? 
Thank you. (I'll send you a bottle of scotch, if I can find it).

Some, here, seem to resent those who try and be the best of the best in a 
contest.

For those who do try and win, every possible (legal) advantage is put to 
maximum effort.  What's wrong with that?  And if a real-time scoreboard, 
however constructed or used,  gives one scintilla of advantage, would not 
that advantage be exploited?

You can hypothesize "what if's, woulda -coulda - shoulda" to the max, and 
create whatever answer for which you are searching.  Circular arguments with 
no meaningful utility.

We can also not count any scores, or have a competition, and just have a 
good old 48-hour ragchew.

One thing I learned many years ago, "The top never drags the bottom up.  The 
bottom always drags the top down".  I guess people don't feel so bad about 
themselves if everyone's grovelling around at the same  pathetic level.

As we wing our way towards mediocrity...........................

Vy 73

Jim Neiger   N6TJ