[CQ-Contest] on line scores

[Steve Dyer]

I am super excited about the idea of real-time posting AND scoring. It 
would be a tool to attract a lot of very positive attention to radio 
sport. A real game changer that would allow us to promote contesting as 
the modern, exciting activity it is to a *global* audience. An audience 
that expects to see results real-time, not 12 months later. The contest 
sponsors need to wake up on this one and make it their #1 priority if 
they want to survive. They will get a lot more attention from 
advertisers and sponsors if they can break the current mold and 
re-imagine contesting. Print cycles for dead tree magazines should not 
be driving the agenda anymore.

...but it's got nothing to do with using Skimmer.

73,
Steve
W1SRD
> Soap Box- I want to commend the teams that took the time to post their
> scores
> on the cqcontest.ru site. Our friends in UA have dove an excellent job in
> making the site easy to use and very accurate. On a different note I will
> propose a change to the CQWW Rules to include some sort of rule that if a
> station uses skimmer, packet or any other means of gathering information
> they
> will be obligated to post their scores. Here is a classic example given to
> me
> by KY4F.
>
> "You and your wife are huge Golf fans, and save, and finally buy tickets
> to the Master's Golf Tournament (CQWW CW is much like the Master's). In the
> process of your attendance, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson decide that they
> will not allow their scores to be listed on the leader boards and that they
> will keep their score cards in their pocket and not allow any fans or other
> competitor to see their score. Their score cards will not be available until
> after every participant has finished the Tournament".
>
> I see no discernible difference in the above case, and our current leaders
> in
> CQWW who refuse to participate in posting their scores online. It is done in
> the Golf world to openly and frankly show what the score is at every
> stroke. It
> is a display of honesty and frankness and is a requirement for entry in any
> golf
> tournament. I call upon all of the contesting community to request...no
> require... that all participants who use any method of information
> collection
> to post their scores!
>
> As the contesting community has adjusted to the requirement for logs to be
> sent
> in and posted for all to see, it is now time to change this unnecessary
> behavior
> and openly post your score for all to see. Not posting your score equals non
> entry in the contest.
>
> de Rick NQ4I
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