[CQ-Contest] WRTC renamed?

[steve.root at culligan4water.com]

 "The world was divided into regions. Qualifiers were only competing with others in their same region in order to qualify."

Except that some of the regions are enormous, thus ignoring the realities of propagation.
Except that rules allowed for half of the qualifying scores to happen anywhere else on Earth, like the Caribbean. 
Except that the rules allow a team leader to pick a partner from anywhere on Earth.

The rules sound good in theory but in practice one whole operator and half of the other operator have NOTHING to do with any given geographical area.

73 Steve K0SR


-----Original Message-----

From: Randy Thompson K5ZD [mailto:k5zd at charter.net]
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 08:01 PM
To: ''Charles Harpole'', ''CQ-Contest Reflector''
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC renamed?

Go back and read the qualifying rules again.http://www.wrtc2014.org/qualifying/team-selection/The world was divided into regions. Qualifiers were only competing withothers in their same region in order to qualify.Yes, there are more teams from Eu and NA, but that is because there are morecontesters in those places.The WRTC2014 committee added more teams than ever before in an attempt toget as many competitors from around the world as possible. It is very hardto squeeze the approximately 20,000 active contesters in the world down toonly 118 competitors!Randy, K5ZD> -----Original Message-----> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of> Charles Harpole> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:45 PM> To: CQ-Contest Reflector> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC renamed?> > World Radio Team Competition could easily be re-named ....> NA/EU Team Competition with some token others thrown in.> > I like the WRTC, its organizers, and the excitement it adds to ham radio.> But, let us not pretend the selection process has found the whole list of> highly accomplished contesters.> > Some will just not want to do it even if in the top ten often. Some live> in parts of the world where their scores in contests as the contests now> exist can never turn huge numbers. That would be residents of most of> Africa and many parts of Asia.> > Example, if Asia gives you one point and you live in the HUGE continent> of Asia, you are in the hole compared to other locations.> > Please do not think I am rooting for myself; I am not, but I do know> some really talented Asians left out by the structure. Further, I do not> think this disparity can be easily fixed. But, WRTC is a "world" event> the same as the baseball "world" series is what its name implies.> > Actually, virtually anything that will get ops off the computer and on> the air has to be a good thing, but it is not healthy for NA/EU to think> of> themselves as the WHOLE world. 73> > --> Charly, HS0ZCW> _______________________________________________> CQ-Contest mailing list> CQ-Contest at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest_______________________________________________CQ-Contest mailing listCQ-Contest at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest