[CQ-Contest] The two/four-point rule in WPX

[Richard F DiDonna NN3W]

Unfair would be the fact that I can work a station 2300 miles away in 
California and I don't receive a single point for that QSO. You, on the 
other hand, can work about a dozen different countries with 500 miles of 
Helsinki. If you're in Germany, that number increases to about 40 countries.

So, please consider the uproar as to who benefits over whom with respect 
to geography.

73 Rich NN3W

On 4/10/2014 8:02 AM, Kim Östman wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Removing the exception simply brings the NA Caribbean stations to everybody
> else's level and rules.
>
> If such playing under equal rules is seen as "unfair," then the problem lies
> with the basic scoring system, and you can't fix that with this kind of
> exception for just a privileged few.
>
> Again, there are two very distinct and separate things at play here:
>
> 1) The basic continental-divide scoring system
> 2) The 2/4-point NA exception to it
>
> Most agree that the first one is fundamentally flawed. But it is so
> entrenched that I'm afraid we will not see it changed before our hobby dies
> out.
>
> Thus I'm focusing only on the second one. We can’t put band-aid on the big
> problem by maintaining a parochial exception that makes it even more
> "unfair" for everybody else. Numerous examples can be shown of how this has
> distorted contest results (beyond the basic system) and reversed final
> placements.
>
> In an event that purports to be a competition and to be worldwide, I think
> this piece of basic logic should be patently obvious. I'm happy to say that
> private communications around this thread are acknowledging this fact, even
> from among the beneficiaries.
>
> I'm still hoping to hear official answers to the two questions posed
> previously.
>
> 73
> Kim OH6KZP
>
>