[CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying

[Tiberiu Tebeica]

Braco,

I am glad you raised the ball regarding the number of qualifying spots for Balkan region. I will repost here my email sent to WRTC2018 mailing list, since it seems it was not approved by the moderators.

—

Hello,

I’ve been extremely surprised to see a curiously high discrepancy in the number of available qualifying spots assigned for area EU#1 (Northern EU) and EU#5 (Balkan area). Although I didn’t do an in-depth analysis, I feel that both of these areas are extremely competitive (one can look at the previous WRTCs qualifying scores in these areas), both have generally a similar number of countries, ham radio density, number of stations in top results, etc.

For some reason, the Committee decides to grant 5 spots to EU#1, an area consisting mostly of ES, LY, YL, OH, LA, SM, OZ, and only 3 spots for EU#5, an area that includes S5, 9A, 4O, YU, E7, YO, LZ, SV (I deliberately left aside smaller countries like JW, OY, ZA, Z3, etc. that were not represented in the past WRTCs etc.)

I’d be curious to know what is the rationale behind this situation. Why contesters from similar areas in many terms get such different qualifying opportunities?

Thank you,
Tibi YO9GZU
===
PW5Z @ WRTC 2006
R37L @ WRTC 2010
Referee for K1T @ WRTC 2014


On Dec 3, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Braco OE1EMS <oe1ems at emssolutions.at> wrote:

> I agree with Ranko
> 
> 2 years/12 Contest  sounds mad ...... some of us are crazy (incl. me) but I
> would like to 
> do something else in next 2 years except contesting
> If I look to 2014 WRTC qualifications for 12 good scores even with E7DX
> Station I needed to 
> operate about 30% more contest to achieve best scores.
> This is like 16 contest in 2 years
> 8 per year !!!!
> And for example instead of 5 teams we have now only 3 Team in our region. 
> This means not  operate only in 16 contest we will need to operate
> In all  contest to not allow others  to generate more points?!
> 
> WRTC is Team contesting  (it was at least) ..... not happy to see only 4 MO
> scores
> and handicap for MS .....
> 
> As well I don’t have a feeling that points for WAE/WAG scores are good as
> well...
> 
> I know this not going to change anything, but fellow Germans in WRTC
> committee
> you have no idea how contra productive this WRTC selections is going to be!
> 
> ONE BIG UNLIKE for qualifications....... :(
> 
> 
> 73s
> BRACO
> E77DX
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] Im Auftrag von
> 4O3A
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 03. Dezember 2014 00:23
> An: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Betreff: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying
> 
> Hi to all,
> 
> I hope that some comments will be considered and Team selection criteria
> will be changed a bit?
> 
> For me and all contesters whom I discussed with, obvious problem is having
> to short selection period.
> 
> Ranking 12 contests , and making selection criteria in the way that mostly
> SOAB are to be done is to much. Organizer counts seasons 2015/2016, and not
> counting 2017? None of us can't see reasonable explanation for such
> decision. We all suffered for qualifying for WRTC
> 2014 in Boston, dedicating ourself to make 12 good scores, and we had 3
> years for it. It was really hard - ask anyone from EU or USA who did it. 
> Now we have only two years for same number of contests?
> 
> I have station capable to win and to assure place in qualification. I am
> enough dedicated to spend unreasonable amount of time for hobby, but
> honestly, it becomes to be so demanding and overmuch.
> 
> My proposal should be to:
> -Extend qualification period on 2017
> -Calculate eight best scores
> 
> It will give more chance to more contesters with average stations, and will
> demand not quantity of scores - will demand higher scores and quality.
> Simple.
> 
> I know that this will be probably ignored, but is is common opinion of many
> contesters and previous WRTC participants.
> 
> Also, as organizer has full right to make selection criteria whatever he
> likes, it is better to invite teams by whatever criteria you like, instead
> having bad selection criteria.
> 
> Now I am curious to see rules. Hope our German friends will be more open for
> rules with more rooms for technical improvements. Hope all will agree that
> this aspect of contesting is very important as well as operating skills?
> 
> 73
> Ranko
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CQ-Contest mailing list
> CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CQ-Contest mailing list
> CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest