[CQ-Contest] WPX...how to REALLY change the rules

[Julius Fazekas]

How dare you penalize folks who work the low bands!
What were you thinking?!?!?
Man it's tough enough with everyone hanging on on 20CW all the way to 14300 for the contest.

Give a guy a break!

*heheheh*

Why change anything in WPX? It seems like the fastest growing contest in the CQ corral?

Shifting emphasis to prefixes per band would be interesting, although it probably would mean existing records would become obsolete fairly quickly.


Now back to your regular programming ;o)

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
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--- On Fri, 11/20/09, kr2q at optimum.net <kr2q at optimum.net> wrote:

> From: kr2q at optimum.net <kr2q at optimum.net>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WPX...how to REALLY change the rules
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 6:32 AM
> I'm spending way too much time
> thinking about this, but here goes.....
> 
> But before I start, I fully acknowledge that having
> "different" contests (how they work) is 
> part of the fun of contesting.  Nobody wants every
> contest to be "the same" as all the others.
> 
> So.....
> 
> Currently, there is a bonus incentive (extra points) to get
> guys to work the low bands.  During
> the sun spot peak, the vast majority of time will be spent
> on 10/15/20 (maybe even all)...and
> you can easily win by doing that.  B4, nobody was
> going to 40/80, so the rules changed to 
> "incentivize" such activity.
> 
> It is also well know that WPX is a running contest; with
> more Q's comes more mults.  There is 
> "like no reason" to change bands to work mults when those
> same mults are almost as likely
> to be worked "where you are now" (band).
> 
> PROPOSAL:
> 
> 1.  Remove the "incentive" to work the low band by
> awarding more points.  Equal points for
> each band (pick whatever number you like).
> 
> 2.  Count prefixes as mults PER BAND = Instant
> incentive to work all bands.   And PS, the
> current M/S rule would then make lots of sense.  But
> I"m not talking just M/S, I'm talking 
> all categories.
> 
> Wow...would that be neat?  Scores would sky-rocket,
> lots (?) more activity, still a "running"
> contest, but now with extra emphasis on strategy
> (initially) and tactics.  You can't just sit
> on the "best" band and win; you have to optimize your
> score, which now includes mults on 
> each band, meaning you MUST spend time on each band.
> 
> Yes, I know, I know...this is just the "classic" CQWW
> contest but using PX as the mults.  
> Would that be so bad?  Only if you like variety. 
> :-)
> 
> Can't wait for the private email from Randy on this
> one.  LOL
> 
> de Doug KR2Q
> 
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