[CQ-Contest] CQ WW "B league" parallel experimental contest

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

You are advocating for new overlays. We already had the first major 
overlay attempted this year with the "classic".  If this pans out I 
would hope that other overlay categories could be added.

Mike W0MU

On 12/1/2013 5:52 PM, XV4Y (Yan) wrote:
> Hi fellow contesters,
>
> While some are talking about unfairness between east and west coast, or is Cap Verde a better place than Aruba for winning the CQ WW, some of us who live far from populated places already know they currently have no chance to win a contest.
> I don't heard many ZS, ZL, YB, CE complaining because I think we all accepted that the competition must be taken from inside our country or our zone. Even more, in my case, if I carefully choose my category, I can be "Country winner" in any contest with only 1 QSO. What do I do then? I try to beat my own results.
>
> I'm a family-man, often (partly) working in week-ends. Should I ask for a revision of the rules and a new "Family Man" overlay? No. I do my own contest and compare my results on my operating time base.
> That's one thing that lead me to create QScope, because in order to set my own goals and check my own achievements, I needed a comprehensive yet simple log analysis tool.
>
> If CQ WW organizers don't want to change their rules (and I understand that), perhaps should we create a "parallel contest".
> I am not advocating for pirating CQ WW contest, just to make some kind of "B league".
> Basic exchanges would be the same, and anyone should be able to submit his log for both competitions in parallel.
> However, in our "unofficial" competition (with no other reward that pride) we would have the freedom of experimenting new rules without fear of breaking past records.
> And then, based on this unofficial experience, perhaps CQ WW or other contest would one day change their rules.
>
> Is anyone interested in such a project ?
> Things I like to see in the experimental rules :
> - Distance related scoring (calculated from the barycenter of each CQ zone, or the most populated city in that zone) instead of continents
> - Bonus points for the "rare entities" worked (+1 per QSO for each entity in the 50 rarest from Clug Lob ranking by example)
> - Bonus points for the "tough bands" +3 for 160m, +2 for 80m, +1 for 10m (or like in All Asian DX)
> - Ability to submit the log for several categories (SOSB 80m and SOAB by example).
>
> I'd like to make it clear that I don't want to create a competitor to CQ WW or other contests.
> I truly think Randy K5ZD and most of the other contest organizers are doing a fantastic job.
> However, I do think we cannot ask them to completely change the rules from one day to another, and those would like to see new rules have to "do their homeworks" first.
> I think that there is nothing to lose in such a project., except for the volunteers a little bit of time and money...
>
> 73,
> Yan.
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