[CQ-Contest] Do We ever need this?

[Bill Feidt]

After reading LY3BA's comment, I wrote to Bob Cox, K3EST, CQ WW DX 
Contest Director, to make sure that the contest committee was not using 
the data I compile in the manner described by LY3BA.  Bob assured me 
that they are not and further said:

   "As many contesters do, we check out your useful
   website for potential DXpeditions. However, anyone
   can look at previous contest results to discover
   who might be a potential candidate for an observer."

I think the implication as to how candidates for observation are 
selected is pretty clear.

73,

Bill/NG3K

Gediminas Lucinskas" <LY3BA at takas.lt> wrote:

> Folowing this logic I did try to announce my plans for the nearest CQ
> WW DX on the Bill's, NG3K WEB http://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2009.html
> last week. Only few days later I discovered that this WEB 
> http://www.ng3k.com/Contest/consub.html is created only for the 
> announcing some sort of DX operations in the Contest, DX'peditions.
> We can see following words on the Bill's WEB: "Sorry, but for the
> most part I can't include SO operations from the more common
> entities, except in the case of unusual call signs, rarer zones (e.g.
>  CQ zones 02, 19, 23, 29), or other factors likely, in my judgment,
> to be of interest to the Contest/DX community. To do so would
> overwhelm the lists with items of little interest to most users and
> would make list maintenance too time consuming for me. I hope you
> will understand."
>
> So, I wonder how Contest Committee will know about someones
> "wishes to be judged for a top score in their category"? I don't
> see any request in the rules to inform Committee or Contest 
> community about these wishes, I can't find right place on the WEB
> where contesters may share their contest plans. Do We ever need
> this? Perhaps I'm missing something?