[CQ-Contest] DOES COMMON SCORING ENCOURAGE MEDIOCRITY ?

[vk4ti at yahoo.com]

What are the common thoughts on contests scoring both the ALL BAND and SINGLE BAND scores of an individual operator ??

For example the contest scores the entry category of Single Operator All band and also puts the individual band scores into the best for each band-

Say a good SOAB - has a 80M single band score of 350,000 and and ALL Band score of 3,500,000 - both scores are listed in the results..would this confuse matters ? 

Would it mean the single band Tribander Single element 160M entrants are actually competing against someone else ?? 

Trent VK4TI